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Progress report on exploration within [Brindana] Schist Belt Areas 3 - 10, Mount Painter and Mount Babbage Blocks, South Australia.
Marathon Petroleum's exploration investigations of EL 871 during 1982 were aimed at a detailed follow-up of prospective horizons and geochemical targets located in 1981. Rock chip assaying of selected lithologies, in particular quartz-garnet/gahnite...-
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Arkaroola. Progress and technical reports to licence renewal for the period 19/5/1972 to 18/5/1974.
Ongoing base metal exploration in the Arkaroola Station region of the north-eastern Flinders Ranges by licensee North Flinders Mines (NFM) has involved reviews of certain existing prospects, which has led to the entry of farminee Shell Minerals...-
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RB 36/00116 Geology of the East Painter uranium deposit.
The East Painter uranium deposits were extensively explored by the South Australian Department of Mines during the period 1946 to 1950. Work accomplished comprised driving of five edits and drilling thirty four surface and underground diamond drill...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1954
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RB 56/00107 Progress of mapping of the MARREE four-mile sheet.
A geological reconnaissance has almost completed the mapping of the remainder of the MARREE 4-mile mapsheet area, which straddles the edge of the Great Artesian Basin. Earlier mapping, carried out under supervision of Bruce Webb, had finished three of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 50/00093 Mount Pitton Talc Deposits - Northern Flinders Ranges - Outside Counties - Pastoral Block 796.
All the talc deposits investigated occur in schistose dolomite in the Sturtian Series, near the upper or lower limits of a massive interglacial dolomite horizon. Reserves in sight are limited, and further underground exploration of the Nos 4 and 5...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1960
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RB 45/00024 Assessment of the highgrade ore in the East Painter uranium deposit.
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 98/00003 Review of the Proterozoic geology and mineral potential of the Curnamona Province in South Australia.
The Curnamona Province is exposed in the Willyama, Mt Painter and Mt Babbage Inliers, but much is obscured by younger sedimentary cover. It comprises a late Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary and metavolcanic succession (Willyama Supergroup) with some...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1998
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-18, Super Nova IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
This PACE-subsidised drilling project aimed to discover a new copper-gold mineralised Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) magmatic centre, similar to that which forms the setting of the Olympic Dam deposit, but lying within the northern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1905
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Parabarana copper prospect. Progress reports on rotary percussion and diamond drilling campaigns, for the period February 1970 to January 1971.
An area of 7 square miles surrounding the historic shallowly worked Parabarana copper deposit in the far north-eastern Flinders Ranges, which outcrops at Copper Hill as vein-type disseminated secondary ore over a width of around 1200 feet, was...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola. Annual reports for the period 5/12/2008 to 3/12/2015.
During the 2008-2009 licence year, most of the new work done consisted of appraisal rotary mud drilling at Four Mile East (112 holes for 24,460 m) and Four Mile West (113 holes for 19,120 m), with the addition of one NQ diamond cored hole (AKC093) for...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Fitton. Annual reports for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2018.
An area comprising two separate sub-blocks located in the northern Flinders Ranges, which adjoins outside the western outcrop edge of the Mount Painter Inlier, has been taken up to explore for possible buried primary, bedrock-hosted vein or breccia...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1918
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Mount Fitton South. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 17/6/1968 to 16/6/1969.
Historic mining of mainly secondary copper ores plus some sulphides disseminated in granite and locally concentrated in fissure veins at Mount Fitton South has yielded about 2500 tons of material, but possible extensions of the better lodes remain...-
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Published: 05 May 1969
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola (part of the Frome Basin Project). Annual reports for the period 3/6/1996 to 4/12/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 1243 square km rugged mountainous area in the far northern Flinders Ranges extending between Arkaroola, Moolawatana, Prospect Hill, Mount Livingston and Mount Saturday was taken up to explore primarily for gold that it was hoped could exist in...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola, Moolawatana and Mount Hopeless (the Frome Basin Project). Joint annual report for the period 1/1/2016 to 31/12/2018.
Exploration Licence 5017 Arkaroola, Exploration Licence 5118 Mt Yerila and Exploration Licence 5261 Petermorra cover a combined area of approximately 1831 square km within the northern Flinders Ranges and the Frome Basin. The area is being targeted...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1919
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Bull 007 The Phosphate Deposits of South Australia.
The importance of agriculture in South Australia and its dependence on systematic applications of phosphatic fertilizers for its productivity and permanence rendered it desirable that a stocktaking of the possibilities that exist in the State for the...-
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Mount McTaggart copper prospect. Summary review of exploration results, 1971.
A critical review of the results of exploration carried out by North Flinders Mines at the Mount McTaggart copper prospect during 1971 has drawn the following conclusions: - primary copper mineralization at the prospect occurs as chalcopyrite in...-
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Arkaroola (part of the Wooltana Joint Venture project). Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/5/1971 to 18/5/1973.
Continuing exploration of the basal Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequence in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges for possible economic stratiform/stratabound Kapunda or Blinman - type copper mineralisation has concentrated on detailed 1:1200 and 1:4800...-
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RB 00767 Parabarana uranium prospect appraisal and report, Callabonna - Moolawatana area.
Parabarana Prospect lies in the north-east corner of Mount Painter Block in the North Flinders Ranges, 100 miles east of Lyndhurst siding. Disseminated copper mineralization with traces of molybdenum occurs in altered acid rocks to form a tabular...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1900
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RB 72/00039 North Flinders Mines Ltd - Parabarana prospect appraisal and report, Callabonna, Moolawatana.
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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Arkaroola. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/12/2001 to 4/12/2011.
An area on northern Arkaroola Station, which has since 26/4/2012 has been legally quarantined from mineral exploration operations under the South Australian Mining Act, was considered by its former titleholders to be prospective for an array of...-
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