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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo. Progress reports, annual reports and technical reports for the period 1/1/1998 to 2/11/2008.
Exploration Licence (EL) 2663 Kanmantoo is located on the eastern flank of the Adelaide Hills, and exists as two separate blocks forming a belt up to 10 km wide and approximately 75 km long that covers an area dominated by outcropping and subcropping...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1908
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo (the Olary Creek Project). Annual reports for the period 15/11/2005 to 7/2/2019.
An area centred ~50 km south west of Cockburn is being explored for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed in buried Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, as well as for any secondary uranium mineralisation that may...-
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Data release - as updated : Mount Grainger (part of the Flinders Ranges Diamond Project and the Nackara Arc Gold Project). Combined annual reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2008 to 5/2/2017.
An area centred ~40 km east of Peterborough in the vicinity of Mount Grainger Goldfield has continued to be explored for possible small diamondiferous kimberlite bodies and for buried economic stratabound, structurally controlled and disseminated...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1916
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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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Wiawera. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1996 to 12/12/2001.
Exploration for possible sheeted vein type gold, Telfer - style gold, and BIF hosted gold and base metal sulphide deposits that may have formed in Adelaidean metasediments occupying the area between Anabama and Radium Hill, 10-30 km south-east of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2015.
A licence area in the Olary district comprising three separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences within partly concealed Neoproterozoic bedrock. The subject ground was taken up by Wentworth Metals...-
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Holowilena South (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2014.
An area centred ~45 km east-southeast of Hawker was taken up to explore the stratabound, epigenetic copper resource potential of historic small copper workings located along a NW trending fault zone disrupting Adelaidean metasediments of the Burra and...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1914
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Manunda, Tiverton Outstation, Iron Peak and Pualco Range (the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, later the Mawson Iron Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2016.
Three adjoining licence areas in the Baratta Trough within the northern Nackara Arc have been taken up to explore for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic metasedimentary semi-stratabound iron ore. Central EL 4267 covers ~3 km strike length of the...-
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Netley Gap. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/7/2016 to 5/7/2019.
A small licence comprising two separate sub-blocks located 4 km and 22 km south-east of Winnininnie on the Barrier Highway has been explored for possible buried economic, epithermal/hydrothermal structurally controlled copper-gold mineralisation that...-
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Published: 04 Sep 1919
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Wharton Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/4/2016 to 13/4/2020.
An area covering the western end of the historic Anabama copper prospect in the Benda Range, south-west of Manna Hill, has been explored for possible buried economic, epithermal/hydrothermal structurally controlled copper-gold mineralisation that may...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1920
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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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Anabama Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/11/1990 to 11/11/1991.
TARGET: Possible Starra (Nth Qld) - type gold deposits associated with regional scale structures and associated intrusive rocks in the Anabama Hill region. EXPLORATION: Photogeology studies, reconnaissance BLEG stream sediment (44) and rock chip (16)...-
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Mount Charles. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/12/1991 to 26/10/1992.
Possible economic epithermal/hydrothermal uranium and base metal deposits, hosted by Early to Middle Proterozoic meta-igneous and metasedimentary basement rocks partly concealed by Mesozoic and Cainozoic cover in the north-eastern Peake and Denison...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1992
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/7/2008 to 18/7/2018.
During Year 12 of the Olary JV Project (2008-2009), field work was undertaken only on EL 3849 Outalpa to make up for the earlier underspending on that licence relative to commitments. In early 2009, a ground radioactivity survey was acquired using a...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1918
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Victor. Annual reports for the period 30/7/2012 to 29/7/2018.
A large area of the south-eastern Flinders Ranges piedmont plains lying ~50 km north-west of Manna Hill, and centred on Mount Victor, is being explored for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic stratabound iron ore of low grade but probable high...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-21 - Yerelina Gladstone Mining Field sediment-hosted and structurally controlled hydrothermal/replacement style stratabound base metal prospects. Final report.
High-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralisation formed within the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation (THF) was historically mined 100 years ago at Yerelina in the northern Flinders Ranges. Despite the existence of numerous poorly documented small-scale...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1915
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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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