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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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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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Mount Craig, Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock, Red Range and Mount Plantagenet (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports plus a final report submitted at the full surrender of the last remaining project licences, for the period 16/9/2012 to 22/11/2019.
A group of five contiguous licences originally covering a total area of 756 square km in the south-central Flinders Ranges region, situated east-northeast of Hawker and east of the Elder Range, have been explored for possible economic buried...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Mount Aleck - Arkaba Station areas. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 18/9/1986.
Possible Cambrian carbonate-hosted Mississippi Valley style Pb-Zn deposits were the targets of exploration in the Chace and Druid Ranges, located north of Hawker, and also nearby at Mount Aleck. Following geological reconnaissance mapping at 1:20,000...-
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Reaphook Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/1980 to 18/11/1987.
Economic stratabound Mississippi Valley-type zinc-lead-silver deposits in Early Cambrian carbonate rocks were the targets of exploration carried out north and west of Reaphook Hill in the central Flinders Ranges. Regional geological mapping (at...-
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Dawson Hill - Reaphook Hill areas. Partial surrender report for the period 19/11/1982 to 18/11/1986.
Mississippi Valley - style stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation in Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks, and unrelated possible diamonds ex- buried kimberlite, were the targets of exploration undertaken in the now relinquished Reaphook Hill subarea of EL...-
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Mount Roebuck. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 28/3/90 to 29/10/91.
TARGET: Diamonds, gold and copper in the Mount Roebuck area. EXPLORATION: Drainage, loam and rock chip sampling, ground magnetic, radiometric and IP surveys, and diamond drilling (4 holes totalling 739 m). RESULTS: A single, 0.5 mm x 0.4 mm diameter...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1991
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Carrieton West (part of the Orroroo North Project). Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1981.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Cradock - Carrieton region. EXPLORATION: Regional and follow-up stream sediment and gridded loam sampling, heavy mineral processing and SEM microscopy of bulk samples, grid-based ground magnetic surveys, and part of a regional...-
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Nilpena area. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 26/2/91 to 16/8/91.
Exploration for possible diamonds and base metals in Cambrian sediments of the Beltana Sub-basin, east of the Ediacara Range, consisted of an appraisal of existing geophysical data, and drainage gravel sampling. No encouraging results were obtained.-
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Published: 23 Sep 1991
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Carrieton East (part of the Orroroo North Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/11/1979 to 13/11/1981.
TARGET: Diamonds in the region north and east of Carrieton. EXPLORATION: Following some early positive results from limited reconnaissance sampling, numerous 20 kg stream sediment samples and several bulk loam samples were collected, processed and...-
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Commodore. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 21/10/1986.
Multicommodity exploration undertaken in the Commodore - Parachilna area of the west-central Flinders Ranges, just outside of the western boundary of the newly proclaimed national park and the included Heysen Range, has comprised limited gravel...-
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Alerumba Creek - Mount Roberts. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/9/1979 to 15/11/1986.
Exploration for possible Mississippi Valley style stratabound lead-zinc deposits hosted by Lower Cambrian carbonates in the Angepena area, 70 km north-east of Blinman, comprised regional and detailed geological mapping, reconnaissance stream sediment...-
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Lake Torrens Station and Hawker West (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports, plus separate final reports to licences' respective full surrender, for the period 30/4/2003 to 1/6/2010.
Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in two adjoining areas which lie about 100 km north-northeast of Port Augusta and 55 km west of Hawker, on alluvial plains adjacent to south-eastern Lake Torrens. All of the...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1910
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Angepena. Partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/9/1979 to 11/9/1981.
Exploration of an area located 55-70 km east-southeast of Leigh Creek, where it was hoped that undiscovered Mississippi Valley - type lead-zinc mineralisation might exist within slightly folded Lower Cambrian strata, has consisted of 1:25,000 scale...-
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Mount Arden. Annual and relinquishment report for the period 9/12/97 to 8/12/98.
Exploration for Adelaidean and Cambrian sediment - hosted diamonds and Mississippi Valley - type base metal deposits in the vicinity of Mount Arden, 40 km north of Port Augusta, comprised a review of previous exploration and the conduct of limited...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1999
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Kanyaka. Progress reports to licence surrender/partial renewal over a reduced area, for the period 27/5/1971 to 26/11/1971.
Reconnaissance geochemical sampling of creeks draining Lower Cambrian sediments in the Kanyaka Hill area has located several lead-zinc anomalies reaching up to seven times background, which are related to the Parachilna Formation limestones. A crush...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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Mineral Resource Potential Map Series - Willochra.
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Mount Frome. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/2/1981 to 11/2/1983.
Work done in the now relinquished western one-third portion of EL 807 has included general reconnaissance and the analysis of one rock chip sample, being part of a search either for MVT style lead-zinc in Cambrian carbonate rocks, for stratiform base...-
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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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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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