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Parabarana. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/5/1974.
Under a joint venture agreement made between North Flinders Mines and Dampier Mining Co. (a BHP Exploration subsidiary), operative over the 7 square mile SML 705 between 14/9/1973 and 14/3/1974, at least 3500 feet of additional appraisal diamond...-
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Yudnamutana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1972 to 23/6/1973.
As part of continuing exploration for possible economic buried stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation in the Yudnamutana Mining Field, the target lower Callanna Group strata were geologically mapped, petrologically studied and geochemically...-
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RB 59/00138 Lower boundary of the Adelaide system and older basement relationships in SA.
The stratigraphic problem of defining the lower boundary of the Adelaide System is discussed in relation to the geology of several critical areas in the Adelaide Geosyncline and adjacent shelf platform. The Precambrian stratigraphic succession and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 55/00040 The Wooltana Volcanic Belt, South Australia.
Mapping of the Wooltana Volcanic Belt in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia has shown that 2000 feet of Willouran trachytic lavas, with minor andesites and rhyolites, outcrop along the southern margin of the Mount Painter complex and...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1962
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RB 58/00105 Geology and mineralization of South Australia.
Since the valuable appraisal by Dickinson and Sprigg (1953) of geological structure and mineralisation in South Australia, much new geological information has become available. The role of geotectonics in ore localisation and the extent of weak...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 41/00134 Mineral investigations in the Mount Painter region. Progress report.
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Published: 06 Jan 1956
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RB 79/00129 Explanatory Notes for the FROME 1:250 000 geological map sheet SH54-10 international index.
The FROME 1: 250 000 geological sheet is located between latitudes 30° S and 31° S and longitudes 139°30' E and 141° E and covers most of the area between the northern Flinders Ranges and the New South Wales border. Its southern and northern limits...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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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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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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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Ooloo mine prospect. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 23/10/1969 to 22/10/1970.
14 lines of grid-based IP and resistivity profiling were carried out at the abandoned Ooloo silver-lead mine by contractor McPhar Geophysics, to try to detect any possible subsurface extensions of the mineralised lodes under alluvial cover. Several...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1970
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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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Geological summary and appraisal of the Parabarana copper prospect and the Gunsight uranium/copper prospect, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Copper mineralisation in the vicinity of Parabarana Hill located at the extreme north-eastern end of the Flinders Ranges was worked intermittently between 1899 and 1917 for the return of small tonnages of high grade secondary ore. In the past decade...-
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Arkaroola. First annual and final report to licence surrender for the period 2/12/2002 to 2/2/2004.
An area of the northern Flinders Ranges abutting the northern boundary of the Gammon Ranges National Park, 85 km north-east of Leigh Creek, was taken up primarily to explore for possible economic tantalum mineral deposits. Following a literature...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1903
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Yerelina (part of the Sawmill Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/3/2013 to 11/3/2018.
An area centred ~100 km north-east of Leigh Creek was taken up to explore for possible economic buried secondary uranium mineralisation that could be present within Cenozoic to Mesozoic palaeochannels which cross the area and originate from known...-
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Published: 24 Apr 1918
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Mount Fitton. Third partial surrender report, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2019.
The south-western portion of EL 5731 Mount Fitton has now been relinquished. It lies proximal to Adelaidean sedimentary cover to the Mount Painter Inlier basement rocks, which sediments were thought to have the potential to host SEDEX or MVT style...-
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Published: 18 Jun 1920
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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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Umberatana. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/11/2016 to 1/11/2017.
A small area considered prospective for pegmatite - hosted lithium mineralisation which could have formed within (?)Cambrian granites was taken up in the vicinity of known Li - anomalous pegmatites in the Umberatana Station area, ~80 km east of Leigh...-
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Published: 04 Oct 1917
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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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Freeling Heights (part of Gunsight Project). Progress and partial surrender reports for the period 7/1/1983 to 6/1/1984.
Evaluation of previous investigations, and geochemical sampling of an Ordovician granite intrusion in the Valley Bore area, particularly for pegmatitic tin-tantalum mineralization, has located only low order anomalous values. Some restricted...-
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