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Middleback Range, SA. SMLs 204 and 205 1969 geochemical survey report.
Two separate orientation geochemical sampling programmes have been undertaken during 1969 over BHP's Special Mining Lease areas near Whyalla. In the Pandurra Station area, shallow residual soils over known mineralised Carpentarian bedrock were...-
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Report on SML 165, Breaden Hill area, Willouran Ranges, SA.
As a result of the work outlined in this report it is concluded that the possibility of economic tonnages of copper ore within the area of Special Mining Lease no. 165 are restricted to three localities, Breaden Hill, Boorloo and East Rook. All three...-
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Arkaba. Combined first progress/final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 27/11/1969 to 26/5/1970.
Soil geochemical sampling (940 samples) carried out on a 1000 foot by 1500 foot grid pattern over the Arkaba Diapir, aiming to check for possible economic zinc mineralisation that may have formed within the diapiric breccias and related fracture zones...-
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Willouran Ranges. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/1964 to 30/4/1966.
Exploration of the known copper-bearing Lower Adelaidean metasediments outcropping in the Willouran Ranges to the south-west of Marree addressed the many historical mine prospects and also the region as a whole. Initial work comprised a regional...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1966
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SML 704 Yudnamutana Project. Prospecting and geological observations at Greenhill Hut Feb 1973.
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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Mount McKinlay. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/2/1972 to 23/2/1973.
Possible hydrothermally - deposited native mercury metal associated with the Mount John Fault zone, perhaps in a quartz splinter vein setting similar to that of the mercury occurrence previously found nearby at the Moro mine, plus elsewhere, economic...-
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Willouran Ranges. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/6/1966 to 30/11/1966.
In a search for possible economic stratiform copper occurrences in Upper Proterozoic sediments of the Willouran Ranges, the licensee undertook photogeological and field mapping studies plus a regional geochemical survey of outcropping rocks and...-
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Northern Willouran Ranges. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/9/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound/stratiform copper, zinc and vanadium mineralisation occurring within a large area located south-west of Marree has consisted of geological field mapping and regional stream sediment sampling (3470...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1971
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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 2019
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Goddard, Mount Deception, Parachilna, Yandina Hill and Ben Lomond (the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports for the period 14/10/1999 to 27/4/2018.
A group of jointly reported tenements in the northern Flinders Ranges region is being explored for economic base metal mineralisation that might have formed within Late Proterozoic to Middle Cambrian continental rift margin sediments, probably with...-
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Published: 25 Jun 2018
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Hawker. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2012 to 8/10/2014.
A large area surrounding Hawker township and elongated along strike by ~25 km to both the north and south has been explored for buried sediment-hosted stratabound base metal mineralisation. During the first licence year, after a field reconnaissance...-
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Published: 02 Feb 2015
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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 2021
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Bibliando (part of the Baratta Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/4/2009 to 7/4/2021.
Copper and gold exploration is being conducted within a small area centred about 100 km east of Hawker, which it is thought has potential for epigenetic vein style mineralisation within buried Adelaidean sandstone and shale strata in a stratabound...-
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Published: 12 Aug 2015
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Mount Norwest. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/6/2014 to 14/12/2017.
An area located in the south and central Willouran Ranges, and centred ~45 km south-west of Marree, has been explored for possible buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform copper mineralisation and inferred MVT, replacement or diapir-related other...-
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Published: 24 Jan 2018
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-41, Adelaide Fold Belt stratabound copper mineral prospects. Project final report.
Using a new exploration model for predicting the setting of copper deposits in the Adelaide Fold Belt, where there has been little significant metallic mineral exploration for many years, Copper Range's chosen initial exploration targets have been...-
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Published: 27 Nov 2006
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Bopeechee and Cadnia Hill/Stuart Creek and Porter Hill (The Lake Torrens Project). Data release made at two licences' surrender/two latter licences' fifth partial relinquishment: annual reports and final reports for the period 9/4/1998 to 31/12/2006.
The reports comprising this data release package describe exploration for economic deposits of base and precious metals that have possibly formed within Neoproterozoic metasediments, the underlying Palaeoproterozoic basement, and in Cambrian carbonate...-
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Published: 29 Sep 2009
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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 2019
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Copley (part of the Copley Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/4/2009 to 9/6/2015.
A small area located immediately east of Leigh Creek and the Copley and southern Telford basins' coalfields, has been explored for possible economic diapir-related stratabound occurrences of base metals and gold. During the first licence year, the...-
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Published: 12 Aug 2015
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Mount Craig (part of the Hawker Project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 15/11/2005 to 14/11/2010.
Copper Range's principal exploration targets in the Adelaide Fold Belt are secondary, near-surface oxide copper deposits that are structurally controlled and related to hydrothermal events focussed along faults late in the deformational history of the...-
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Published: 06 Apr 2011
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Mount Elkington. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/6/2007 to 25/5/2011.
An area surrounding the historic copper-mining town of Blinman in the central-northern Flinders Ranges has been explored for possible economic diapir-related copper mineralisation, similar to that encountered nearby at the formerly significant Blinman...-
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Published: 20 Jul 2011
