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Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock and Arkaba Hill (part of the Torrens Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 17/1/2012 to 14/12/2017.
An adjoining group of tenements located between Hawker and Wilpena Pound were taken up to explore for possible buried economic hydrothermal stratiform copper mineralisation which may have formed in sandy strata next to significant disruptive...-
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Beltana mine and Aroona zinc mine mining leases and retention leases (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Option period first annual report, for the period 1/1/2000 to 30/12/2000.
During the first year of its evaluation of the Beltana and Aroona mining properties on which it has taken out an option, Perilya undertook the following intensive work programme aimed at locating buried extensions and repetitions of the willemite...-
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Mutooroo (Ridge). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/2018 to 22/8/2021.
A very small area centred ~60 km south-east of Olary has been explored for possible economic buried Late Proterozoic sediment-hosted or volcanic hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) Cu (-Co) mineralisation. Previous exploration conducted by Longreach Metals...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1921
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Mount Craig, Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock, Red Range and Mount Plantagenet (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports plus a final report submitted at the full surrender of the last remaining project licences, for the period 16/9/2012 to 22/11/2019.
A group of five contiguous licences originally covering a total area of 756 square km in the south-central Flinders Ranges region, situated east-northeast of Hawker and east of the Elder Range, have been explored for possible economic buried...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Rose. Annual reports for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2018.
An area centred ~70 km east of Leigh Creek is being explored for possible economic buried hydrothermal copper-gold mineralisation that may be associated with local diapiric breccias and nearby semi-permeable stratigraphic boundaries/disconformities....-
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Published: 17 Nov 1918
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Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fifth partial surrender report, for the period 17/1/2000 to 29/8/2019.
Four separate portions of EL 5773, together comprising ~56% of its former area, were relinquished by the JV partners on 29/8/2019. The only work performed within the now relinquished ground has consisted of reconnaissance + infill surface geochemical...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1919
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Wirrealpa. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/11/2015 to 25/11/2017.
Exploration for possible economic sandstone-hosted copper-lead-zinc mineralisation, carried out over a small area centred ~90 km south-east of Leigh Creek, consisted only of making field reconnaissance traverses accompanied by 1:50K scale geological...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1917
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Breaden Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1967 to 12/11/1969.
Evaluation of possible commercial, buried stratiform copper deposits in the Willouran Ranges south of Marree was the objective of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and shallow drilling undertaken by Noranda. Their interest in the region was...-
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Willouran Ranges. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 11/12/1967 to 10/12/1969.
In a search for possible economic base metal mineralisation in the Willouran Ranges, a review and statistical trend surface analysis of previous company sream sediment geochemical data, combined with MIM's own orientation studies on the distribution...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Callanna. Annual reports for the period 7/4/2015 to 6/4/2018.
A licence which covers much of the northern Willouran Ranges, to the south-west of Marree, is being explored for large tonnage, Zambian style sediment hosted copper deposits that may have formed in the Adelaidean bedrock buried under shallow cover....-
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Published: 02 Jul 1918
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Mount Stuart. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1987.
Epithermal, fault-related gold and base metals in calcareous Adelaidean metasediments (cf. the Beltana and Aroona zinc-lead deposits), and sedex style base metals of Mount Isa - McArthur River type, or stratiform base metals in black shale units, were...-
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Beltana mine area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/9/1982 to 8/12/1987.
Renewed exploration by E-Z of the area surrounding the Beltana zinc mine has investigated the possibility for finding deep, unweathered Cambrian or Proterozoic carbonate-hosted zinc-lead sulphide mineralisation. It was considered that this target had...-
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Mount Craig Copper Project. Final report for June to December 2021 geophysical and drilling program, Project ADI RD02-268 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2021].
An area centred ~28 km east of Hawker is being explored for possible buried epigenetic/hydrothermal, skarn style and sediment-hosted stratabound base and precious metals mineralisation that may have formed within prepared Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1921
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Ruby Hill Project : Douglas Creek prospect drilling program. Final report, Project ADI RD02-288 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Copper Search Australia Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Copper Search Limited) was granted co-funding from the Department of Energy and Mining in July 2021 to a subsidy total of up to $228,000, to assist it with high risk exploration of remote parts of the...-
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Willouran Ranges Stratiform Copper Project. Quarterly, annual and surrender reports for the period 4/4/79 to 19/7/83.
An ongoing work programme has included the latter stages of: the drilling of over 180 percussion and diamond holes totalling 24,388 m, the collection and assaying of 35,000 geochemical samples, preparation of 1150 petrographic descriptions, and...-
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Nilpinna Homestead area (part of the Australian Diamond Exploration joint venture). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 22/2/1987.
Diamond exploration undertaken in the Peake and Denison Ranges included the acquisition and processing of aerial magnetic, radiometric and heliborne magnetic and VLF-EM surveys, with follow-up ground magnetic and Sirotem surveys, plus extensive...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola (part of the Frome Basin Project). Annual reports for the period 3/6/1996 to 4/12/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 1243 square km rugged mountainous area in the far northern Flinders Ranges extending between Arkaroola, Moolawatana, Prospect Hill, Mount Livingston and Mount Saturday was taken up to explore primarily for gold that it was hoped could exist in...-
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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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Mount Goddard (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1999 to 2/6/2014.
To comply with the terms of the 2013 Flinders Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement (AEA), a 30 square km portion of EL 6505, as two separate peripheral sub-blocks together representing ~35% of its former extent, has recently been relinquished due to it...-
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Published: 15 Sep 1922
