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Mount Bayley. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/7/1971 to 21/7/1972.
A small area located 15 km north-east of Beltana was explored for possible economic stratabound or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metal deposits associated with Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous/dolomitic strata and Willouran diapiric structures. Work...-
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RB 80/00086 Base metal deposits - Pinda Springs and Waukawoodna Creek areas, northern Flinders Ranges.
Several mineral claims were pegged over base metal deposits in class A and B. Environmental areas, northeast of Blinman. Copper, lead and barite deposits were inspected and mapped. Includes petrography and mineragraphy of 11 samples. Mineralization is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 82/00042 Oraparinna barite mine - A summary.
Oraparinna or Bunkers Hill mine is the largest operating underground mine in SA and has produced more than 50% of all barite and nearly 90% of industrial grade barite mined in SA. It has been the largest supplier of industrial grade barite in...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1982
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RB 84/00101 Compositions of some Adelaidean and Cambrian sedimentary rocks, South Australia.
56 whole rock major and trace element geochemical analyses of Adelaidean and Cambrian sedimentary rock drill core samples recovered from 6 diamond drillholes are presented. Many of the samples are carbonate - rich, and their lithologies include...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Red Range (part of the Copley Project). Annual reports for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2018.
A small area located 45 km north-east of Leigh Creek, which covers the sites of numerous small historic diggings made by prospectors searching for copper and lead-zinc-silver mineralisation, is now being explored afresh for possible economic...-
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Published: 17 Nov 1917
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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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Data release - as updated : Castle Rock. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/3/2009 to 14/1/2016.
Exploration for possible economic concealed Beltana mine type stratabound lead-zinc-(silver) mineralisation, and for other diapiric and associated basic igneous intrusion - related base metal and/or gold occurrences, was carried out over a small area...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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Mundy Creek (part of the Copley Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/12/2008 to 16/12/2015.
A small area centred ~30 km north-northeast of Leigh Creek and the central Telford Basin coalfields, has been explored for possible economic diapir-related stratabound occurrences of base metals and gold. During the first licence year, the only...-
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Published: 19 Feb 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Christmas Mine area. Annual technical reports for period ending 8 September 2018.
Cross Keys Mining Pty Ltd were granted EL 5847 on 9th September 2016. EL 5847 is in the Northern Flinders Ranges and covers approximately 67 square km. Both copper and gold have been worked historically within the tenement area. Within the tenement...-
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Published: 07 Nov 1918
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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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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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Geochemical mapping of a copper mineral system, Lyndhurst area (for the ARC North Project). Final report, Project ADI RD01-126 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
As a part of searching for economic deposits of sediment-hosted copper (SHC) mineralisation that might have formed within rocks of the Adelaide Rift Complex Neoproterozoic sedimentation sequence occupying an area located due east of Lyndhurst in the...-
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Warraweena. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 14/2/91 to 13/11/91.
TARGET: Possible diapirism-related gold, base metals and diamonds in the Warraweena area, located 10 km south-east of Copley. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance gravel and stream sediment BLEG sampling, plus geochemical tests for signatures of possible...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1991
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Alioota. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 8/4/1971 to 7/4/1972.
Continuing exploration for economic stratiform base metal deposits in an area approximately 30 km north-east of Copley has outlined the presence of persistent traces of disseminated chalcopyrite, galena and pyrite within green shales and dolomitic...-
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Published: 30 Dec 1971
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Warrioota Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated south of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the Viburnum Trend (Mississippi Valley) - type mineral potential of...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1980
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Facies trends in the Bunyeroo and Wonoka Formations, EL 361, Beltana area, SA.
Report presents the results of eight weeks (August-September 1977) spent in the licence area under application, measuring and describing nine stratigraphic sections, with the aim of examining possible sedimentary controls on the known widespread...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v1): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (first edition, 1966)
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RB 71/00035 PARACHILNA, South Australia, sheet SH54-13 International Index.
The Parachilna 1:250 000 map area is about 250 road miles north of Adelaide, South Australia, and includes the eastern shore of Lake Torrens, the central Flinders Ranges and part of the Lake Frome Plains. The ranges are composed of folded Adelaidean...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 71/00007 Silver-lead prospect southeast of Mount Hack. (L. McKenzie, S. Couthard and M. McKenzie), COPLEY, Cadnia.
Thin quartz veins containing galena occur parallel to bedding in siltstones and quartzites in the Wonoka Formation south of small diapir. They are not economical because of their thinness, steep dips, sporadic occurrence and distance. Sample of galena...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1971
