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RB 91/00101 Lead-zinc drilling investigations, 1989. Wirrealpa area, SA.
Potential target areas for Mississippi Valley style lead zinc mineralization were drill tested by 31 open drill holes totalling 825 metres. Postulated eastern extensions of low grade, flat-lying lead (-zinc) mineralisation were confirmed at the Eric...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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Beltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 18/12/1967 to 17/12/1969.
An evaluation of the base metal potential of the greater Beltana 'diapiric' complex was undertaken by MIM via field mapping, soil geochemical surveys and limited shallow rotary percussion drilling at historic surface workings on small showings of...-
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Beltana mine and Aroona zinc mine mining leases and retention leases (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Option period first annual report, for the period 1/1/2000 to 30/12/2000.
During the first year of its evaluation of the Beltana and Aroona mining properties on which it has taken out an option, Perilya undertook the following intensive work programme aimed at locating buried extensions and repetitions of the willemite...-
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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. DPY9-31 - Red Range. Drilling project final report.
Perilya's North Flinders Project aims to evaluate that region for potentially economic Beltana style zinc silicate mineralisation. Known deposits are relatively small (<1 Mt), but lie near the surface and typically exhibit extremely high grades...-
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Published: 04 Apr 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Beltana / Copley. Annual reports for the period 24/11/2013 to 23/11/2018.
A partial surrender of 64 square km in 2 blocks representing 13% of the total tenement was undertaken at the renewal of the lease. During licence Year 21 (to 23/11/2014), exploration attention returned to the Red Range prospect in the south of the...-
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Published: 21 Jan 1919
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Wirrealpa. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
Possible economic stratabound or epigenetic lead-zinc or copper deposits, formed in altered carbonate rocks lying marginal to the Wirrealpa Diapir, were the targets of new exploration centred on the area of the old Wirrealpa lead-silver mine....-
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Published: 06 Nov 1989
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Mount Roebuck. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 28/3/90 to 29/10/91.
TARGET: Diamonds, gold and copper in the Mount Roebuck area. EXPLORATION: Drainage, loam and rock chip sampling, ground magnetic, radiometric and IP surveys, and diamond drilling (4 holes totalling 739 m). RESULTS: A single, 0.5 mm x 0.4 mm diameter...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1991
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Mount Chambers. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
TARGET: Downdip extensions of known Cambrian stratabound mineralisation occurring at the Eric lead-zinc prospect, principally along a mineralised, disconformable interpreted syn-depositional palaeosurface developed within the Wilkawillina Limestone....-
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Published: 14 Nov 1989
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Furlough Dam. Progress reports for the period 28/7/80 to 27/4/81.
Results of the deep stratigraphic / mineral exploratory well MU-2 drilled near Mulyungarie Homestead, east of Lake Frome and adjacent to the SA/NSW State border, are presented, besides the interpretation of a gravity survey conducted earlier in the...-
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Published: 17 Nov 1981
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Arrowie Block acreage assessment.
During the period January 1946-December 1985 under review, the following petroleum exploration work was carried out over the Arrowie Block: 6 gravity, 2 aeromagnetic and 10 seismic surveys (total seismic coverage 2781 line km), plus 4 wells, all dry....-
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Lake Torrens Station and Hawker West (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports, plus separate final reports to licences' respective full surrender, for the period 30/4/2003 to 1/6/2010.
Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in two adjoining areas which lie about 100 km north-northeast of Port Augusta and 55 km west of Hawker, on alluvial plains adjacent to south-eastern Lake Torrens. All of the...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1910
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RB 2014/00002 Carbonate hosted Pb-Zn-Ag deposits. exploration using light hydrocarbons as pathfinders.
Surveys recently conducted in England, Ireland and Australia have shown that there are major spatial variations in the 'light' [molecular weight] hydrocarbon gas content of rocks which are closely related to the presence of underlying mineralisation....-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Mount Michael. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/9/1997 to 6/9/1999.
Interpretation of magnetic and gravity data, together with calcrete and MMI sampling, were carried out adjacent to a southerly extension of the Ediacara Fault, 25 km north-west of Parachilna. Low order Pb-Zn-Ag anomalism was located, coincident with...-
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Published: 10 Nov 1999
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Mount Serle - Outouie Hill area. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/10/1964 to 28/6/1965.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound phosphate mineralisation within Cambrian sediments of the northern Flinders Ranges comprised 51 miles of stratigraphic traversing, the field testing of every bed with indicator reagents able to reveal...-
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Angepena. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
In a continuation of the evaluation of the Mucatoona copper prospect, assaying of RAB drill cuttings samples returned no metal values of note. Mineragraphic studies of the primary copper mineralisation occurring in the Adelaidean black shale facies...-
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Beltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 14/12/1973 to 13/12/1975.
A geological and geochemical appraisal made of various mines and prospects in the Beltana area has sugggested that only those situated nearest the Nuccaleena Diapir are the most likely to yield drilling success in the search for significant extensions...-
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Angepena. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 18/12/1967 to 17/12/1969.
Geological and geochemical investigations undertaken in the vicinity of the historic Mucatoona copper occurrence indicate that the Angepena ?diapiric breccia zones have no potential for hosting economic mineralisation. There is only a marginal...-
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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Central Flinders Ranges, part PARACHILNA [mapsheet area] regional geology 3D Model (3D pdf version 1)
Upper crustal strata forming the northern to central Flinders Ranges area comprise uplifted and eroded remnants of openly folded sedimentary rocks that were deposited in an intra-continental arm of the Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian Adelaide...-
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