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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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Glen Oak (part of Flinders Ranges Project). First partial surrender report for the period 3/12/1997 to 19/3/2004.
Diamond exploration over two relinquished part EL areas located between Quorn and Hawker in the southern Flinders Ranges has comprised kimberlite indicator mineral and geochemical sampling of drainage channels situated on the eastern margins of the...-
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Vivonne Bay (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/5/2017 to 8/5/2019.
A small area located immediately west and north-west of Vivonne Bay on Kangaroo Island has been explored for possible economic occurrences of the lithium, tantalum and rare earth element (REE) - bearing accessory minerals lepidolite, zinnwaldite and...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eurelia Diamond Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2014 to 17/11/2018.
Since taking over ownership of five licences that previously formed parts of Flinders Mines' Springfield Project, by a purchase agreement that took force in June 2014, Diamond Resources has been working to define, identify and prioritise advanced...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1918
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Tourmaline Hill. Progress reports for the period 9/6/88 to 8/3/89.
TARGET: Beryllium minerals associated with altered carbonate lithology contact aureoles to sodic granitoids emplaced in regionally metasomatised Lower Proterozoic metasediments. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance rock chip sampling, and resampling of 197 CRA...-
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Published: 25 May 1989
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Port Augusta - Wilkatana area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/10/1969 to 4/8/1972.
An area surrounding the Emeroo Range, and extending from the vicinity of Port Augusta to 30 km west of Hawker, was explored by Utah for possible economic stratabound base metal deposits which it was thought could be associated with certain favourable...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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Diamond provenance studies at Chapel Hill Reserve, Echunga, South Australia. [being work done within one of the "Areas to be reserved under the Mining Act and Regulations 1971"].
The principal aim of Flinders Diamonds Limited’s (FDL) exploration in the Chapel Hill area is to discover a commercial diamond deposit. The source of the "Echunga" diamonds, found in the alluvial gold workings within the Chapel Hill Fossicking Reserve...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 2 of 3 ].
In May 1992 six traverses of shallow RAB drilling were completed at the Angas prospect (222 holes for a total penetration of 1550 m). The objective was to test the Cambrian bedrock geochemistry beneath shallow Tertiary and Recent sediments that cover...-
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Giant Head. Progress reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/4/1982.
Calc-silicate contact metamorphic aureoles within moderately deformed Adelaidean carbonate sedimentary rocks, which surround Ordovician granitic intrusions in the Needles area of the northern Flinders Ranges, were investigated for epigenetic gold,...-
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Published: 08 Apr 1982
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Ruby Hill. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/12/1980 to 31/5/1982.
During a search for possible diamondiferous rocks within an area lying to the north of William Creek and abutting the south-eastern side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, stream sediment sampling and a low level, 5300 line km aeromagnetic / radiometric...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1982
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Third Plain (east-central Flinders Ranges). Technical report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/1/1967 to 30/9/1967.
Stream sediment sampling, conducted by Kennecott as follow-up to a 1966 regional surface geochemical reconnaissance programme looking for stratabound Mississippi Valley - type base metal deposits in the central Flinders Ranges, has located a small...-
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SADM / Amdel project 1/1/84: Recovery of copper from oxidised ores at Burra. Progress reports and final report for the period September 1964 to November 1966.
Investigations into the recovery of copper metal from oxidised ores present in the abandoned historic open cut mine and surrounding dumps at Burra were carried out by Amdel at the request of the South Australian Government's Department of Mines...-
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North Well Creek area. Quarterly progress reports and final report for the period 7/3/90 to 6/3/94.
Exploration, initially looking for rare metal elements within beryl, tantalite and ilmenorutile suite mineral occurrences, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric breccia structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village...-
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Kangaroo Island Project. Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 1/10/1996 to 30/9/1998.
Diamond exploration which was undertaken across practically the whole of Kangaroo Island, barring national and conservation parks and reserves, sought to test the potential of the island to contain kimberlite pipes and / or associated rock types, and...-
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Mount Lyndhurst (Flinders Ranges Project). Evaluation of the Lorna Doone and Lynda mine copper prospects and surrounding areas. Progress reports for the period 4/1/1973 to 3/1/1975.
In August 1972 Cultus Pacific commenced exploring a number of historic copper prospects near Lyndhurst in the northern Flinders Ranges, with a view to assessing their feasibility for open-cut mining. The programme of work completed so far has...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1974
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HandBk 003 - A Guide to the Geology and Mineral Resources of South Australia. Ludbrook, N.H. 1980 South Australia. (reprinted version)
South Australia has had a very long geological history traceable back for over 2000 million years. It has areas of ancient basement rocks and of younger rocks representing most of the geological column, which are exposed at the surface or have been...-
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Mount Arden. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 6/8/1970 to 24/11/1972.
Resumed exploration for economic stratiform base metal deposits within basal Cambrian and upper Adelaidean metasediments in the area of the Arden and Ragless synclines, 20 km north of Quorn, concentrated on geochemical prospecting and detailed, 1:2000...-
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Whyte Yarcowie. Progress reports for the period 12/5/1969 to 21/5/1971.
In the Terowie - Whyte Yarcowie district, and in other nearby areas to the east and south-east, ongoing reconnaissance/infill stream sediment and bulk sampling of highland areas, plus detailed grid-based loam sampling of alluvium on lower-lying arid...-
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Manna Hill [not 'Mannahill']. Combined progress reports and final report to licence surrender for the period 16/10/1977 to 31/5/1978.
The potential for finding remnant economic stratiform gold mineralisation in the Mannahill Gold Field was investigated by examining the old surface and underground mine workings, and the best-developed ore shoots were tested by drilling 25 vertical...-
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