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Ruby Hill. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/12/1980 to 31/5/1982.
During a search for possible diamondiferous rocks within an area lying to the north of William Creek and abutting the south-eastern side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, stream sediment sampling and a low level, 5300 line km aeromagnetic / radiometric...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1982
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Third Plain (east-central Flinders Ranges). Technical report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/1/1967 to 30/9/1967.
Stream sediment sampling, conducted by Kennecott as follow-up to a 1966 regional surface geochemical reconnaissance programme looking for stratabound Mississippi Valley - type base metal deposits in the central Flinders Ranges, has located a small...-
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Special Mining Leases nos 153, 153A and 153B; Mineral Claim nos 5092 and 5350. Summary report for the period 10/7/1967 to 16/7/1971.
This report summarises, in categoric fashion, all of the various exploratory and mine development activities carried out over the past four years on the broader Puttapa area exploration licence (as renewed), and within the mineral claims taken out...-
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SADME/Amdel Project no. 1/1/271 - Petrology and geochemistry of the Burra copper mine. Progress reports for the period November 1981 to March 1982.
157 rock samples taken from the Samin Ltd open cut copper mine at Burra were investigated by Amdel to determine their metallic elemental content, and petrological and mineragraphic features that might be diagnostic of rock and mineral genesis. Host...-
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Published: 31 Mar 1982
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SADM / Amdel project 1/1/84: Recovery of copper from oxidised ores at Burra. Progress reports and final report for the period September 1964 to November 1966.
Investigations into the recovery of copper metal from oxidised ores present in the abandoned historic open cut mine and surrounding dumps at Burra were carried out by Amdel at the request of the South Australian Government's Department of Mines...-
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North Well Creek area. Quarterly progress reports and final report for the period 7/3/90 to 6/3/94.
Exploration, initially looking for rare metal elements within beryl, tantalite and ilmenorutile suite mineral occurrences, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric breccia structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village...-
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Kangaroo Island Project. Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 1/10/1996 to 30/9/1998.
Diamond exploration which was undertaken across practically the whole of Kangaroo Island, barring national and conservation parks and reserves, sought to test the potential of the island to contain kimberlite pipes and / or associated rock types, and...-
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Kimberlites near Orroroo, South Australia.
A suite of Jurassic kimberlite dykes occur near Orroroo, South Australia. They range in thickness from a few millimetres to 30 metres. The intrusions are all extensively altered at surface, but a few of them are petrographically similar, and have...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1982
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Mount Lyndhurst (Flinders Ranges Project). Evaluation of the Lorna Doone and Lynda mine copper prospects and surrounding areas. Progress reports for the period 4/1/1973 to 3/1/1975.
In August 1972 Cultus Pacific commenced exploring a number of historic copper prospects near Lyndhurst in the northern Flinders Ranges, with a view to assessing their feasibility for open-cut mining. The programme of work completed so far has...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1974
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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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Anabama Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/12/1968 to 30/11/1970.
After its initial stream sediment sampling and rock chip sampling had revealed that significant base metal anomalism (Mo to 600 ppm and Cu to 300 ppm) exists on and near granitic rock outcrops at Anabama Hill, Asarco undertook detailed 1:1200 scale...-
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1998 Mount Painter area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by PIRSA during July 2012 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Mount Painter region of SA on 28/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.5 m x 4.5 m, within a surveyed area of...-
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RB 2009/00019 Assessment of mineral prospectivity of the northern Flinders Ranges using GIS analysis.
The northern Flinders Ranges region is underlain by rocks predominantly belonging to two contrasting geological provinces: the metamorphic and igneous Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic Mount Painter and Mount Babbage Inliers, and the sediments of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2009
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HandBk 003 - A Guide to the Geology and Mineral Resources of South Australia. Ludbrook, N.H. 1980 South Australia. (reprinted version)
South Australia has had a very long geological history traceable back for over 2000 million years. It has areas of ancient basement rocks and of younger rocks representing most of the geological column, which are exposed at the surface or have been...-
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Northern Flinders Ranges Prospectivity Data Package.
The purpose of this data package is to provide end-users with the GIS datasets used for the 2009 modelling of mineral potential in the Northern Flinders Ranges. The package contains subsets of SA 1:100 000 scale surface geology (polygons) and...-
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Wharton Hill (near Manna Hill). Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 12/1/1981 to 11/7/1981.
As part of a regional search for diamondiferous kimberlite, stream sediment sampling of ?54 sites in the Wharton Hill area failed to reveal any kimberlite indicator minerals. However, heavy mineral concentrates from samples taken at four sites in the...-
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Truro. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/7/1996.
CRA's acquisition and interpretation of aeromagnetic and ground magnetic surveys, plus its gravel and stream sediment sampling, have successfully located a few kimberlites in the Truro area, 70 km north-east of Adelaide, where a large number of...-
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Netley Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/12/1968 to 30/11/1969.
A rotary percussion drilling programme (8 vertical holes for a total penetration of 1920 feet) was undertaken at Netley Hill to look for economic copper and molbdenum mineralisation in a greisen (hydrothermally altered granite) body which has an...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1970
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Mount Arden. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 6/8/1970 to 24/11/1972.
Resumed exploration for economic stratiform base metal deposits within basal Cambrian and upper Adelaidean metasediments in the area of the Arden and Ragless synclines, 20 km north of Quorn, concentrated on geochemical prospecting and detailed, 1:2000...-
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Mount Lyall. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/5/1969 to 24/3/1971.
The Third Plain zinc silicate (willemite) deposit, located 14 miles south-east of Blinman, has been newly assessed by North Flinders Mines for its economic potential. Originally discovered by Kennecott Explorations in late 1966, and evaluated by them...-
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