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Late Proterozoic hydrocarbon potential and its association with diapirism in Blinman 2, central Flinders Ranges, SA.
In early 1991, Blinman 2 wildcat drilled through 2031 metres of sediments of the late Adelaidean Umberatana Group on the flank of the Blinman Diapir. Three small methane shows occurred in fracture zones in the Tapley Hill Formation.Two potential...-
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RB 80/00146 Oraparinna barite deposits, Howard Lode, Flinders Ranges.
At Howard Lode, adjacent to the extreme SE corner of the Oraparinna Diapir, barite infills steeply dipping fractures within Sturtian Yudnamutana Subgroup. Sediments have been folded around the diapir, and barite veins are parallel to the axial plane...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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Belton, Two Sisters, Marchant Hill and Steve's Gap (Orroroo Project). Joint annual and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 16/2/2007 to 15/2/2009.
Exploration for possible economic secondary deposits of copper, uranium and gold that might be associated with known iron-rich sediments deposited at or near the base of the Sturtian sedimentary sequence, carried out within four tenement areas that...-
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Data release - as updated : Statton Hill (part of the Baratta Project). Annual reports, first partial surrender report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/10/2007 to 14/1/2016.
Copper and gold exploration has been conducted within an area centred about 80 km east of Hawker, which it was thought had potential for epigenetic vein style mineralisation within buried Adelaidean sandstone and shale strata, formed in a stratabound...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1916
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Holowilena South (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2014.
An area centred ~45 km east-southeast of Hawker was taken up to explore the stratabound, epigenetic copper resource potential of historic small copper workings located along a NW trending fault zone disrupting Adelaidean metasediments of the Burra and...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Waukaringa. Annual reports for the period 4/8/2011 to 3/8/2018.
An area centred ~35 km north of Yunta is being explored for possible buried primary hydrothermal gold deposits within Neoproterozoic bedrock, as part of a broader search for same in a region which has significant surficial gold deposits which were...-
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Published: 04 Oct 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Teetulpa Goldfield. Annual reports for the period 4/8/2011 to 3/8/2018.
A small area centred ~13 km north-west of Manna Hill is being explored for possible buried primary hydrothermal gold deposits within Neoproterozoic bedrock, as part of a broader search for same in a region which has significant surficial gold deposits...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonnie Brae. Annual reports for the period 4/8/2011 to 3/8/2018.
An area centred ~30 km north of Winnininnie is being explored for possible buried primary hydrothermal gold deposits within Neoproterozoic bedrock, as part of a broader search for same in a region which has significant surficial gold deposits which...-
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Published: 04 Oct 1917
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Eighteen Mile Hut and Oopina [Outstation] (the Waukaringa Project). Joint annual reports plus final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender or transfer of ownership, for the period 12/3/2013 to 11/3/2018.
Two separate licence areas located within the greater Waukaringa region north of Yunta in the Adelaide Fold Belt were taken up to explore for possible economic buried gold (both primary and secondary mineral occurrences), and also for any economic...-
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Published: 15 May 1918
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Waukaringa. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 9/6/1987 to 5/10/1988.
TARGET: Stratabound gold in prospective areas of Adelaidean sedimentary outcrop peripheral to the Waukaringa Goldfield. EXPLORATION: After undertaking a literature review and assessment of previous exploration results, plus a regional geophysical...-
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Resource potential of the Central Flinders Zone, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia.
Since 1990 Frontier Exploration Ltd has explored in the Central Flinders Zone of the Adelaide Geosyncline in order to assess its hydrocarbon and mineral potential, and the relationship of diapirs to these resources. The basic concepts used have not...-
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Blinman, Maggie Hill and Martins Well. Quarterly, six-monthly, annual and technical reports for the period 19/12/1989 to 8/9/1999.
PEL 41 was granted to a deliberately SA-based new venture exploration company consisting of Chairman and well-known Emeritus Professor of Geology Eric Rudd, four other founding honorary and unsalaried directors, and 100 or so individual speculative...-
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Baratta East. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 18/6/1970 to 30/9/1971.
In a search for extensions of the Baratta silver-lead mining field mineralisation, eastwards under alluvial cover, a 7 miles long x 3 miles wide grid was laid out over the inferred most favourable location for a buried strike extension of the host...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v1): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (first edition, 1966)
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Martins Well. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/1/2006 to 10/5/2013.
An area located on the far south-western side of the Frome Embayment, in the vicinity of Martins Well, was initially secured mainly to investigate its prospectivity for sediment hosted uranium deposits within the local Tertiary strata. However,...-
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Published: 15 May 1913
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Matt Whim. Data release made in lieu of making a first partial surrender : annual reports for the period 16/11/2009 to 15/11/2011.
An area located approximately 80 km north-east of Orroroo has been explored to assess its potential for stratabound BIF-hosted iron ore, and for economic alluvial gold and possible epithermal/hydrothermal copper mineralisation. Outcropping...-
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Published: 27 Feb 1912
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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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Matt Whim. First partial surrender report, for the period 16/11/2009 to 15/11/2012.
The potential for stratabound BIF-hosted iron ore, and for economic alluvial gold and possible epithermal/hydrothermal copper mineralisation, is being investigated within an area located approximately 70 km north-east of Orroroo. Within the now...-
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Published: 20 Jun 1913
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Mount Aleck (part of the Hawker Project). Second partial surrender report for the period 6/11/2006 to 5/11/2009.
Copper Range's interest in the Adelaide Fold Belt is predominantly focussed on exploration for copper, as near-surface oxide deposits and sediment-hosted stratiform sulphide mineralisation. However, EL 3646 covering an area adjacent to the south-west...-
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Published: 16 Apr 1910
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Carrick Hill. First annual/final report at licence surrender, for the period 21/3/2011 to 1/6/2012.
An area centred approximately 60 km north-west of Yunta was taken up to explore for possible economic, high grade haematite mineralisation suitable for sale as direct shipping iron ore. Past SA Government regional mapping of the Nackara Arc...-
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