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Copperlinka. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1991 to 6/6/1997.
Exploration for possible large, potentially open cut - mineable disseminated quartz vein - type syngenetic gold and base metal deposits within a licence area located near Outalpa, 150 km south-west of Broken Hill, has comprised geological mapping,...-
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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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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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The Kapunda mine, 1842 - 1912.
The subject report, drawing on numerous contemporary accounts, sketches and photographs of the historic Kapunda copper mine, clearly demonstrates that despite this mine being much smaller and earlier than the better-known 'monster' Burra mine, its...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Booborowie area. Annual technical report for period ending 08/08/2018.
Exploration Licence 5999 “Cartarpo” covers an area of 112 square km in the states mid-north between Hallett and Booborowie, northwest of the township of Burra. Historic mine workings “Cartarpo Mine” was worked for copper and cobalt between 1867-1872,...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1918
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Sulphide mineralization in Blinman 2 drillhole.
11 samples of Late Proterozoic diamond drill core from Blinman 2 stratigraphic/exploration well, showing macroscopic sulphide mineralization, were studied to determine the sulphide mineralogy and its sulphur isotopic composition.-
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Interim report on mapping of surficial materials in ELs 113 and 114.
The Kapunda region is principally one in which prolonged denudation, or lowering of the landsurface, has been operative over the past 100 Ma, while the present topographic amplitude of the region is also at its greatest since the onset of the...-
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Algebuckina. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/8/2008 to 28/9/2014.
The only field work undertaken by Red Metal during its final six years of tenure of EL 3226/4307 Algebuckina was the assaying in 2011 of 88 soil and rock chip samples which it had collected from the vicinity of historically reported surface copper...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1914
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Holowilena South (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2014.
An area centred ~45 km east-southeast of Hawker was taken up to explore the stratabound, epigenetic copper resource potential of historic small copper workings located along a NW trending fault zone disrupting Adelaidean metasediments of the Burra and...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1914
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Peake Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/7/2013 to 8/7/2017.
A small area located on and adjacent to the eastern margin of the Denison Range, ~ 60 km south-east of Oodnadatta, has been explored for possible buried economic sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation. During licence Year 1 the licensee reviewed all...-
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Breaden Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1967 to 12/11/1969.
Evaluation of possible commercial, buried stratiform copper deposits in the Willouran Ranges south of Marree was the objective of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and shallow drilling undertaken by Noranda. Their interest in the region was...-
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Mount Neville. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/3/1969 to 16/3/1970.
Inspection of an area showing diapiric and fault disturbance within upper Adelaidean and Lower Cambrian metasediments in the vicinity of Mount Neville sought to find barite deposits of sufficiently high grade and quantity to resemble those of the...-
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Copper Coast. Final report, Project ADI RD02-291 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
IGO Ltd’s (IGO) Copper Coast Project is located along the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton in South Australia and covers Proterozoic rocks of the Stuart Shelf, Torrens Hinge Zone and Adelaide Rift Complex, which form part of the Adelaide...-
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Published: 09 May 1922
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-21 - Yerelina Gladstone Mining Field sediment-hosted and structurally controlled hydrothermal/replacement style stratabound base metal prospects. Final report.
High-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralisation formed within the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation (THF) was historically mined 100 years ago at Yerelina in the northern Flinders Ranges. Despite the existence of numerous poorly documented small-scale...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1915
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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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Geology of the Willippa Anticline, central Flinders Ranges.
In the central Flinders Ranges, Neoproterozoic and early Palaeozoic rocks are found outcropping within a series of broad, open, dome and basin-shaped folds. This region contains most of the diapiric structures in the Adelaide Geosyncline, many, but...-
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SADME/Amdel mineral research project no. OD 1/1/227 : feasibility and results of experimental heap leaching of Mount Gunson oxidised copper ore. Progress and final reports for the period May 1978 to May 1980.
Reports describe the planning and conduct of an experimental heap leach of 3000 tonnes of oxidised copper ore which took place at Mount Gunson. The mine operator's intent in proving this metal extraction concept is to successfully heap leach, with...-
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Eurelia - Carrieton area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/5/1974 to 26/5/1976.
Continuing exploration for economic stratiform copper occurrences in the Carrieton area has involved considerable further drilling (69 rotary drag bit holes for a total of 2864 m, 19 percussion / precollar cased holes for a total of 2381 m, and 6...-
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Algebuckina and Peake [Algebuckina South]. Third and second partial surrender respectively : reports for the period 3/8/2004 to 2/8/2009.
Data from part of a heliborne EM survey conducted in September 2007 over the now relinquished portions of EL 3226 has been released. This survey was flown in a search for possible stratabound roll-front style or palaeochannel hosted sedimentary...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1910
