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Summary of previous exploration for stratiform copper within EL 871 Area B, South Australia.
Exploration licence 871 Area B contains Adelaidean sediments of the Callanna Beds, Burra Group and Umberatana Group overlying the Carpentarian Mount Painter Complex. The area is being investigated for stratiform copper mineralisation within the above...-
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RB 60/00034 Paull Consolidated (or Friends) copper mine. Results of surface sampling and diamond drilling.
Between September 1963 and February 1964 a programme of diamond drilling and surface sampling was carried out at the abandoned Paull Consolidated mine and its environs, located approximately 18 miles north-east of Leigh Creek. Spectrographic analyses...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1965
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Three Creeks area (part of the Hawker Project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2010.
The Three Creeks EL 3567 covers, for the most part, the north-westerly plunging Yednalue Syncline. Lying to the south-east of the Worumba Anticline (a diapiric structure cored by disrupted Callanna Group), the syncline comprises Umberatana Group...-
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Published: 17 Sep 1910
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Geological report no. 1 on the Luxemburg South - Bill's Hill area, Olary district, SA.
Detailed geological mapping carried out in the Luxemberg South - Bill's Hill area has elucidated the controls on known secondary coper mineralisation. It occurs in amphibolitized zones within tillite, often associated with quartz-filled shears,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Devonborough Downs and Olary (the Olary Project). Joint annual reports for the period 21/1/2012 to 20/1/2014.
Two adjacent licences together covering a large area located to the south of the Barrier Highway between Olary and Manna Hill are being explored for possible large tonnage, mainly buried low grade magnetite deposits that could have formed within the...-
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Mount Victor. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1986.
Evaluation of the potential of the Nillinghoo Goldfield district to hold Telfer - type low grade, shallowly dipping stratabound gold deposits suitable for open pit extraction has included aerial photograph, Landsat and regional magnetic data...-
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Manunda Creek. Combined first progress/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/1977 to 22/8/1978.
Exploration for possible economic Olympic Dam - type epithermal/hydrothermal or Zambian Copperbelt - type stratabound/replacement base metal deposits, in an area located approximately 40 km south-east of Yunta, focussed on magnetic anomalies and...-
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Progress reports on exploration of seven mining claims in the Big Lode mine area, for the period January 1971 to December 1972.
An area of 1.2 square km surrounding the Big Lode mine historic copper workings was reserved for 18 months under tenure of seven Mining Claims, to allow for the detailed geological mapping of rock structures possibly controlling observed secondary...-
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Bull 053 The Adelaide Geosyncline: Later Proterozoic Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Pataeontology and Tectonics
The extremely thick succession provides one of the most complete sedimentary records for the Late Proterozoic. The term geosyncline is used in a non-genetic sense for the basin in which deposition occurred during the Adelaidean and Cambrian. Only the...-
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IS M49 Geology of the Clare Valley
The geological history of the present-day observable rocks that outcrop in the Clare Valley district of South Australia is described in easily understandable language by a SA Government geological mapping expert. His interpretative map depicting the...-
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RB 2018/00039 Origin, classification and modes of emplacement of Sturtian glaciomarine megaclasts of the MacDonald Corridor, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, near Olary, South Australia.
Ten glacial megaclasts, unique perhaps from a global perspective, have been identified in the half-graben rift of the MacDonald Corridor. The MacDonald Corridor is the most easterly of four half-grabens containing Neoproterozoic low-grade...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2018
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RB 65/00095 Geochemical and geological investigation of the Serle - Angepena area, Mount Coffin Diapir.
Most of the geochemical copper anomalies outlined by soil sampling in the Mount Coffin Diapir area are attributed to secondary dispersion of copper by weathering from epigenetic sources of low economic importance. One anomaly, caused by mineralised...-
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Published: 10 Nov 1967
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RB 66/00081 Third geochemical and geological report on the Serle - Angepena (1-mile mapsheet) area : geochemical investigation of the Mount Burr Diapir - Nichols Nob anomaly. .
Geochemical follow-up soil sampling performed near Nichols Nob, over stream sediment base metal anomalies previously recognised along the western margin of the Mount Burr Diapir, has delineated several copper anomalies. The largest of these have...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1968
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Mount Craig (part of the Hawker Project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 15/11/2005 to 14/11/2010.
Copper Range's principal exploration targets in the Adelaide Fold Belt are secondary, near-surface oxide copper deposits that are structurally controlled and related to hydrothermal events focussed along faults late in the deformational history of the...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1911
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Olary (latterly part of the Olary Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/1/2008 to 20/01/2015.
A large area located immediately south and south-west of Olary has been explored initially for possible economic buried primary epithermal to mesothermal copper-gold and gold only mineralisation that might have formed in Adelaidean and older bedrock,...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1915
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Oakbank Dam (part of the Lodestone Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2010 to 1/8/2016.
An area centred ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for buried mineral sands placer deposits that may have formed within the Cainozoic Murray Basin sedimentary cover, as well as for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences that...-
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RB 2009/00001 Explanatory Notes for [the] CALLABONNA 1:250 000 Geological Map, sheet SH 54-6.
The CALLABONNA map area includes the southern end of the Strzelecki Desert and the north- eastern Flinders Ranges, between latitudes 29° to 30° S and longitudes 139° 30' to 141° E. Cameron Corner adjoins New South Wales and Queensland in the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2009
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Mount Rose. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/10/1968 to 30/9/1970; Mount Serle. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 10/2/1969 to 9/2/1971.
Base metal exploration carried out in the vicinity of historic copper workings in the Mount Rose area, situated approximately 30 miles east-northeast of Copley, has consisted of detailed 1:1500 scale geological mapping, soil and rock chip sampling,...-
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Mount Lyndhurst (Flinders Ranges Project). Evaluation of the Lorna Doone and Lynda mine copper prospects and surrounding areas. Progress reports for the period 4/1/1973 to 3/1/1975.
In August 1972 Cultus Pacific commenced exploring a number of historic copper prospects near Lyndhurst in the northern Flinders Ranges, with a view to assessing their feasibility for open-cut mining. The programme of work completed so far has...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1974
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Boolooroo. Progress reports for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1971.
A consultant's technical review was received on existing recent exploration data originating from the SA Mines Department, for the Mount Coffin Diapir and its immediate environment. It was found that significant geochemical and induced polarisation...-
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