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Known and potential mineralisation styles, Benagerie Ridge Magnetic Complex.
The north-south trending Benagerie Ridge, lying within the South Australian portion of the Curnamona Province 120-160 km to the west-northwest of Broken Hill, contains a number of magnetic complexes, some of which can be interpreted as domal...-
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Annual report on exploration activities, Mount Neill and Mount Fitton areas, EL 871, 1982.
A reassessment of Marathon Petroleum's 1979 regional stream sediment sampling programme led to the decision to resample a number of areas within EL 871. The Mt Neill and Mt Fitton areas were chosen, as a result of possible similarities with the...-
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Mount Pitt. Progress and final reports for the period 6/4/81 to 5/10/81.
As part of a regional search for economic small-scale deposits of rare earth metals in the Mount Painter district, geochemical prospecting revealed several atypically high background niobium values, in stream sediments derived from watercourses known...-
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RB 55/00006;Amdel 00126 Accessory minerals of South Australian granites.
The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1961
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RB 93/00048 Review of company mineral exploration, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet, South Australia.
Company exploration within the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet area was reviewed by the study of data incorporated in the open file reports on 42 Special Mining Leases, 80 Exploration Licences and one group of Mining Leases dating from 1961. This data...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1994
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-06, Mingary area stratiform, Broken Hill type base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
Historic drilling undertaken on the NSW side of the state border with SA, adjacent to EL 2820, has encountered quartz-gahnite, meta-iron formation and meta-amphibolite rock types that have been correlated with the highly base metal - prospective...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Bimbowrie. Annual reports for the period 4/11/2009 to 11/11/2018.
During licence Year 6 (2009-2010), the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4375, the main exploration activities undertaken by Sinosteel-PepinNini Curnamona Management Pty Ltd (SPCM) were to conduct two drilling campaigns, the first designed to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Prospect Hill. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2018.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation at three known separate occurrences in the Prospect Hill area, lying 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, has focussed on the untested zone immediately below the known...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalabity. Annual reports for the period 25/2/2009 to 11/3/2019.
The main exploration activities undertaken during the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4239 (licence Year 6, 2009-2010) consisted of drill testing of uraniferous prospects defined by previous exploration, after the prior acquisition of an airborne...-
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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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Data release - as updated : Whey Whey Creek (latterly part of the Walparuta Project). Annual reports plus final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/2013 to 17/7/2020.
A very small (35 square km) area located ~35 km west-northwest of Olary and covering part of the Weekeroo Inlier is being explored for possible buried epigenetic stratiform Broken Hill type Pb-Zn-Ag and VHMS (volcanic hosted massive sulphide) style...-
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Lake Carnanto. Information status at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/7/2015 to 20/7/2017 : no work performed.
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Kalabity [part of a joint licence area with South Eagle]. Progress and final reports to licence re-issue over a stand-alone area, for the period 13/9/1976 to 12/9/1977.
Continuing exploration for economic stratiform / hydrothermal base metal sulphide deposits in the Kalabity Homestead area, 40 km north of Olary, has comprised detailed geological mapping at 1:20,000 scale, outcrop rock chip geochemical sampling,...-
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Yerila Creek. Progress and final reports for the period 8/9/1980 to 7/11/1983.
Exploration for possible epithermal uranium and base metal deposits as part of Marathon's Gunsight Project, in the northern part of the Mount Babbage Inlier around Prospect Hill, comprised orientation and regional rock chip, stream sediment and soil...-
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Lake Coontayunta. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 4/1/1979 to 18/12/1979.
An exploration licence area covering the projected northerly trending, buried portion of the Precambrian Benagerie Ridge basement was taken up by CRA to explore principally for possible secondary sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation in Tertiary and...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1979
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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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Anabama Hill. Prospectivity report and data review for the period 2/1/1980 to 14/7/1980.
A memo received from Asarco's Arizona-based geologist Mr J H Courtright (27 December 1978) drew the attention of that company's Perth office staff to the similarities between the Anabama breccia pipes, which he had seen during a visit to the prospect...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1980
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Whey Whey Creek (the Black Elephant Project). Data release to accompany first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2011.
A tenement area located 25 km south-west of Olary was taken up for exploration because in the licensees' opinion it is favourably located on the southern margin of the Curnamona Craton, and covers Willyama Supergroup metasediments and metavolcanics...-
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Whey Whey Creek (the Black Elephant Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 9/10/2011 to 12/12/2012.
No field work performed in this period, following licence renewal.-
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Published: 04 Dec 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Scott Hill (part of the Curnamona Project). Annual reports for the period 21/6/2006 to 12/10/2018.
The Scott Hill (EL 3587) licence area, centred about 80 km north-west of Manna Hill, is the westernmost of 5 adjacent tenements held by PepinNini Minerals within the eastern Adelaide Geosyncline close to where it abuts the Curnamona Province. This...-
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