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Cooyerdoo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/re-issue as part of another licence, for the period 14/9/1981 to 13/3/1983.
Following the signing of an eighteen month exploration joint venture agreement with Stockdale, farminee Mobil Energy Minerals undertook continuation of the uranium search over the anomalous ground lying east and south-east of Lake Gilles, besides...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1983
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Wilcherry Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal : progress reports and annual reports for the period 8/9/1980 to 15/4/2003.
[incomplete : to be continued when time permits] - The Wilcherry Hill licence area was originally taken up in September 1980 by the Shell Company as EL 719, forming part of a larger regional mineral exploration tenement package on northern and...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1905
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Botenella Range (now part of the Wilcherry Hill JV Project). Progress, annual and final reports to the commencement of the project licences' combined reporting status, for the period 14/2/1991 to 18/9/2002.
Exploration of an area lying west of Lake Gilles concentrated initially on assessing its potential for hosting syngenetic Palaeoproterozoic stratiform base metal deposits along perceived stratigraphic extensions of the beds containing the recently...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Tumby Bay. Annual reports [to the 24/11/2006 commencement of the Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 18/1/2002 to 17/1/2007.
Exploration Licence 2887 Tumby Bay was taken out to cover prospective magnetite rich Banded Iron Formations (BIF) close to the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula. Potential was seen for a magnetite concentrate export operation taking advantage of...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1907
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Stony Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 2/12/2004 to 23/12/2016.
During the life of the subject licence, the focus of exploration was to determine the area's potential for DSO haematite iron ore, with a secondary consideration being magnetite and haematite BIF. After conducting geophysical surveys and exploratory...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1917
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Stony Hill. Combined annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/3/2016 to 14/3/2017.
No new work was carried out on the subject Stony Hill licence area during its past year. The South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd (SAIOG) has held this tenement (successively under ELs 3287/4451/5617) since 2/12/2004, but has now surrendered it in...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1917
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Final Report - Unravelling the Stratigraphy of the Middleback Ranges ADI RD03-385 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 3, 2023].
In 2022 SIMEC Mining/Onesteel Manufacturing Pty Ltd successfully applied for up to $270,000 of funding through the South Australian Government’s Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) program. The company proposed to undertake RC and diamond drilling...-
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Cooyerdoo Station, Roopena Station and Middleback Range area. Joint progress reports and final report to subsequent licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/3/1983 to 22/11/1986.
Exploration for possible stratiform sediment-hosted lead-zinc in Lower Proterozoic metasediments of the Middleback Range area included the compilation of a lineament map from Landsat images and available aeromagnetic data, generating and interpreting...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1987
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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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Bull 033 The Geology and Iron Ore Resources of the Middleback Range Area
This report deals comprehensively with the physiography, prospect geology, and ore genesis, and includes an assessment of the iron ore reserves and other mineral resources of an area which has been almost the sole source of the iron ore used in...-
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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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Green Patch. Annual reports for the period 3/12/2001 to 30/5/2006, plus the last six years of tenure' combined annual reports/final report ('no work' letter only) to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/2/2015 to 31/8/2021.
An area centred on the hamlet of Green Patch, located ~10 km north-west of Port Lincoln, was taken up to appraise the iron ore potential of known near surface BIF magnetite mineralisation occurring at the Greenpatch (sic) prospect that had been...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1921
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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 2 of 2].
The Telephone Dam lead-zinc-silver prospect is located in the north-eastern part of the now renewed Wilcherry Hill EL 4162. During the 1980s and 1990s, diamond, RC and RAB drilling done on this prospect by Aberfoyle Resources had identified a...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1908
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kimba Gap, Ironstone Hut, Ironstone Hill, Stony Hill, Gilles Downs and Minbrie areas (the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/12/2005 to 31/1/2013.
Exploration for possible economic occurrences of magnetite and/or haematite iron ore formed in concealed Proterozoic basement to the west of the Middleback Range is being carried out by Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) joint venturer Centrex...-
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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 1 of 2].
Aquila Resources took up ownership of the much previously-explored ground comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project with the intent of exploring for the first time the iron oxide - associated copper-gold & uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation potential of...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1908
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo (part of the Wilcherry Hill Joint Venture Project). Data release made at the third renewal / partial surrender of the latter licence: progress reports and annual reports for the period 14/2/1989 to 30/8/2003. [Index 1 of 2].
Two contiguous areas located south of the Gawler Ranges, between Buckleboo and Franklin Harbour, were taken up primarily to explore the Early Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence for possible Broken Hill type economic stratiform / hydrothermal base...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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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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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-30 - Trafford Resources Ltd, Wilcherry Hill Project, Oxy's Bore prospect magnetic anomaly IOCG target. Drilling project final report.
Trafford Resources Ltd ('Trafford'), the owner since March 2007 of the seven exploration licences comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project, has as its primary focus exploration of these tenements for economic precious and base metal deposits. The...-
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Triple Hill. Final report to licence surrender for the period 1/5/97 to 30/4/98.
Metasedimentary BIF-hosted mineralisation and Cu-Au associated with younger Palaeoproterozoic intrusive granites were targeted east of Cleve. Ground follow-up of linear magnetic highs and low gold and base metal anomalism in stream sediments failed...-
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Published: 20 Apr 1998
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Green Patch. Progress, annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/7/1991 to 1/3/1996.
Following a review of previous company exploration and image interpretation of SAEI and BMR aeromagnetic data, a 3166 line km airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, with follow-up ground magnetics and air core drilling (282 holes, 4559 m), was carried...-
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