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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 42/00012 Diamond drilling, Mount Howden cobalt mine.
Two diamond drillholes, designed to test at depths from 70 to 100 feet the most favorable outcrops of cobalt-nickel mineralisation, failed to intersect extensions of the lode. Secondary erythrite mineralisation found along bedding seams, joints, and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1955
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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well, Wirrida North, Nelson Bore and Ingomar (the Commonwealth Hill Joint Venture Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 6/10/1995 to 6/12/1998.
Exploration for Challenger - type primary gold deposits that may possibly have formed within buried Archaean basement rocks in the Commonwealth Hill area, which is the purpose of one of two joint venture agreements currently in force between Minotaur...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1999
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo mine. Annual reports for the period 13/3/2000 to 1/11/2013.
Exploration Licence 2704 covering 23 square km surrounding the historic abandoned Mutooroo copper mine, located ~55 km east of Olary, was granted to Havilah Resources NL so that the company could assess the economic potential of the remaining sulphide...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1913
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Hammond. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2018 to 6/6/2020.
An area centred ~55 km east of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible economic near-surface cobalt mineralisation, after historic records of geochemical sampling that returned elevated cobalt values were found during searches of SARIG open...-
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Published: 02 Aug 1920
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Kanyaka. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2018 to 6/6/2020.
A large area centred ~40 km north-east of Quorn has been explored for possible economic near-surface cobalt mineralisation, after historic records of geochemical sampling that returned elevated cobalt values were found during searches of SARIG open...-
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Published: 02 Aug 1920
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Narrina. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded metasedimentary area centred ~50 km east-northeast of Blinman, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 18/10/2008 to 24/3/2018.
During licence Year 15 (2008-2009), activities at Mount Gunson comprised: - pegging of three Mineral Claims at the MG 14 deposit in December 2008; - acquiring part of a larger project-wide ground gravity survey during April-May 2009 (510 stations...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1918
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Walparuta Project geophysical program: acquisition and interpretation of high resolution airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground gravity surveys. Final report, Project ADI RD02-264 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report details the field acquisition and data processing, inversion and interpretation stages of the Walparuta geophysical program conducted in December 2021. The work was focussed on the Walparuta Project area, located 20 km north of Manna Hill...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1922
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RB 67/00086 Geochemical exploration in the Stirling-Clarendon area.
Approximately 1000 geochemical drainage samples have been collected in two areas within the Stirling - Clarendon project area. Twelve square miles have been sampled in the Lenswood area at an average density of 27 samples to the square mile, and 26...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 65/00035 Clare Regional Geochemical Project.
This investigation was a feasibility study, therefore environmental factors are dealt with in much more detail than would be necessary in a routine geochemical report. Apparently these factors has little significant effect on the results. Spot...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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Wyacca (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
EL 3492 was originally taken out to cover the historic copper workings at Wyacca, located 40 km east of Hawker, as part of an exploration project addressing possible economic shallow oxide copper mineralisation associated with old mines and workings...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1911
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Willouran Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/8/1998 to 23/8/2000.
A review of previous exploration indicated prospectivity for secondary Cu mineralisation near old workings in the Willouran Hill area, approximately 20 km south-west of Marree. A more systematic evaluation of anomalous Au was also considered to be...-
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Mount Remarkable. First annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/11/1996 to 18/11/1997.
Re- sampling of mining spoil heaps at the Willowie cobalt prospect, 7 km north of Melrose, repeated Co/Cu/Zn values obtained by previous explorer's assays in the mid-1990s, but failed to provide an incentive for attracting a new joint venturer to fund...-
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Leigh Creek. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 4/3/1974 to 3/3/1976.
Ongoing exploration of abandoned historic mine workings and the surrounding area at the Mountain of Light prospect, located approximately 2 miles east of Copley, was aimed at delineating an economic copper oxide/carbonate - mineralised orebody and any...-
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Report on geological mapping of the Mount McTaggart copper prospect [in] SML 575.
Detailed 1:1200 scale geological mapping on the existing prospect grid, plus geochemical and petrological studies of mineralised and host rock samples, suggest that the mineralisation at Mount McTaggart may be related to pneumatolytic metasomatism....-
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Report on diamond drilling programme at Dome Rock copper prospect, SA.
Exploratory diamond drilling (3 holes, total 2061 feet) of good geochemical/IP anomalies lying along strike under the old Dome Rock copper mine workings failed to encounter economic copper or other mineralisation, with narrow (2-3 feet wide) and...-
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Bibliando Dome. Progress reports to licence partial surrender / renewal for the period 20/12/1973 to 16/12/1974.
The subject licence area was taken up to explore for buried economic copper mineralisation in fractured/faulted, hydrothermally-altered Neoproterozoic country rocks associated with blind, near-surface diapiric structures that may have intruded into...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1975
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RB 2024/00022 Secondary prospectivity of South Australia’s mine waste - Brukunga.
The Geological Survey of South Australia has recognised there is great potential to explore for critical metals in mine waste materials across the state forming part of a new supply chain. This report has sampled waste rock, tailings and processing...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2024
