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Parabarana. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/5/1974.
Under a joint venture agreement made between North Flinders Mines and Dampier Mining Co. (a BHP Exploration subsidiary), operative over the 7 square mile SML 705 between 14/9/1973 and 14/3/1974, at least 3500 feet of additional appraisal diamond...-
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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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Tarcoola. Data release in lieu of a 25% second partial surrender at licence renewal : progress and annual reports for the period 7/12/1990 to 20/4/2003. [ Index Part 1 of 4 ].
The abstract for this Envelope is contained (in three parts) as separately indexed records, due to SAMREF database system individual record data size limits presently applicable.-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-21, Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, subsidiary fault plays, Tunkillia - style gold prospects. Project final report.
It has lately been recognised by explorers that subsidiary fault splays developed adjacent to the main Yarlbrinda Shear Zone may be more prospective for hydrothermal gold deposits than the main zone. In an approved PACE Initiative Year 2 drilling...-
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Giles Nob. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 7/7/1988.
Exploration for possible economic gold deposits in an area located approximately 25 km south of Olary addressed three principal objectives: . hydrothermally-sourced gold within quartz-albite-dolomite vein stockworks formed in phyllitic siltstones of...-
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Monarto (part of the Adelaide Hills Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 23/5/2013 to 22/5/2016.
28 square km, or the whole southern half, of an area centred ~14 km north-west of Murray Bridge has now been relinquished because of a recently assigned competing land usage classification that would make it difficult to do mineral exploration there....-
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Geological report no. 1 on the Cutana copper mine, Olary district, SA.
Secondary copper mineralisation at the Cutana copper mine appears to be limited to a length of about 30 feet at the surface, where historic workings have excavated a swell to 3 feet wide in a quartz-ironstone reef that otherwise narrows to 18 inches...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1971
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Weekeroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/10/1970 to 30/9/1971.
A detailed examination of mineralised rock sequences within the metamorphosed Precambrian basement and Adelaidean cover rocks of the Weekeroo area, and recording of their relationship to successive deformational events and resulting rock structures,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-55, Glenloth Goldfield mineral prospects. Project final report.
Historical workings at the Glenloth Goldfield were the target for 10 exploratory RC drillholes put down by Minotaur Exploration during May-June 2006 as a PACE Initiative Year 3 project. Their accepted proposal was to drill a series of RC percussion...-
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Mount Olinthus. Annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1996.
Base metal mineralisation, indicated by newly discovered shafts at the historic Atkinson Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine, was the impetus for exploration in the upland area 20 km north-west from Cowell. Grab samples collected from shafts, stockpiles and dumps varied...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Carrapateena Arm, Hatch Hill, Beda Arm and Lake Torrens South (the OZ Minerals Carrapateena Project). Annual reports (separate and joint) for the period 8/1/2008 to 6/1/2016.
Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...-
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Mount Fitton South. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 17/6/1968 to 16/6/1969.
Historic mining of mainly secondary copper ores plus some sulphides disseminated in granite and locally concentrated in fissure veins at Mount Fitton South has yielded about 2500 tons of material, but possible extensions of the better lodes remain...-
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Published: 05 May 1969
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Lake Torrens South, Beda Arm and Carrapateena Arm (latterly the Lake Torrens Joint Venture Project). Annual reports (singular and combined) to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 21/2/1996 to 7/1/2008.
Economic Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation has been the target of exploration carried out in three adjoining areas which together extend for about 55 to 170 km north of Port Augusta, covering southern Lake...-
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Antechamber Bay. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/11/1986 to 26/11/1989.
TARGET: Evaluation of the gemstone tourmaline and kaolin clay potential of the Dudley Pegmatite on Kangaroo Island. It is believed that this known occurrence of coloured tourmaline is one of only two locations in Australia which have produced...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Freeling Heights - Mount Adams area. Progress reports for the period 10/6/1968 to 9/12/1969.
As part of a regional search for economic uranium and copper mineralisation, the US-based company Kennecott Copper in November 1968 performed a semi-detailed airborne spectrometer survey of 550 line miles in the Shamrock Valley - Freeling Heights -...-
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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Carbon dioxide in natural gas from the Cooper Basin.
Isotopic and chemical evidence reported herein suggests that the bulk of the carbon dioxide in natural gas from the Cooper Basin appears to be sourced from the underlying granite, rather than from the thermal decomposition of humic (coally)...-
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Kalabity - Old Boolcoomata area [= Olary 'A' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
As part of exploration for economic metallic mineral deposits within an area of partly outcropping Precambrian calcsilicate rocks present on Kalabity Station, a field reconnaissance of all known mineralised areas was carried out initially. The...-
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Manunda Creek. Combined first progress/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/1977 to 22/8/1978.
Exploration for possible economic Olympic Dam - type epithermal/hydrothermal or Zambian Copperbelt - type stratabound/replacement base metal deposits, in an area located approximately 40 km south-east of Yunta, focussed on magnetic anomalies and...-
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