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Tilcha 2 area. Progress report to licence surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 18/11/2008.
An area underlain by possible Broken Hill district - style Palaeoproterozoic basement strata, situated on the northern margin of the Curnamona Province, was explored by conducting 50 line km of reconnaissance ground geophysical profiles comprising...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1908
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Weekeroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/10/1970 to 30/9/1971.
A detailed examination of mineralised rock sequences within the metamorphosed Precambrian basement and Adelaidean cover rocks of the Weekeroo area, and recording of their relationship to successive deformational events and resulting rock structures,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
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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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Lake Namba. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/1975 to 26/10/1981.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium deposits in the Lower Tertiary sediments overlying the Mesozoic Frome Embayment and Cambrian Moorowie Syncline stratigraphic succession, adjacent to and overlying the western flank of the Proterozoic Benagerie Ridge....-
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Macdonald Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1980.
Base metal exploration carried out over an area extending from 8 to 20 km north-northeast of Olary has consisted of a in-depth technical review of past exploration results, plus limited 1:10,000 scale geological mapping, bulk sampling of...-
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The Needles. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/6/1975.
Ongoing exploration for economic base and precious metals in the Blue mine area at the eastern end of the Umberatana Syncline has comprised detailed, 1:5000 scale prospect mapping, preparation of a preliminary new tectonic and structural analysis...-
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Mutooroo Ridge. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1977 to 17/4/1978.
Newmont Mining used a ground magnetic survey, an IP survey and a soil geochemical survey to select sites at the Mutooroo Ridge copper prospect for its subsequent drilling during May and October 1977 of 2 inclined, percussion precollared diamond cored...-
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Report on rotary-percussion drilling, Mount McTaggart copper prospect, SML 575, South Australia, [carried out in] October 1971.
The Mount McTaggart prospect is located 15 miles south-west of Arkaroola Base Camp and 3 miles west of the Arkaroola-Balcanoona Road. A programme of ten rotary percussion holes totalling 3457 feet commenced on 11/10/1971 and was completed on...-
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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 21/1/2008 to 20/1/2014.
A small, north-western part of a licence located immediately south of Olary township has recently been relinquished due to it having perceived minimal iron ore potential. The only work undertaken on the relinquished ground was the acquisition along...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1997 to 2/4/2007. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup metasediments, intrusive igneous rocks and volcanic rocks, plus Mesoproterozoic granitoids and associated mafic dykes, which occupy the south-western corner of the Broken Hill basement domain in an area centred...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2007 to 15/8/2013, and the "Curnamona South Project" annual report for the period 1/1/2017 to 31/12/2018.
During licence year 6, the commencing year of renewed EL 3895 Cutana, no work took place because Havilah's RC drilling rig, along with all company personnel, were fully occupied on completing the mining feasibility evaluation drilling programmes...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1919
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Wharton Hill. Information status at licence surrender, for the period 20/6/2014 to 19/6/2015: no work performed.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Devonborough Downs (part of the Olary Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/10/2007 to 21/10/2012.
An area centred ~30 km south-east of Olary township is being explored for possible buried economic porphyry copper-gold deposits, as well as for any other substantial either Carlin-type, skarn-hosted, Telfer-style, or mesothermal gold mineralisation....-
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Published: 16 Nov 1912
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RB 2013/00019 Characteristics of porphyry Cu deposits and their potential as exploration targets in South Australia.
Porphyry Cu-(Au-Mo) deposits are typically large tonnage (>150 Mt) and low grade (<1% Cu) deposits which tend to occur in clusters, and the potential for discovering giant-sized such deposits makes them valuable exploration targets. Worldwide,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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Peaked Hill [formerly Trinity mine area]. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1981 to 26/7/1983.
Ongoing exploratory RAB bedrock drilling of 302 shallow holes totalling 1919 m, over an area located approximately 40 km south-east of Olary, has shown that the Pegline Dam prospect is not base metal mineralised, and that the source of an IP anomaly...-
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Olary. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/5/1970 to 20/5/1972.
Continuing exploration of the area near Olary, primarily for undiscovered near-surface lodes of economic copper and silver minerals, has involved mainly a close inspection of several old abandoned mines and limited surface geochemical sampling of...-
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Manna Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/10/1970 to 7/10/1971.
Exploration for possible economic base metal sulphides hosted within a 10 square mile block of Carpentarian basement schists and gneiss, or within adjoining younger Adelaidean metasedimentary cover rocks, in an area located just north and west of...-
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