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Alberrie Creek (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/7/2012 to 22/11/2019.
An area centred ~55 km west of Marree has been explored for possible buried economic stratiform copper and magnesite mineralisation. During the first licence year, no work occurred while Native Title land access negotiations were in progress. During...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Kalkaroo and Benagerie. Final report on an investigation of rare earth element mineralisation in the Benagerie Dome, Project ADI RD01-105 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
The primary objective of the subject successful Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) project proposal has been to determine the nature, extent and economic potential of rare earth elements (REE) mineralisation in the Benagerie Ridge portion of the...-
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Mount Gee. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/5/1990 to 10/12/1993.
Exploration for uranium and associated copper, gold and rare earth elements undertaken in the Mount Painter area comprised the acquisition of a helicopter-borne magnetic and radiometric survey during July 1990, plus the conduct of a stream sediment...-
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Mount Effie. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/8/1977 to 15/8/1979.
Exploration for possible Precambrian hydrothermal vein-style or unconformity type uranium deposits, and for any other economic metalliferous minerals, was carried out over several small inliers of Palaeoproterozoic rocks that crop out poorly through...-
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Kalabity - Old Boolcoomata area [= Olary 'A' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
As part of exploration for economic metallic mineral deposits within an area of partly outcropping Precambrian calcsilicate rocks present on Kalabity Station, a field reconnaissance of all known mineralised areas was carried out initially. The...-
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Bull 034 Regional Geology and Mineral Resources of the Olary Province
Mineral prospecting in the Olary Province began many years ago, about the time of discovery of the great Broken Hill lode of New South Wales. Although many discoveries were made, and a number of mines worked, no significant producers survived from the...-
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RB 00425 New borosilicate of the lanthanons. Description of newly discovered minerals.
An unusually large skarn deposit some 25 miles east of Mt. Isa is characterised by an abundance of rare earth bearing minerals in association with calc-silicates, apatite and uraninite. A mineral, containing 63.7% lanthanon oxides, which appears to be...-
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RB 00107 Absite, a new mineral related to brannerite.
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Published: 01 Jan 1952
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RB 00063 The Radium Hill Mining Field.
Uraniferous lodes at Radium Hill occur as shear replacements and infillings along overthrust type fractures developed within a domed anticline (northeast-southwest major axis) in granitised metasediments. At least three major shear zones have...-
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RB 00005 SADM Northeast Uranium Exploration Project. Explanatory Notes to accompany the mineral map of the Crocker Well area.
Uranium occurrences have now been found over extensive areas of outcropping Archaean granitoid rocks and migmatites in the Crocker well area, approximately 40 miles north-west of Olary in the north-east of South Australia. The South Australian...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1900
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RB 68/00049 Report on Copper Prospect Mineral Claims 5284 and 5285: G.H. Stewart and B.J. Burslem, Lock Ness Area, Balcanoona Station.
Work copper mineralisation occurs along the northern margin of a probable intrusion of Willouran diapiric material into siltstones of the Wilpena Group. The mineralisation is mainly secondary copper carbonates but quartz-carbonate veins containing...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1969
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RB 73/00295 Rare earths, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
Rare earth minerals have been found in numerous localities in South Australia, but most deposits are small or are low in grade. There has been no production on a commercial scale. The most abundant minerals are those containing variable amounts of...-
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Published: 11 Dec 1973
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[East of] Lake Frome area (part of the Benagerie Ridge JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2012.
EL 3019 located in the Curnamona Province of South Australia covers a portion of the north-south trending buried palaeotopographic high known as the Benagerie Ridge. The north-south elongate licence area occupies part of Quinyambie Station, and is...-
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Coober Pedy. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2009.
In a search conducted over an area lying beyond but near the southern edge of Coober Pedy township, looking primarily for possible economic buried Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted copper-gold deposits of predominantly IOCG type, the licensee Nova...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1910
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Mount Norwest (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2013.
A search primarily directed at assessing the stratiform copper and magnesite potential of an area centred 50 km south-west of Marree has consisted mainly of office studies comprising the collection and review of open file geoscientific data. Early in...-
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Mount Craig (part of the Torrens Project). Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/2011 to 31 July 2013.
A search primarily directed at assessing the stratiform copper potential of a small area centred 16 km north-east of Cradock consisted only of office studies comprising the collection and review of open file geoscientific data.-
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Published: 17 Nov 1913
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Data release - as updated : Nuckulla Hill, Lake Gairdner and Kondoolka (the Nuckulla Hill Gold Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 25/8/2009 to 23/3/2018.
The Nuckulla Hill Au-Ag Project, originally consisting of three exploration licences covering 640 square km, is located approximately 115 km north-east of Ceduna in South Australia, and covers approximately 60 km strike length of the mineralised...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1917
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Harris Bluff. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 18/10/2015.
An area located immediately north of Lake Gilles and centred on Harris Bluff in the Uno Range was taken up to explore for possible buried unconformity style uranium mineralisation which could have formed at the base of the Corunna Conglomerate, and...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1977 to 10/8/1979.
At the commencement of the term of the subject licence, exploratory/appraisal diamond drilling using a single rig was continued on the Olympic Dam gravity anomaly by the licensee for gathering more geological information to use to try to understand...-
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Lake Labyrinth. Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 31/10/2001 to 8/2/2011.
Exploration for possible buried epithermal or hydrothermal gold deposits within the large variety of Archaean, Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic basement rocks present in an area located 20 km east of Tarcoola has targeted the potential of a...-
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Published: 27 Jun 1911
