Alioota. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 8/4/1971 to 7/4/1972.
Published: 30 Dec 1971 Created: 13 Nov 2024 Revised: 13 Nov 2024

Continuing exploration for economic stratiform base metal deposits in an area approximately 30 km north-east of Copley has outlined the presence of persistent traces of disseminated chalcopyrite, galena and pyrite within green shales and dolomitic...

Continuing exploration for economic stratiform base metal deposits in an area approximately 30 km north-east of Copley has outlined the presence of persistent traces of disseminated chalcopyrite, galena and pyrite within green shales and dolomitic siltstones of the Late Proterozoic Bunyeroo Formation, near its contact with the underlying Wonoka Formation. The low grade mineralisation and associated limonitic boxworks occur over a strike length of 36 km around the nose of a northeast-trending anticline, but four costeans cut across strike show that their overall thickness is only of the order of 50 cm, within a host band of sedimentary rocks 130-160 m wide. Assays from 939 soil samples were low (peak values for non-coincident samples: Cu 450 ppm; Pb 180 ppm; Zn 90 ppm) and no associated magnetic anomalies were detected by 4.8 line km of ground magnetic traverses. On the basis of these results, it was concluded that an enriched supergene orebody is probably not present at shallow depth downdip from the surface exposures.

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Record No mesac32648
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Robertson Research (Aust.) Pty Ltd
Sponsor All States Mining Finance Ltd
Tenement SML 563
Tenement Holder South Australian Barytes Ltd
Operator
Geological Province Adelaide Geosyncline
Mine Name Alioota prospect
Stratigraphy
Commodity copper
Notes
Geographic Locality: Northern Flinders Ranges;Copley;Angepena Station;Evans Outstation
Doc No: Env 01650

Geographic Locality: Northern Flinders Ranges;Copley;Angepena Station;Evans Outstation Doc No: Env 01650

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/mesac32648
Citation Cimino, C.;Miller, M.L.B.;Ross, J. 1971. Alioota. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 8/4/1971 to 7/4/1972. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac32648

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