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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-34, Drew Hill JV area Curnamona Group base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
During early 2005, the Drew Hill joint venture partners conducted a regional base metal exploration programme over their mineral tenements located approximately 20-70 km north-east of Olary. Possible epithermal iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG)...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-59, Kalkaroo Dome fault-hosted gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The main aim of Havilah Exploration's PACE Initiative Year 3 approved drilling programme was to test the east-west trending, quartz-veined breccia zone that passes through the central Kalkaroo Dome, specifically in the footwall of the Kalkaroo Cu-Au...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-14, Willow IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Bimbowrie EL 3278 is located within the Palaeoproterozoic Olary Domain of the Curnamona Province, South Australia. The property is prospective for a variety of mineralisation styles including granite batholith primary (hard-rock) uranium, Broken Hill...-
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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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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalabity. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/2/2004 to 24/2/2009.
A large area in the central-eastern Olary Domain surrounding Kalabity Homestead is thought to be prospective for Broken Hill type stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag deposits, Mt Isa - Century style stratiform Zn-Pb deposits, Cloncurry style strata bound Cu- Au...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1909
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Data release - as updated : Whey Whey Creek (latterly part of the Walparuta Project). Annual reports plus final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/2013 to 17/7/2020.
A very small (35 square km) area located ~35 km west-northwest of Olary and covering part of the Weekeroo Inlier is being explored for possible buried epigenetic stratiform Broken Hill type Pb-Zn-Ag and VHMS (volcanic hosted massive sulphide) style...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry) : Year 9 partnership no. DPY9-44 - Benagerie Dome. Drilling project final report.
A PACE Initiative - subsidised collaborative drilling programme has been completed by Havilah Resources Limited between February and June 2017 on its EL 5873 Benagerie and ML 6346 (Portia gold mine) ground holdings in the central western Curnamona...-
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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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Kalkaroo and Benagerie. Final report on an investigation of rare earth element mineralisation in the Benagerie Dome, Project ADI RD01-105 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
The primary objective of the subject successful Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) project proposal has been to determine the nature, extent and economic potential of rare earth elements (REE) mineralisation in the Benagerie Ridge portion of the...-
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Macdonald Hill, Mingary and Bulloo Creek (Drew Hill Project). First partial surrender/ second partial relinquishment reports at project licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 30/9/2003 to 29/9/2008.
Work carried out on the now relinquished licence portions has comprised the acquisition, processing and interpretation of Aster satellite imagery (SWIR, VNIR and Landsat TM247 images) by contractor Geoimage in November 2004, followed by a consultant's...-
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Published: 13 May 1909
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Whey Whey Creek (the Black Elephant Project). Data release to accompany first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2011.
A tenement area located 25 km south-west of Olary was taken up for exploration because in the licensees' opinion it is favourably located on the southern margin of the Curnamona Craton, and covers Willyama Supergroup metasediments and metavolcanics...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona JV Project area (including Benagerie and Kalkaroo). Combined annual reports for the period 10/5/2003 to 31/12/2007.
Ongoing exploration carried out by project operator Havilah Resources under its newly ratified, twelve exploration licence Curnamona Project Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement, for the period 15/10/2003 to 31/12/2004, consisted mainly of drilling done...-
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RB 2002/00036 Draft report on the structure and lithostratigraphy of the Ameroo Hill area, Olary Domain, South Australia
Approximately 30 square km of outcrop of Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks in the vicinity of Ameroo Hill were geologically mapped by the author at 1:10,000 scale, with the aim of identifying meso- and macroscopic rock structures and lithologically...-
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Published: 27 Jun 2002
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RB 2009/00018 BHEI 2009 - OLARY field excursion to Ameroo Hill, Tommie Wattie [Bore] and the Walparuta Inlier. [September 25-26, 2009].
The Curnamona Province is the southern remnant of the Palaeoproterozoic Pb-Zn belt, and represents but a small fragment of the original superbasin. Geological data supports the idea of the basin being a rift, with sediments in the Broken Hill Domain...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2009
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RB 2009/00010 Curnamona Province exploration review and mineral systems.
Uranium has been the mainstay of mineral exploration and mining in the Curnamona Province of South Australia since the early prospecting activity at Radium Hill in 1906 and Mount Painter in 1910. Larger scale mining and exploration began after the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2009
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Bimbowrie. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/11/2004 to 3/11/2009.
PepinNini is exploring the subject EL 3278 for all potential mineralisation styles known to occur in Palaeoproterozoic basement metasediments, but the company considers that the most prospective opportunities include stratabound Cu-Au akin to the...-
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