Mount Adams. Progress reports until licence farm-out to Kennecott Explorations, for the period 17/6/1968 to May 1969.
Published: 05 May 1968 Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 15 Dec 2024

A major north-east trending fault separating granite porphyry basement from Willouran age metasedimentary cover rocks was rapidly surveyed with a scintillometer for any associated radioactivity, but none was found. A splay style, 2 mile long,...

A major north-east trending fault separating granite porphyry basement from Willouran age metasedimentary cover rocks was rapidly surveyed with a scintillometer for any associated radioactivity, but none was found. A splay style, 2 mile long, east-west trending fault breccia zone was prospected, and some surface, poddy type indications of malachite and chalcocite were observed, but their likely continuity and depth extent is in doubt.

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Record No mesac3175
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor
Sponsor H.N. Thomas
Tenement SML 194
Tenement Holder Billy Spring Pty Ltd
Operator H.N. Thomas
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Geographic Locality: North-eastern Flinders Ranges;Mount Adams;Four Mile Creek;Paralana Fault
Doc No: Env 01038

Geographic Locality: North-eastern Flinders Ranges;Mount Adams;Four Mile Creek;Paralana Fault Doc No: Env 01038

Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac3175
Citation Bock, P.E. 1968. Mount Adams. Progress reports until licence farm-out to Kennecott Explorations, for the period 17/6/1968 to May 1969. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac3175

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