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Mount Painter, Mount Gee and Mount Ward. Progress reports and technical reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/6/1965 to 29/11/1985.
Exploration disclosed widespread uranium mineralisation, with drill-indicated reserves of 6 million tonnes, at an average grade of 0.8 kg / tonne U3O8, existing in 5 major deposits. About 625 drill holes totalling 53,000 m tested these major deposits...-
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RB 41/00134 Mineral investigations in the Mount Painter region. Progress report.
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Published: 06 Jan 1956
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RB 45/00073 Uranium occurrences in the Mount Painter area.
Brief inspection of uranium occurrences at the East Painter, Shamrock and Commonwealth Mines were carried out during August, 1957. A corundum-monazite occurrence was also visited. Recommendations for further work are made.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 80/00117 SADME Mount Painter diamond drilling - 1976 - Corelogs and petrographic descriptions.
The southern portion of the Mount Painter Inlier contains large volumes of granitic breccia of uncertain origin. 3 vertical exploratory diamond drillholes were sited near Mount Gee and Mount Painter to determine the depth of this breccia, and to...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1981
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RB 80/00102 Geology of a portion of the southern Mount Painter Inlier.
Geological mapping has defined a northeasterly fault trend in the Radium Creek Metamorphics and Older Granite Suite basement. Pods of granitic breccia have developed along these faults, and to the east and NE of Mount Painter, they contain uraniferous...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1980
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Parabarana copper prospect. Progress reports on rotary percussion and diamond drilling campaigns, for the period February 1970 to January 1971.
An area of 7 square miles surrounding the historic shallowly worked Parabarana copper deposit in the far north-eastern Flinders Ranges, which outcrops at Copper Hill as vein-type disseminated secondary ore over a width of around 1200 feet, was...-
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Granites and uranium mineralisation in the Mount Painter Complex, northern Flinders Ranges.
The Mount Painter basement igneous complex is dominated by granite intrusions and volcanic rocks, most of which are fractionated and have a high uranium content. Apart from Mount Painter itself, where uranium was mined more than 60 years ago, there...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola. Annual reports for the period 5/12/2008 to 3/12/2015.
During the 2008-2009 licence year, most of the new work done consisted of appraisal rotary mud drilling at Four Mile East (112 holes for 24,460 m) and Four Mile West (113 holes for 19,120 m), with the addition of one NQ diamond cored hole (AKC093) for...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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Geological summary and appraisal of the Parabarana copper prospect and the Gunsight uranium/copper prospect, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Copper mineralisation in the vicinity of Parabarana Hill located at the extreme north-eastern end of the Flinders Ranges was worked intermittently between 1899 and 1917 for the return of small tonnages of high grade secondary ore. In the past decade...-
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Yerelina (part of the Sawmill Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/3/2013 to 11/3/2018.
An area centred ~100 km north-east of Leigh Creek was taken up to explore for possible economic buried secondary uranium mineralisation that could be present within Cenozoic to Mesozoic palaeochannels which cross the area and originate from known...-
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Published: 24 Apr 1918
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Mount Fitton. Third partial surrender report, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2019.
The south-western portion of EL 5731 Mount Fitton has now been relinquished. It lies proximal to Adelaidean sedimentary cover to the Mount Painter Inlier basement rocks, which sediments were thought to have the potential to host SEDEX or MVT style...-
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Published: 18 Jun 1920
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Fitton. Annual reports for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2018.
An area comprising two separate sub-blocks located in the northern Flinders Ranges, which adjoins outside the western outcrop edge of the Mount Painter Inlier, has been taken up to explore for possible buried primary, bedrock-hosted vein or breccia...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1918
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Mount Fitton. Second partial surrender report ['no work' letter], for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2017.
26 square km or ~24.5% of the former area of EL 5731, being the northern end of the licence's southern sub-block, has been surrendered due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for uranium. No work has taken place on the surrendered ground...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1917
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Freeling Heights - Mount Adams area. Progress reports for the period 10/6/1968 to 9/12/1969.
As part of a regional search for economic uranium and copper mineralisation, the US-based company Kennecott Copper in November 1968 performed a semi-detailed airborne spectrometer survey of 550 line miles in the Shamrock Valley - Freeling Heights -...-
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Paralana Creek. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 15/4/1968 to 14/4/1970.
Following a semi-detailed airborne geophysical survey of the Mount Painter region, 14 anomalies located over Precambrian metamorphics and Tertiary sediments were checked in the field, without success. However, a subsequent ground radioactivity survey...-
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Published: 27 May 1970
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Mount Gee. Progress and final reports for the period 6/1/87 to 5/1/90.
TARGET: Rare earth elements and epithermal gold mineralization in the Mount Painter Inlier. EXPLORATION: Regional bulk cyanide leach (BCL) stream sampling, and rock chip sampling; logging and sampling of stored cores from three previous diamond drill...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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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 [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola, Moolawatana and Mount Hopeless (the Frome Basin Project). Joint annual report for the period 1/1/2016 to 31/12/2018.
Exploration Licence 5017 Arkaroola, Exploration Licence 5118 Mt Yerila and Exploration Licence 5261 Petermorra cover a combined area of approximately 1831 square km within the northern Flinders Ranges and the Frome Basin. The area is being targeted...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1919
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Parabarana. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to February 1971.
TARGET: Copper and uranium in Adelaidean sediments and Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks. EXPLORATION: A trial low-level helicopter-borne radiometric survey (using a nominal 1/10th mile flight line spacing and 50 foot mean sensor elevation) with ground...-
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Mount Gee. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/5/1990 to 10/12/1993.
Exploration for uranium and associated copper, gold and rare earth elements undertaken in the Mount Painter area comprised the acquisition of a helicopter-borne magnetic and radiometric survey during July 1990, plus the conduct of a stream sediment...-
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