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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/7/2002 to 24/7/2007.
An area centred ~25 km south-east of Olary township is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG type and gold-only mineralisation, as well as for possible stratiform Broken Hill type lead-zinc-silver occurrences, and latterly also, for Radium...-
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Published: 23 Aug 1907
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
An area consisting of three separate sub-blocks located ~20 to 35 km north-east of Olary and ~20 km east of Cutana is being explored for possible economic gold as basement shear and vein hosted style deposits, as well as for possible extensions of the...-
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Cutana. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
52 square km or ~24.9% of the former area of EL 5585 has been relinquished.-
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Published: 20 Mar 1919
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[East of] Lake Frome area (part of the Benagerie Ridge JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2012.
EL 3019 located in the Curnamona Province of South Australia covers a portion of the north-south trending buried palaeotopographic high known as the Benagerie Ridge. The north-south elongate licence area occupies part of Quinyambie Station, and is...-
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Benagerie Ridge Areas A to E (initially the Curnamona IOCG Project, and later becoming part of the Curnamona South Uranium Project). Joint annual reports to licences' respective or joint (final) surrender, for the period 25/5/2005 to 9/6/2015.
Five conjoined exploration licences covering the buried central and northern Benagerie Ridge basement province that is comprised predominantly of Mesoproterozoic volcanic and intrusive rocks, have been explored for possible economic iron oxide -...-
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Published: 14 May 1915
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RB 2006/00023 Chinese electrogeochemical CHIM method: Field Trials 2005, South Australia
A version of the Russian-invented CHIM electro-geochemical prospecting technique, which has lately been developed at Guilin University, China, was trialled in field surveys conducted at the Challenger gold mine, and at the Kalkaroo Cu-Au-Mo and Goulds...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2006/00014 Geology of the Olary Domain Curnamona Province South Australia 2006 Field Guide and Excursion Stops
This field guidebook provides brief geological summaries to sites in South Australia that were visited during the 2006 Broken Hill Exploration Initiative pre-conference excursion. Figures show the location of the field area and approximate location of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2006
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RB 2006/00017 Geological notes on the Coppertop, Montstephen, southern Morialpa and southeastern Plumbago Inliers
Four areas on the south-western margin of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Willyama Inliers were mapped in detail to elucidate the nature of their lithostratigraphy, structure and mineralisation. These basement inliers are composed of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2019/00014 Old Boolcoomata region excursion notes, Curnamona Province, 20-22 July 2019
The excursion to the Old Boolcoomata region of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province, in South Australia presents most of the stratigraphy of the late Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup and evidence for its complex deformation during the ~1600 Ma...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2019
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RB 2010/00011 Building granite plutons in the Olary Domain, South Australia: a ring dyke model.
Transects made across three discrete granite plutons which outcrop in the Olary Domain of the Curnamona Province have revealed that varying geochemical and lithological zones are common within the individual plutons. The Ninnerie Hill Pluton and the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2010
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RB 2008/00004 Definitions of Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks of the Curnamona Province: the Ninnerie Supersuite.
The Curnamona Province has been host to widespread magmatic activity, with several periods of granite emplacement recorded, variously extending from the late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic. Mesoproterozoic granites and volcanic rocks occur...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2008
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RB 2010/00020 Definition of the Mesoproterozoic Ninnerie Supersuite, Curnamona Province, South Australia.
The Curnamona Province crustal block was host to widespread late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic magmatic activity, with several periods of granite emplacement on record as having occurred during the Mesoproterozoic. Granitic and volcanic...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2011
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RB 2023/00002 40Ar/39Ar geochronology from AuScope National Argon Map samples, Curnamona Province, South Australia.
The National Argon Map is an AuScope-funded pilot project (2020–2021). The project aimed to compile a national-scale 40Ar/39Ar geochronology map and to analyse new samples to fill the gaps in national coverage of this dataset. The Geological Surveys...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2023
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Curnamona Province basement regional geology 3D Model (3D pdf version 1).
The Curnamona Province basement 3D Geological Model is a product of PIRSA's early 3D modelling trials conducted using 3D GeoModeller software. The work began with identifying the statigraphic units that were to be modelled. Due to the regional scale...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-55, exploring Kalkaroo Dome copper-gold mineral prospects for extensions of the Kalkaroo deposit. Project final report.
The Kalkaroo Cu-Au-Mo deposit is located 65 km north of Olary and 100 km west of Broken Hill, and occupies a portion of very prospective Palaeoproterozoic Bimba Formation subcrop, which potentially could have a 40 km strike length around two buried...-
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RB 2012/00019 Geochemistry of pre-1570 Ma mafic magmatism within southern Australia: implications for possible tectonic settings and timing of major mineralisation events in South Australia.
Geochemical and isotopic data from mantle-derived mafic rocks provide important constraints on our understanding of the composition and evolution of the lithosphere through time. Since the lithosphere is sensitive to tectonic processes such as...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2012
