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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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Summary of the previous exploration for stratiform copper and proposed follow-up exploration in the Yudnamutana Hill area, South Australia.
This report summarises the relevant results of previous copper exploration in the Yudnamutana Hill area by Utah Exploration Co. and Australian Aquitaine Petroleum Pty Ltd, and suggests an ongoing exploration programme for stratiform copper. It also...-
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RB 77/00051;Env 03054 Porphyry style copper/molybdenum mineralization at Anabama Hill and the Cronje Dam copper prospect.
For a project to determine the base metal potential of known copper-mineralised igneous rocks which outcrop in an area located approximately 59 km south-west of Olary, the South Australian Government has completed detailed mapping, geochemical...-
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Published: 17 May 1977
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-59, Kalkaroo Dome fault-hosted gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The main aim of Havilah Exploration's PACE Initiative Year 3 approved drilling programme was to test the east-west trending, quartz-veined breccia zone that passes through the central Kalkaroo Dome, specifically in the footwall of the Kalkaroo Cu-Au...-
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Morialpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports and annual reports for the period 16/12/1995 to 8/8/2003.
Initial exploration for stratiform Cu-Au mineralisation hosted within Adelaidean sediments in the Morialpa area, 40 km north- west of Olary, comprised soil, stream sediment, rock chip and ironstone lag geochemical sampling, and 1:10,000 scale...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1903
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Wiawera. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1996 to 12/12/2001.
Exploration for possible sheeted vein type gold, Telfer - style gold, and BIF hosted gold and base metal sulphide deposits that may have formed in Adelaidean metasediments occupying the area between Anabama and Radium Hill, 10-30 km south-east of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Outalpa (part of the Curnamona Project). Annual reports for the period 10/6/2012 to 9/6/2018.
The Outalpa (EL 3472) licence area, comprised of two separate sub-blocks respectively centred ~30 km north-northeast and ~45 km north-northwest of Manna Hill, is one of five adjacent tenements held by PepinNini Minerals within the eastern Adelaide...-
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Outalpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
55 square km or ~25.6% of the former area of EL 5584 has been relinquished.-
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Published: 20 Mar 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Outalpa. Annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
An area consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are spread out ~25 km north of Manna Hill and from 10 to 20 km to the north and north-west of Olary is being explored for possible economic gold as basement shear and vein hosted style deposits, as...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo mine, Bonython Hill, Mutooroo West, Oratan [Rock] and Cutana (the Curnamona South Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2014 to 31/12/2015.
Several separate areas that cover ground straddling the major tectonic boundary between the Olary and Broken Hill domains of the southern Curnamona Province are being explored for possible economic buried stratabound Proterozoic iron ore, epithermal...-
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Ballara. First and final progress report to licence surrender for the period 28/4/1983 to 28/7/1983.
An aeromagnetic anomaly and nearby gravity anomaly identified in Palaeoproterozoic basement 17 km south of Mingary were tested for base metal mineralisation of Broken Hill or Olympic Dam type by performing a gravity survey and by drilling 7 percussion...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/7/2008 to 18/7/2018.
During Year 12 of the Olary JV Project (2008-2009), field work was undertaken only on EL 3849 Outalpa to make up for the earlier underspending on that licence relative to commitments. In early 2009, a ground radioactivity survey was acquired using a...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1918
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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Olary North. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1965 to 31/7/1967.
Two separate prospect areas have been explored with reconnaissance and follow-up IP surveys (total 264 line km), ground magnetic surveys (34 line km), minor TX - Afmag and REM surveys (4 line km), and regional and detailed geological mapping (1:12,000...-
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Published: 11 Aug 1967
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Jubilee Dams. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 14/12/1977.
A programme of ground magnetic surveying along 7 short traverses, plus air/mud drag-bit percussion drilling (5 vertical open holes totalling 509 m) was used to investigate a set of previously untested discrete aeromagnetic high anomalies covered by...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1977
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Report on rotary-percussion drilling, Mount McTaggart copper prospect, SML 575, South Australia, [carried out in] October 1971.
The Mount McTaggart prospect is located 15 miles south-west of Arkaroola Base Camp and 3 miles west of the Arkaroola-Balcanoona Road. A programme of ten rotary percussion holes totalling 3457 feet commenced on 11/10/1971 and was completed on...-
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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 21/1/2008 to 20/1/2014.
A small, north-western part of a licence located immediately south of Olary township has recently been relinquished due to it having perceived minimal iron ore potential. The only work undertaken on the relinquished ground was the acquisition along...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2007 to 15/8/2013, and the "Curnamona South Project" annual report for the period 1/1/2017 to 31/12/2018.
During licence year 6, the commencing year of renewed EL 3895 Cutana, no work took place because Havilah's RC drilling rig, along with all company personnel, were fully occupied on completing the mining feasibility evaluation drilling programmes...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Devonborough Downs (part of the Olary Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/10/2007 to 21/10/2012.
An area centred ~30 km south-east of Olary township is being explored for possible buried economic porphyry copper-gold deposits, as well as for any other substantial either Carlin-type, skarn-hosted, Telfer-style, or mesothermal gold mineralisation....-
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Published: 16 Nov 1912
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RB 2009/00018 BHEI 2009 - OLARY field excursion to Ameroo Hill, Tommie Wattie [Bore] and the Walparuta Inlier. [September 25-26, 2009].
The Curnamona Province is the southern remnant of the Palaeoproterozoic Pb-Zn belt, and represents but a small fragment of the original superbasin. Geological data supports the idea of the basin being a rift, with sediments in the Broken Hill Domain...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2009
