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Arkaroola. Progress and technical reports to licence renewal for the period 19/5/1972 to 18/5/1974.
Ongoing base metal exploration in the Arkaroola Station region of the north-eastern Flinders Ranges by licensee North Flinders Mines (NFM) has involved reviews of certain existing prospects, which has led to the entry of farminee Shell Minerals...-
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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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Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fifth partial surrender report, for the period 17/1/2000 to 29/8/2019.
Four separate portions of EL 5773, together comprising ~56% of its former area, were relinquished by the JV partners on 29/8/2019. The only work performed within the now relinquished ground has consisted of reconnaissance + infill surface geochemical...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1919
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Willouran Ranges. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 11/12/1967 to 10/12/1969.
In a search for possible economic base metal mineralisation in the Willouran Ranges, a review and statistical trend surface analysis of previous company sream sediment geochemical data, combined with MIM's own orientation studies on the distribution...-
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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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Mount Craig Copper Project. Final report for June to December 2021 geophysical and drilling program, Project ADI RD02-268 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2021].
An area centred ~28 km east of Hawker is being explored for possible buried epigenetic/hydrothermal, skarn style and sediment-hosted stratabound base and precious metals mineralisation that may have formed within prepared Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1921
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Alberrie Creek (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/7/2012 to 22/11/2019.
An area centred ~55 km west of Marree has been explored for possible buried economic stratiform copper and magnesite mineralisation. During the first licence year, no work occurred while Native Title land access negotiations were in progress. During...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Mount Goddard (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1999 to 2/6/2014.
To comply with the terms of the 2013 Flinders Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement (AEA), a 30 square km portion of EL 6505, as two separate peripheral sub-blocks together representing ~35% of its former extent, has recently been relinquished due to it...-
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Published: 15 Sep 1922
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Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/3/1970 to 18/3/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over part of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field has targeted base metal anomalies previously found by Australian Selection in the Blue mine area. An area of about 80 square miles was assessed by reconnaissance stream...-
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Port Augusta - Wilkatana area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/10/1969 to 4/8/1972.
An area surrounding the Emeroo Range, and extending from the vicinity of Port Augusta to 30 km west of Hawker, was explored by Utah for possible economic stratabound base metal deposits which it was thought could be associated with certain favourable...-
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Mount Craig (part of the Hawker Project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 15/11/2005 to 14/11/2010.
Copper Range's principal exploration targets in the Adelaide Fold Belt are secondary, near-surface oxide copper deposits that are structurally controlled and related to hydrothermal events focussed along faults late in the deformational history of the...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1911
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Domes and diapirs, mineral exploration, Central Flinders Zone, Adelaide Geosyncline.
This paper synthesizes the findings of Frontier's exploratory efforts over the past three years, and makes recommendations for an ongoing exploration programme following and consequent to the economically unsuccessful outcome of drilling Blinman nos 1...-
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Mount Lyndhurst (part of Perilya's Flinders Ranges Project). Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/12/1999 to 7/7/2004.
Numerous base metal occurrences and historic mines occur in the Mt Lyndhurst area, hosted mainly in Neoproterozoic rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline. Investigations at several prospects have included detailed mapping plus soil and rock chip sampling....-
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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/9/1966 to 1/3/1967.
Reconnaissance geochemical exploration for possible economic stratiform copper deposits hosted by Adelaidean and Lower Cambrian sediments in an area of the northern Flinders Ranges located east of Blinman has consisted of aerial surveys,...-
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Wooltana. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to February 1971.
TARGET: Disseminated low grade, large tonnage deposits of copper, lead and zinc mineralisation formed in Adelaidean metasediments overlying Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks. EXPLORATION: 1:12,000 and 1:4,800 scale geological mapping, rock chip, soil and...-
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Middleback Range, SA. SMLs 204 and 205 1969 geochemical survey report.
Two separate orientation geochemical sampling programmes have been undertaken during 1969 over BHP's Special Mining Lease areas near Whyalla. In the Pandurra Station area, shallow residual soils over known mineralised Carpentarian bedrock were...-
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Mount Bayley. Combined first progress / final report to licence surrender for the period 2/6/1969 to 1/12/1969.
Outcropping Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks, plus Adelaidean diapiric rocks located west of the historical Mount Bayley copper mine, were tested for concealed base metal mineralisation by collecting and analysing 133 regional stream sediment samples....-
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Published: 08 Oct 1969
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Paralana. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 16/5/1966 to 15/12/1966.
Regional stream sediment sampling conducted over an area of historically prospective ?Archaean, Proterozoic and Palaeozoic rocks in the Mount Painter - Mount Babbage - Mount Livingstone - Yudnamutana area did not reveal any base or precious metal...-
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Mount McKinlay. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/2/1972 to 23/2/1973.
Possible hydrothermally - deposited native mercury metal associated with the Mount John Fault zone, perhaps in a quartz splinter vein setting similar to that of the mercury occurrence previously found nearby at the Moro mine, plus elsewhere, economic...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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