Wooltana. Quarterly, annual and interim reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/4/1989 to 14/8/1995.
Published: 14 Jul 1994 Created: 28 Oct 2024 Revised: 07 Dec 2024

Relevant older data from a sequence of exploration programs in the Mount Painter Province, undertaken on Special Mining Leases since 1965, have been previously released. Exploration for possible economic buried epithermal/hydrothermal and...

Relevant older data from a sequence of exploration programs in the Mount Painter Province, undertaken on Special Mining Leases since 1965, have been previously released. Exploration for possible economic buried epithermal/hydrothermal and stratabound base metals, gold, uranium and rare earth elements performed since 1974 over the Paralana Fault Zone section lying between Mount Painter and Balcanoona, has lately comprised the acquisition of part of an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, detailed 1:5000 scale geological mapping, prospect evaluation IP surveys, soil, stream sediment and rock chip geochemical sampling, and RC (15 holes, total 1180 m) and diamond drilling (seven holes, total 1313 m). Initial diamond drilling core sample assays peaked at 2043 ppm Cu over 4 m, and rock-chip and old drillcore sampling revealed anomalous lead, zinc and REE. Soil sampling at Lively's Find, near Boulder Bore east of Arkaroola, returned 25 ppm Au, and subsequent intensive resampling of surface and drillhole lithologies yielded up to 62 g/t Au over a 2 metre interval. New diamond drilling at Lively's Find (hole DD89BB2) returned peak copper values of 2250 ppm and encountered 10 metres grading at 27.1 g/t Ag, while costeaning at the Daly/Sir Dominic mines uncovered 24 metres grading on average 1.04 g/t Au. A mining consultant's report on the implications of the EL 8213 joint venture's findings in the Wooltana area points to the untested gold potential remaining in several prospects, and predicts that a Carlin (Nevada) carbonate-hosted, disseminated micron gold mineralisation model applied there should lead to better success than has come to date from a Zambian Copperbelt-style exploration approach.

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Record No mesac14377
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Analabs;Amdel Ltd;Pontifex and Associates Pty Ltd
Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder North Flinders Mines Ltd;WMC Exploration Pty Ltd;Marathon Petroleum Australia Ltd;Pan Australian Mining Ltd;Mount Leyshon Gold Mines Ltd;CRA Exploration Pty Ltd
Operator Marathon Petroleum Australia Ltd;Pan Australian Mining Ltd;CRA Exploration Pty Ltd
Geological Province
Mine Name Boulder Bore prospect;Lively's Find prospect;Claret prospect;Daly/Sir Dominic mines
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Commodity
Notes
Notes: On 3/6/1991, Pan Australian Mining Ltd changed its corporate name to Mount Leyshon Gold Mines Ltd.  CRA Exploration Pty Ltd (CRAE) was in a joint venture with the other 4 licence partners between 7/5/1991 and 6/11/1993.
Geographic Locality:...

Notes: On 3/6/1991, Pan Australian Mining Ltd changed its corporate name to Mount Leyshon Gold Mines Ltd. CRA Exploration Pty Ltd (CRAE) was in a joint venture with the other 4 licence partners between 7/5/1991 and 6/11/1993. Geographic Locality: Northern Flinders Ranges;Humanity Seat;Lady Buxton Creek;Arkaroola Homestead;Mount Warren-Hastings;Arkaroola Creek;Yerila Creek;Wooltana Homestead;Nudlamutana Hut;1991 CRAE Mount Babbage Aerial Magnetic (helimag) Survey [part];1991 CRAE Mount Babbage Aerial Radioactivity (helirad) Survey [part] Doc No: Env 08213 Drillhole: DD89BB1;(166175);DD89BB2;(166176);PD92WT1;(166177);DD93WT2;(166178)

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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac14377
Citation Barclay, T.J.R.;Deakin, R.;Green, N.;Anderson, B.E.;Johnson, W.H.;Hughes, A.;Louwrens, D.J.;Stewart, W.A.;Hopwood, T.P. 1994. Wooltana. Quarterly, annual and interim reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/4/1989 to 14/8/1995. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac14377

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