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Orroroo. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 18/11/1971 to 28/9/1972.
In a continuation of diamond and base metal exploration of newly discovered carbonatite / kimberlite intrusive bodies in an area located immediately north of Orroroo, these bodies were examined petrographically and analysed to compare their...-
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Elder Range. Progress reports to licence surrender, for the period 17/2/1972 to 11/4/1972.
Exploration for possible economic fluorite deposits in an area south-west of Wilpena Pound consisted only of a rapid geochemical rock chip sampling programme. No encouraging results were obtained, so the ground was surrendered.-
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Keyneton. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/6/1972 to 16/6/1973.
During the current licence term Aquitaine conducted ongoing evaluation of its recent placer scheelite mineral discovery near Keyneton, south-east of the Barossa Ranges. Additional field reconnaissance, rock chip sampling and petrological study, much...-
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Keyneton. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 6/8/1973 to 17/4/1974.
Continuing geological, geochemical, petrographic and ground magnetic work was done by AAP along 26 sampling profiles to try to unravel possible stratigraphic and tectonic controls on known base metal mineralisation at the Royal Keyneton and Hope mine...-
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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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RB 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 60/00064 O'Donoghues Castle copper prospect, Balcanoona Station.
Irregular oxidised orebodies up to about 3 feet thick, containing copper carbonates, quartz, sphaerocobaltite (cobalt carbonate) and wad (hydrated manganese oxide), occupy both shear zones aligned parallel with bedding, and crush zones developed...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1965
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RB 82/00052 Oraparinna barite deposits. Geological investigations at the Oraparinna Bunker Hill mine, Co. Taunton, Flinders Ranges.
Total output from 1940 - 1979 is 180 000 tonnes. The deposits are in folded Marinoan shale and siltstone of the Wilpena Group, within a cone shaped graben, structurally controlled by the Oraparinna Diapir. All lodes are within Brachina Formation,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1982
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RB 80/00037 Geology of the Montacute dolomite quarry, sections 330, 332, 833, Hundred Onkaparinga. PMs 136, 137 - The Readymix Group (SA).
Reserves of 12.1 million tonnes of dolomite are indicated, but are conditional upon removal of 2.2 million tonnes of waste dumps and of 5.8 million tonnes of phyllite.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 83/00087 Patawarta barite deposit, out of Counties, Flinders Ranges.
2 small vertical lodes which cross cut dolomite, contain inferred reserves of 1100 tonnes of oil drilling grade barite. Selective mining should also yield industrial grade, if deeper barite is less iron stained. Neither lode has been worked.-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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RB 79/00064 Dolomite aggregate deposit, Warnertown, sections 307 and 308, Hd Napperby.
Two deposits comprising gently dipping dolomitic sediments of the Skillogalee Dolomite formation were located during a reconnaissance for construction materials for the Crystal Brook bypass. The southern deposit near Crystal Brook was subsequently...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 93/00019 Geology of the Upalinna Diapir, central Flinders Ranges.
Investigation of the Upalinna Diapir, located 20 km east of Wilpena Pound in the Adelaide Geosyncline, has identified a number of structural and sedimentary features normally associated with evaporite diapirs. The Upalinna Diapir is a small,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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RB 98/00014 Clare Drilling. Phase 2 - June 1997.
Phase Two of a drilling program at Clare, South Australia was undertaken in June, 1997. A total of 6 bores were drilled, 4 of these at existing locations established during Phase One drilling in January, 1996, and a further 2 at Watervale Oval as...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-39, Torrens Hinge Zone / Stuart Shelf project area Mississippi Valley type (MVT) mineral prospects. Project final report.
The recent Geoscience Australia - run regional seismic traverse across the Stuart Shelf has revealed the architecture of the buried Neoproterozoic sediments there, and also that of the structures created during the Delamerian inversion. Dewatering of...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1907
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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1906
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Ben Lomond (part of Perilya's Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender for the period 2/3/2000 to 17/11/2007.
Due to the licensee's competing commitments from others of its tenements in the exploration project area, the planned evaluation of geochemical prospects and Landsat Fe-alteration anomalies detected in shelf margin, deep-water carbonate sedimentary...-
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Published: 22 Jan 1908
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Willouran Ranges (part of the SAMAG Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/1998 to 18/11/2003.
Known magnesite beds existing within the Adelaidean Skillogalee Dolomite in the far north-western Flinders Ranges, and extending into the Willouran Ranges over a strike distance of 120 km heading north-westwards from Leigh Creek South township, have...-
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Hawker. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2009.
Copper Range has targeted several different styles of base metal mineralisation within the Chace Range district. Initially its focus was on sediment (sandstone)- hosted copper deposits, with exploration being confined to reconnaissance field visits to...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1909
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ketchowla. Annual reports for the period 15/6/2009 to 14/6/2019 and Partial Surrender Report to 22/09/2023.
An area located in the Worlds End detrital alluvial goldfield district of the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, and centred ~20 km north-east of Burra, is being explored mainly for possible economic stratiform/replacement manganese oxide...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Blinman (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 21/4/1999 to 20/4/2002.
Exploration Licence 2593 “Blinman” is located 500 km north of Adelaide in the Central North Flinders Ranges, South Australia. The licence covers an area of 1616km2 and was initially granted to Minotaur Gold NL on 21 April 1999. Minotaur was targeting...-
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