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Known and potential mineralisation styles, Benagerie Ridge Magnetic Complex.
The north-south trending Benagerie Ridge, lying within the South Australian portion of the Curnamona Province 120-160 km to the west-northwest of Broken Hill, contains a number of magnetic complexes, some of which can be interpreted as domal...-
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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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Report on the Shamrock uranium prospect.
Uranium mineralisation was first discovered at the old Shamrock Copper Mine during a systematic search of old mine dumps by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1955. Follow-up investigations located a small high-grade uranium lode (Valley...-
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Gunsight and Yudnamutana. Quarterly and annual reports for the period 25/5/79 to 30/8/83.
A sequence of exploration programs in the Mount Painter Province, undertaken on Special Mining Leases since 1965, have been previously released. Exploration for base metals, gold, uranium and REE since 1974, in an area extending 50 km southwest from...-
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Kalabity. First annual report for the period 22/7/1968 to 21/7/1969.
Exploration for possible economic primary and secondary uranium deposits, within an area extending for 50 miles north-westwards from Cockburn and Mingary, has consisted of the first-time (for this locality) acquisition by the licence operator of an...-
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RB 46/00221 Ground scintillation survey in the Radium Hill area, South Australia.
Several anomalous radioactive areas were located and uranium mineralisation shown to be in association with five of them. These areas require further investigation by geological mapping to determine whether or not there are possibilities of economic...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1958
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RB 80/00089 Yunta town water supply. 1979 groundwater investigation.
3 of 6 wells were drilled along a water course 5 km west of Yunta, obtaining supplies of over 30 kl/day from a fractured rock aquifer but salinity ranged from 3 500 mg/l to 4 800 mg/l. Discharge testing of the best well showed a strip-aquifer type...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1980
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RB 80/00074 Water well drilling, 1979/80, Northeast pastoral district.
Water well drilling for stock purposes in the Olary Ranges and southern Frome Embayment was successful with yields from 30-80 kilolitres per day, with salinity 1 800-6 000 mg/l in the fractured rock aquifers and 9 000-11 000 mg/l in a Tertiary...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1980
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RB 93/00015 Soil Air CO2/O2 Project. Progress report 6, Olary area.
TARGET: The aim was to test if analyses of soil air and subterranean gases sampled via drill holes could define zones of known and unknown mineralisation. EXPLORATION: Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements were assessed as a guide to...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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RB 94/00044 Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen as a guide to oxidising sulphide concealed beneath shallow cover. Soil air CO2/O2 project: review report 1.
A joint project between Dr I.G. Watmuff (consultant) and the Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, to appraise the soil air CO2/O2 technique as a guide to concealed oxidising sulphides, has been completed. Testing was conducted over known...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1994
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Emu Dam (formerly Billeroo West). Data release in lieu of partial relinquishment upon licence renewal (as EL 2878) : annual reports for the period 4/11/1996 to 3/11/2001.
Exploration for possible economic Early Proterozoic stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag deposits of Broken Hill type, and for Olympic Dam style, Middle Proterozoic Benagerie Ridge volcanogenic sediment - hosted, epithermal / hydrothermal Cu-Au-Mo(-U) occurrences of...-
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Weekeroo North. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/8/1968 to 31/7/1970.
Exploration carried out by MIM to look for possible economic primary or secondary uranium deposits related to the Weekeroo Inlier of Palaeoproterozoic rocks has consisted of an airborne radiometric survey (750 line miles flown along E-W lines spaced...-
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Published: 31 Jul 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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Notes on the genesis of uranium deposits in the Yarramba Channel [on] EL 85 South Eagle and EL 98 Yarramba.
It is proposed that the buried Tertiary Yarramba Palaeochannel feature hosting the sedimentary uranium mineralisation was incised into Cretaceous and Precambrian basement rocks. Within the channel, quartzose sands and abundant detrital organic matter...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1974
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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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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Frome Downs Homestead. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/1/1969 to 31/12/1970.
Reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic drilling with subsequent borehole geophysical electric and radioactivity logging in the south-western Frome Embayment (21 rotary mud partly cored holes, total 8841 feet), over areas lying adjacent to outcropping...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1970
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Strathearn, Yarramba, South Eagle and Billeroo Creek areas (part of the Strathearn Joint Venture Project). Data release in lieu of partial relinquishment at licence expiry/renewal : progress and annual reports for the period 3/5/1991 to 9/4/2000.
Exploration carried out in the South Eagle - Yarramba area, located 40-80 km north-east of Olary and 50-150 km west-northwest of Broken Hill, has targeted stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag and Cu-Au mineralisation in Proterozoic rocks of the Willyama basement....-
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South Eagle. Data release made at transfer of licence ownership : annual reports for the period 17/9/1997 to 16/9/2000.
The majority of mineral exploration undertaken in the South Eagle area, centred 40 km north-east of Olary, has targeted stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag, stratabound massive sulphide Cu-Zn-Co-Mn, and Cu-Au mineralisation that may have formed in Proterozoic rocks...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo mine. Annual reports for the period 13/3/2000 to 1/11/2013.
Exploration Licence 2704 covering 23 square km surrounding the historic abandoned Mutooroo copper mine, located ~55 km east of Olary, was granted to Havilah Resources NL so that the company could assess the economic potential of the remaining sulphide...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1913
