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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 88/00096 Proterozoic Ediacara fauna and Cambrian archaeocyatha of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
This paper describes the type fossil occurrences, their present-day geological setting and, as deduced from properties of the host sediments, their interpreted palaeogeographic locations and palaeoenvironmental depositional facies which probably...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1988
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Beltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 18/12/1967 to 17/12/1969.
An evaluation of the base metal potential of the greater Beltana 'diapiric' complex was undertaken by MIM via field mapping, soil geochemical surveys and limited shallow rotary percussion drilling at historic surface workings on small showings of...-
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Puttapa. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/7/1967 to 10/7/1969.
Exploration and evaluation of two large, outcropping willemite zinc orebodies, previously discovered in the Puttapa area by other parties, has been commenced under tenure of Mineral Claim 5092 newly taken up by SML 153 licensee Electrolytic Zinc Co....-
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South Puttapa. Progress and final summary reports for the period 15/7/1970 to 16/7/1971.
Appraisal of the Beltana zinc deposit continued during the current licence period, principally by diamond drilling (6 holes, total 2570 feet) aimed at delineating blind extensions to the main orebody on its southern side. The drilling was very...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Goddard, Mount Deception, Parachilna, Yandina Hill and Ben Lomond (the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports for the period 14/10/1999 to 27/4/2018.
A group of jointly reported tenements in the northern Flinders Ranges region is being explored for economic base metal mineralisation that might have formed within Late Proterozoic to Middle Cambrian continental rift margin sediments, probably with...-
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Published: 25 Jun 1918
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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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Puttapa Gap. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1988 to 23/12/1989.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound/hydrothermal lead-zinc deposits formed in Cambrian carbonate units, and also for hydrothermal gold, was performed under a joint venture agreement by Poseidon Minerals and covered an area surrounding the...-
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Source rock maturity study and petroleum geochemistry of the Arrowie Basin.
This section of the study was based on source rock analyses performed on 75 outcrop and shallow drill core samples from 25 localities, plus other new data derived from Cambrian sediments intersected in the deep petroleum exploration wells Moorowie 1,...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1986
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Beltana / Copley. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/6/2003 to 23/11/2013.
During licence Year 11, on renewed EL 3111 (to 27/7/2004), Perilya's exploration was focussed on expanding the mineralised intersections found near Reliance in the previous year, and on investigating the open-at-depth mineralised palaeo-karstic...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1914
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Puttapa North. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/11/1974 to 31/10/1976.
In continuing exploration of the Cambrian dolomitic limestones in the vicinity of Puttapa, looking for additional occurences of economic zinc mineralisation, the focus for E-Z was on four areas which contain known outcropping willemite. In three of...-
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Published: 08 Jul 1976
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RB 2001/00002 Early Cambrian acritarchs, trilobites and archaeocyaths from Yalkalpo 2, eastern Arrowie Basin, South Australia.
Early Cambrian marine sediments in the Arrowie Basin, South Australia, were deposited on a continental margin platform, and have been divided into five unconformity bounded depositional sequences and subsequences, ranging in age from basal Cambrian to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2001
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RB 2014/00002 Carbonate hosted Pb-Zn-Ag deposits. exploration using light hydrocarbons as pathfinders.
Surveys recently conducted in England, Ireland and Australia have shown that there are major spatial variations in the 'light' [molecular weight] hydrocarbon gas content of rocks which are closely related to the presence of underlying mineralisation....-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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Special Mining Leases nos 153, 153A and 153B; Mineral Claim nos 5092 and 5350. Summary report for the period 10/7/1967 to 16/7/1971.
This report summarises, in categoric fashion, all of the various exploratory and mine development activities carried out over the past four years on the broader Puttapa area exploration licence (as renewed), and within the mineral claims taken out...-
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Beltana - Puttapa region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/1972 to 2/8/1974.
Geological mapping and the interpretation of drillhole data from the vicinity of the recently defined Southern orebody extension at Beltana (including 4 new diamond holes totalling 1600 feet) has enabled the licensee to formulate likely parameters of...-
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Published: 13 Feb 1975
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Geology and ore genesis, Beltana mine.
Zinc silicate (willemite) mineralisation occurs in a host rock of Lower Cambrian Ajax Limestone, which represents part of a sequence of Proterozoic to Middle Cambrian sediments that rests unconformably on folded lower Adelaidean Willouran siltstones...-
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Mount Aroona. Progress reports for the period 23/9/1968 to 22/9/1970.
Exploration for Beltana - type stratabound, hydrothermal related base metal deposits in an area situated south-west of Copley consisted of regional, ground and helicopter-assisted geological mapping at 1:4800 scale, photointerpretation of structural...-
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Mount Aroona. Progress and final summary reports for the period 22/10/1970 to 21/10/1971.
Continuing exploration of the Aroona Valley and its vicinity for possible 'blind' occurrences of the zinc silicate, willemite, within host Lower Cambrian strata, has consisted of 1:4800 scale geological mapping of the south-western limb of the Aroona...-
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Angepena. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
In a continuation of the evaluation of the Mucatoona copper prospect, assaying of RAB drill cuttings samples returned no metal values of note. Mineragraphic studies of the primary copper mineralisation occurring in the Adelaidean black shale facies...-
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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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