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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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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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Callington. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 6/6/1978 to 24/4/1985.
The target in the Kanmantoo mine area was Cambrian stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation known to be associated with pyritic units of the Brukunga Formation, and copper associated with andalusite-staurolite-garnet-chlorite-biotite schists in the same...-
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Published: 28 Mar 1985
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RB 57/00014 Report on visit to Western Australian iron and manganese deposits in May 1963.
A comparison of known iron deposits in Western Australia and South Australia suggests that large, high grade iron orebodies occur in flatly dipping favourable horizons which have a leached and oxidised appearance: siliceous, steeply dipping iron...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1963
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Prospect Hill. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/11/1990 to 22/11/1994.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation in the Prospect Hill area, 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, concentrated on infill channel geochemical sampling and mineragraphic/petrogenetic sampling of costeans...-
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Mount Miccollo, Tin Hut Hill, Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Peterlumbo and Mount Double (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/11/2002 to 31/10/2018.
During Year 6 of the project, Trafford Resources designed their drilling program to test the extent of the Pb/Zn/Ag/U mineralisation at the Telephone Dam Prospect, while JV partners Ironclad Mining’s drilling program was designed to define the Direct...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Prospect Hill. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2018.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation at three known separate occurrences in the Prospect Hill area, lying 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, has focussed on the untested zone immediately below the known...-
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Prospect Hill. Progress reports from 8/5/85 to March 1989.
TARGET: Tin and base metals in sheared Middle-Proterozoic volcanics and granites.EXPLORATION: Two percussion drillholes (50 metres and 48 metres) and 17 channel chip sampling lines spread over 1 km tested the lode at the Southern Ridge prospect....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Mount Finke [Heartbreak Hill]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/7/1982 to 27/1/1984.
Exploration of an area extending from 20 km south to 35 km south-west and west of Tarcoola was designed to assess the potential of Archaean to Middle Proterozoic volcanics, granites and sediments for possible gold, base metal or tin deposits of...-
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Published: 29 Dec 1983
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Peake and Denison Ranges. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/2/1969 to 4/5/1971.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey was flown over the licence in 1969. Three anomalies located near Peake Homestead Ruins and the Coppertop mine gave disappointing ground survey uranium responses from traverses made with a hand-held...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-25 - Wilcherry Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, Zealous prospect Mesoproterozoic epithermal calc-silicate skarn Sn-U-Pb-Cu-Ag mineral occurrence. Final report.
Arising out of exploratory drilling carried out by Ironclad Mining in 2012, which aimed to test the shallow subsurface haematite ore potential of an ironstone outcrop located in the central north of the Wilcherry Hill licence area, an unexpected...-
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Strathalbyn - Hindmarsh Valley area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1978.
As part of a search for possible economic stratiform Cambrian base metal deposits within the southern Kanmantoo Trough, all previous SADME soil and stream sediment sampling data were reviewed by CRA, and notable geochemical anomalies were followed up,...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1978
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Glenloth. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1965 to 31/2/1967.
TARGET: Economic tin mineralisation. EXPLORATION: 1:32,000 scale detailed geological mapping, diamond drilling (9 shallow vertical holes - deepest 57 feet) in the Mount Mitchell area near Glenloth Goldfield, bulk sampling of greisen and vein quartz,...-
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Published: 14 Feb 1967
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Glenloth. Progress reports to licence surrender, for the period 12/12/1970 to 11/5/1971.
A search for possible economic tin or other metallic mineralisation, conducted on the subject licence which covers the isthmus that extends between Lakes Harris and Gairdner, as well as onthe licensee's adjoining SML 522 covering ground to the west of...-
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Published: 31 May 1971
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Geological report on the Earea Dam tin mine.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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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 76/00003 Geochemical exploration in the Earea Dam and Glenloth mining fields, grid F.5, Block 436.
Geochemical stream sediment sampling for tin, molybdenum and gold at Earea Dam and Glenloth outlined four areas where streams contain anomalous tin. Follow-up bedrock sampling of these areas and investigation of four known prospects narrowed interest...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1976
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Kokatha Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 6/4/81 to 6/10/81.
In a continuing regional search for Proterozoic or Archaean basement-hosted base and precious metal deposits, 17 geochemical sampling traverses spaced at about 1 km intervals, and covering 34.5 line km of the Gawler Range Volcanics, Glenloth Granite...-
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Published: 13 Oct 1981
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Progress reports on SMLs 486 and 504, Earea Dam Reserve.
The licensee targeted reef and alluvial tin in the vicinity of the South Lake cassiterite workings. Auger drilling and trenching carried out on the bed of South Lake revealed thicker sediments in only one hole, but otherwise struck bedrock at shallow...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-42, Prospect Hill Project area Proterozoic tin and base metals mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Prospect Hill area, situated at the extreme northern end of the Flinders Ranges, is extensively tin-mineralised, with fine-grained polymetallic, probable porphyry-style cassiterite veins dispersed in Mesoproterozoic volcanic and tuffaceous...-
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