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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Red Range (part of the Copley Project). Annual reports for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2018.
A small area located 45 km north-east of Leigh Creek, which covers the sites of numerous small historic diggings made by prospectors searching for copper and lead-zinc-silver mineralisation, is now being explored afresh for possible economic...-
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Published: 17 Nov 1917
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Beltana mine and Aroona zinc mine mining leases and retention leases (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Option period first annual report, for the period 1/1/2000 to 30/12/2000.
During the first year of its evaluation of the Beltana and Aroona mining properties on which it has taken out an option, Perilya undertook the following intensive work programme aimed at locating buried extensions and repetitions of the willemite...-
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Mount Bayley. Progress reports for the period 3/2/87 to 2/7/88.
TARGET: Shallowly buried Mesozoic coal of a rank at least equal to that of Leigh Creek coal. EXPLORATION: A gravity survey and 2 scout rotary drillholes (total 167.5 m). RESULTS: No coal was intersected.-
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Published: 18 Aug 1988
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Beltana mine area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/9/1982 to 8/12/1987.
Renewed exploration by E-Z of the area surrounding the Beltana zinc mine has investigated the possibility for finding deep, unweathered Cambrian or Proterozoic carbonate-hosted zinc-lead sulphide mineralisation. It was considered that this target had...-
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Mount Roebuck. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 28/3/90 to 29/10/91.
TARGET: Diamonds, gold and copper in the Mount Roebuck area. EXPLORATION: Drainage, loam and rock chip sampling, ground magnetic, radiometric and IP surveys, and diamond drilling (4 holes totalling 739 m). RESULTS: A single, 0.5 mm x 0.4 mm diameter...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1991
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Copley and Wearing Gorge areas. Joint annual reports to licences' surrender, for the period 18/6/2007 to 1/11/2011.
Several small areas in the vicinity of the Mount Coffin Diapir, which covers ~5 square km within the north-central Flinders Ranges immediately to the south-east of Copley, have been explored with the hope of finding additional copper resources near...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1911
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Balcanoona and Wertaloona. Progress reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 20/8/1965 to 19/8/1966.
Examination of an historically worked occurrence of stratiform base metal mineralisation near Balcanoona in the central Flinders Ranges, 50 miles east of Copley, has involved intensive geochemical sampling of abandoned mine adits, old dumps,...-
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Ediacara. Annual and final reports to licence expiry, for the period 14/7/1992 to 13/7/1997.
Possible Century or Neves-Corvo style stratabound and barite - associated, thinly bedded lead-zinc-copper sulphide/sulphate mineralisation existing in Late Precambrian to Lower Palaeozoic marine sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline, was the target of...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1999
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Bopeechee and Cadnia Hill/Stuart Creek and Porter Hill (The Lake Torrens Project). Data release made at two licences' surrender/two latter licences' fifth partial relinquishment: annual reports and final reports for the period 9/4/1998 to 31/12/2006.
The reports comprising this data release package describe exploration for economic deposits of base and precious metals that have possibly formed within Neoproterozoic metasediments, the underlying Palaeoproterozoic basement, and in Cambrian carbonate...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
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Sundown Creek. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/10/1977 to 2/10/1979.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated north and north-west of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the mineral potential of a large, low amplitude...-
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Published: 26 May 1980
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Report on rotary percussion drilling, Patawarta zinc prospect, SML 557.
Two vertical rotary percussion drillholes totalling 490 feet were put down on a zinc-rich gossan at the Patawarta prospect, which had been discovered through soil sampling of the Late Proterozoic Bunyeroo Formation calcareous siltstone subcrop...-
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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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Woolly Dam. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/1/1978 to 8/1/1980.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated north and north-west of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the mineral potential of a large, low amplitude...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1980
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Beltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/11/1969 to 12/11/1971.
Shallowly buried, Cambrian stratabound base metal deposits of Mississippi Valley type, that might be associated with large throw old fault structures running along the western side of the Flinders Ranges, were sought by carrying out a varied programme...-
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Mount Serle - Angepena area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 21/5/1970 to 20/5/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over a 160 square mile area near Angepena Station in the northern Flinders Ranges, 20 miles east of Copley, involved on-going geochemical exploration of known mineral occurrences, plus regional reconnaisance stream...-
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Beltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 14/12/1973 to 13/12/1975.
A geological and geochemical appraisal made of various mines and prospects in the Beltana area has sugggested that only those situated nearest the Nuccaleena Diapir are the most likely to yield drilling success in the search for significant extensions...-
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Angepena Hill. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/12/1973 to 13/12/1975.
A search for possible additional reserves of secondary copper ore was undertaken by Bridge Minerals on historic mine workings in the Angepena Station area, 25-40 km east of Leigh Creek, to complement that company's recent discovery of significant...-
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Beltana. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Ongoing exploration of copper prospects within diapiric raft blocks of Adelaidean metasediments at Beltana has concentrated on the vicinity of historic underground mine workings where evidence of primary sulphide mineralisation can still be seen at...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1970
