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Emu Hill. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/4/1991 to 21/4/1996.
Diamond exploration undertaken north-west of Moolawatana included the acquisition of airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground magnetic surveys, plus soil, stream sediment, gravel, loam and rock chip sampling, and aircore/diamond drilling (25 holes,...-
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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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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-54, Bonython Hill mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
EL 2788 (Bonython Hill) covers 120 square km of the Broken Hill Domain, and is regarded as being prospective for Broken Hill - type (BHT) lead-zinc-silver mineralisation and for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits. As one of its PACE...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-06, Mingary area stratiform, Broken Hill type base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
Historic drilling undertaken on the NSW side of the state border with SA, adjacent to EL 2820, has encountered quartz-gahnite, meta-iron formation and meta-amphibolite rock types that have been correlated with the highly base metal - prospective...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Bimbowrie. Annual reports for the period 4/11/2009 to 11/11/2018.
During licence Year 6 (2009-2010), the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4375, the main exploration activities undertaken by Sinosteel-PepinNini Curnamona Management Pty Ltd (SPCM) were to conduct two drilling campaigns, the first designed to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalabity. Annual reports for the period 25/2/2009 to 11/3/2019.
The main exploration activities undertaken during the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4239 (licence Year 6, 2009-2010) consisted of drill testing of uraniferous prospects defined by previous exploration, after the prior acquisition of an airborne...-
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Data release - as updated : Whey Whey Creek (latterly part of the Walparuta Project). Annual reports plus final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/2013 to 17/7/2020.
A very small (35 square km) area located ~35 km west-northwest of Olary and covering part of the Weekeroo Inlier is being explored for possible buried epigenetic stratiform Broken Hill type Pb-Zn-Ag and VHMS (volcanic hosted massive sulphide) style...-
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Iron Peak. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/3/1986 to 11/3/1987.
Stratabound gold in rocks of the Adelaidean metasedimentary sequence was the target of exploration undertaken on Manunda Station, about 45 km south-east of Yunta. No significant gold values were detected in a programme of stream sediment bulk...-
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Crocker Well and Jackson Hill. Joint and separate progress reports, and separate final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 21/10/1991 to 23/9/1993.
Exploration for diamonds and for base and precious metals over an extensive area located 50 km north-west of Olary comprised regional helicopter-supported drainage sampling of gravel and stream sediments. Kimberlite indicators (chromite) were...-
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Published: 23 Sep 1993
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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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Kalkaroo and Benagerie. Final report on an investigation of rare earth element mineralisation in the Benagerie Dome, Project ADI RD01-105 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
The primary objective of the subject successful Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) project proposal has been to determine the nature, extent and economic potential of rare earth elements (REE) mineralisation in the Benagerie Ridge portion of the...-
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Olary area. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1970.
As part of a search for possible concealed stratiform base metal and precious metal deposits in the Olary district, induced polarisation surveys have located several significant anomalies in the Luxemberg mine area. A diamond drilling campaign (5...-
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Published: 30 Jun 1970
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Kalabity - Old Boolcoomata area [= Olary 'A' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
As part of exploration for economic metallic mineral deposits within an area of partly outcropping Precambrian calcsilicate rocks present on Kalabity Station, a field reconnaissance of all known mineralised areas was carried out initially. The...-
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Bimbowrie Hill. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 8/6/1976.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform, Broken Hill type base metal deposits hosted within Willyama Complex metasediments in the Bimbowrie Hill - Ameroo Hill area has consisted of a structural interpretation of aerial photos and ERTS imagery,...-
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Mount Freeling and Wooltana [Station] areas. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/6/2010 to 27/6/2015.
An area of the central far northern Flinders Ranges consisting of two separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic iron ore / manganese mineralisation which could be present within the unconformable contact between Mesozoic and...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Scott Hill (part of the Curnamona Project). Annual reports for the period 21/6/2006 to 12/10/2018.
The Scott Hill (EL 3587) licence area, centred about 80 km north-west of Manna Hill, is the westernmost of 5 adjacent tenements held by PepinNini Minerals within the eastern Adelaide Geosyncline close to where it abuts the Curnamona Province. This...-
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Calico Dam. Progress and annual reports, and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/7/1989 to 23/7/1999.
Interpretation of sets of airborne magnetic / radiometric survey data acquired over Proterozoic metasedimentary and granitoid basement terrain in the Kalabity area identified three discrete radiometric anomalies, one of which was traced by rock chip...-
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Yerka Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/12/1984 to 2/12/1985.
Reconnaissance geochemical exploration for gold and base metals carried out in an area of outcropping Early Proterozoic and Late Proterozoic metasediments, located 10 km north-west of Olary, has targeted particularly the lithostratigraphic middle...-
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Published: 05 Dec 1985
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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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