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RB 88/00076 Summary review of lead-zinc mineralization in South Australia.
266 summary sheets on significant lead-zinc occurrences and anomalous concentrations have been prepared by the Department's Lead-Zinc Taskforce as a data package, in the form of 5 reports, to assist in the search for lead-zinc deposits to provide...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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Mount Gunson ore controls as a basis for further exploration.
This report presents the geological setting and postulated ore controls for the Mount Gunson style of mineralisation, with an expansion on the inferred metal concentration mechanism and its quantitative feasibility. Recommendations for two optimal...-
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Published: 17 Aug 1971
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 30/7/2003 to 6/10/2009.
The subject EL 3112 ground represents the continuation of tenure by Gunson Resources, over the same area, from its former EL 2516 Yeltacowie (for which see the relevant licence reports previously released in Envs 9530 and 9715). This replacement...-
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Hydrogeological data, lithologs and sample assays for water bores drilled during the period January 1974 to March 1976 in the Mount Gunson area.
During the period from January 1974 to March 1976, 35 vertical rotary percussion water wells were drilled and many were cased off, perforated and then fitted with submersible electric pumps and offtake piping, to supply mine process water to the Mount...-
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Mount Gunson district. Geological mapping data, 1971-1972.
A mapping programme was undertaken by the licensees to test the possibility of the near-mine area to Mount Gunson being a suitable host environment for stratiform copper mineralisation. The exploration hypothesis used was that such mineralisation...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1972
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Mount Gunson. Reports on trial seismic refraction surveys conducted in 1966 and 1972 to map possible ore-bearing horizons.
Reports describe the results of two attempts to use seismic refraction methods to map an unconformable subsurface interface between lithic sandstone and quartzite units within the Whyalla Sandstone. This palaeosurface is important as a locus for...-
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Review of stratigraphic petrography, Pandurra area.
All previously collected rock specimens were reclassified and discussed.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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Mount Gunson copper deposit. Operator's reports about mine geology, mineralisation and ore genesis, for the period 1970-1983.
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Published: 25 Jul 1983
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Pernatty Lagoon - Woocalla - Mount Gunson area. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1963 to 25/8/1966.
TARGET: The area of abandoned shallow historic workings for secondary copper and manganese ore aligned along a sandstone - dolomitic limestone contact on the western edge of Pernatty Lagoon. EXPLORATION: A field inspection of the above workings,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 7/10/2009 to 6/10/2013.
New work undertaken on EL 4187 during the 2009-2010 licence year has included: • Ongoing documentation and interpretation of MGD 55 & 56 • Drilling of MGD57 to 1243 m at Emmie Bluff prospect • Down hole EM and IP logging of MGD57 •...-
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Cattlegrid. Progress report, 1976.
Summary of geological knowledge to date, including mineralogy, paragenesis and ore handling problems.-
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Report on diamond drilling, February-March 1975, Gully area, Mount Gunson.
16 diamond drill holes tested the distribution and grade of copper mineralization occuring in the Woocalla shales. Drilling results suggest that no economically viable copper deposit exists in the Gully due to the low grade, high overburden and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Petrology of samples from Charlinga, Pandurra and Mount Gunson DDHs LD24, LD25, J-12, MG11 - MG14 and WOB-12.
Samples studied for stratigraphic identification.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Report on geophysical surveys, MG14 area, Mount Gunson.
Follow up of an orientation INPUT survey anomaly with ground magnetic and IP surveys focussed attention on the MG14 area. This report describes the geophysical results and subsequent drill testing (DDH LY3), and their interpretation.-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1975 to 19/7/1977.
As part of continuing brownfields exploration for extensions to known stratiform base metal mineralisation in the area lying to the west of Pernatty Lagoon, much stratigraphic drilling (210 rotary percussion holes totalling 12,441 m, including 1167 m...-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Ongoing appraisal work conducted by CSR at the company's newly discovered Cattlegrid copper deposit that lies at the top of the Pandurra Formation has included infill rotary percussion and diamond drilling (13 holes for 554 m, including 166 m cored),...-
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1975 to 15/4/1977.
Stratiform copper sulphides, hosted within the basal Tapley Hill Formation, and extensions of known kimberlite bodies were targeted in this program. Reconnaissance and closer (down to 1 km x 1 km) spaced diamond and percussion drilling (28 and 83...-
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RB 72/00189 Base metal mineralization in the Pernatty Lagoon region, South Australia.
Concentrations of copper occur in sandstone (Whyalla Sandstone Member) and dolomite (Woocalla Dolomite) which rest disconformably on an undulating surface of quartzite (Pandurra Formation) in the Mount Gunson area. Several attempts have been made to...-
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Published: 04 Oct 1972
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Woocalla (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Fourth partial surrender report for the period 4/8/1995 to 29/10/2009.
As part of a project examining the sequence of Adelaidean cover rocks that surrounds the Pernatty Culmination on the southern Stuart Shelf for possible economic stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles known to be present in the Mount...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucolo Creek (also called the Churchill Dam Project). Annual reports for the period 31/1/2006 to 14/11/2018.
EL 3511 Eucolo Creek, of 528 square km, is situated near the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton within the Olympic Dam Domain, approximately 90 km south-west of the Olympic Dam IOCG-U deposit (3.98 billion tonnes at 1.1% Cu, 0.4 kg/t U3O8 and 0.5 g/t...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1918
