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Bulloo Creek (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project acreage). Combined fifth annual and partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/8/1999 to 4/8/2004.
Exploration for possible epigenetic Au-Cu-Mo deposits within Palaeoproterozoic metasediments in the surrendered parts of the licence area, which lie just north of MacDonald Hill and are fairly close to MIM's 1997 White Dam Au-Cu discovery, has...-
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Kalabity (part of the Strathearn Joint Venture Project). Data release at licence expiry/full surrender : progress reports and annual reports for the period 4/7/1988 to 15/10/2003.
The initial manager of the joint venture, CRA Exploration Pty Ltd (CRAE), targeted a range of copper, gold and uranium mineralisation styles, including vein-style uranium associated with carbonate rocks (Kintyre model), Olympic Dam style...-
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Wompinie (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/11/1995 to 5/12/2008.
Exploration for Kalkaroo or Portia style copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill type stratiform lead-zinc-silver deposits, both possibly formed within the Palaeoproterozoic basement intrusive rocks and high grade metasediments in an area lying...-
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Published: 14 May 1909
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Walparuta. Progress and annual reports, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/12/1994 to 20/4/2009.
Ground encompassing the Palaeoproterozoic basement Weekeroo Inlier of the Olary district, which includes the historic Walparuta copper-gold mine located approximately 20 km north of Manna Hill township, was taken out to search for possible economic...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolcoomata, Macdonald Hill, Mingary, Bulloo South / Bulloo Creek, Drew Hill and Wompinie (the Drew Hill Project). Separate and joint annual reports for the period 30/9/2003 to 9/1/2008.
Three adjacent but separate exploration licences, ELs 3136, 3137 and 3138, together covering 491 square km of ground located north-east of Olary and also surrounding Mingary, were initially granted to Exco Resources NL (Exco) at the end of September...-
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Mingary. Progress reports and annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/11/1984 to 26/2/1996.
Exploration Licence 1258 "Mingary" was granted to Mount Isa Mines Ltd in November 1984. The area, of 1185 square km lying 40 km north-east of Olary, had been the subject of exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary basement for Broken Hill...-
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Eurinilla. Data release made in lieu of second partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports plus first partial surrender report, for the period 7/6/1994 to 4/7/2001.
The tenement was acquired to cover a large magnetic dome (the Eurinilla Dome, ~100 km north of Olary), considered prospective for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation analogous to that found at Olympic Dam and Ernest Henry. An...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1901
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Bundera Well. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/2000 to 26/6/2005.
Possible buried Palaeoproterozoic stratiform to stratabound Cloncurry style Cu-Au mineralisation was the principal objective of exploration undertaken over an area located approximately 60 km north-east of Olary. Other conceptual targets included...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Bimbowrie. Annual reports for the period 4/11/2009 to 11/11/2018.
During licence Year 6 (2009-2010), the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4375, the main exploration activities undertaken by Sinosteel-PepinNini Curnamona Management Pty Ltd (SPCM) were to conduct two drilling campaigns, the first designed to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalabity. Annual reports for the period 25/2/2009 to 11/3/2019.
The main exploration activities undertaken during the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4239 (licence Year 6, 2009-2010) consisted of drill testing of uraniferous prospects defined by previous exploration, after the prior acquisition of an airborne...-
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Outalpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
55 square km or ~25.6% of the former area of EL 5584 has been relinquished.-
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Published: 20 Mar 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Outalpa. Annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
An area consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are spread out ~25 km north of Manna Hill and from 10 to 20 km to the north and north-west of Olary is being explored for possible economic gold as basement shear and vein hosted style deposits, as...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1919
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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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Walparuta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2010 to 20/6/2019.
A small area centred ~30 km west of Olary has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform base metal sulphide mineralisation, vein barite mineralisation and also for epithermal copper-gold deposits that may have formed in...-
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Kalabity. Final report, Project ADI RD02-266 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
On 19th May 2021 Sinosteel SA secured ADI funding to carry out the comprehensive Curnamona Geochemical Sampling Program utilising the skills of the in-house geologist together with academic research collaboration to perform rigorous geochemical...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1922
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona base and precious metals JV Project area (including Benagerie and Kalkaroo). Combined annual reports for the period 1/1/2008 to 31/12/2012.
During the fifth year of the Curnamona Project, field activities were carried out only on Benagerie EL 3586, and consisted of the drilling of 2 inclined diamond cored holes for 424.3 mm (NPDD034 and NPDD035) at the North Portia prospect during August...-
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Kalabity. Data release in lieu of partial relinquishment at licence expiry/renewal : progress reports, and successive joint venturers' final reports, for the period 6/10/1978 to 14/3/1988.
This release details exploration conducted between 1978 and 1988 for uranium, base and precious metals in the Early Proterozoic rocks of the Willyama Complex, north of Olary. Initial work on searching for uranium included airborne helicopter...-
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Benagerie (part of the Benagerie Ridge Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting on the Curnamona Joint Venture Project, for the period 2/5/1989 to 3/5/2003. [Index Part 1 of 3].
An area of sparsely explored, Tertiary and Cretaceous sediment and soil-covered Proterozoic bedrock centred approximately 80 km north of Olary is being explored primarily for base metal massive sulphide deposits. The underlying Benagerie Ridge...-
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Published: 19 May 1903
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2007 to 15/8/2013, and the "Curnamona South Project" annual report for the period 1/1/2017 to 31/12/2018.
During licence year 6, the commencing year of renewed EL 3895 Cutana, no work took place because Havilah's RC drilling rig, along with all company personnel, were fully occupied on completing the mining feasibility evaluation drilling programmes...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1919
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RB 2005/00012 Prospectivity analysis of Bimbowrie Station, Curnamona Province, South Australia - interim report
In May 2004 the Minister for the Department of Environment and Heritage purchased Bimbowrie Station pastoral lease. The station was purchased because it encompasses part of the Olary Ranges, which is part of the environmentally important Broken Hill...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2005
