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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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Mount Pitt. Progress and final reports for the period 6/4/81 to 5/10/81.
As part of a regional search for economic small-scale deposits of rare earth metals in the Mount Painter district, geochemical prospecting revealed several atypically high background niobium values, in stream sediments derived from watercourses known...-
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Mount Painter, Mount Gee and Mount Ward. Progress reports and technical reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/6/1965 to 29/11/1985.
Exploration disclosed widespread uranium mineralisation, with drill-indicated reserves of 6 million tonnes, at an average grade of 0.8 kg / tonne U3O8, existing in 5 major deposits. About 625 drill holes totalling 53,000 m tested these major deposits...-
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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 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 78/00118;Amdel 01236 Behaviour of potassium during weathering of potash-rich granite rocks at Mount Painter.
Electron microprobe analysis was carried out on 3 brecciated samples to establish whether feldspar grains have identifiable overgrowths and if these are consistent with the feldspar having grown in low temperature, low pressure conditions.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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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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Granites and uranium mineralisation in the Mount Painter Complex, northern Flinders Ranges.
The Mount Painter basement igneous complex is dominated by granite intrusions and volcanic rocks, most of which are fractionated and have a high uranium content. Apart from Mount Painter itself, where uranium was mined more than 60 years ago, there...-
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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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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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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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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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Freeling [Heights] area. Progress and final reports for the period 30/11/88 to 31/5/89.
TARGET: Gold associated with major structures and hosted by calcareous or volcanogenic rocks in the Yudnamutana area. EXPLORATION: Regional BLEG and stream silt sampling, and follow-up BLEG and rock chip sampling. RESULTS: Minor gold values were...-
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Freeling Heights - Mount Adams area. Progress reports for the period 10/6/1968 to 9/12/1969.
As part of a regional search for economic uranium and copper mineralisation, the US-based company Kennecott Copper in November 1968 performed a semi-detailed airborne spectrometer survey of 550 line miles in the Shamrock Valley - Freeling Heights -...-
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Mount Gee. Progress and final reports for the period 6/1/87 to 5/1/90.
TARGET: Rare earth elements and epithermal gold mineralization in the Mount Painter Inlier. EXPLORATION: Regional bulk cyanide leach (BCL) stream sampling, and rock chip sampling; logging and sampling of stored cores from three previous diamond drill...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yerelina. Annual reports for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2018.
An extensive covered area centred ~100 km north of Leigh Creek and lying immediately west of the exposed basement rocks of the Mount Painter Inlier is being explored for possible Mount Isa style stratiform or Mississippi Valley type stratabound...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1918
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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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Parabarana. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to February 1971.
TARGET: Copper and uranium in Adelaidean sediments and Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks. EXPLORATION: A trial low-level helicopter-borne radiometric survey (using a nominal 1/10th mile flight line spacing and 50 foot mean sensor elevation) with ground...-
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