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Reedy Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/1/1981 to 11/1/1983.
Exploration for Olympic Dam style mineralisation included ground magnetic and gravity surveys carried out east of Mount Vivian. Diamond drilling of one hole to 674.6 m total depth intersected minor pyrite and possibly trace of chalcopyrite at the base...-
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Lake Younghusband. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1994 to 26/7/1995.
Report comprises a consultant's technical review of the area of ELA 590/93 (subsequently granted as EL 1954) located to the east and north of Glendambo, aimed at giving recommendations for future exploration work. The review includes an assessment of...-
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Charlotte Well. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/8/1994 to 31/7/1995.
The source of a large, intense aeromagnetic anomaly at the Pinery Dam prospect, located just north of the north-eastern shore of Lake Gairdner, was not disclosed by ground magnetic surveying and RC aircore and diamond drilling (5 vertical holes, total...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/1976 to 20/6/1978.
Ongoing exploration for possible buried Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, conducted over an area of the Stuart Shelf located 15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, has comprised RC drilling (20 holes, aggregate penetration 1768 m) and diamond...-
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Island Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/12/1980 to 14/9/1982.
Exploration over the now surrendered ground, which had been successively incorporated within ELs 301, 513 and 769, was initially directed at a search for stratabound base metal deposits which might exist within the flat-lying Neoproterozoic and...-
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Pandurra. First partial surrender report for the period 16/9/2005 to 15/9/2006.
As part of a regional search for possible shallowly buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold deposits related to altered Gawler Range Volcanics hidden under younger cover rocks, Minotaur undertook ground gravity surveys in the two subareas of its EL...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/1975 to 2/3/1976.
Exploration for possible economic buried Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au mineralisation, undertaken over an area located 15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, comprised preliminary airphoto interpretation and surface geological mapping, outcrop sample...-
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Roxby Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/1980 to 30/6/1983.
A combined magnetic and 4 mGal gravity anomaly seen in the BMR airborne geophysical data coverage at Roxby Hill, near Woomera, was investigated by Esso, who performed 105 line km of confirmatory regional gravity surveying, plus detailed gravity and...-
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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/1/1976 to 11/1/1978.
The exploration target for stratabound base metals in the Red Lake area, which lies just to the east of Pernatty Lagoon and abuts the Arcoona Plateau, was the top of Pandurra Formation erosional surface. Percussion (17 holes totalling 2619 m) and...-
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Bulgunnia. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/1992 to 26/10/1996.
No significant gold or copper values were returned in assays of 13 calcrete samples taken from a 38 square km area located 50 km north-east of Tarcoola, which was relinquished in October 1996. Data read recently by Haines Surveys from 13 new gravity...-
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Lake Dutton. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/10/1968 to 30/9/1970.
Possible economic stratiform base metal mineralisation formed within the Woocalla Dolomite Formation, which is shallowly buried over a wide area south-east of Lake Dutton, was targeted by ongoing work in an area located west and south-west of Pernatty...-
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Pernatty Lagoon. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Exploration conducted by CSR Ltd for possible economic stratiform base metal deposits in the western part of EL 81 addressed several targets, including Cattle Grid type disconformity - related copper mineralisation, Sweet Nell / MG14 type...-
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Summary report on ground scintillometer surveys, SMLs 204 and 205.
Ground scintillometer work carried out by BHP over its SMLs in the Middleback Range area has been shown not to be an effective reconnaissance tool for finding uranium anomalies, but it does have demonstrated value for identifying sources of...-
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Middleback Range, SA. SMLs 204 and 205 1969 geochemical survey report.
Two separate orientation geochemical sampling programmes have been undertaken during 1969 over BHP's Special Mining Lease areas near Whyalla. In the Pandurra Station area, shallow residual soils over known mineralised Carpentarian bedrock were...-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/6/1969 to 15/9/1970.
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Lake Dutton. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/11/1970 to 4/11/1971.
Possible stratiform / hydrothermal syngenetic base metals deposited on the flanks of the Pernatty Culmination in the vicinity of fault lineations were targeted in an ongoing regional drilling programme (in part comprising 7 vertical rotary percussion...-
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Lake Macfarlane - Lake Finniss area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/7/1967 to 31/12/1967.
Consultants were engaged by the licensee to conduct an extensive geological and geochemical investigation of a 2700 square mile area surrounding the Mount Gunson copper deposit, and to perform an interpretation of available regional aeromagnetic data....-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/9/1974 to 7/7/1975.
Base metal exploration in an area lying immediately to the east of Pernatty Lagoon targeted stratiform deposits within Late Proterozoic metasediments, seeking shallowly-occurring favourable stratigraphic facies associations based on the Zambian...-
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Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/12/1970 to 16/9/1971.
Possible economic buried, fault-controlled, supergene stratabound type or replacement style base metal deposits formed within Cambrian carbonate rocks were the target of exploration carried out over the Lake Torrens area. A 1200 line mile airborne...-
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Pernatty Lagoon. First partial surrender report, for the period 20/7/1975 to 19/7/1976.
1:25,000 scale geological mapping and scout stratigraphic drilling (9 vertical rotary holes for a total penetration of 758.5 m) have outlined the general distribution of Adelaidean rocks in the Lake Macfarlane and Island Lagoon areas. Perhaps the most...-
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