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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 36/00116 Geology of the East Painter uranium deposit.
The East Painter uranium deposits were extensively explored by the South Australian Department of Mines during the period 1946 to 1950. Work accomplished comprised driving of five edits and drilling thirty four surface and underground diamond drill...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1954
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RB 39/00012 Mount Shanahan uranium prospect diamond drilling.
The uranium deposit discovered near Mt Shanahan was tested at depth by one diamond drill hole. Diamond drilling has proved unsuccessful in the recovery of lode material, but the radiometric log indicates a well defined anomaly at a depth of 51-54 ft,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 40/00001 Report on investigation of uranium deposits at Mount Painter, South Australia, (during the period) June 1944 to September 1945.
Part titles for RB 40/00001: Part I. General statement - Investigation of uranium deposits, Mount Painter, South Australia. Part II. Construction and mining operations. Part III (1). Uranium minerals from Mount Painter. Part III (2). Reconnaissance...-
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Published: 08 Nov 1945
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RB 41/00024 Pitchblende prospects at the Shamrock mine, Yudnamutana.
A significant discovery of pitchblende mineralisation was made recently by Departmental prospectors at the abandoned workings of the Shamrock mine located in the Yudnamutana Copper Mining District. The occurrence comprises two separate well-defined...-
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Published: 19 Aug 1955
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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 45/00024 Assessment of the highgrade ore in the East Painter uranium deposit.
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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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 79/00129 Explanatory Notes for the FROME 1:250 000 geological map sheet SH54-10 international index.
The FROME 1: 250 000 geological sheet is located between latitudes 30° S and 31° S and longitudes 139°30' E and 141° E and covers most of the area between the northern Flinders Ranges and the New South Wales border. Its southern and northern limits...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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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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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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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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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