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RB 76/00147 Explanatory Notes for the CHOWILLA 1:250 000 geological map.
The CHOWILLA 1:250 000 map area lies in the north-western part of the Murray Basin, between latitudes 33° and 34°S and longitudes 139°30' and 141°E. Its eastern boundary is the South Australian - New South Wales state border. The area includes...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1977
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RB 98/00022 Review of open file company exploration data from the early 1980s to mid-1997, over the Yunta, Winnininnie, Anabama and Oakvale 1:100 000 map sheets, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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Morialpa. Progress, annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 9/2/2003 to 8/2/2006.
Subsequent to a partial relinquishment of ground and related data release made in August 2003, ongoing exploration conducted over a small area located about 25 km north-northwest of Manna Hill township, looking for possible Zambian type stratiform...-
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Morialpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports and annual reports for the period 16/12/1995 to 8/8/2003.
Initial exploration for stratiform Cu-Au mineralisation hosted within Adelaidean sediments in the Morialpa area, 40 km north- west of Olary, comprised soil, stream sediment, rock chip and ironstone lag geochemical sampling, and 1:10,000 scale...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1903
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
An area consisting of three separate sub-blocks located ~20 to 35 km north-east of Olary and ~20 km east of Cutana is being explored for possible economic gold as basement shear and vein hosted style deposits, as well as for possible extensions of the...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Border JV Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2015 to 31/12/2016.
During the first year of joint reporting for the five licences which are now subject to an amalgamated exploration expenditure agreement, work commenced with the acquisition of 31 line km of ground magnetic survey data over 9 proposed drill sites for...-
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Mutooroo (latterly part of the Border JV Project). Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1997 to 18/4/2017.
Four separate large portions of a long-held licence area abutting the SA/NSW state border in the vicinity of Mutooroo have been relinquished as part of statutory requirements. The following summary prepared by Minotaur Exploration describes work done...-
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Dingo Dam. Combined first progress and final report to licence surrender, for the period 30/4/1993 to 22/10/1993.
Exploration conducted primarily for possible economic Broken Hill - style stratiform/stratabound Proterozoic base and precious metal mineralisation in the Dingo Dam area, located 60 km south-east of Olary, comprised a review of previous work that had...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/7/2008 to 18/7/2018.
During Year 12 of the Olary JV Project (2008-2009), field work was undertaken only on EL 3849 Outalpa to make up for the earlier underspending on that licence relative to commitments. In early 2009, a ground radioactivity survey was acquired using a...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1918
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Olary region. Progress and annual reports for the period 23/9/1976 to 22/9/1978.
Intensive exploration of granitoid environs in the Crocker Well area has outlined new areas of, and extended known areas of, primary uranium mineralization. A regional field evaluation was also made of the Glenorchy and Plumbago areas, leading to the...-
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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Outalpa (part of the Olary/Blue Rose Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/4/2002 to 18/7/2011.
An area located immediately north-west of Olary township has been explored for possible economic intrusive-related copper-gold-molybdenum mineralisation associated with high level Ordovician felsic igneous intrusions, as well as for Palaeoproterozoic...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga, Manna Hill, Mount Victor, Yunta and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/4/1997 to 18/7/2008.
A group of five adjoining exploration licences covering ~3300 square km situated along the southern flank of the Proterozoic Curnamona Craton (Olary Block) and the adjoining Nackara Arc of the Adelaide Geosyncline is being explored for possible...-
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Mount Victor, Waukaringa Goldfield, Yunta, Paratoo and Baratta (the Mawson-Lynas Olary Joint Venture Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/4/1997 to 2/4/1998.
Reconnaissance geological mapping and limited surface geochemical sampling of exposed, thrust faulted quartz-carbonate veins evident in the Adelaidean cover sequence to the western Olary Domain Palaeoproterozoic basement did not generate any gold or...-
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Weekeroo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1974 to 21/12/1974.
In a search for possible economic epithermal / stratiform / metamorphic base metals and gold within the Weekeroo Inlier, detailed geological mapping, rock chip sampling and an office evaluation of previous exploration were carried out for the Weekeroo...-
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Interpreted basement geology to the Murray Basin and surrounds.
The purpose of this interpretation is to provide an initial framework for the basement to the Murray Basin upon which to plan the Geological Survey of South Australia’s MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative drilling project targeting the Delamerian...-
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Published: 07 Jul 2020
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Mount Painter Inlier basement regional geology 3D Model (3D pdf version 1).
The Mount Painter and Mount Babbage Inliers, located in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges, consist predominantly of Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic metasediments and granites, and Neoproterozoic to Cambrian sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline....-
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Macdonald Hill. Progress reports for the period 24/2/84 to 23/2/86.
Exploration was undertaken north north-east of Olary for possible near-surface gold associated with Early Proterozoic quartz - magnetite - pyrite lode horizons, and with Adelaidean fluvial tillites and siltstones of the Umberatana Group. It included...-
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