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Orroroo. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 18/11/1971 to 28/9/1972.
In a continuation of diamond and base metal exploration of newly discovered carbonatite / kimberlite intrusive bodies in an area located immediately north of Orroroo, these bodies were examined petrographically and analysed to compare their...-
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Port Augusta. Progress and final reports for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/4/1974.
Detailed follow-up to earlier regional stream sediment sampling, which had disclosed several robust kimberlitic garnet indicator anomalies in relatively featureless terrain, was successful in discovering three outcropping thin kimberlite sills in the...-
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RB 59/00056 Diamond drilling at the Pinnacles mine.
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 77/00117 Investigation of the heavy mineral sands along the coast of Eyre Peninsula.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 86/00031 Reconnaissance sampling for heavy mineral sands, Kangaroo Island.
Beach sands, dunes and selected creek sand were sampled. Kanmantoo Group metasediments that underlie most of the island, basalt and granite are favourable source rocks for heavy minerals. They are being actively eroded along most of the coastline but...-
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Published: 01 May 1986
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Cooyerdoo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 30/3/79 to 29/3/81.
Stream and loam samples were collected for kimberlitic indicator mineral analysis, and detailed geological mapping was carried out, as part of a wider diamond search in the Lake Gilles district. No evidence of any kimberlite was seen in the Cooyerdoo...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1981
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Warrina North and Warrina South. Joint third partial relinquishment report, for the period 23/9/1996 to 22/9/2001.
Exploration for iron oxide-hosted gold and base metals over a wide area spreading NW-SE, north-east from Coober Pedy and near Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, was initially by review of historical data and interpretation of airborne geophysical data. A...-
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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Gilles Downs. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal (as part of a larger area), for the period 12/3/1979 to 11/3/1981.
Ongoing diamond exploration by Stockdale over the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area has concentrated on country to the east and south-east of Lake Gilles, where some microdiamonds and kimberlitic indicator minerals were discovered during the period...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1981
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Warramboo (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Diamond exploration farminee's final report for the period July 1997 to 31/10/1998.
Investigations of the likely diamond potential of a part of the central Eyre Peninsula were conducted under a farm-in joint venture agreement which was in place for about fifteen months. Work comprised the collection of six drill cuttings bulk...-
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Terowie. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/8/1990 to 13/2/1992.
TARGET: Evaluation of the diamond-bearing potential of known lamprophyre intrusive bodies in the Terowie area. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance loam and drainage indicator mineral bulk sampling and geochemical sampling, petrographic and mineralogical...-
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Arckaringa Basin, SA. 1984 diamond exploration report.
Evaluation of the diamond potential of the Arckaringa area, 50 km south-west of Oodnadatta, which is here considered to be a region both tectonically and geologically favourable for the past emplacement of kimberlitic intrusive bodies, has comprised...-
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Sawpit 1. Test reports.
Contains a report on seismic modelling of the Pretty Hill Sandstone section in the well,and a regional petrological review of this formation centering on Sawpit 1 data, plus some brief faxed comments regarding the well palynology.-
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Brief petrology of bottomhole rock samples from Apollo no. 1 and Gemini no. 1 offshore wells, Great Australian Bight, and comparison with outcropping rocks from onshore Eyre Peninsula.
Two drill cuttings samples from 2842 and 2860 feet depth KB in Apollo 1 (economic basement) were examined for their heavy mineral composition as an aid to stratigraphic correlation with Precambrian sediments found in the adjacent onshore. The well...-
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Published: 23 Dec 1975
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Investigation and tests of garnet in flotation tailings from Kanmantoo mines, SA. Progress reports for the period March 1973 to April 1976.
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Published: 20 Apr 1976
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Manunda Homestead. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/1979 to 24/6/1980.
Diamond exploration over an area located approximately 35 km south-east of Yunta was undertaken to assess an interpreted structural environment that may be similar to one existing nearby to the west close to Terowie, in which shallowly buried,...-
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Mount Hope. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/9/1988 to 11/6/1992.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Mount Hope area on western Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: An airborne magnetic-radiometric survey (SADME / BMR / Stockdale 1988), heavy mineral sampling, follow-up ground magnetic surveying, and RAB drilling (91 holes totalling...-
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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/209 : [petrographic] comparison of some Archaean and Proterozoic iron formations in SA. Progress reports 1 to 4, for the period December 1977 to July 1979.
A project to compare Gawler Craton iron formations of unknown age with those of known Archaean age (from geochronology) and with the Proterozoic, Lake Superior - type Middleback Range iron deposits has concentrated on characterising each formation by...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1979
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Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1979.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform/volcanogenic base metal sulphide deposits hosted by the (elsewhere) pyrite - bearing Early Cambrian Bruckunga Formation, in the Vivonne Bay district on south-central Kangaroo Island, was hampered by the...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1979
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/170 : Petrology of the Olary region. Progress reports and final report for the period October 1974 to September 1977.
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