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Puttapa. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/7/1967 to 10/7/1969.
Exploration and evaluation of two large, outcropping willemite zinc orebodies, previously discovered in the Puttapa area by other parties, has been commenced under tenure of Mineral Claim 5092 newly taken up by SML 153 licensee Electrolytic Zinc Co....-
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South Puttapa. Progress and final summary reports for the period 15/7/1970 to 16/7/1971.
Appraisal of the Beltana zinc deposit continued during the current licence period, principally by diamond drilling (6 holes, total 2570 feet) aimed at delineating blind extensions to the main orebody on its southern side. The drilling was very...-
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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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Beltana mine area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/9/1982 to 8/12/1987.
Renewed exploration by E-Z of the area surrounding the Beltana zinc mine has investigated the possibility for finding deep, unweathered Cambrian or Proterozoic carbonate-hosted zinc-lead sulphide mineralisation. It was considered that this target had...-
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Erudina. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/8/91 to March 1992.
TARGET: Microscopically fine-grained, Carlin - type gold within Early Cambrian carbonate rocks in the Reaphook Hill area, which could be mined by open pit methods. EXPLORATION: Geological reconnaissance, a review of previous drilling, stream sediment...-
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Parachilna. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 2/4/1970 to 1/4/1971.
Reconnaissance geochemical sampling of the eastern PARACHILNA mapsheet area for sediment-hosted base metal deposits has succeeded in locating several well-defined areas of interest, although approximately two-thirds of the SML area appears to be...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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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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Balcanoona and Wertaloona. Progress reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 20/8/1965 to 19/8/1966.
Examination of an historically worked occurrence of stratiform base metal mineralisation near Balcanoona in the central Flinders Ranges, 50 miles east of Copley, has involved intensive geochemical sampling of abandoned mine adits, old dumps,...-
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Beltana - Aroona region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/7/1971 to 15/7/1972.
Continuing prospect exploration work at the Beltana zinc orebody discovery has consisted of detailed geological mapping at 1:4 800 scale, rock chip sampling of outcropping Adelaidean and Cambrian sediments, field investigation of microgravity...-
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Special Mining Leases nos 153, 153A and 153B; Mineral Claim nos 5092 and 5350. Summary report for the period 10/7/1967 to 16/7/1971.
This report summarises, in categoric fashion, all of the various exploratory and mine development activities carried out over the past four years on the broader Puttapa area exploration licence (as renewed), and within the mineral claims taken out...-
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Mount Aroona. Progress reports for the period 23/9/1968 to 22/9/1970.
Exploration for Beltana - type stratabound, hydrothermal related base metal deposits in an area situated south-west of Copley consisted of regional, ground and helicopter-assisted geological mapping at 1:4800 scale, photointerpretation of structural...-
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Puttapa. Progress reports for the period 11/1/1969 to 15/7/1970.
Ongoing base metal exploration to look for further analogues to the Beltana willemite discovery, carried out over an area located east of the Puttapa Rail Siding, has consisted of semi-detailed 1:4800 scale geological mapping and geochemical stream...-
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Mount Aroona. Progress and final summary reports for the period 22/10/1970 to 21/10/1971.
Continuing exploration of the Aroona Valley and its vicinity for possible 'blind' occurrences of the zinc silicate, willemite, within host Lower Cambrian strata, has consisted of 1:4800 scale geological mapping of the south-western limb of the Aroona...-
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Reaphook Hill. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 1/12/1965 to 13/5/1968.
The reported presence of high geochemical zinc values in the Parachilna Formation rocks exposed there prompted Kennecott Explorations to include the Reaphook Hill outlier of Lower Cambrian sediments into its regional investigation of the stratiform...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1967
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Mount Arden. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/9/1966 to 31/8/1967.
An area located approximately 12 miles north of Quorn was re-issued to Kennecott over a reduced licence acreage, to permit further investigation of Cambrian Parachilna Formation and Wilkawillina Limestone strata which had shown anomalous copper, lead...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1967
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Mount Mantell. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/9/1966 to 28/2/1967.
As part of a regional stratiform base metals exploration programme, the conduct of a helicopter-assisted stream sediment geochemical sampling survey (506 samples assayed) did not reveal any anomalies of interest.-
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Published: 28 Feb 1967
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Mount Lyall. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/5/1969 to 24/3/1971.
The Third Plain zinc silicate (willemite) deposit, located 14 miles south-east of Blinman, has been newly assessed by North Flinders Mines for its economic potential. Originally discovered by Kennecott Explorations in late 1966, and evaluated by them...-
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Comstock mine, South Australia. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 23/11/1976 to 31/5/1977.
Exploration of the area surrounding the historic Comstock copper mine entailed doing 1:5000 scale geological mapping, soil and rock chip geochemical sampling, the conduct of 7 line km of ground magnetic surveying and 4.8 line km of dipole-dipole IP...-
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Balcanoona examination, South Australia, August 1965 - July 1966 [Special report on SML 89].
Exploration carried out near an historically worked small occurrence of stratiform base metal mineralisation near Balcanoona in the central Flinders Ranges, 50 miles east of Copley, aiming to follow up reported surface geochemical anomalies, has...-
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