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Mount Bayley. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/7/1971 to 21/7/1972.
A small area located 15 km north-east of Beltana was explored for possible economic stratabound or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metal deposits associated with Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous/dolomitic strata and Willouran diapiric structures. Work...-
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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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RB 10/00105 Report on [ the feasibility of re-opening the ] Kapunda mine, Hd Kapunda.
This report, written by a very experienced consultant mining engineer (later the manager of the Broken Hill South Silver Mining Co.), addresses the known geology and mining history of the Kapunda copper mine from its opening in January 1844 until its...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1907
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 1 of 3 ].
Exploration of an extensive area lying to the north of and surrounding Strathalbyn, 40 km south-east of Adelaide, is targeting possible economic stratiform base and precious metals mineralisation hosted within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Group...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Cone (subsequently part of the Burra North Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 6/3/2007 to 5/3/2009.
An area of 300 square km located immediately north and north-east of Burra was taken up because it is considered to be prospective for gold and copper mineralisation related to Cambro-Ordovician sediments and late-stage felsic and mafic intrusives,...-
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RB 18/00233 Report by Captain Osborne of Kapunda mines, dated 11th June 1906.
An expert former employee's recollections about the history of development of underground workings at Kapunda down to the 80 fathom level, prior to their catastrophic flooding in 1877 which, in part, led to the mine's closure shortly afterwards by...-
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Published: 11 Jun 1906
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RB 2014/00002 Carbonate hosted Pb-Zn-Ag deposits. exploration using light hydrocarbons as pathfinders.
Surveys recently conducted in England, Ireland and Australia have shown that there are major spatial variations in the 'light' [molecular weight] hydrocarbon gas content of rocks which are closely related to the presence of underlying mineralisation....-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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Mount Lyall. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/5/1969 to 24/3/1971.
The Third Plain zinc silicate (willemite) deposit, located 14 miles south-east of Blinman, has been newly assessed by North Flinders Mines for its economic potential. Originally discovered by Kennecott Explorations in late 1966, and evaluated by them...-
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Mount Lyndhurst. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 15/10/1970 to 14/10/1971.
Follow-up work to previous, Department of Mines and company geological mapping, ground geophysical and geochemical surveys and wagon drilling in the vicinity of abandoned copper mines on the Mount Lyndhurst Diapir, has consisted only of limited...-
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Intercept Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/5/2003 to 14/7/2013. [Index Part 1 of 2].
An area on the Stuart Shelf which is centred ~45 km north-northwest of Mount Gunson and 70 km south-east of Olympic Dam was taken up to explore primarily for possible economic buried Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted copper-gold deposits, perhaps of...-
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Published: 15 Nov 2013
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Burra Project licence group. Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for ELs 6102, 6103, 6158, 6305 and 6306 : joint annual reports for the period 25/1/2018 to 2/12/2020 plus initial annual annual report.
To date exploration in the Burra region of the Adelaide Geosyncline has focussed on historic copper-gold oxide workings, with the aim of delineating further mineralisation along strike, or sulphide mineralisation at depth. Lately however, rather than...-
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Published: 04 Feb 2021
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Mount Norwest. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 29/9/2004 to 15/4/2008.
A structurally complex area located 50-70 km south-west of Marree was taken up to explore for possible diamonds, this strategy being based on recognition of apparently favourable geological criteria for the presence of diamond-bearing kimberlites and...-
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Published: 26 Aug 2008
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-02, Blue Rose mineral prospect Target 2 - replacement type, Manto style Cu-Au sulphide. Project final report.
The Blue Rose prospect on EL 2938 is being explored for replacement type, Manto - style Cu-Au sulphide vein bodies in receptive host rocks adjacent to intrusive dykes and stocks inferred to exist on the northern side of the Anabama granite pluton...-
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Published: 15 May 2006
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo (mine prospect). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/1/2005 to 17/1/2010.
Three small adjacent licence sub-blocks, that together cover ~1.5 square km of inferred prospective brownfields ground immediately surrounding Mining Lease ML 5776 held over the former Kanmantoo open pit copper mine (which peripheral ground is herein...-
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Published: 14 Jan 2010
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Paratoo (was formerly part of the Grainger Project; recently made part of the Flinders Ranges JV Project). Annual reports from the time of cessation of previous joint venture(s) reporting, for the period 20/7/2007 to 1/11/2016.
During 2007-2008, the first year of the diamond exploration joint venture with the Filsell brothers in the Paratoo area, Flinders Mines' activities comprised: • acquiring part of a detailed helicopter-borne infill aerial magnetic ('helimag') survey,...-
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Published: 30 Jan 2019
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Delamere. First annual report (to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting for the Fleurieu Peninsula Project), for the period 18/10/2012 to 17/10/2013.
All of the south-western tip and hinterland of the Fleurieu Peninsula was taken up to explore for inferred buried IOCG-style copper-gold-uranium mineralisation which, by analogy with properties of the known eastern Gawler Craton occurrences, was...-
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Published: 15 Dec 2013
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Myponga. First annual report (to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting for the Fleurieu Peninsula Project), for the period 18/10/2012 to 17/10/2013.
Part of the north-western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula was taken up to explore for inferred buried IOCG-style copper-gold-uranium mineralisation which, by analogy with properties of the known eastern Gawler Craton occurrences, was postulated by...-
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Published: 15 Dec 2013
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Yankalilla. First annual report (to the commencement of multi-licence joint reporting for the Fleurieu Peninsula Project), for the period 18/10/2012 to 17/10/2013.
The Yankalilla coastal and river valley district of the west-central Fleurieu Peninsula was taken up to explore for inferred buried IOCG-style copper-gold-uranium mineralisation which, by analogy with properties of the known eastern Gawler Craton...-
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Published: 15 Dec 2013
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Anabama North. Data release made at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Anabama JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 11/1/2001 to 30/4/2008.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Manna Hill township on the Barrier Highway has been taken up to explore for possible economic buried epithermal, VHMS style copper-gold or other base and precious metal mineralisation which could have formed within...-
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Published: 11 Nov 2008
