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Spencer Gulf. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 11/2/83.
A 900 line km detailed aeromagnetic survey was carried out over the northern extremity of Spencer Gulf, in a search for possible Olympic Dam style mineralisation associated with a significant and complex magnetic high anomaly that is located almost...-
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Published: 15 Jun 1982
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-36, Roopena area copper/gold mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
Three previously untested, significant gravity anomalies were the targets for 4 exploratory vertical RC drillholes totalling 750 m, put down in areas west and north-west of Whyalla by Minotaur Exploration with funding assistance from PIRSA through its...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Old Wartaka. Annual reports for the period 8/5/2013 to 7/5/2019.
A small area located on the eastern side of the Roopena Fault Zone, proximal to the south-eastern margin of the Gawler Ranges, is being explored for possible buried epigenetic gold and silver mineralisation, or IOCG type base metal sulphide...-
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Published: 13 May 1919
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Lincoln Gap. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/4/2014 to 7/9/2017.
An area centred ~30 km west of Port Augusta and comprising two separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible buried economic gold and base metal mineralisation which could have formed within IOCG or shear zone settings. Primary targets were two...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1917
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Pandurra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/4/1975 to 6/4/1977.
Ongoing exploration for a possible Cattlegrid type stratabound copper deposit over an area south-west of Lake Torrens included aerial magnetic and EM surveys, drill testing of EM anomalies by 47 percussion holes totalling 2086 m, a regional magnetic...-
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Mount Gunson. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/8/1977 to 4/8/1979.
In a search for possible economic repetitions of Cattlegrid and MG14 - style copper sulphide mineralisation, or for any buried analogues to Western Mining Corp.'s recently discovered copper deposits on Roxby Downs Station, ongoing exploratory work...-
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Mount Paisley. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1979.
Exploration for possible Olympic Dam type base metal sulphide deposits within the pre-Adelaidean basement underlying an area 100 km north-east of Kingoonya initially included making over 100 rock unit density and magnetic susceptibility measurements...-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1975 to 19/7/1977.
As part of continuing brownfields exploration for extensions to known stratiform base metal mineralisation in the area lying to the west of Pernatty Lagoon, much stratigraphic drilling (210 rotary percussion holes totalling 12,441 m, including 1167 m...-
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Dingo Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
An area of the southern Stuart Shelf, with untested potential for hosting possible stratiform base metal deposits within a probable concealed Early Proterozoic sedimentary basin embayment, was explored by BP as part of their regional mineral...-
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1977 to 6/6/1979.
Stratiform copper deposits, hosted within the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation, and possible diamondiferous kimberlite bodies were targeted in this exploration programme. Low value base metal intersections made from drilling (2 diamond holes,...-
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Cultana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 28/10/1975 to 27/10/1977.
Exploration for possible stratiform or hydrothermal/epithermal base and precious metals within Adelaidean metasedimentary cover and Middle Proterozoic crystalline basement in the Cultana area, 35 km south-southwest of Port Augusta, has consisted of...-
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Beddome Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
An area centred approximately 90 km north-west of Woomera has been explored for possible economic copper mineralisation associated with geophysical anomalies thought to originate within Adelaidean metasedimentary bedrock. After considerable delays and...-
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Tregalana - Sugarloaf Hill area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/6/1976 to 20/6/1978.
Vertical percussion drilling (4 holes totalling 577 m) and diamond drilling (3 holes totalling 538.4 m) undertaken in the Tregalana and Sugarloaf Hill areas of the Stuart Shelf disclosed weak base metal mineralisation (0.05-0.65% Cu spread unevenly...-
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Port Augusta - Wilkatana area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/10/1969 to 4/8/1972.
An area surrounding the Emeroo Range, and extending from the vicinity of Port Augusta to 30 km west of Hawker, was explored by Utah for possible economic stratabound base metal deposits which it was thought could be associated with certain favourable...-
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1975 to 15/4/1977.
Stratiform copper sulphides, hosted within the basal Tapley Hill Formation, and extensions of known kimberlite bodies were targeted in this program. Reconnaissance and closer (down to 1 km x 1 km) spaced diamond and percussion drilling (28 and 83...-
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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RB 2016/00024 Mineral Systems Drilling Program Rock Shack - [a pictorial catalogue of the] outcrop sample collection for the MSDP southern Gawler Ranges margin.
Between July 2015 and April 2016, the Geological Survey of South Australia, in collaboration with the Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre (DET CRC), Minotaur Exploration Limited and Kingston Resources Limited, carried out a...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2016
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RB 2016/00014 Geology of the Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Special Edition Map Sheet.
The Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2016
