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Nackara. Progress and final reports for the period from 25/5/1972 to 24/5/1973.
Detailed stream sediment, loam and barrage sampling carried out over the main channel and various tributaries of the Manunda Creek drainage system confirmed the presence of widespread kimberlitic indicator minerals, plus a 31 microdiamonds. 5 small...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1973
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Pualco West. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/10/1973.
Reconnaissance and detailed bulk loam sampling undertaken to look for diamonds or kimberlite indicator minerals in the vicinity of the Pualco Anticline, plus spectrographic analyses of the derived heavy mineral concentrates for gold and base metals...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1973
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(South-eastern) Lake Torrens area. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1994 to 13/10/2000.
Features interpreted from detailed low-level infill airborne coverage to a 1995 SAEI aeromagnetic survey, flown over a large area of disturbed, mainly Adelaidean sedimentary diapiric terrain located between Hawker and the south-eastern shore of Lake...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1900
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Mount Misery. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1985.
Stratabound, chemically precipitated Telfer - type replacement style vein gold was the target of exploration undertaken over an area 25 km north-west of Yunta, which contains good exposures of Neoproterozoic Umberatana Group clastic metasediments that...-
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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1982 to 7/1/1986.
Detailed base and precious metals exploration undertaken by Utah Development Company in the area of the Worumba Anticline has targeted possible stratiform Zambian Copperbelt - type deposits. Exploratory work has included 72 geochemical vertical...-
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Mount Clive. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/8/1991 to 8/2/1995.
Exploration for possible buried diapir or diatreme - associated diamonds, copper and gold, within an intensively faulted, folded and eroded area of the northern Flinders Ranges situated 35 km east and south-east of Lyndhurst, comprised gravel, stream...-
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Emu Hill. Partial relinquishment report, June 1994.
Exploration for diamonds and base metals, 25 kilometres west of Mount Fitton, comprised an airborne magnetic-radiometric survey with heli-mag and ground follow-up, together with gravel, stream sediment, BLEG and soil sampling. Results indicated poor...-
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RB 95/00030 SAEI Triassic Coal Exploration Program. Exploration Licence Application ELA 228/93, Hawker - Quorn area, South Australia.
The results of a data review by MESA in 1992 to assess the prospectivity of the northern Flinders Ranges for concealed Triassic coal highlighted four main areas as having the best potential for a discovery. Following exploration for coal by MESA/ETSA...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1996
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Carrick Hill. Combined first annual / final report at licence surrender for the period 18/8/2008 to 17/8/2009.
An area located approximately 80 km north-east of Orroroo was assessed for its potential to contain alluvial and hard rock gold deposits. Quartz veins developed within a narrow zone in the Tarcowie Siltstone at the historic Erina prospect have high...-
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Published: 24 Oct 1909
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Cradock 2 area (part of the Springfield Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/12/2007 to 16/12/2009.
As part of a regional search for possible pre - Late Permian diamondiferous kimberlite intrusions in the vicinity of the Springfield Basin, undertaken by farminee Flinders Mines, a subset of 2008 airborne magnetic survey data was interpreted and...-
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Published: 04 Feb 1910
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Port Augusta. Annual report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/9/2004 to 2/9/2005.
An area located immediately north of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible economic gold, base metals and diamonds. However, continuing uncertainties concerning who were the correct holders of Native Title rights and a consequent lack of...-
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Jamestown (part of Flinders Ranges Project). First partial surrender report for the period 10/9/2004 to 9/9/2005.
Diamond exploration activities conducted in the surrendered portion of the tenement included acquiring a ground magnetic survey over a possible buried kimberlite target area selected from open file company and government airborne magnetic survey data....-
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Data release - as updated : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2008 to 11/11/2018.
Reedy Lagoon Corp. (RLC) has continued to look for minerals other than diamond, operating as the manager of exploration work for base metals (mainly copper) and uranium that was undertaken by the Edward Creek Base Metal Joint Venture (“ECBMJV”) during...-
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Data release - as updated : Pandappa, Bendigo and Nackara (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/1/2004 to 12/1/2017.
Three contiguous licences located at the south-western end of the Nackara Arc structural province have continued to be explored for possible economic buried diamond mineral occurrences in the cover and bedrock that may exist in association with...-
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Published: 19 Oct 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Red Range (part of the Copley Project). Annual reports for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2018.
A small area located 45 km north-east of Leigh Creek, which covers the sites of numerous small historic diggings made by prospectors searching for copper and lead-zinc-silver mineralisation, is now being explored afresh for possible economic...-
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Published: 17 Nov 1917
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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 1919
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Data release - as updated : Mount Grainger (part of the Flinders Ranges Diamond Project and the Nackara Arc Gold Project). Combined annual reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2008 to 5/2/2017.
An area centred ~40 km east of Peterborough in the vicinity of Mount Grainger Goldfield has continued to be explored for possible small diamondiferous kimberlite bodies and for buried economic stratabound, structurally controlled and disseminated...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1916
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Pine Creek Kimberlite [Field] : indicator mineral study.
A study of the Pine Creek kimberlite field was undertaken as a 2001-2002 TEISA "New Initiatives" Project aimed at increasing the potential for new mineral discoveries in South Australia. The study focused on a number of important facets of diamond...-
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Orroroo and Eurelia. Progress reports for the period 24/6/80 to 19/7/82.
Intensive sampling of stream gravels, plus ground magnetic and EM surveys and core and hammer drilling (8 holes, total 473 m), were undertaken over an area of pronounced narrow aeromagnetic anomalies in the Carrieton West - Eurelia district, to...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1982
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Carrieton [formerly called Willochra] (now part of the Eurelia Diamond Project, and formerly part of the Springfield Project). Tenth partial surrender report, for the period 18/8/1998 to 17/11/2020.
Two ground portions together comprising 142 square km or ~33% of the former area of EL 5373 have been relinquished due to an inability to meet exploration expenditure commitments. This licence is the sole one remaining from the original group of least...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1916
