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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wilkawillina (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for all six Project licences, for the period 5/8/1999 to 3/8/2002.
A large area centred on the Wilkawillina Gorge of Ten Mile Creek, in the central Flinders Ranges near Oraparinna, is being explored for possible buried economic zinc silicate (willemite) epigenetic or replacement mineralisation of Beltana type, as...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Reaphook Hill and Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Respective early annual reports, for the period 17/1/2000 to 16/1/2002.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~50-70 km to the east and south-east of Blinman are being explored for possible economic buried willemite (zinc silicate), scholzite (zinc phosphate) and other base metal mineralisation associated with particular...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 26/2/1988.
Economic deposits of Mississippi Valley type stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation within in Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration undertaken on and near the Wirrealpa Diapir. A preliminary field reconnaissance had shown that surface...-
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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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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 Frome. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 25/10/1979 to 25/2/1988.
As part of a regional project of exploration for Mississippi Valley type (MVT) lead-zinc mineralisation emplaced in tectonically and structurally 'prepared ground' within Lower Cambrian limestones, Dampier/BHP investigated rocks of this age which...-
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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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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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Mount Tilley [Wirrealpa North]. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/6/1979 to 6/6/1981.
Possible economic Mississippi Valley - type lead-zinc deposits formed in Early Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration carried out 20 km north-northeast of Blinman. Following a literature search, an airphoto interpretation and 1:10,000...-
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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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Kanyaka Mines prospect [near Quorn]. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 9/6/1969 to 8/6/1971.
Evaluation of the base metal potential of minor historical copper workings within folded lower Cambrian strata, in an area located 25 km north of Quorn, failed to identify significant geochemical or geophysical evidence for shallowly buried...-
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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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Mount Jeffrey. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 22/9/80 to 21/9/81.
In a search for Mississippi Valley - type Pb-Zn deposits within the Angepena Syncline, 35 km east of Copley, helicopter-assisted geological mapping at 1:25,000 scale, photogeological studies and reconnaissance stream sediment geochemical sampling were...-
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Edeowie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 8/5/1969 to 7/5/1971.
Exploration undertaken by Electrolytic Zinc Co. (E-Z) looking for possible economic primary stratabound lead-zinc sulphide deposits in the ABC Range area has followed on from the earlier work of Mines Exploration done on SMLs 115, 131 and 131A, which...-
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Willochra. Progress report to licence surrender for the period 1/12/1965 to 31/5/1966.
As part of a regional investigation of the stratiform base metal mineral potential of Cambrian strata in South Australia, Kennecott has undertaken a geochemical reconnaissance of the Parachilna Formation and Wilkawillina Limestone strata present in...-
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Published: 23 May 1966
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Mount McKinlay. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/2/1972 to 23/2/1973.
Possible hydrothermally - deposited native mercury metal associated with the Mount John Fault zone, perhaps in a quartz splinter vein setting similar to that of the mercury occurrence previously found nearby at the Moro mine, plus elsewhere, economic...-
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Balcanoona North. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1966 to 31/10/1967.
Continued evaluation of the Balcanoona anticlinal structure as a potential host to economic copper sulphide deposits has focussed on the eastern side limb, where similar metalliferous gossans exists as those which have been explored previously on the...-
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Kanyaka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1966 to 31/10/1967.
As part of a regional search for possible economic stratabound Early Palaeozoic base metal deposits, Kennecott Explorations carried out stream sediment sampling and geological mapping of the Kanyaka Syncline, plus more intensive near-mine exploration...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1967
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Reaphook Hill. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/10/1969 to 15/4/1971.
Exploration undertaken in the vicinity of Reaphook Hill addressed the potential of previously reported anomalous stream sediment zinc and manganese values found in the Wilkawillina Limestone at locations a few miles north of the hill, and also...-
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Oraparinna. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 1/12/1967 to 9/4/1969.
Widespread copper carbonate and weathered, disseminated sulphide mineralisation occurring within large diapiric breccias at Oraparinna and Wirrealpa, that are located respectively ~ 35 km north-northeast of Hawker and 20 km east of Blinman, was found...-
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Published: 17 Feb 1969
