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Data release - as updated : Whey Whey Creek (latterly part of the Walparuta Project). Annual reports plus final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/2013 to 17/7/2020.
A very small (35 square km) area located ~35 km west-northwest of Olary and covering part of the Weekeroo Inlier is being explored for possible buried epigenetic stratiform Broken Hill type Pb-Zn-Ag and VHMS (volcanic hosted massive sulphide) style...-
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Walparuta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2010 to 20/6/2019.
A small area centred ~30 km west of Olary has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform base metal sulphide mineralisation, vein barite mineralisation and also for epithermal copper-gold deposits that may have formed in...-
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Report on Dome Rock copper prospect, SA. Summary, stages 1, 2 and 3 results.
The area of interest for base metal exploration lies within a complex of Archaean metamorphic rocks intruded by undifferentiated granitic rocks of Archaean-Proterozoic age. The main exploration target is copper, but moderately rich silver, cobalt and...-
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Rehabilitation of an exploration area at Crocker Well.
Types of impact and recommendations for rehabilitation procedures.-
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Luxemburg Well. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/83 to 3/11/84.
Diamond drillcore obtained from the Luxemburg mine area, which was drilled by Sundowner Minerals Pty Ltd in 1969-70, was assayed and identified as consisting of altered pyroxenite, altered granitoids (adamellite, granodiorite, tonalite), and altered...-
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Glenorchy. Progress reports for the period 3/10/85 to 2/4/87.
An assessment of the uranium and base metal potential of an area located 75 km north of Yunta included the inspection of historic uranium prospects, geological mapping at 1:25,000 scale, rock chip and groundwater sampling, reprocessing of aerial...-
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Pine Creek. Progress and final reports for the period 13/9/81 to 12/9/83.
Poor assay results returned from 7 percussion drillholes totalling 1536 m, put down just south-west of Cockburn to test UTEM III anomalies in a search for buried Broken Hill - type mineralisation, have downgraded the base metal potential of this area...-
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Outalpa Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/11/1984 to 1/3/1988.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of massive crystalline andalusite and sillimanite, formed within Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Complex muscovite-quartz schists and gneisses in an area of partly exposed basement north-west of Olary, has...-
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Olary North. Progress reports for the period 1/8/1965 to 31/7/1967.
Reconnaissance (20.8 line km) and follow-up (66.4 line km) IP surveys, ground magnetic surveys (18.1 line km) and regional and detailed geological mapping (1:12,000 scale) were carried out. 782 semi-regional stream sediment samples, and 1038 follow-up...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1967
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Mutooroo. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/1/1990 to 9/12/1992.
TARGET: Lead-zinc-silver and copper-gold mineralisation in the Mutooroo area of the Willyama Inliers, 55 km east of Olary. EXPLORATION: Airborne EM surveying (~450 line km flown across strike, 75 Hz, at 300 m line spacing) with ground follow-up moving...-
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Published: 04 Jan 1993
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Mutooroo copper prospect. Economic evaluation.
Diamond drilling of the Mutooroo copper prospect located near Cockburn in South Australia has outlined probable ore reserves of 9.2 million tonnes at 1.7% copper. The ore is massive sulphide and there are no associated metal values (e.g. silver, gold,...-
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Crocker Well and Jackson Hill. Joint and separate progress reports, and separate final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 21/10/1991 to 23/9/1993.
Exploration for diamonds and for base and precious metals over an extensive area located 50 km north-west of Olary comprised regional helicopter-supported drainage sampling of gravel and stream sediments. Kimberlite indicators (chromite) were...-
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Published: 23 Sep 1993
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Macdonald Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 8/5/84 to 20/3/85.
The exploration target in an area located 20 km east-northeast of Olary was economic gold mineralization within Early Proterozoic ironstone and pyritic lode horizons. Drilling results and samples from previous work in the Green and Gold and Wilkins...-
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Dome Rock. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 16/1/1969 to 15/1/1971.
Work included detailed geological mapping of a 20.5 square km area surrounding the historic Dome Rock copper prospect, the acquisition of 32.8 line km of reconnaissance IP profiles, plus the collection of 800 soil samples (by auger drilling, total...-
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Published: 05 Feb 1970
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Crocker Well. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/7/1966 to 30/6/1968.
Renewed uranium exploration and prospect evaluation activities carried out in the Crocker Well - Mount Victoria region of the Olary Province has aimed to substantiate previous SA Department of Mines' derived uranium deposit data, and to evaluate the...-
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Bimbowrie Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 5/11/84 to 1/3/89.
TARGET: Evaluation and further exploration of the Ethiudna wollastonite deposit. EXPLORATION: Geological reconnaissance, relogging of drill core, a ground magnetic survey, and three campaigns of exploratory and resource delineation diamond drilling...-
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Plumbago and Bimba. Progress reports, partial relinquishment reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/9/1978 to 25/1/1984.
Exploration for stratiform base metals in the Bimba Formation, and later for gold associated with banded iron formations of the Willyaman migmatitic Middle Gneiss Suite, has consisted of regional and detailed geological mapping, and mine tunnel,...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1984
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Olary region. Progress and annual reports for the period 23/9/1976 to 22/9/1978.
Intensive exploration of granitoid environs in the Crocker Well area has outlined new areas of, and extended known areas of, primary uranium mineralization. A regional field evaluation was also made of the Glenorchy and Plumbago areas, leading to the...-
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Wompinie. Progress and final reports for the period 1/4/79 to 30/3/81.
Exploration undertaken north of Mingary, initially directed towards uranium in basement, was thereafter mainly conducted for disclosing economic stratiform base metal sulphides, and consisted of geological mapping, soil and rock chip sampling, ground...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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Peaked Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/10/1987 to 15/10/1988.
TARGET: Possible bedrock gold and base metal mineralisation in the Maldorky - Mutooroo region, south-east of Olary. EXPLORATION: Stream sediment (163) and rock chip (7) geochemical sampling. RESULTS: Five areas with low-level gold anomalies were...-
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Published: 16 May 1989
