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Parabarana. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/5/1974.
Under a joint venture agreement made between North Flinders Mines and Dampier Mining Co. (a BHP Exploration subsidiary), operative over the 7 square mile SML 705 between 14/9/1973 and 14/3/1974, at least 3500 feet of additional appraisal diamond...-
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Scobie Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
New work undertaken on an area located near Manunda Homestead during the current licence period has been restricted by the need to try to attract a joint venture partner, efforts towards which have proved unsuccessful. A geological inspection of the...-
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Yudnamutana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1972 to 23/6/1973.
As part of continuing exploration for possible economic buried stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation in the Yudnamutana Mining Field, the target lower Callanna Group strata were geologically mapped, petrologically studied and geochemically...-
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Kalabity. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1971 to 17/6/1973, plus related technical reports about in situ leach uranium mining methods in Wyoming.
The recently completed drilling of 189 open rotary holes (total penetration 22,427 m), plus the redrilling and geophysical re-logging by joint venturer Minad-Teton of 19 previously completed Carpentaria Exploration Co. uranium exploration holes (for a...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1974
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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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RB 43/00062 Copper prospect, Mutooroo Station.
Copper carbonates are found irregularly dispersed within two types of quartz reef occurring in sheared Adelaide System quartzites and slates, 26 miles east south-east of Radium Hill and 4 miles south- southwest of Mutooroo Homestead. Mining there was...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1956
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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 46/00179 Iron ore (potential) near Radium Hill. Preliminary statement.
Extensive deposits of medium-high grade stratiform iron ores occur in the Radium Hill area. Deposits readily amenable to open cut mining occur over large areas, in beds ranging to 60 feet in width and varying considerably in the content of...-
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Published: 20 Feb 1951
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-21 - Mulyungarie area - Junction Dam Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary/volcanogenic base metal and precious metal mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
In 2008, as part of work being performed for it to earn a 51% interest in the Mundi Mundi Plains joint venture exploration licences, Teck Cominco identified two geophysical targets within South Australia on Kalkaroo EL 3328 which it thought were...-
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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 3 partnership DPY3-59, Kalkaroo Dome fault-hosted gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The main aim of Havilah Exploration's PACE Initiative Year 3 approved drilling programme was to test the east-west trending, quartz-veined breccia zone that passes through the central Kalkaroo Dome, specifically in the footwall of the Kalkaroo Cu-Au...-
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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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Outalpa Hill. Data release made upon the full surrender of a subsequent licence : progress reports to licence expiry, for the period 15/7/1988 to 8/8/1994.
Exploration for possible economic gold occurrences in an area surrounding Outalpa Hill in the Olary Ranges, 25 km north of Manna Hill township, has been conducted initially by a private prospecting syndicate with the assistance of industry...-
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Walparuta. Progress and annual reports, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/12/1994 to 20/4/2009.
Ground encompassing the Palaeoproterozoic basement Weekeroo Inlier of the Olary district, which includes the historic Walparuta copper-gold mine located approximately 20 km north of Manna Hill township, was taken out to search for possible economic...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1909
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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Data release - as updated : Security Dam. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2017.
A small licence area located ~30 km north of Cockburn has been being explored for possible economic shallowly buried sedimentary roll front style uranium mineralisation that may have formed within inferred Tertiary fluvial channel sands of the...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1917
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Geological report no. 1 on the Luxemburg South - Bill's Hill area, Olary district, SA.
Detailed geological mapping carried out in the Luxemberg South - Bill's Hill area has elucidated the controls on known secondary coper mineralisation. It occurs in amphibolitized zones within tillite, often associated with quartz-filled shears,...-
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Geological report no. 1 on the Cutana copper mine, Olary district, SA.
Secondary copper mineralisation at the Cutana copper mine appears to be limited to a length of about 30 feet at the surface, where historic workings have excavated a swell to 3 feet wide in a quartz-ironstone reef that otherwise narrows to 18 inches...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1971
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Wiawera. Second partial surrender report, for the period 13/12/1996 to 12/6/2001.
Sheeted vein type gold, Telfer style gold, and BIF hosted gold and base metals were the targets of exploration carried out in Adelaidean sediments of the Anabama - Radium Hill area. Work included an interpretation of aeromagnetic survey data, auger...-
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