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Tarlton Knob and Cadnia Hill. Joint progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
A consultant's detailed regional geological study of the northern Willouran Ranges, and then his very close examination of the apparent controls on known diapir-related exposed epigenetic / stratabound copper mineralisation, have identified three...-
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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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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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Mutooroo (Ridge). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/2018 to 22/8/2021.
A very small area centred ~60 km south-east of Olary has been explored for possible economic buried Late Proterozoic sediment-hosted or volcanic hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) Cu (-Co) mineralisation. Previous exploration conducted by Longreach Metals...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1921
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Breaden Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1967 to 12/11/1969.
Evaluation of possible commercial, buried stratiform copper deposits in the Willouran Ranges south of Marree was the objective of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and shallow drilling undertaken by Noranda. Their interest in the region was...-
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Luxemburg Well. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/83 to 3/11/84.
Diamond drillcore obtained from the Luxemburg mine area, which was drilled by Sundowner Minerals Pty Ltd in 1969-70, was assayed and identified as consisting of altered pyroxenite, altered granitoids (adamellite, granodiorite, tonalite), and altered...-
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Mount Stuart. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1987.
Epithermal, fault-related gold and base metals in calcareous Adelaidean metasediments (cf. the Beltana and Aroona zinc-lead deposits), and sedex style base metals of Mount Isa - McArthur River type, or stratiform base metals in black shale units, were...-
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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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Ruby Hill Project : Douglas Creek prospect drilling program. Final report, Project ADI RD02-288 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Copper Search Australia Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Copper Search Limited) was granted co-funding from the Department of Energy and Mining in July 2021 to a subsidy total of up to $228,000, to assist it with high risk exploration of remote parts of the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola (part of the Frome Basin Project). Annual reports for the period 3/6/1996 to 4/12/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 1243 square km rugged mountainous area in the far northern Flinders Ranges extending between Arkaroola, Moolawatana, Prospect Hill, Mount Livingston and Mount Saturday was taken up to explore primarily for gold that it was hoped could exist in...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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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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The Needles. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/6/1975.
Ongoing exploration for economic base and precious metals in the Blue mine area at the eastern end of the Umberatana Syncline has comprised detailed, 1:5000 scale prospect mapping, preparation of a preliminary new tectonic and structural analysis...-
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Arkaroola (part of the Wooltana Joint Venture project). Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/5/1971 to 18/5/1973.
Continuing exploration of the basal Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequence in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges for possible economic stratiform/stratabound Kapunda or Blinman - type copper mineralisation has concentrated on detailed 1:1200 and 1:4800...-
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Copley and Wearing Gorge areas. Joint annual reports to licences' surrender, for the period 18/6/2007 to 1/11/2011.
Several small areas in the vicinity of the Mount Coffin Diapir, which covers ~5 square km within the north-central Flinders Ranges immediately to the south-east of Copley, have been explored with the hope of finding additional copper resources near...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1911
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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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Yednalue. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/2/2012 to 12/2/2016.
During licence Year 11 (2012-2013), David Miller rehabilitated his three drillsites that had been used in April 2011, delivered representative drill samples from his six holes to the DMITRE Drill Core Library, and further considered the logistics of...-
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Published: 10 Feb 1916
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Willouran Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2013.
A large area centred ~25 km south-west of Marree has been explored for possible buried economic stratiform / stratabound base metals in the basal Adelaidean Callanna Group and overlying Neoproterozoic metasediments, including possible sedimentary...-
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Published: 26 Jul 1913
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Clare, Spalding and Washpool (the Spalding Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for EL 5910/6430 and five related Burra Project licences: joint annual reports for the period 10/11/2009 to 9/11/2019.
Phoenix Copper was attracted to explore the Spalding Inlier region in the Northern Mount Lofty Ranges after earlier work done by the South Australian Department of Mines (SADM) and by Copper Range reported the occurrence of several known sites of...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1920
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Yednalue. Data release made in lieu of making a first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 24/9/2001 to 12/2/2012.
A small area centred approximately 70 km north of Orroroo is being explored for possible buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform or stratabound epithermal/hydrothermal copper and gold deposits, and for placer gold or magnetite deposits, as well as...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1912
