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Blue Gum Hill, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/4/1973 to 29/1/1974.
In ongoing exploration of the base metal potential of a small licence area located 34 km west of Kingscote, 5 inclined shallow diamond drillholes totalling 399 m were put down on significant anomalies located by IP surveys and/or geochemical soil...-
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Published: 29 Jan 1974
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Mikkira (south-west of Port Lincoln). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/3/1981 to 27/10/1987.
Exploration for graphite primarily, and secondarily for BIF-associated massive base metal sulphides, in the area surrounding the historic Uley graphite mine situated 15 km west south-west of Port Lincoln, initially comprised an airborne reconnaissance...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1987
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Safari, Lake Woorong, Leonard Rise, Thunderstorm Creek and Brumby Creek areas (Coober Pedy Ridge Project). Quarterly and six-monthly progress, plus annual and final, joint activity reports for the period 22/4/1991 to 22/3/2000.
The Coober Pedy Ridge / Mount Woods Inlier project investigated a 170 km long east-west belt of medium to high grade Proterozoic metamophics and syn- and post tectonic granites, centred 25 km south of Coober Pedy, for Broken Hill type stratiform...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Brimpton Lake. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2005 to 8/8/2018.
An area of the southern Gawler Craton, which is located on Eyre Peninsula east of Elliston, is continuing to be explored for possible economic buried Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock-hosted primary base and precious metal deposits of inferred...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-42 - Mount Woods Project area, Gawler Craton: assessing the potential for ISGC style mineralisation within the Mount Woods Inlier. Drilling final report
Historically, exploration undertaken for finding Iron Oxide - associated Copper-Gold (IOCG) mineralisation on the eastern Gawler Craton, over the long period since the discovery of the Olympic Dam deposit in July 1975, has targeted positive gravity...-
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Mikkira. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 2/3/1981 to 27/10/1987.
Exploration for graphite and base metals in the Uley - Mikkira region, south-west of Port Lincoln, comprised an aerial INPUT / magnetic / radiometric survey, with ground EM34-3, magnetic, SP and IP surveys to follow-up INPUT responses. 4 EM anomalies...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1987
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Cootra. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 25/11/80 to 28/3/84.
Pioneer exploration for possible stratabound base metal deposits that have a facies relationship to metamorphic iron deposits, which was carried out in the Cootra area, located 20 km east south-east of Warramboo on central Eyre Peninsula, has...-
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Published: 09 Apr 1984
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Teetulpa, Wattle Dam and Manna Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 24/3/86 to 23/12/86.
Exploration which was centred on the Teetulpa and Mannahill gold fields comprised intensive geochemical sampling (rock chip, soil, stream sediment, battery slimes and mine dumps) and IP, Sirotem and ground magnetic surveys. Several significant gold...-
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Mount Gawler. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 27/5/1983 to 26/5/1988.
TARGET: Evaluation of the Koppio and Kookaburra Gully graphite prospects on southern Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: Prospect gridding, 1:1000 scale geological mapping, orientation Max-Min II ground EM surveys, extensive trenching and channel sampling,...-
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo. Joint second partial surrender report, for the period 14/2/1989 to 13/2/1992. Plus: Carpie Puntha and Waddikee. Joint final report to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 14/2/1989 to 24/6/1992.
TARGET: Possible commercial Menninnie Dam type stratabound or stratiform base metal deposits in the Cowell - Kimba - Buckleboo region. EXPLORATION: Field reconnaissance and rock chip geochemical sampling of prospective areas identified from...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Verran and Malbrom (the Verran Project, then the Arno Graphite Project). Joint annual reports plus annual report, for the period 29/1/2014 to 28/1/2019.
Two licence areas together covering the hinterland to Arno Bay and Port Gibbon on eastern Eyre Peninsula, and extending as far north-westwards as Rudall, are being explored for economic buried graphite deposits that may have formed in deformed high...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-11, Thurlga Ramp, northern edge of Cleve Domain, volcanic epithermal / hydrothermal replacement type precious metal prospects. Drilling final report.
A licence area, which lies adjacent on the west to Investigator Resources' Peterlumbo Hill EL 5368 containing the Paris silver deposit (where there is a currently inferred resource of 42 Moz @ 139 ppm Ag), is being explored under a joint venture with...-
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Data release - as updated : Cockabidnie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2001 to 13/8/2015.
Early in 2001, Helix Resources Ltd entered into a joint venture agreement with Centrex Resources Limited to allow it to explore for precious and base metals on some of the tenements held by Centrex on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, including...-
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Data release - as updated : Campoona (part of the Cockabidnie JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2016.
The subject licence area, comprising two sub-blocks centred approximately 20 km north-west of Kimba, and which lies within the middle part of the NNE trending Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, has been explored, in concert...-
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Kimberlites near Orroroo, South Australia.
A suite of Jurassic kimberlite dykes occur near Orroroo, South Australia. They range in thickness from a few millimetres to 30 metres. The intrusions are all extensively altered at surface, but a few of them are petrographically similar, and have...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1982
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Mount Woods. Combined first progress/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 6/9/1979 to 5/12/1979.
Following an evaluation of existing subsurface data, 9 vertical percussion holes totalling 670 m were drilled to test discrete gravity anomalies in the Mount Woods area, in a search for Olympic Dam type mineralisation. The holes encountered...-
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Petrography and petrogenesis of 18 rock samples from the Dome Rock mine area.
The primary purpose of this study was to describe the petrology of the rocks sampled, and to identify the contained opaque minerals which might possibly be affecting the IP response. Commentary on the likely genesis and similarities/dissimilarities of...-
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Published: 03 Jun 1969
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Beltana. Progress report for the period 28/5/1971 to 27/8/1971.
As part of a regional geochemical survey for signatures of stratiform base metal deposits, 208 stream sediment samples were collected along the eastern flank of the Mount Deception Range, over the lower part of the Late Proterozoic Bunyeroo Formation....-
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Published: 09 Sep 1971
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RB 2023/00044 Graphite: Critical mineral potential of South Australia.
Critical minerals are a collection of metal and non-metal commodities considered essential for economic and industrial development, and for which there are significant concerns around future supply due to resource scarcity or geopolitical factors. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2023
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Uley. Annual reports for the period 16/9/2005 to 12/10/2018.
A licence area located 20 km west-southwest of Port Lincoln, which covers the historically worked Uley graphite deposit and environs, was taken up to try to delineate sufficient mineral resources and, eventually, ore reserves of graphite in the Mining...-
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Published: 25 Mar 2019
