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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 21/10/1974.
A re-investigation of base metal geochemical anomalies detected during Electrolytic Zinc Co.'s former stream sediment and rock chip sampling programme conducted near an historic copper-lead mine prospect at Mount Chambers in the eastern Flinders...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1974
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Warraweena. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/9/1974.
Geological mapping, further surface geochemical sampling, test IP surveys and limited shallow diamond drilling (2 holes, total 201.3 m, including 147 m of NQ/BQ wireline coring) were done over a previously identified stream sediment zinc anomaly at...-
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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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Frome Downs and Curnamona. Respective progress reports, annual reports and JV partner's final report to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 11/2/1971 to 12/2/1973.
77 rotary / diamond holes drilled by Pacminex (total 9385 m, including 196 m cored) plus another 53 holes drilled within SML 544 by joint venturer Esso (total 7029 m) indicate that a highly prospective radioactive mineralised zone occurs within...-
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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 60/00009 Brachina dolomite deposit, central Flinders Ranges, Hd Bunyeroo.
Mapping and sampling have confirmed high grade dolomite at the base of the Lower Cambrian Wilkawillina Limestone at Brachina Gorge. The dolomite appears chemically suitable for refractory and other industrial purposes, with an average grade of 54%...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1965
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RB 78/00117 Bumbarlow 1 - Well completion report.
Bumbarlow 1 (TD 720.33 m) aimed to test the lithology and petroleum potential of the Cambrian section in the central part of the eastern Arrowie Basin. It continuously cored a sequence over 300 m thick of flat-lying Proterozoic sediments interbedded...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1978
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 96/00034 1996 MESA petroleum industry survey.
A consultant to MESA interviewed approximately 30 petroleum industry personnel throughout Australia from April to July, 1996. The aims of the customer feedback poll were to measure the Petroleum Division's performance in promoting and regulating the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1996
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-64, eastern Torrens Basin / Torrens Hinge Zone, Parachilna geothermal play 2-D reflection seismic survey. Project final report.
As part of Torrens Energy' pioneering hot rock geothermal resource exploration in the central part of the Torrens Hinge Zone, a two-dimensional reflection seismic survey traverse was acquired using low-impact Vibroseis signal source equipment in the...-
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Bopeechee. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2000 to 27/7/2008.
In on-ground exploration of an area on the Stuart Shelf located 18-46 km north-east of Olympic Dam, possible economic sedex - style, Mount Isa / Nifty type stratabound copper was targeted within Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks as part of multiple...-
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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1906
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Ben Lomond (part of Perilya's Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender for the period 2/3/2000 to 17/11/2007.
Due to the licensee's competing commitments from others of its tenements in the exploration project area, the planned evaluation of geochemical prospects and Landsat Fe-alteration anomalies detected in shelf margin, deep-water carbonate sedimentary...-
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Published: 22 Jan 1908
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Hawker. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2009.
Copper Range has targeted several different styles of base metal mineralisation within the Chace Range district. Initially its focus was on sediment (sandstone)- hosted copper deposits, with exploration being confined to reconnaissance field visits to...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1909
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Hawker. First partial surrender report for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2008.
Exploration of the outcropping Proterozoic/Cambrian stratigraphic boundary in the Chace Range region of the southern Flinders Ranges, in one licence subarea taken out close to Hawker and another a short distance to the north-east, targeted possible...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1908
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Blinman (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 21/4/1999 to 20/4/2002.
Exploration Licence 2593 “Blinman” is located 500 km north of Adelaide in the Central North Flinders Ranges, South Australia. The licence covers an area of 1616km2 and was initially granted to Minotaur Gold NL on 21 April 1999. Minotaur was targeting...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wilkawillina (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for all six Project licences, for the period 5/8/1999 to 3/8/2002.
A large area centred on the Wilkawillina Gorge of Ten Mile Creek, in the central Flinders Ranges near Oraparinna, is being explored for possible buried economic zinc silicate (willemite) epigenetic or replacement mineralisation of Beltana type, as...-
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