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RB 2019/00014 Old Boolcoomata region excursion notes, Curnamona Province, 20-22 July 2019
The excursion to the Old Boolcoomata region of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province, in South Australia presents most of the stratigraphy of the late Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup and evidence for its complex deformation during the ~1600 Ma...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2019
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RB 2001/00008 Olary-Broken Hill Domain boundary - Mingary 1:100 000 map area.
Current mapping on the Mingary 1:100 000 map area has been investigating the nature of the boundary between the Olary Domain and Broken Hill Domain, both of which are subdivisions of the Curnamona Province. Earlier work had settled on a prominent...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2001
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RB 2005/00012 Prospectivity analysis of Bimbowrie Station, Curnamona Province, South Australia - interim report
In May 2004 the Minister for the Department of Environment and Heritage purchased Bimbowrie Station pastoral lease. The station was purchased because it encompasses part of the Olary Ranges, which is part of the environmentally important Broken Hill...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2005
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RB 2003/00011 Metamorphic investigation of the Palaeoproterozoic metasediments of the Willyama Inliers, southern Curnamona Province, South Australia.
The deformed metasediments of the South Australian Willyama Inliers (in the southern Curnamona geological province) preserve petrologic evidence of a complex and protracted metamorphic history. To assist with unravelling this history, there currently...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2003
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RB 2002/00036 Draft report on the structure and lithostratigraphy of the Ameroo Hill area, Olary Domain, South Australia
Approximately 30 square km of outcrop of Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks in the vicinity of Ameroo Hill were geologically mapped by the author at 1:10,000 scale, with the aim of identifying meso- and macroscopic rock structures and lithologically...-
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Published: 27 Jun 2002
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RB 2010/00014 Compilation of new SHRIMP U-Pb geochronological data for the southern Curnamona Province, South Australia, 2010.
This report book contains SHRIMP zircon U-Pb geochronological data obtained in May 2010 from the Curnamona Province, for three igneous rock samples derived from the Benagerie Ridge region and one metasedimentary rock sample taken from the Mingary...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2010
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RB 2014/00003 Geology and mineral resources of Bimbowrie Conservation Park – the MacDonald Corridor and adjacent parts of the Palaeo- to Mesoproterozoic basement.
Former sheep station ‘Bimbowrie’, situated in the Olary Ranges, South Australia, was purchased by the South Australian Government as a conservation park in 2004. It has had a long history of mining, mineral exploration and geoscientific investigation....-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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RB 2009/00018 BHEI 2009 - OLARY field excursion to Ameroo Hill, Tommie Wattie [Bore] and the Walparuta Inlier. [September 25-26, 2009].
The Curnamona Province is the southern remnant of the Palaeoproterozoic Pb-Zn belt, and represents but a small fragment of the original superbasin. Geological data supports the idea of the basin being a rift, with sediments in the Broken Hill Domain...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2009
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RB 2015/00013 Uncover Curnamona Technical Day, Thursday 28th May 2015. Broken Hill regional geology field excursion guide.
This short field trip was designed to provide an overview of rocks of different ages in the greater Broken Hill area, as part of the Uncover Curnamona technical sessions held at the Broken Hill Resources Symposium 2015. It was run on Thursday 28 May...-
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Published: 12 May 2015
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RB 2009/00010 Curnamona Province exploration review and mineral systems.
Uranium has been the mainstay of mineral exploration and mining in the Curnamona Province of South Australia since the early prospecting activity at Radium Hill in 1906 and Mount Painter in 1910. Larger scale mining and exploration began after the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2009
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RB 2009/00007 The Mingary 1:100 000 map area.
Geological mapping of the Mingary 1:100 000 map area was completed in 2006 as part of the Broken Hill Exploration Initiative (BHEI). The mapping project began in 1995, and concentrated on the mapping of lithologies using a slightly modified version of...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2009
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Mount Victor, Waukaringa Goldfield, Yunta, Paratoo and Baratta (the Mawson-Lynas Olary Joint Venture Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/4/1997 to 2/4/1998.
Reconnaissance geological mapping and limited surface geochemical sampling of exposed, thrust faulted quartz-carbonate veins evident in the Adelaidean cover sequence to the western Olary Domain Palaeoproterozoic basement did not generate any gold or...-
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Calico Dam. Progress and annual reports, and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/7/1989 to 23/7/1999.
Interpretation of sets of airborne magnetic / radiometric survey data acquired over Proterozoic metasedimentary and granitoid basement terrain in the Kalabity area identified three discrete radiometric anomalies, one of which was traced by rock chip...-
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Billeroo West and Lake Charles. Data release made in lieu of submitting separate first partial surrender reports for ELs 2013 and 2560 : annual reports for the period 1/9/1994 to 25/10/2000.
Exploration of an area on the eastern flank of the Benagerie Ridge, 100 km north of Mingary, targeted stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation associated with metasediments of the Bimba Formation, an interpreted lateral equivalent of the Broken Hill Group....-
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Telechie Dam. First annual report for the period 1/6/1994 to 31/5/1995.
Exploration for Cloncurry or Olympic Dam type Cu-Au-U and for Broken Hill-style Zn-Pb-Ag deposits in the Telechie Dam area, north-west of Olary, comprised a review of previous company work, the acquisition of open file airborne magnetic survey data,...-
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Bundera Well. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1995 to 15/1/2000.
Ground magnetic, EM and IP surveys were carried out in an area of interpreted anomalous aeromagnetic features located 20 km north of Mingary, targeting Cloncurry style, granitic basement-related Au-Cu in Willyama Group metasedimentary rocks. A 119 m...-
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Proterozoic copper-gold systems of the Curnamona Province - members of a global family?.
Copper-gold systems of the Curnamona Province show many of the characteristics of major Cu-Au Fe-oxide systems in other Proterozoic terranes. Large and economic Cu-Au deposits, however, have remained elusive in the province, despite discoveries in...-
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Boolcoomata Dam. Progress, annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/12/1977 to 19/6/1980.
Exploration for possible economic epithermal/hydrothermal vein style uranium and base metal deposits within an area lying 40 km north of Olary primarily aimed to find uranium mineralisation associated with Crocker Well - type granitoid bodies and/or...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1979
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Mulyungarie (part of the Yarramba Joint Venture Project). Data release upon first partial relinquishment and in consequence of a transfer of licence ownership : progress and technical reports for the period 4/7/1978 to 2/5/1991. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
After the signing of a new joint venture agreement for the three Yarramba Project tenements (EL 1004 South Eagle, EL 1352 Strathearn and the subject EL 1060 Mulyungarie) in early 1986, the CSR-led partners began exploration for possible Olympic Dam -...-
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Published: 31 May 1991
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Boolcoomata Dam (part of Calico Project). First partial surrender report at licence renewal, for the period 5/12/1977 to 4/12/1979.
Work completed on the now relinquished area of 101 square km extent in the south-eastern part of the tenement has comprised 1:25,000 geological mapping, ground scintillometric traversing and sampling for petrographic studies. The poorly outcropping...-
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