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RB 00067 The Radium Hill Mining Field. [A review of uranium deposit mining history, geology and ore reserves, prior to a planned government-led mining campaign].
Radium Hill developed from the discovery in 1906 of an outcrop of davidite, a complex oxide composed of rare earths, uranium, iron and titanium. The deposit was worked on a small scale up to World War 1 as a source of radium. In 1944, the Federal...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 74/00230 Trinity mine - King Dam geochemical survey.
Systematic soil sampling, plus ground magnetic traversing and some IP surveying, were carried out in the Trinity mine - King Dam area to investigate anomalous copper values in the shallow subsurface, previously reported in 1968 by Mines Administration...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1975
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RB 76/00089 Base metal exploration in the Mutooroo (mine)-Trinity mine area, Olary Province, Exploration Licence 246.
A recent study of soil geochemistry in the Trinity mine area has revealed a discontinuous zone of high copper values (exceeding 100 ppm Cu, and with a mean of about 200 ppm). SADM investigations have further shown that the copper content of the...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1976
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Ethiudna. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : annual reports and technical reports for the period 10/1/1996 to 21/2/2004.
The Olary Domain is considered prospective for Olympic Dam and Ernest Henry style iron oxide copper-gold-uranium mineralisation associated with Mesoproterozoic granitoids, as well as for Broken Hill style stratiform lead-zinc-silver mineralisation in...-
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Published: 18 Oct 1904
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General report on the Dome Rock copper mine.
This report discusses the present status of development of the copper lodes (containing both oxidised and sulphide ore) at the abandoned Dome Rock mine, which is located about 26 miles north-northwest of Mingary, and calculates the economic...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1959
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonython Hill. Annual reports for the period 11/1/2001 to 22/2/2007.
A complicated basement sequence comprising Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup metasediments, intrusive igneous rocks and volcanic rocks, plus Mesoproterozoic granitoids and associated mafic dykes, which occupy the south-western corner of the Broken...-
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Published: 25 May 1907
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Whey Whey Creek (the Black Elephant Project). Data release to accompany first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2011.
A tenement area located 25 km south-west of Olary was taken up for exploration because in the licensees' opinion it is favourably located on the southern margin of the Curnamona Craton, and covers Willyama Supergroup metasediments and metavolcanics...-
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Mulyungarie. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/12/2004 to 23/3/2012.
An area of shallowly covered Curnamona Province metalliferous basement rocks abutting the South Australia / New South Wales border, approximately 80 km north-east of Olary, was believed to be prospective for stratiform lead-zinc-silver and stratabound...-
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Sunset Ridge (Manna Hill Feldspar Project). Annual reports to licence surrender, for the period 18/1/2005 to 6/7/2011.
An assessment has been made of the economic potential of several adjacent albite feldspar deposits jointly known as the Manna Hill occurrence, which are associated with pegmatites formed within the eastern Weekeroo Inlier near Weekeroo Hill,...-
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Benagerie (part of the Benagerie Ridge Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting on the Curnamona Joint Venture Project, for the period 2/5/1989 to 3/5/2003. [Index Part 1 of 3].
An area of sparsely explored, Tertiary and Cretaceous sediment and soil-covered Proterozoic bedrock centred approximately 80 km north of Olary is being explored primarily for base metal massive sulphide deposits. The underlying Benagerie Ridge...-
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Published: 19 May 1903
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Drew Hill. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/1984 to 3/10/1994. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
During February-March 1990 Aberfoyle conducted detailed, 1:10,000 scale geological mapping and rock chip geochemical sampling at previous Esso base metal prospects, Bulloo Well, Putts Well and Shorts Dam, identifying several strongly zinc, lead and...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1997 to 2/4/2007. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup metasediments, intrusive igneous rocks and volcanic rocks, plus Mesoproterozoic granitoids and associated mafic dykes, which occupy the south-western corner of the Broken Hill basement domain in an area centred...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cockburn. Annual reports for the period 24/6/2009 to 23/6/2014.
An area centred approximately 70 km west of Broken Hill is being explored for possible economic buried Broken Hill type Pb-Ag-Zn mineralisation that may be hosted by metasediments of the Palaeoproterozoic Wilyama Supergroup, as well as for possible...-
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Outalpa (part of the Olary/Blue Rose Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/4/2002 to 18/7/2011.
An area located immediately north-west of Olary township has been explored for possible economic intrusive-related copper-gold-molybdenum mineralisation associated with high level Ordovician felsic igneous intrusions, as well as for Palaeoproterozoic...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona Project (uranium exploration spinoff). Joint annual technical reports for the period 1/1/2005 to 31/12/2011.
Exploration for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium deposits that may have formed in Tertiary palaeochannel sediments within the cover on Havilah Resources' Curnamona Craton exploration tenements has been undertaken by a subsidiary company,...-
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Culberta Bore and Curraworra Bore. Annual reports and combined final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 12/4/2010.
An area located approximately 50 km south-west of Quinyambie has been explored for possible economic, buried IOCG style mineralisation within Proterozoic basement rocks underlying the north-eastern margin of the Benagerie Ridge. In addition, after...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga, Manna Hill, Mount Victor, Yunta and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/4/1997 to 18/7/2008.
A group of five adjoining exploration licences covering ~3300 square km situated along the southern flank of the Proterozoic Curnamona Craton (Olary Block) and the adjoining Nackara Arc of the Adelaide Geosyncline is being explored for possible...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Drew Hill. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/1984 to 3/10/1994. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
An area centred approximately 20 km north of Olary was taken up by Aberfoyle Resources to explore for possible economic size (>10 Mt), structure-related hydrothermal/stratiform lead-zinc and/or gold deposits which might have formed within...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona JV Project area (including Benagerie and Kalkaroo). Combined annual reports for the period 10/5/2003 to 31/12/2007.
Ongoing exploration carried out by project operator Havilah Resources under its newly ratified, twelve exploration licence Curnamona Project Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement, for the period 15/10/2003 to 31/12/2004, consisted mainly of drilling done...-
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Kalabity. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/11/2000 to 28/3/2014.
An area situated ~100 km west of Broken Hill has been explored for buried base and precious metals epigenetic mineralisation that might have formed within Palaeoproterozoic meta-igneous and metasedimentary basement rocks of the north-eastern Olary...-
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