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RB 96/00024 Gawler Ranges drilling report 1994.
The Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics - Hiltaba Granite Suite - related Olympic Dam style Cu-U-Au mineralisation, and Menninnie Dam replacement style Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation, have served to raise the prospectivity of rocks in and underlying the...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1996
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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Lake Woorong. First partial surrender report, for the period 8/6/2012 to 7/6/2015.
An area centred about 80 km south-west of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic buried coal seams in Permian strata and for economic iron ore deposits or massive sulphide base metal mineralisation (copper, nickel) that may have formed...-
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Moseley Nobs (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 23/3/2017 to 22/3/2019.
The easternmost and westernmost thirds (portions totalling ~52%) of the former area of EL 5931, located approximately 30 km north of Kimba, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished prospectivity for economic buried occurrences of...-
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Pinkawillinie (part of the Wilcherry Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/2012 to 10/4/2019.
An area originally consisting of three separate licence sub-blocks that are centred ~30 km north-west of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried occurrences of basement-hosted epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron,...-
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Mount Miccollo (part of the Wilcherry Project). Second and third partial surrender report, for the period 10/6/2011 to 27/5/2021.
An area centred ~100 km west of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now relinquished...-
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Uno (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 29/7/2009 to 24/1/2020.
An area centred ~105 km west-southwest of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now...-
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Uno [West] and Eurilla Dam (part of the Wilcherry Hill Project). Third and first partial surrenders' respectively combined report, for the overall period 10/10/2002 to 7/4/2022.
17 square km or ~65% of the former area of EL 5931, and 14 square km or ~12% of the former area of EL 6072, have recently been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for buried base and precious metal mineralisation. Work...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarcoola. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/6/2003 to 1/6/2008.
Exploration Licence 3089 is located in the central Gawler Craton and is centred near the township of Tarcoola. Continuation of tenure over the same area, from former ELs 1827 and 2510, was renewed by Gravity Capital Ltd on 2/6/2003, and full licence...-
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Torrens and Woomera. Data release at licences' combined first partial relinquishment : joint first annual report for the period 26/5/1997 to 12/6/1998.
A review of existing geophysical data was carried out over an area west of and extending for 90 km south of Woomera. Further aerial magnetic surveys are seen as necessary to define areas of thin Pandurra Formation and younger cover, and to locate...-
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Poochera. Partial surrender report for the period 8/1/1996 to 7/1/1999.
An aeromagnetic survey was followed by soil and calcrete sampling in the Poochera - Wirulla area, over possible southerly extensions to the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone. Only slightly elevated Au and Cu values were returned, and follow-up sampling in one...-
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Mangalo. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 16/4/97 to 15/4/2002.
Work undertaken to delineate metasedimentary iron ore resources within an area roughly 40 km north-west of Cowell was reported in an earlier release of data made on partial surrender of the licence (see open file Env 9794). No further work has been...-
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March 2011 Peterlumbo area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by PIRSA during April 2011 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Peterlumbo district in the southern Gawler Ranges region of SA during March 2011. The nominal pixel size acquired was...-
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Midgee (part of the Glensea and Cowell Projects). Combined fifth annual / third partial surrender report, for the period 26/11/2003 to 25/11/2008.
Exploration Licence 3148 is located on the eastern coast of Eyre Peninsula, north-east of the town of Cowell. The licence was initially granted to Avoca Resources Ltd (Avoca) on 26/11/2003, to allow exploration for possible iron oxide - associated...-
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Published: 19 Aug 2009
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Comet Outstation, Gina Outstation, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 15/12/2008 to 30/6/2013.
A group of contiguous exploration licences centred ~100 km south-west of Coober Pedy are being explored principally for epithermal and Challenger-style gold mineralisation hosted by covered Archaean basement rocks, as well as for any economic base...-
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Published: 31 Aug 2013
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2013 to 30/6/2018.
During the sixth year of the project, base metals exploration was focussed on the Mars-Aurora Tank, Wirrida and Bundi prospects using ground gravity and IP survey methods. Some trial magnetotelluric and audio-frequency magnetotelluric survey profiles...-
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Published: 05 Sep 2018
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Data release - as updated : Moonabie (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/2006 to 13/3/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are centred approximately 60 km WSW of Whyalla is being explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation plus precious and base metals, in a structurally complex epithermal and...-
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Published: 29 Apr 2017
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-29, Wilcherry Hill Magnetite Project, Hercules Proterozoic stratabound iron ore mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Iron ore mineralisation similar to that mined in the Middleback Range has been investigated at the Hercules prospect, located 90 km west-northwest of Whyalla, where a large, high intensity aeromagnetic anomaly and associated 12 km long outcrop of...-
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Hicks Hill. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/12/2009 to 8/12/2014.
A previously discovered (SADM, 1950s) partly outcropping body of magnetite-rich Palaeoproterozoic BIF rock (jaspilite), located ~46 km east of Tarcoola, has been investigated afresh for its current economic potential as an iron ore resource. Similar...-
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Published: 20 Apr 2015
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka. First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
An area centred ~50 km north of the Olympic Dam copper-gold-uranium mine is being explored for possible economic metallic mineralisation that may have formed in buried Archaean to Mesoproterozoic basement rocks that are estimated to lie at depths of...-
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Published: 04 Dec 2013
