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Lake Elder, Lakeside and Thurlooka Bore (Lake Elder Project). Annual, progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 21/8/1997 to 20/8/2001.
A review of existing drillhole information from the area between Lake Frome and the NSW border targeted sedimentary uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels. 15 rotary holes totalling 1873 m were drilled in two interpreted palaeochannels, but returned no...-
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Radium Hill copper prospect, Olary area, SA. Progress and technical reports for the period 1/12/1965 to 30/11/1967.
Evaluation of the subsurface potential of the abandoned Dalkey mine copper workings at Radium Hill was carried out through surface investigations, IP surveying and percussion and diamond drilling (2162 feet, including 989 feet of wireline coring) of...-
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SML 705, Parabarana copper prospect. Final report.
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Oulnina Park. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/1/1990 to 14/6/1993.
Auriferous quartz/haematite/manganese oxide veins within fine-grained Upper Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks in the Benda Range area, 15 km south-southeast of Mannahill, were investigated by regional surface rock chip geochemical sampling, costeaning...-
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New strategies for acid rock drainage control at Brukunga.
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Mount Rose. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/10/1968 to 30/9/1970; Mount Serle. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 10/2/1969 to 9/2/1971.
Base metal exploration carried out in the vicinity of historic copper workings in the Mount Rose area, situated approximately 30 miles east-northeast of Copley, has consisted of detailed 1:1500 scale geological mapping, soil and rock chip sampling,...-
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Blinman, Worumba and Oraparinna [Diapirs] copper prospects. Progress and technical reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1965 to March 1967.
Four diapiric structures located in the central Flinders Ranges near Blinman were explored for characteristic indications of large, disseminated porphyry-type copper deposits located within or closely associated with diapiric breccia. Reconnaisance...-
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Published: 23 Mar 1967
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Final exploration report, Kapunda area, South Australia, for the period 24/7/1964 to 12/11/1968 [plus supporting data transferred from other sources].
During a period of almost 52 months, Mines Exploration, the operator of the presently active Kanmantoo copper mine, has also been conducting near-mine exploration at the historic Kapunda copper mine prospect, searching for economic extensions to known...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1969
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Report on the Radium Hill copper prospect, SA.
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Published: 14 Mar 1966
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Manunda. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 17/12/1970 to 16/12/1972.
Exploration for possible economic large, low grade copper deposits within an area centred 30 miles south-east of Yunta has consisted of reconnaissance surface geophysical surveys which trialled a number of methods, followed by a brief geological...-
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Manna Hill [not 'Mannahill']. Combined progress reports and final report to licence surrender for the period 16/10/1977 to 31/5/1978.
The potential for finding remnant economic stratiform gold mineralisation in the Mannahill Gold Field was investigated by examining the old surface and underground mine workings, and the best-developed ore shoots were tested by drilling 25 vertical...-
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Mount Burr. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 15/10/1970 to 14/7/1971.
A small area of the northern Flinders Ranges surrounding the Nichols Nob copper occurrences was explored for possible economic massive stratiform copper deposits, targeting the known mineralised Yudnamutana Subgroup metasediments. Work comprised a...-
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Angepena. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
In a continuation of the evaluation of the Mucatoona copper prospect, assaying of RAB drill cuttings samples returned no metal values of note. Mineragraphic studies of the primary copper mineralisation occurring in the Adelaidean black shale facies...-
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Report on diamond drilling programme at Dome Rock copper prospect, SA.
Exploratory diamond drilling (3 holes, total 2061 feet) of good geochemical/IP anomalies lying along strike under the old Dome Rock copper mine workings failed to encounter economic copper or other mineralisation, with narrow (2-3 feet wide) and...-
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Summary report on the Roopena area, SML 204, SA.
During early 1970 BHP investigated an area on Roopena Station, 20 miles north-northwest of Whyalla, for possible late Meso- to early Neoproterozoic stratiform copper associated with the basal Adelaidean unconformity. Previously, interesting minor...-
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Peake Creek and Mount Margaret - Nilpinna areas (northern and central Peake and Denison Ranges). Progress reports and combined final report, plus additional data submitted prior to licence full surrender, for the period 1/10/1966 to 31/1/1969.
Regional geochemical surveys have been conducted by North Broken Hill over 490 square miles covering the northern and central Peake and Denison Ranges, within two new exploration licences which the company took up in 1966 after a private prospector...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1968
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Paratoo. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/9/1965 to 31/8/1966.
Examination of potentially economic stratiform copper mineralisation recorded in the Paratoo area, located approximately 60 km north-east of Peterborough, has found that it occurs within Adelaidean shales and siltstones over the apical hinge zone of a...-
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Spring Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/7/1968 to 14/7/1970.
Appraisal of the historic Spring Creek copper mine area, located approximately 8 miles south-southeast of the township of Wilmington, commenced with an IP survey of the immediate mine site, where the lode outcrops over some 20 feet in weathered...-
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Reports on [evaluation of] the Wheal Ellen Pb-Ag-Au prospect, near Strathalbyn, SA, for the period March 1970 to December 1971.
Initial renewed company exploratory work at the Wheal Ellen mine locality has included surveying of old workings, aerial photo interpretation and ground checking, reconnaissance soil and bedrock sampling, and extensive IP surveying which defined many...-
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Olary. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/5/1970 to 20/5/1972.
Continuing exploration of the area near Olary, primarily for undiscovered near-surface lodes of economic copper and silver minerals, has involved mainly a close inspection of several old abandoned mines and limited surface geochemical sampling of...-
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