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Yalarna. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/9/1980 to 3/9/1982.
In a search for East Alligator River - type metamorphic uranium deposits, a review of previous geophysical data plus the conduct of ground and airborne radiometric surveys disclosed a number of anomalies in an area on central Eyre Peninsula extending...-
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Peachna. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/9/1988 to 8/9/1994.
Possible economic Broken Hill - type stratiform Pb and Zn, and Middleback Range style iron ore, were targeted near Lock on central Eyre Peninsula by Western Mining Corp., who farmed-in to Stockdale's EL 1516 on March 1st, 1990 as part of a regional...-
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Kimba area (Caralue Bluff). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 9/6/1986.
An intensive search for possible banded iron formation - related Proterozoic stratiform lead-zinc mineralisation, of Gamsberg / Aggeneys / Broken Hill style, over an area surrounding Kimba on Eyre Peninsula, has included aerial magnetic and...-
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RB 80/00093 Six 100 000 compilation sheets of WHYALLA. A progress report.
Based on regional mapping, preliminary maps are presented. The area contains some of the best exposures of Archaean to Early Proterozoic and critical information on missing link (Middle Proterozoic) between Early and Late Proterozoic evolution of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 80/00107 Progress report. Project 0260 YARDEA 1:250 000 sheet - SI53-03.
By 30 June, 1980, mapping of about two-thirds of YARDEA had been completed. Work to date has been concentrated mainly on the Gawler Range Volcanics which extend over most of the northern two-thirds of YARDEA. About 80% of the volcanics have been...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 82/00035 Preliminary investigation into the applicability of gamma ray spectrometry in regional geological mapping of the Gawler Craton.
Applicability of radiometrics and the portable gamma ray spectrometer was tested over parts of the southern Gawler Craton. Use of total count and separate counts for potassium, uranium and thorium helped to distinguish lithologies e.g. to locate...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1982
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RB 82/00009 Symposium on the Gawler Craton - Drillhole logs.
In December, 1979 a display of selected drillcore from the Gawler Craton, South Australia, was exhibited at the core Library complex of the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy. It was organised by the Geological Society of Australia (SA...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 88/00095;Lib Archaean - Early Proterozoic granitoids, metasediments and mylonites of southern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
This excursion guide is a refinement of a 6-day excursion led by Parker, Fanning and Flint in 1980 at the height of economic interest in the basement geology of the Gawler Craton. The interest in those days was for Alligator River - style uranium...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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RB 91/00037 Lincoln Dale, Kyimba and Bunora drilling traverses, southwest of Kimba - Well completion report.
Fifteen rotary holes, 13 with bottom-hole core, tested 3 aeromagnetic anomalies for the presence of Hutchison Group, which is prospective for lead-zinc-silver. Low grade meta-sediments and possible acid volcanics of the Hutchison Group were...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1991
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RB 91/00081 Eyre Peninsula. A brief review of mining and mineral potential.
Several commodities are currently mined on Eyre Peninsula including iron ore, dolomite, graphite, lime sand, gypsum, silica, granite, nephrite jade, talc and salt. Historically, copper, lead, silver and gold have also been mined and there are known...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1991
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RB 93/00044 Yeelanna RC Drillhole Project: Well completion report.
In order to investigate the geology and mineral potential of an area of shallowly-concealed basement with parallel N-S trending magnetic features, located in the Cummins - Yeelanna region of southern Eyre Peninsula, SADME over February-June 1993...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1993
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hope. Annual reports for the period 12/4/2002 to 14/3/2019.
Exploration of an area located on western Eyre Peninsula between Sheringa and Mount Hope is continuing, with the intent of discovering economic buried base and precious metal deposits of volcanogenic sediment-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) style...-
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to 18/5/1970.
Exploration for possible economic hypogene base metal sulphide deposits associated with poorly exposed iron-rich linear outcrops, overlying faulted Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic basement which is obscured by extensive Cainozoic sedimentary cover rocks...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1970
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Koppio. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/1/1995 to 7/4/1997.
Geochemical sampling of ferruginous lag, stream sediments, BLEG soils, and rock chips, targeted possible Thompson Belt - type nickel-copper and precious metal mineralisation hosted by Lower Proterozoic Hutchison Group metasediments in an area 40 km...-
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Sleaford. Partial surrender report for the period 13/2/1998 to March 1999.
Lag / laterite sampling and a geophysical data review of an area of concealed basement 25 km south-west of Port Lincoln, searching for granulite facies - hosted gold deposits within the Archaean Sleaford Complex, plus possible shear - related...-
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Minnipa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial relinquishment report : annual reports for the period 7/6/1996 to 6/6/1999.
Within an area spanning the Eyre Highway between Pygery and Karcultaby, acquisition of an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey was followed by calcrete geochemical sampling. Twenty-eight aircore holes (total 1616 m) were drilled at three prospects to...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1999
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Cummins. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 10/1/1997 to 16/3/1999.
Thick and often unconsolidated cover sequences of Bridgewater, Uley and Wanilla Formations prevented systematic regolith sampling of much of the area between Wanilla and Peachna, 40 km north-west of Port Lincoln, while no coherent base metal anomalies...-
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Ceduna. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1996 to 17/7/2000.
Joint venture exploration over an area extending for 40, 35 and 50 km respectively west, north and east of Ceduna targeted Archaean and Proterozoic Yarlbrinda - style Au and Ernest Henry / Olympic Dam style Cu-Au associated with shear zones and...-
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Buckleboo (part of the Buckleboo Project). Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 7/1/2014 to 20/2/2015.
A very small area located ~25 km north-west of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed within Archaean metasedimentary bedrock and be related to younger igneous intrusions....-
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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