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Mount Mitchell. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Exploration was undertaken for lode and alluvial tin mineralisation which might exist within ground adjacent to the abandoned Mount Mitchell tin mine, and also for reef gold in altered granite and dolerites outcropping adjacent to the numerous small...-
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Annual report on exploration activities, Mount Neill and Mount Fitton areas, EL 871, 1982.
A reassessment of Marathon Petroleum's 1979 regional stream sediment sampling programme led to the decision to resample a number of areas within EL 871. The Mt Neill and Mt Fitton areas were chosen, as a result of possible similarities with the...-
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Anabama Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/11/1980 to 6/11/1982.
In order to further test a large Delamerian granite pluton for its potential to host an economic porphyry molybdenum deposit of the Climax, Colorado type (following initial exploratory drilling and IP surveys that had been carried out by the SA...-
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Bulgunnia, Gosse and Kingoonya (the Mentor Project). Data release made at the surrender of subsequent licences : annual reports for the period 27/10/1992 to 15/11/1997. [Index entry Part 1 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
The Gawler Joint Venture partners (Dominion Mining and Resolute Resources) have been exploring three near-contiguous areas located in the north of the Tarcoola - Kingoonya district, seeking possible economic concealed epithermal/mesothermal...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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Burra. Progress reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 11/3/1971 to 20/1/1972.
Exploration of a Willouran inlier located near Spalding initially was aimed at finding low grade, large tonnage copper-molybdenum mineralisation of the type recently discovered at Anabama and Spilsby Island. Re-sampling of drill cores from 3 SADM...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1972
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Freeling Heights - Mount Adams area. Progress reports for the period 10/6/1968 to 9/12/1969.
As part of a regional search for economic uranium and copper mineralisation, the US-based company Kennecott Copper in November 1968 performed a semi-detailed airborne spectrometer survey of 550 line miles in the Shamrock Valley - Freeling Heights -...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-25 - Pidinga and Fig Tree Corner, western Gawler Craton, orogenic gold prospects. Drilling project final report.
An area centred ~70 km north-east of Yalata and lying ~30 km to the east of the Jacinth and Ambrosia heavy mineral deposits is being explored by Doray Minerals Limited under a joint venture agreement it has made with grant licensee Iluka Resources...-
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Ketchowla. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/1981 to 15/11/1983.
Exploration has been undertaken for possible economic porphyry - style copper-molybdenum (-gold) mineralisation in a magnetically complex area located on the western flank of the Ordovician Bendigo Granite batholith, north of Mongolata. Initial field...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1983
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Anabama Hill. Prospectivity report and data review for the period 2/1/1980 to 14/7/1980.
A memo received from Asarco's Arizona-based geologist Mr J H Courtright (27 December 1978) drew the attention of that company's Perth office staff to the similarities between the Anabama breccia pipes, which he had seen during a visit to the prospect...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1980
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RB 71/00014 Stream sediment sampling of Giles Complex intrusions in the Musgrave Ranges.
A total of 380 stream sediment samples and 40 heavy mineral samples were collected from Giles Complex norites in the Musgrave Ranges and the -80 mesh fraction tested for copper, lead, zinc, cobalt, nickel, chromium, vanadium, manganese, titanium,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 70/00123;Amdel 00708 Geochemical prospecting for tin and molybdenum.
This.project arose out of investigations by the South Australian Government Department of Mines of tin-bearing granitic rocks at Tarcoola and Earea Dam, South Australia. In this area there are only a few exposures of rock in an extensive sheet of sand...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1970
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RB 70/00189 Stream sediment sampling and mineral concentrate sampling portion of Mount Painter Block. Copley and Umberatana.
Stream sediment and heavy mineral concentrate samples from an area of Lower Proterozoic basement rocks were investigated for indications of copper, tin, molybdenum, bismuth and tungsten mineralisation. No significant results were obtained.-
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Published: 17 Dec 1970
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RB 70/00188 Investigation of the Commonwealth mine, Mount Painter Province, Copley Umberatana.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 72/00002;Env 01793 Investigation of the Bendigo copper and molybdenum prospect. Report no. 2. Drillhole information.
The report is a compilation of the drillhole data that was used to produce RB 71/129 (Bendigo prospect. Progress Report no. 1). It includes geological logs and geochemical results for rotary, percussion and diamond drilling completed at Bendigo for...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1972
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RB 72/00131 Kia Ora-South Dam Project, BURRA 1:250 000 map sheet area. Reconnaissance drilling.
6 vertical rotary mud drillholes totalling 645 m were drilled south of the Bendigo prospect to test for suspected subcrop extensions of the Bendigo Granite beneath alluvium. The target areas were outlined by aeromagnetic anomalies. Two holes...-
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Published: 17 Jul 1972
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Anabama Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/12/1968 to 30/11/1970.
After its initial stream sediment sampling and rock chip sampling had revealed that significant base metal anomalism (Mo to 600 ppm and Cu to 300 ppm) exists on and near granitic rock outcrops at Anabama Hill, Asarco undertook detailed 1:1200 scale...-
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Coonalpyn. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/3/1982 to 6/9/1985.
Cambrian rocks lying beneath relatively thin Phanerozoic cover on the western edge of the Murray Basin were targeted by CSR principally for stratiform volcanogenic massive copper sulphide deposits, and for epigenetic Palaeozoic gold occurrences...-
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Netley Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/12/1968 to 30/11/1969.
A rotary percussion drilling programme (8 vertical holes for a total penetration of 1920 feet) was undertaken at Netley Hill to look for economic copper and molbdenum mineralisation in a greisen (hydrothermally altered granite) body which has an...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1970
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Yudnamutana Hill - Arkaroola Creek area, Mount Painter district. Interim progress report for the period 7/7/1968 to 6/1/1969.
As part of a regional search for possible economic uranium and copper-molybdenum deposits formed in Precambrian basement and overlying early Adelaidean cover metasediments, Kennecott Explorations conducted a reconnaissance aerial radiometric survey of...-
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