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Report on the Shamrock uranium prospect.
Uranium mineralisation was first discovered at the old Shamrock Copper Mine during a systematic search of old mine dumps by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1955. Follow-up investigations located a small high-grade uranium lode (Valley...-
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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/2/1978 to 2/1/1983.
Exploration undertaken on ground situated east of Pernatty Lagoon has included the acquisition of extensive ground magnetic and gravity surveys plus a small aerial magnetic and radiometric survey, and performing many specific gravity and magnetic...-
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RB 77/00126 Shallow seismic refraction survey over proposed stream gauging sites near Hawker SA. 1) Mernmerna Creek. 2) Boolcunda Creek.
Shallow seismic refraction traverses were carried out over six proposed sites for stream gauging near Hawker in South Australia. The results have determined bedrock topography and the depth to the water table at each site. The subsurface was clearly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 88/00057 Torrens Hinge Zone Project - Bute region. Second and final report.
The Torrens Hinge Zone Project aimed to demonstrate the existence of prospective metalliferous rocks beneath the Cainozoic cover, to stimulate exploration and to investigate the transition between the Adelaidean sequences of the well-exposed Adelaide...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonython Hill (part of the Border Project). Annual reports for the period 23/2/2007 to 18/5/2014.
During Year 7 of reporting, exploration work included two 1 km soil geochemical traverses, field inspection of Neogene palaeochannels and land access negotiations with landowners. Previous exploration in the region has recognised the correlation...-
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Manunda, Tiverton Outstation, Iron Peak and Pualco Range (the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, later the Mawson Iron Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2016.
Three adjoining licence areas in the Baratta Trough within the northern Nackara Arc have been taken up to explore for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic metasedimentary semi-stratabound iron ore. Central EL 4267 covers ~3 km strike length of the...-
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cutana. Annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
An area consisting of three separate sub-blocks located ~20 to 35 km north-east of Olary and ~20 km east of Cutana is being explored for possible economic gold as basement shear and vein hosted style deposits, as well as for possible extensions of the...-
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Narrina. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded metasedimentary area centred ~50 km east-northeast of Blinman, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Devonborough Downs and Olary (the Olary Project). Joint annual reports for the period 21/1/2012 to 20/1/2014.
Two adjacent licences together covering a large area located to the south of the Barrier Highway between Olary and Manna Hill are being explored for possible large tonnage, mainly buried low grade magnetite deposits that could have formed within the...-
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Cronje Dam. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 29/11/1984.
Continuing exploration for possible hydrothermal or epithermal base metal and precious metal deposits, within an area centred 60 km south-west of Olary, at the outset targeted some previously identified geochemical anomalies, principally via shallow...-
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Mount Roebuck. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 28/3/90 to 29/10/91.
TARGET: Diamonds, gold and copper in the Mount Roebuck area. EXPLORATION: Drainage, loam and rock chip sampling, ground magnetic, radiometric and IP surveys, and diamond drilling (4 holes totalling 739 m). RESULTS: A single, 0.5 mm x 0.4 mm diameter...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1991
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 7/10/2009 to 6/10/2013.
New work undertaken on EL 4187 during the 2009-2010 licence year has included: • Ongoing documentation and interpretation of MGD 55 & 56 • Drilling of MGD57 to 1243 m at Emmie Bluff prospect • Down hole EM and IP logging of MGD57 •...-
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Stuart Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1979 to 18/10/1982.
One vertical stratigraphic diamond drillhole [the 1a re-drill] was fully cored to 1450 m total depth over a regional gravity high in the western half of the licence which was thought to be prospective for Olympic Dam type polymetallic mineralisation...-
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Copperlinka. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/1/1983 to 23/3/1989.
TARGET: Gold . as Telfer-style stratabound mineralisation at the contact between Tapley Hill Formation and Tarcowie Siltstone; . as mineralisation of large scale, placer type in the Appila Tillite and Wilyerpa Formation; and . as hydrothermally...-
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Blinman, Maggie Hill and Martins Well. Quarterly, six-monthly, annual and technical reports for the period 19/12/1989 to 8/9/1999.
PEL 41 was granted to a deliberately SA-based new venture exploration company consisting of Chairman and well-known Emeritus Professor of Geology Eric Rudd, four other founding honorary and unsalaried directors, and 100 or so individual speculative...-
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Yongala. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 4/4/79 to 3/10/80.
In a search for possible concealed kimberlitic, carbonatitic or Cu-U-bearing igneous breccia intrusions within the Adelaidean fold belt succession, across a narrow north-south trending area west of Peterborough, 6 structurally disrupted localities...-
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Jamestown. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 25/4/79 to 23/10/80.
To guide a search for diamonds in the vicinity of Jamestown, structural loci for possible kimberlite targets were defined by lineament analysis. Ground magnetics and radiometrics, done as follow-up to stream sediment and soil sampling undertaken over...-
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Published: 31 Mar 1981
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Stuart Shelf Project. EL 1338 first [and Project second overall] partial surrender report, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1991.
TARGET: Possible buried base and precious metal deposits associated with aeromagnetic anomalies, and also with either coincident or unrelated gravity anomalies, lying within a relinquished sector of the large contiguous multi-licence area that Western...-
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Baratta. Progress and final reports for the period 27/5/1971 to 26/4/1972.
An airborne spectrometer/magnetometer survey of the Upper Proterozoic rocks of the northern Bibliando Dome, covering 877 line miles at approximately a height above ground level of 300 feet and line spacing of 1000 feet, was conducted by joint venturer...-
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