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Mutooroo (latterly part of the Border JV Project). Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1997 to 18/4/2017.
Four separate large portions of a long-held licence area abutting the SA/NSW state border in the vicinity of Mutooroo have been relinquished as part of statutory requirements. The following summary prepared by Minotaur Exploration describes work done...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-14 - Mingary Station, Broken Hill Domain, Palaeoproterozoic lode style stratabound hydrothermal Au-Cu-Ag prospects. Drilling interim and final reports.
During 2014, Minotaur Exploration successfully applied for a PACE 2015 collaborative drilling subsidy grant to help it undertake drill testing of the inferred extension within its current tenement EL 4844 Mingary of the quartzite lode horizon present...-
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Report on Dome Rock copper prospect, SA. Summary, stages 1, 2 and 3 results.
The area of interest for base metal exploration lies within a complex of Archaean metamorphic rocks intruded by undifferentiated granitic rocks of Archaean-Proterozoic age. The main exploration target is copper, but moderately rich silver, cobalt and...-
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Luxemburg Well. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/83 to 3/11/84.
Diamond drillcore obtained from the Luxemburg mine area, which was drilled by Sundowner Minerals Pty Ltd in 1969-70, was assayed and identified as consisting of altered pyroxenite, altered granitoids (adamellite, granodiorite, tonalite), and altered...-
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Glenorchy. Progress reports for the period 3/10/85 to 2/4/87.
An assessment of the uranium and base metal potential of an area located 75 km north of Yunta included the inspection of historic uranium prospects, geological mapping at 1:25,000 scale, rock chip and groundwater sampling, reprocessing of aerial...-
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Corella. Brief interpretation of UTEM III data from the Mutooroo district of SA.
Several UTEM anomalies were detected in a search for Broken Hill - type mineralisation.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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Billeroo Creek. Progress reports for the period 17/5/88 to 16/2/91.
TARGET: Broken Hill-style Pb-Zn mineralisation in the northern Olary region. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetics, an IP survey and rotary drilling (21 holes, total 1475 m). RESULTS: Low levels of copper and gold were present at the Waltherco Hut prospect.-
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Published: 06 Mar 1991
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Dingo Dam. Combined first progress and final report to licence surrender, for the period 30/4/1993 to 22/10/1993.
Exploration conducted primarily for possible economic Broken Hill - style stratiform/stratabound Proterozoic base and precious metal mineralisation in the Dingo Dam area, located 60 km south-east of Olary, comprised a review of previous work that had...-
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Olary North. Progress reports for the period 1/8/1965 to 31/7/1967.
Reconnaissance (20.8 line km) and follow-up (66.4 line km) IP surveys, ground magnetic surveys (18.1 line km) and regional and detailed geological mapping (1:12,000 scale) were carried out. 782 semi-regional stream sediment samples, and 1038 follow-up...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1967
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Mutooroo. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/1/1990 to 9/12/1992.
TARGET: Lead-zinc-silver and copper-gold mineralisation in the Mutooroo area of the Willyama Inliers, 55 km east of Olary. EXPLORATION: Airborne EM surveying (~450 line km flown across strike, 75 Hz, at 300 m line spacing) with ground follow-up moving...-
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Published: 04 Jan 1993
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Mutooroo copper prospect. Economic evaluation.
Diamond drilling of the Mutooroo copper prospect located near Cockburn in South Australia has outlined probable ore reserves of 9.2 million tonnes at 1.7% copper. The ore is massive sulphide and there are no associated metal values (e.g. silver, gold,...-
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Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1991 to 27/10/1993.
Exploration targeted Pb-Zn and Cu-Au mineralisation within covered extensions of the Broken Hill Block in the Starvation Lake area near the SA-NSW border. An aeromagnetic survey identified three targets which were followed up with ground magnetic...-
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Published: 15 Jul 1993
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South Eagle. Progress reports for the period 3/5/82 to 21/3/88.
Following a change in exploration focus in late 1985, from the search for sedimentary uranium to looking for possible Broken Hill style stratiform Ag-Pb-Zn base metal mineralisation within concealed Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, in the Kalkaroo...-
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Published: 02 May 1988
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Manna Hill [not 'Mannahill']. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/10/1987 to 15/1/1990.
TARGET: Possible concealed, saddle-reef type lode developments of inferred Telfer-style gold deposits at the Manna Hill Goldfield. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance inspection of old mine workings, rock chip sampling (79), and shallow RAB bedrock drilling...-
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Togo Dam. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 9/1/1991 to 19/3/1993.
Exploration for Hunters Dam style stratiform lead-zinc mineralisation in the Benagerie area, in geochemically anomalous Palaeoproterozoic basement units equivalent to the Bimba Formation of the Willyama Supergroup, which overlies the magnetite - rich...-
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Published: 06 May 1993
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona Project (uranium exploration spinoff). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2009 to 31/12/2011.
During the fifth year of the Curnamona - Uranium Project JV, during the 2009 calendar year, Curnamona Energy drilled a total of 124 holes for an aggregate depth of 11,777 m on EL 4262 (including RL 123). The drilling tested “blanket sands” at Oban...-
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Plumbago and Bimba. Progress reports, partial relinquishment reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/9/1978 to 25/1/1984.
Exploration for stratiform base metals in the Bimba Formation, and later for gold associated with banded iron formations of the Willyaman migmatitic Middle Gneiss Suite, has consisted of regional and detailed geological mapping, and mine tunnel,...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1984
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Olary region. Progress and annual reports for the period 23/9/1976 to 22/9/1978.
Intensive exploration of granitoid environs in the Crocker Well area has outlined new areas of, and extended known areas of, primary uranium mineralization. A regional field evaluation was also made of the Glenorchy and Plumbago areas, leading to the...-
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Wompinie. Report on the regional photogeological mapping of the Willyama Block in South Australia, based on the study of small - scale aerial photographs.
A regional lithostructural map was produced, covering an area of 8,500 square kms.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Jupiter and Kalkaroo Projects. Final report for geophysical definition studies of the Jupiter prospect magnetotelluric anomaly and the Kalkaroo Dome fault structure, Project ADI RD01-117 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
A new broadband (104 to 0.01 Hz) MT survey array, comprised of four profiles having 1 km site spacing and 5 km line spacing, was used in May-June 2021 for collecting data at 63 sites to build upon two previous models of the electrical resistivity...-
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