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EL 272 Hamilton Creek. A regional assessment of the base metal potential of the Parabarana (to) Gunsight trend, and Callanna Beds (through) Yudnamutana sequence, northern Mount Painter Province, South Australia.
Aquitaine Australia Minerals Pty Ltd (Aquitaine) entered into a joint venture with North Flinders Mines on 21 August 1975, over an area defined by Exploration Licence 272 (ex EL 153). The area included two main prospective zones for copper deposits:...-
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Report on the computerised Landsat lineament analysis, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
A computerised lineament analysis of Landsat digital image data covering the northern portion of the Flinders Ranges has shown a strong correlation between the known mineralisation and fracture structuring peripheral to granites, suggesting that...-
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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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Appraisal of the northern Flinders Gunsight Project, South Australia.
This report reviews exploration work done from 1965 through 1993 by North Flinders Mines and four joint venturers on the Northern Flinders Ranges Gunsight Project. The enormous number of reports and interpretive maps generated are listed as...-
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Re-evaluation of the 1979 Gunsight Project stream sediment survey.
This report re-evaluates the assay data obtained from the 1979 stream sediment geochemistry programme carried out for Marathon Petroleum by N.J. Marshall and Associates within the Gunsight Project areas, and recommends follow-up work. Samples taken by...-
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Summary of exploration on the Gunsight uranium-copper prospect, portion (of) SML 704, South Australia, to 30/6/1973.
Surface copper carbonate mineralization occurring along a presumed shear zone was initially discovered some 4 miles southwest of the Parabarana Cu prospect by North Flinders Mines in late 1971, during a programme of detailed geochemical stream...-
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Mount Painter district (the Gunsight Joint Venture Project). Individual licence's progress reports and annual reports to project licences' joint full surrender, for the period 1/12/1982 to 16/11/1993.
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Gunsight and Yudnamutana. Quarterly and annual reports for the period 25/5/79 to 30/8/83.
A sequence of exploration programs in the Mount Painter Province, undertaken on Special Mining Leases since 1965, have been previously released. Exploration for base metals, gold, uranium and REE since 1974, in an area extending 50 km southwest from...-
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Moolawatana. Progress reports for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/5/1973.
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Emu Hill. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/4/1991 to 21/4/1996.
Diamond exploration undertaken north-west of Moolawatana included the acquisition of airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground magnetic surveys, plus soil, stream sediment, gravel, loam and rock chip sampling, and aircore/diamond drilling (25 holes,...-
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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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Manguri (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Second partial surrender report for the period 13/12/1999 to 13/3/2006.
Within the relinquished licence area, no geophysical anomalies were recognised within deeply buried Proterozoic basement that might represent possible craton margin magmatic nickel or IOCG type exploration targets. A review of previous exploration...-
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Published: 04 Oct 1906
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Manguri (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/12/1999 to 4/10/2006.
Possible craton margin magmatic nickel deposits or iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) type large base and precious metal deposits within buried Proterozoic basement were targeted in an area lying just to the north-west of Coober Pedy. Delays...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1906
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The Gawler Craton Project [Part]. Data release made in lieu of partial surrender/joint annual reports for the period 3/2/2010 to 1/2/2019, plus letters giving permission to release owed licence partial relinquishment and surrender reports.
As part of a regional search for possible major deposits of IOCG type mineralisation, Golden Cross Resources took up six exploration tenements in the northern Gawler Craton that lie to the north and north-east of Coober Pedy, and which are within or...-
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Published: 23 Jun 1915
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The Northern Gawler Project. Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for ELs 5566 and 5567 upon renewal of those licences : joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2015 to 31/1/2020.
Portions of two tenements located to the south and south-east of Coober Pedy were relinquished at the start of 2020, and all mineral exploration data previously acquired by licensee Southern Iron on these tenements and on four others that now comprise...-
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Published: 28 May 1920
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Balta Baltana Creek. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/1/2010 to 20/1/2015.
An area located within the Mount Woods Inlier in the north of the Gawler Craton, which is centred ~70 km east-southeast of Coober Pedy, has been explored for possible economic buried Prominent Hill type IOCG mineralisation. No past mineral exploratory...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warriner Creek. Annual reports for the period 2/9/2014 to 1/9/2016.
An area comprising three separate sub-blocks that is centred ~115 km south-east of Coober Pedy, and lies ~25 km north-east of the Prominent Hill mine, is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG-U type mineralisation. No drilling has...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1916
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Mount Paisley. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/9/2015 to 7/9/2017.
No new work - only a desktop review of reports on past exploration was done.-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warriner Hill. First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
An area consisting of two main and three lesser sub-blocks which together are centred ~64 km southwest of William Creek is being explored for possible economic metallic mineralisation that may have formed in buried Proterozoic volcanic and metamorphic...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1913
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Riddoch. First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
An area centred ~40 km northeast of the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine is being explored for possible economic copper, gold, uranium and iron ore mineralisation that may have formed in buried Proterozoic volcanic and metamorphic basement rocks, some...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1913