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Orroroo. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 18/11/1971 to 28/9/1972.
In a continuation of diamond and base metal exploration of newly discovered carbonatite / kimberlite intrusive bodies in an area located immediately north of Orroroo, these bodies were examined petrographically and analysed to compare their...-
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RB 59/00056 Diamond drilling at the Pinnacles mine.
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-14, Pernatty Lagoon area (eastern Gawler Craton) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
PACE proposal DPY3-14 aimed to discover a new iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralised magmatic centre, similar to the Olympic Dam setting, within the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton. The Pernatty Lagoon project is located less than...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1906
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Warrina North and Warrina South. Joint third partial relinquishment report, for the period 23/9/1996 to 22/9/2001.
Exploration for iron oxide-hosted gold and base metals over a wide area spreading NW-SE, north-east from Coober Pedy and near Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, was initially by review of historical data and interpretation of airborne geophysical data. A...-
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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Gilles Downs. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal (as part of a larger area), for the period 12/3/1979 to 11/3/1981.
Ongoing diamond exploration by Stockdale over the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area has concentrated on country to the east and south-east of Lake Gilles, where some microdiamonds and kimberlitic indicator minerals were discovered during the period...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1981
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo (mine prospect). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/1/2005 to 17/1/2010.
Three small adjacent licence sub-blocks, that together cover ~1.5 square km of inferred prospective brownfields ground immediately surrounding Mining Lease ML 5776 held over the former Kanmantoo open pit copper mine (which peripheral ground is herein...-
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Published: 14 Jan 1910
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
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Terowie. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/8/1990 to 13/2/1992.
TARGET: Evaluation of the diamond-bearing potential of known lamprophyre intrusive bodies in the Terowie area. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance loam and drainage indicator mineral bulk sampling and geochemical sampling, petrographic and mineralogical...-
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Brief petrology of bottomhole rock samples from Apollo no. 1 and Gemini no. 1 offshore wells, Great Australian Bight, and comparison with outcropping rocks from onshore Eyre Peninsula.
Two drill cuttings samples from 2842 and 2860 feet depth KB in Apollo 1 (economic basement) were examined for their heavy mineral composition as an aid to stratigraphic correlation with Precambrian sediments found in the adjacent onshore. The well...-
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Published: 23 Dec 1975
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Mount Hope. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/9/1988 to 11/6/1992.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Mount Hope area on western Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: An airborne magnetic-radiometric survey (SADME / BMR / Stockdale 1988), heavy mineral sampling, follow-up ground magnetic surveying, and RAB drilling (91 holes totalling...-
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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/209 : [petrographic] comparison of some Archaean and Proterozoic iron formations in SA. Progress reports 1 to 4, for the period December 1977 to July 1979.
A project to compare Gawler Craton iron formations of unknown age with those of known Archaean age (from geochronology) and with the Proterozoic, Lake Superior - type Middleback Range iron deposits has concentrated on characterising each formation by...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1979
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/170 : Petrology of the Olary region. Progress reports and final report for the period October 1974 to September 1977.
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RB 74/00159 Abrasive grade garnet at Milendella, secn 961, Hd Tungkillo, Co. Sturt - B.C. and M.C. Lindner.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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Billa Kalina, Welcome Creek, Millers Creek, Margaret Creek and Francis Swamp (the Billa Kalina G2 Diamond Project). Data release made at remaining licences' joint partial surrender: joint annual reports for the period 25/2/2006 to 29/8/2012.
As part of continuing diamond exploration on the subject five licences, more of the first pass sampling program was completed by Flinders Diamonds in August 2006 via aircore drilling of 47 vertical holes for an aggregate 1852 m aimed at penetrating to...-
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Published: 10 May 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pernatty [Station]. Annual reports for the period 29/11/2005 to 28/11/2009.
An area centred approximately 110 km north of Port Augusta, covering part of the Pernatty Ridge plateau on the south-western side of Lake Torrens, approximately 145 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine, was taken up to explore for possible economic...-
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Published: 24 May 1910
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RB 2006/00021 Tectonics of the southeastern Gawler Craton, South Australia: A field guide to the Palaeoproterozoic gneisses of Corny Point, Yorke Peninsula
This field guide presents an introduction to the geology and tectonics of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, particularly as observed at the Corny Point locality. Topics covered include the detrital zircon age distributions within the Corny Point...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2003/00011 Metamorphic investigation of the Palaeoproterozoic metasediments of the Willyama Inliers, southern Curnamona Province, South Australia.
The deformed metasediments of the South Australian Willyama Inliers (in the southern Curnamona geological province) preserve petrologic evidence of a complex and protracted metamorphic history. To assist with unravelling this history, there currently...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2003
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RB 2017/00046 Koongawa Grey dimension stone deposit geological investigations: evaluation of gneiss on ML 6426 for use as dimension stone.
The Resource Assessment and Advice (RAA) team of the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) was approached by John Chesini of Chesini House Pty Ltd to provide feedback as to the suitability of stone within Mining Lease (ML) 6426 for the purpose...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2018
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SADM / Amdel Project no. 1/1/148 : Fission-track dating of South Australian rocks. Progress reports for the period August 1973 to September 1978.
This project has been undertaken to develop fission-track dating expertise for several common minerals, which can subsequently be applied to specific geological or geochronological problems in South Australian regional geological mapping. In...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1978
