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Arkaroola. Progress reports for the period 26/8/1974 to 9/8/1977.
A sequence of exploration programs in the Mount Painter Province, undertaken on Special Mining Leases since 1965, have been previously released. Exploration for base metals since 1974, in an area extending 20 km southwest from Arkaroola, comprised a...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1977
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Parabarana copper prospect. Report on detailed mapping carried out in April-May 1972, and a reviewed geological interpretation of exploratory work done over the period 19/5/1969 to August 1972.
In May of 1969 the mineralized Parabarana area was secured by North Flinders Mines Ltd, and during the last three years, it has been the subject of a comprehensive exploration programme. Exploration methods have included: 1. A stream sediment survey...-
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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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Cathedral Rock. Final report at licence surrender for the period 4/4/1977 to 3/8/1977.
Exploration for economic base metal deposits in folded, sheared and migmatised much-layered Palaeoproterozoic metasediments of the Cathedral Rock area has included 1:25,000 scale geological mapping, geochemical sampling of gossan and banded iron...-
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Mount Woods. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/5/1964 to 30/4/1965.
TARGET: Metamorphic and hypogene iron ore, and latterly, epigenetic base metals, associated with pronounced local magnetic anomalies in the Mount Woods area. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance geological mapping and sampling of the Mount Woods ?Archaean...-
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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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Mount Messenger. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/5/1973 to 24/5/1975.
In a search for possible concealed stratiform base metal deposits associated with haematitic jaspilites and quartzites in the Cleve Uplands area, extensive rock chip, float and residual soil sampling traverses were followed by geochemical sampling of...-
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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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SML 704 Yudnamutana Project. Balancing Rock prospect with geochemical and petrological appendices by Amdel, Pontifex Mar-Jun 1973.
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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Beltana. Progress report for the period 28/5/1971 to 27/8/1971.
As part of a regional geochemical survey for signatures of stratiform base metal deposits, 208 stream sediment samples were collected along the eastern flank of the Mount Deception Range, over the lower part of the Late Proterozoic Bunyeroo Formation....-
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Published: 09 Sep 1971
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Angaston - Sedan Hill area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/11/1975 to 17/11/1976.
Regional stream sediment and rock chip geochemical sampling of an area extending from 15 km north-east to south-east of Angaston was undertaken to search primarily for stratabound Mississippi Valley style Pb-Zn mineralisation in lower Cambrian Hawker...-
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Everard Ranges examination: SML 510, Artoonanna Hill area. Progress reports for the period 19/11/1970 to 19/8/1971.
Results of previously conducted ground magnetometry, auger drilling, and costeaning, plus those of a current programme of diamond drilling (3 holes, total 1919 feet) have demonstrated that the mafic/ultramafic Wanka Wanka Dyke is a laterally...-
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Yudnamutana Project: regional geology of the Jubilee Fault Zone [with appendices of geochemical and mineralogical data], May-November 1972.
A structurally deformed area in the southwestern corner of SML 704, having many copper carbonate showings and small historic workings known as the Yudnamutana Mining Field, has been mapped at a semi-detailed scale. The area is transected by the...-
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Johnburgh. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/6/1972 to 20/11/1972.
Exploration for possible stratabound copper deposits, over an area 5 miles south-east of Carrieton, consisted of rock chip sampling and field geological mapping at 1:25,000 scale of outcropping folded and brecciated River Wakefield Group sediments,...-
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Kanyaka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1966 to 31/10/1967.
As part of a regional search for possible economic stratabound Early Palaeozoic base metal deposits, Kennecott Explorations carried out stream sediment sampling and geological mapping of the Kanyaka Syncline, plus more intensive near-mine exploration...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1967
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RB 2016/00030 Mineral Systems Drilling Program in the southern Gawler Ranges, South Australia.
The Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) was a $3.5M cash and $4.11M in-kind collaborative drill program involving government, researchers, service providers and the minerals industry. The objective of the MSDP was to further the understanding of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2017
