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Mingary. Progress reports and annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/11/1984 to 26/2/1996.
Exploration Licence 1258 "Mingary" was granted to Mount Isa Mines Ltd in November 1984. The area, of 1185 square km lying 40 km north-east of Olary, had been the subject of exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary basement for Broken Hill...-
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Geological summary and appraisal of the Parabarana copper prospect and the Gunsight uranium/copper prospect, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Copper mineralisation in the vicinity of Parabarana Hill located at the extreme north-eastern end of the Flinders Ranges was worked intermittently between 1899 and 1917 for the return of small tonnages of high grade secondary ore. In the past decade...-
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Eurinilla. Data release made in lieu of second partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports plus first partial surrender report, for the period 7/6/1994 to 4/7/2001.
The tenement was acquired to cover a large magnetic dome (the Eurinilla Dome, ~100 km north of Olary), considered prospective for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation analogous to that found at Olympic Dam and Ernest Henry. An...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1901
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Strathearn, Yarramba, South Eagle and Billeroo Creek areas (part of the Strathearn Joint Venture Project). Data release in lieu of partial relinquishment at licence expiry/renewal : progress and annual reports for the period 3/5/1991 to 9/4/2000.
Exploration carried out in the South Eagle - Yarramba area, located 40-80 km north-east of Olary and 50-150 km west-northwest of Broken Hill, has targeted stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag and Cu-Au mineralisation in Proterozoic rocks of the Willyama basement....-
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Cutana. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/2/2002.
EL 2635, formerly EL 1976, straddled the Barrier Highway 25 km east of Olary. The licence covered ground initially taken up by MIM in late 1986, and all that company's work prior to mid 1994, with emphasis on investigating the Luxemburg - Premier...-
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Bundera Well. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/2000 to 26/6/2005.
Possible buried Palaeoproterozoic stratiform to stratabound Cloncurry style Cu-Au mineralisation was the principal objective of exploration undertaken over an area located approximately 60 km north-east of Olary. Other conceptual targets included...-
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South Eagle. Progress and annual reports for the period 22/6/87 to 21/12/90 [i.e. to the start of the joint reporting on ELs 1352, 1382, 1412 and 1487].
Exploration for possible buried, stratiform, Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Group Ag-Pb-Zn ore deposits, over an area located 8-20 km north to north-northeast of Boolcoomata Homestead, comprised ground magnetic, Sirotem and IP surveys plus petrology,...-
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South Eagle. Data release made at transfer of licence ownership : annual reports for the period 17/9/1997 to 16/9/2000.
The majority of mineral exploration undertaken in the South Eagle area, centred 40 km north-east of Olary, has targeted stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag, stratabound massive sulphide Cu-Zn-Co-Mn, and Cu-Au mineralisation that may have formed in Proterozoic rocks...-
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Wiawera. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1996 to 12/12/2001.
Exploration for possible sheeted vein type gold, Telfer - style gold, and BIF hosted gold and base metal sulphide deposits that may have formed in Adelaidean metasediments occupying the area between Anabama and Radium Hill, 10-30 km south-east of...-
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Kalkaroo. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/7/1994 to 14/7/2000.
Exploration work carried out 60 km north-west of Broken Hill initially sought Olympic Dam type Fe oxide Cu-Au mineralisation associated with granitoid equivalents of the Hiltaba Suite, and subsequently, Ernest Henry style stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonython Hill (part of the Border Project). Annual reports for the period 23/2/2007 to 18/5/2014.
During Year 7 of reporting, exploration work included two 1 km soil geochemical traverses, field inspection of Neogene palaeochannels and land access negotiations with landowners. Previous exploration in the region has recognised the correlation...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Bimbowrie. Annual reports for the period 4/11/2009 to 11/11/2018.
During licence Year 6 (2009-2010), the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4375, the main exploration activities undertaken by Sinosteel-PepinNini Curnamona Management Pty Ltd (SPCM) were to conduct two drilling campaigns, the first designed to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mingary. Annual reports for the period 21/6/2001 to 5/7/2014.
An area located close to the SA-NSW State border, and centred ~55 km west-southwest of Broken Hill, covers part of the south-eastern corner of the Palaeoproterozoic Olary Domain of the Curnamona Province and the western portion of Broken Hill Domain,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Prospect Hill. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2018.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation at three known separate occurrences in the Prospect Hill area, lying 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, has focussed on the untested zone immediately below the known...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalabity. Annual reports for the period 25/2/2009 to 11/3/2019.
The main exploration activities undertaken during the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4239 (licence Year 6, 2009-2010) consisted of drill testing of uraniferous prospects defined by previous exploration, after the prior acquisition of an airborne...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : North-west of Cockburn area. Annual reports for the period 22/10/2009 to 21/10/2014.
An area centred located approximately 80 km west of Broken Hill and 19 km north-west of Cockburn is being explored for possible buried economic Broken Hill type stratiform Pb-Ag-Zn mineralisation. The tenement is also prospective for Kalkaroo or...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kalkaroo. Annual reports submitted prior to licence sale and the commencement of the Curnamona Cu-Au Project, for the period 18/1/2000 to 9/5/2003.
During 2000-2001, the first year of renewed Kalkaroo EL 2720, joint venture operator Mount Isa Mines (MIM) continued with its geochemical and geophysical exploration of the Proterozoic basement which is concealed under 60-100 m depth of cover across...-
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Data release - as updated : Manna Hill (part of the Manna Hill Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/5/2008 to 5/5/2016.
Exploration for possible economic vein-style and structurally controlled gold which may have formed within Adelaidean bedrock sediments in an area located east and north of Manna Hill township was conducted using low cost remote sensing, geochemical...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1916
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Outalpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
55 square km or ~25.6% of the former area of EL 5584 has been relinquished.-
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Published: 20 Mar 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Outalpa. Annual reports for the period 9/7/2013 to 8/7/2018.
An area comprising three sub-blocks that cover most of the western side of the Outalpa Inlier in the Olary district was initially explored for possible buried epigenetic White Dam style primary gold mineralisation. In 2015, with a change of licence...-
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