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Swan Reach. Combined first progress/final report to licence surrender for the period 31/3/1969 to 30/9/1969.
Low-level mercury anomalism, possibly originating from blind base metal sulphide orebodies lying within the Cambrian basement concealed under ~ 300 m thickness ofextensive porous sediment cover in an area on the south-western fringe of the Murray...-
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Published: 11 Nov 1969
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2012.
Twelve licence areas owned and operated by Gold Fields Australasia (GFA), comprising two subareas respectively located approximately 50 km east of Burra and 15 km south-east of the Benda Range, on the eastern edge of the Adelaide Fold Belt, are being...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1912
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-25 - Pidinga and Fig Tree Corner, western Gawler Craton, orogenic gold prospects. Drilling project final report.
An area centred ~70 km north-east of Yalata and lying ~30 km to the east of the Jacinth and Ambrosia heavy mineral deposits is being explored by Doray Minerals Limited under a joint venture agreement it has made with grant licensee Iluka Resources...-
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Bordertown. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
A wide-ranging geochemical exploration programme has continued, testing soils of the region for mercury emissions from possible stratiform base metal sulphide orebodies that may exist in the Cambrian volcanic/metasedimentary basement, by performing...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1971
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RB 68/00006 First geochemical report on the Mount John Fault and the Nantawarrinna Diapir, Balcanoona 1:63 360 map area.
The mercury ore-mineral, cinnabar, was discovered in 1965 at the Moro Mine, 7½ miles south west of Wertaloona Station, by Kennecott Explorations (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. No further testing of this mercury occurrence was made until May, 1968 when...-
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Published: 15 Jan 1969
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RB 70/00044 Third geological and geochemical report on the Sellicks Hill area.
Stream and soil sampling of the Cambrian sequence exposed between Willunga and Normanville has outlined several lead-zinc anomalies. Wagon drilling at the Forktree anomaly, 3½ miles NNE of Normanville, showed that widespread manganese oxides are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 70/00060 Second report on the Balcanoona Mercury Project, geochemical survey 1969 of the Mount John Fault Zone.
Soils largely of transported origin, have been sampled over two parts of the Mount John-Paralana Fault Zone in the Balcanoona area. In the northern area (south of Italowie Gorge) anomalous copper and zinc delineated a postulated NE-trending tongue of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 71/00203 Geochemical survey of the Mount John-Paralana Fault Zone. Third report.
Seven holes drilled to a maximum depth of 195 ft. (59 m) tested part of the Mt. John Paralana Fault zone for mercury. No anomalous concentrations of mercury were detected. Three holes tested the Parachilna Formation west of the Moro Mine. Anomalous...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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Mercury in geochemical prospecting. A preliminary survey.
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Bordertown - Naracoorte area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
A wide-ranging geochemical exploration programme has continued, testing soils of the region for possible mercury emissions from basement, by performing laboratory analyses of samples of the soil vapour after these were first trapped in shallow auger...-
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Published: 23 Apr 1971
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Murray Bridge. Combined first progress/final report to licence surrender for the period 31/3/1969 to 30/9/1969.
Low-level mercury anomalism, possibly originating from blind base metal sulphide orebodies lying within the Cambrian basement concealed under ~ 300 m thickness ofextensive porous sediment cover in an area on the south-western fringe of the Murray...-
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Published: 11 Nov 1969
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Development of exploration techniques [Attachment to SML 288 second six-monthly report to 31/3/1970].
Report describes a research project undertaken for North Broken Hill Ltd, Exploration Div., to ascertain the suitability of the mercury-halo method of geochemical prospecting for concealed base metal deposits, with particular reference to exploration...-
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Colebatch. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/5/1969 to 11/11/1970.
In a continuation of geochemical exploration for possible large blind base metal sulphide orebodies which may have formed within the concealed Cambrian basement, North Broken Hill carried out infill sampling of significant mercury soil anomalies (>...-
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Balcanoona examination, South Australia, August 1965 - July 1966 [Special report on SML 89].
Exploration carried out near an historically worked small occurrence of stratiform base metal mineralisation near Balcanoona in the central Flinders Ranges, 50 miles east of Copley, aiming to follow up reported surface geochemical anomalies, has...-
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Southern Murray Basin area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/6/1968 to 31/3/1969.
The south-western fringe of the Murray Basin was explored by the licensee for pointers to possible blind base metal sulphide orebodies lying within the Cambrian basement concealed under extensive, thick porous sediment cover, by performing geochemical...-
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Coonawarra. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 27/8/1970 to 26/8/1971.
A large, >23 mGal positive regional gravity centred approximately 6 miles south-southeast of Naracoorte township has been explored for its metallic mineral potential by conducting soil mercury sampling, ground magnetic traverses, a detailed...-
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Published: 09 Dec 1970
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Mount McKinlay. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/2/1972 to 23/2/1973.
Possible hydrothermally - deposited native mercury metal associated with the Mount John Fault zone, perhaps in a quartz splinter vein setting similar to that of the mercury occurrence previously found nearby at the Moro mine, plus elsewhere, economic...-
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