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Parabarana. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/5/1974.
Under a joint venture agreement made between North Flinders Mines and Dampier Mining Co. (a BHP Exploration subsidiary), operative over the 7 square mile SML 705 between 14/9/1973 and 14/3/1974, at least 3500 feet of additional appraisal diamond...-
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Emu Hill. Partial relinquishment report, June 1994.
Exploration for diamonds and base metals, 25 kilometres west of Mount Fitton, comprised an airborne magnetic-radiometric survey with heli-mag and ground follow-up, together with gravel, stream sediment, BLEG and soil sampling. Results indicated poor...-
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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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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-18, Super Nova IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
This PACE-subsidised drilling project aimed to discover a new copper-gold mineralised Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) magmatic centre, similar to that which forms the setting of the Olympic Dam deposit, but lying within the northern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1905
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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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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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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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Prospect Hill. Progress reports from 8/5/85 to March 1989.
TARGET: Tin and base metals in sheared Middle-Proterozoic volcanics and granites.EXPLORATION: Two percussion drillholes (50 metres and 48 metres) and 17 channel chip sampling lines spread over 1 km tested the lode at the Southern Ridge prospect....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula and Northern Curnamona. Final report, Regional Gravity Survey. Project ADI RD02-263 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2023].
FMG Resources Pty Ltd (Fortescue), was successful in securing Round 2 Accelerated Discovery Initiative funding of $120,000, for its proposed Eastern Eyre Peninsula and Northern Curnamona Gravity Survey geophysical program. The regional gravity...-
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Published: 30 Jun 1923
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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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Arkaroola. Combined second progress and final report to licence expiry for the period 12/2/1969 to 11/8/1969.
Report contains results (in drill log format) of exploratory rotary percussion drilling carried out in September-October 1968 at two copper prospects located near the Paralana Fault (14 vertical holes for a total of 4335 feet).-
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Woolatchi, Boolkaree and Wittakilla. Joint first progress / final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/11/1992 to 30/4/1993.
Exploration for Broken Hill type stratiform Pb-Zn and Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated Cu-Au mineralisation within the covered extensions of the Mount Painter Inlier east of Moolawatana Homestead included an extensive low-level aeromagnetic...-
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Published: 18 May 1993
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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yerelina. Annual reports for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2018.
An extensive covered area centred ~100 km north of Leigh Creek and lying immediately west of the exposed basement rocks of the Mount Painter Inlier is being explored for possible Mount Isa style stratiform or Mississippi Valley type stratabound...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1918
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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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Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/3/1970 to 18/3/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over part of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field has targeted base metal anomalies previously found by Australian Selection in the Blue mine area. An area of about 80 square miles was assessed by reconnaissance stream...-
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The Needles. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/6/1975.
Ongoing exploration for economic base and precious metals in the Blue mine area at the eastern end of the Umberatana Syncline has comprised detailed, 1:5000 scale prospect mapping, preparation of a preliminary new tectonic and structural analysis...-
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Mount Serle - Angepena and Mount Saturday - Yudnamutana areas. Progress reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 1/10/1966 to 30/9/1968.
Reconnaissance stream sediment geochemical sampling of the country surrounding two small historic copper mining areas located north-east of Blinman revealed several copper anomalies worthy of follow-up. Detailed geological mapping was carried out over...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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Freeling Heights - Moolowatana - Prospect Hill area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 25/3/1971 to 24/3/1972.
Continuing detailed investigations of various copper prospects in the far northern Flinders Ranges, principally in the vicinity of Mount Fitton, were pursued by conducting surface geological mapping, IP and magnetic surveys, and rock chip and stream...-
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Mount McTaggart copper prospect. Summary review of exploration results, 1971.
A critical review of the results of exploration carried out by North Flinders Mines at the Mount McTaggart copper prospect during 1971 has drawn the following conclusions: - primary copper mineralization at the prospect occurs as chalcopyrite in...-
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