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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-40 - western Middleback Range region - Stony Hill area Archaean to Proterozoic stratabound iron ore mineral prospects. Project final report.
Banded iron formation (BIF) rock outcrops and an associated 15 km long aeromagnetic anomaly located about 20 km west of Iron Baron were chosen by Centrex Metals as high quality targets deserving of exploration for economic iron mineralisation...-
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Published: 28 Nov 1908
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Lake Gilles area. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report upon licence renewal : progress reports for the period 26/10/1989 to 10/2/2001.
Menninnie Dam - style Pb-Zn mineralisation in areas north and east of Lake Gilles was the initial target of exploration. A ground magnetic survey conducted along five lines was followed by shallow auger drilling (302 holes, total 1099 m) plus lag,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Gum Flat. Annual reports submitted prior to the commencement of joint reporting on the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 27/9/2005 to 26/9/2008.
An area lying immediately west of Port Lincoln and extending for ~10 km inland is being explored for buried occurrences of multiple metallic mineral commodities that may have been deposited within faulted, folded and metamorphosed Archaean basement...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1907
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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Rudall. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2012 to 23/5/2017.
A small area centred ~ 19 km west-northwest of Cleve was taken up primarily to explore for possible economic buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal...-
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Mount Messenger (lately part of the Central Eyre Peninsula Graphite Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/3/2014 to 13/11/2018.
An area centred ~30 km north-west of Cowell has been explored for possible buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal penetrating...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lipson Cove. Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 28/9/2014.
An area in the Cowell Hills centred ~20 km north of Tumby Bay on eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up primarily to explore and evaluate known talc and graphite occurrences, but the grant licensee's initial review of previous exploration data revealed...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1914
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Cockabidnie. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/5/2016 to 24/5/2018.
The central portion of EL 5791 covering 77 square km or half of the originally granted licence area has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for economic graphite, cobalt or zinc mineralisation. No field work was done on...-
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Published: 19 Jul 1918
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Carpie Puntha (part of the Central Eyre Peninsula Graphite Project). Annual technical reports for the period 2/11/2016 to 1/11/2018. Plus partial surrender reports, for the period 3/11/2016 to 6/04/2021.
Exploration Licence 5870 ‘Carpie Puntha’, held by Archer Exploration Limited (Archer) is located on the eastern Eyre Peninsula within the Cleve Domain of the Gawler Craton. The presence of the Middleback Jaspilite provides for a small range of...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1918
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Cockabidnie. Second partial surrender report, for the period 25/5/2016 to 6/4/2021.
Two portions which constitute the majority of the two sub-blocks which form EL 5791, together covering 63 square km or ~82% of the formerly held area, have been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for economic graphite,...-
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Rudall. First partial surrender report, for the period 24/5/2012 to 2/12/2016.
Most of a small licence area located ~19 km west-northwest of Cleve has been surrendered following the completion of a helicopter-borne EM survey over the entire tenement during July 2012, looking for signs of possible buried graphite mineralisation...-
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Published: 24 Oct 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cockabidnie. Annual reports for the period 25/5/2016 to 24/5/2019.
An area covering the northern end of the Campoona Syncline is being explored for possible economic buried graphite formed within Palaeoproterozic schistose rocks, which may exist as northern extensions to the Central Campoona graphite resource as well...-
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Published: 26 May 1918
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The Northern Eyre Peninsula JV Project. Data release made in lieu of submitting a licence final report at the full surrender of EL 5170 Kimba Gap: Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2013 to 9/2/2017.
During the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) 2013-2014 reporting year, exploration field work took place on two of the six project tenements. On EL 4884 Minbrie, a single 151 m deep vertical RC drillhole, BURC092, was completed in August 2013,...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1918
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1993 to 14/3/1998.
A low-lying small area situated 40 km west of Whyalla has been explored primarily for economic gypsum occurrences within Recent surficial sediments, while latterly, a search for metallic minerals has also commenced, via a geological survey of basement...-
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Gilles Downs (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report (prior to start of joint reporting status) for the period 8/7/2005 to 7/7/2006: and final report submitted at licence full surrender, for the succeeding period to 30/7/2015.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located on the plains extending to the west of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to explore for possible economic buried deposits of stratabound magnetite iron ore...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Annual reports for the period 5/10/1995 to 30/1/2007 [Index part 3 of 3].
During the 2006-2007 licence reporting year (Year 16), on renewed EL 3516 Middleback Range, incoming new licensee OneSteel determined from a review of BHP Billiton's drilling database that some 3.1 Mt of JORC 'inferred' category iron ore (haematite)...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/6/1990 to 5/6/1995.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks that cover ~460 square km of Palaeoproterozoic BIF ironstone outcrops in the northern and southern parts of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up by The Broken Hill Pty...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Verran. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/4/1997 to 3/4/2002.
Part of the Cleve Uplands centred 15 km west of Cleve has been taken under licence to explore its potential for buried economic copper-gold mineralisation to occur within Archaean or Proterozoic basement rocks. Other possible commodities of interest...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1902
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Ironstone Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/9/2003 to 17/9/2015.
During the majority of its tenure term, very little field work was conducted on the subject ground. Initially, office studies of available geophysical and open file geological data were performed during 2005 to try to identify possible drilling...-
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