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Mount Bayley. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/7/1971 to 21/7/1972.
A small area located 15 km north-east of Beltana was explored for possible economic stratabound or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metal deposits associated with Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous/dolomitic strata and Willouran diapiric structures. Work...-
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Ediacara. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1971 to 12/11/1972.
During June-July 1972, 35 shallow vertical rotary percussion drillholes for a total penetration of 877 m were completed within the Ediacara Fault Zone to test for economic base metal mineralisation, the majority of the holes being sited at locations...-
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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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Mundy Creek (part of the Copley Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/12/2008 to 16/12/2015.
A small area centred ~30 km north-northeast of Leigh Creek and the central Telford Basin coalfields, has been explored for possible economic diapir-related stratabound occurrences of base metals and gold. During the first licence year, the only...-
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Published: 19 Feb 1916
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Wirrealpa. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 26/2/1988.
Economic deposits of Mississippi Valley type stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation within in Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration undertaken on and near the Wirrealpa Diapir. A preliminary field reconnaissance had shown that surface...-
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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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Geochemical mapping of a copper mineral system, Lyndhurst area (for the ARC North Project). Final report, Project ADI RD01-126 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
As a part of searching for economic deposits of sediment-hosted copper (SHC) mineralisation that might have formed within rocks of the Adelaide Rift Complex Neoproterozoic sedimentation sequence occupying an area located due east of Lyndhurst in the...-
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Warraweena. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 14/2/91 to 13/11/91.
TARGET: Possible diapirism-related gold, base metals and diamonds in the Warraweena area, located 10 km south-east of Copley. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance gravel and stream sediment BLEG sampling, plus geochemical tests for signatures of possible...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1991
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Alioota. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 8/4/1971 to 7/4/1972.
Continuing exploration for economic stratiform base metal deposits in an area approximately 30 km north-east of Copley has outlined the presence of persistent traces of disseminated chalcopyrite, galena and pyrite within green shales and dolomitic...-
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Published: 30 Dec 1971
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Warrioota Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated south of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the Viburnum Trend (Mississippi Valley) - type mineral potential of...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1980
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Alerumba Creek - Mount Roberts. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/9/1979 to 15/11/1986.
Exploration for possible Mississippi Valley style stratabound lead-zinc deposits hosted by Lower Cambrian carbonates in the Angepena area, 70 km north-east of Blinman, comprised regional and detailed geological mapping, reconnaissance stream sediment...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Hedley Hill. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for the six Lake Torrens Project licences, for the period 26/5/1997 to 25/5/2000.
Exploration Licence 2340 “Hedley Hill” is located adjacent to the northeast extremity of Lake Torrens. During the 80’s and 90’s exploration of the Lake Torrens district has had the prime objective of the discovery of an "Olympic Dam" style deposit...-
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Published: 20 Jul 1900
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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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Beltana - Aroona region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/7/1971 to 15/7/1972.
Continuing prospect exploration work at the Beltana zinc orebody discovery has consisted of detailed geological mapping at 1:4 800 scale, rock chip sampling of outcropping Adelaidean and Cambrian sediments, field investigation of microgravity...-
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Geology of the Stuart Creek - Charlie Swamp area, northern South Australia.
As a B.Sc. Honours project with the Geology Department of the University of Adelaide, which was sponsored by the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy, the author during 1978 carried out geological mapping of a nearly 400 square km area...-
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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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Blinman - Wirrealpa area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 25/3/1971 to 24/3/1972.
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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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Reaphook Hill. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 1/12/1965 to 13/5/1968.
The reported presence of high geochemical zinc values in the Parachilna Formation rocks exposed there prompted Kennecott Explorations to include the Reaphook Hill outlier of Lower Cambrian sediments into its regional investigation of the stratiform...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1967
