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Report on the Shamrock uranium prospect.
Uranium mineralisation was first discovered at the old Shamrock Copper Mine during a systematic search of old mine dumps by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1955. Follow-up investigations located a small high-grade uranium lode (Valley...-
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Report on exploration investigations in the Mount McDonnell Valley.
Outcropping Wywyana Formation in the Mount McDonnell Valley, which had been shown by past work to be highly anomalous in copper, with attendant gold enrichment, was targetted by 50 m by 20 m grid-based geological, geochemical and ground geophysical...-
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Arkaroola. Progress and technical reports to licence renewal for the period 19/5/1972 to 18/5/1974.
Ongoing base metal exploration in the Arkaroola Station region of the north-eastern Flinders Ranges by licensee North Flinders Mines (NFM) has involved reviews of certain existing prospects, which has led to the entry of farminee Shell Minerals...-
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Yudnamutana Project, SML 704. Old Noll prospect. Report on drilling DDH NFK1.
Diamond drill-hole NFK1 was drilled to a total depth of 289.56 metres at the Old Noll prospect in November - December 1972, with the aim of intersecting the buried source of mineralization that has given rise to the boxwork structures outcropping...-
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RB 55/00040 The Wooltana Volcanic Belt, South Australia.
Mapping of the Wooltana Volcanic Belt in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia has shown that 2000 feet of Willouran trachytic lavas, with minor andesites and rhyolites, outcrop along the southern margin of the Mount Painter complex and...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1962
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1906
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Freeling [Heights] area. Progress and final reports for the period 30/11/88 to 31/5/89.
TARGET: Gold associated with major structures and hosted by calcareous or volcanogenic rocks in the Yudnamutana area. EXPLORATION: Regional BLEG and stream silt sampling, and follow-up BLEG and rock chip sampling. RESULTS: Minor gold values were...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola (part of the Frome Basin Project). Annual reports for the period 3/6/1996 to 4/12/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 1243 square km rugged mountainous area in the far northern Flinders Ranges extending between Arkaroola, Moolawatana, Prospect Hill, Mount Livingston and Mount Saturday was taken up to explore primarily for gold that it was hoped could exist in...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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The Needles. Progress and technical reports for the period 19/1/1976 to 18/7/1977.
Investigation of basal Adelaidean Callanna Beds metasediments in the vicinity of the Blue mine and Wheal Turner, north of The Needles in the northern Flinders Ranges, sought to disclose possible Zambian type stratiform massive copper sulphides...-
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Arkaroola (part of the Wooltana Joint Venture project). Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/5/1971 to 18/5/1973.
Continuing exploration of the basal Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequence in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges for possible economic stratiform/stratabound Kapunda or Blinman - type copper mineralisation has concentrated on detailed 1:1200 and 1:4800...-
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Merna Mora. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2013.
A small licence area located on the Flinders Ranges piedmont plain south-east of Lake Torrens was taken up by Jim Allender to investigate the IOCG potential of a discrete regional gravity anomaly which he had identified from data in the public domain,...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1913
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Moolawatana. Quarterly and final reports for the period 26/8/75 to 25/8/76.
Ongoing copper/uranium exploration of basement and Willouran cover southwest of Moolawatana comprised ground magnetic, IP, EM and TEM surveys, airborne EM (Turair) and magnetic surveys, prospect-scale geochemical surveys and limited diamond drilling...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1977
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Yudnamutana - Mount Painter area. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1971 to 23/6/1972.
Exploration for possible stratiform massive base metal sulphide deposits in the area of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field, located 12 km north-west of Mount Painter, was designed to follow up promising copper geochemical anomalies and related...-
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Umberatana area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/3/1972 to 18/3/1973.
Geochemical and geophysical surveys of the Blue mine - Wheal Turner area, plus semi-detailed geological and structural mapping in the Wild Dog Creek area, identified the Wortupa Quartzite and surrounding strata as the main hosts of low grade secondary...-
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Arkaroola (part of the Wooltana Joint Venture). Farminee's final report at joint venture exit, for the period April to October 1972.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound copper mineralisation, carried out by Shell Minerals Exploration (Australia) over part of SML 575/703 near Arkaroola in the northern Flinders Ranges under an informal joint venture agreement with the...-
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Yudnamutana Hill. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/1980 to 15/2/1995.
Base metal and gold exploration undertaken over a lengthy period since 1980 in the Yudnamutana Hill area, 20 km north-west of Arkaroola, has comprised detailed geological mapping of major basement and cover stratigraphic units and known mineral...-
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Wooltana. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to February 1971.
TARGET: Disseminated low grade, large tonnage deposits of copper, lead and zinc mineralisation formed in Adelaidean metasediments overlying Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks. EXPLORATION: 1:12,000 and 1:4,800 scale geological mapping, rock chip, soil and...-
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Report on a field reconnaissance to assess the volcanogenic massive sulfide potential of the Wooltana Volcanics, Mount Painter Province, SA.
Reconnaissance visits were made to six mineralised localities and nearby areas within the Wooltana Volcanics outcrop zone, to try to ascertain if features related to volcanogenic massive sulphide (VHMS) ore deposits were present in the rocks. None of...-
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