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Roopena Station. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 26/6/1985.
Exploration of an area situated between Whyalla, Iron Knob and The Bluff overlooking Myall Creek, 20 km south-west of Port Augusta, aimed to test for Olympic Dam - type Cu-U-Au mineralisation associated with products of igneous activity located in and...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1985
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RB 92/00039 Kingoonya bedrock drilling 1991.
36 reverse circulation drillholes totalling 1448 m (average depth 40.2 m) were drilled to determine the bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary cover, in selected locations on the KINGOONYA 1:250,000 mapsheet area that had been recommended...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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Nuckulla Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/7/2004 to 11/7/2009.
As part of a search for possible Tunkillia type structurally-controlled buried gold deposits within an area located approximately 120 km north-east of Ceduna, licensee Southern Gold targeted geochemical and geophysical anomalies that had previously...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1909
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-47, Myall Creek Neoproterozoic stratabound base metal (copper) mineral prospect. Project final report.
The known Myall Creek stratabound copper occurrence located ~23 km north of Whyalla, which was discovered in 1975 by Australian Selection, consists of low-grade (0.3 to 2.2% Cu) Zambian Copperbelt or Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphides extending...-
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The Lake Torrens Project; plus the Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2010.
Licensee Copper Range originally took up a group of three tenements located in central South Australia covering areas within and west of Lake Torrens, with the intent, much reinforced following the Carrapateena deposit discovery made in 2005, of...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1911
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Tarcoola. Data release made in lieu of a 25% first partial relinquishment at licence renewal: [Part 2 of 2] progress reports for the period 19/7/1984 to 6/12/1990. Part 1 of 2 also included.
Exploration of the Tarcoola Gold Field by Aberfoyle Resources began in mid-1984, following a partial relinquishment of other ground at licence renewal, when some promising gold assay values were detected from rock and mine dump sampling. Geological...-
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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] : Wartaka, Iron Knob, Reid Lookout and Old Wartaka (the Parkinson Dam Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports for the period 17/2/2005 to 26/4/2019.
Four small, adjacent licences located on the south-eastern, shallow subcrop margin of the Gawler Ranges, which together make up an area centred about 25 km north-east of Lake Gilles and 60 km west of Port Augusta, are being explored for possible...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/4/2000 to 8/8/2010.
During the sixth licence year, on renewed EL 2717 covering the same area as previously, the licensee, now a wholly owned subsidiary of AuIron Energy Limited (formerly Meekatharra Minerals Limited), progressed its investigations of the geology of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Ive Project. First annual report, for the period 1/1/2016 to 31/12/2016.
The “Mt Ive Project” forms the western part of the “Gawler Ranges Project”. The “Gawler Range Project” comprises 11 tenements covering a total area of 4,749 km2 in northern Eyre Peninsula. All 11 tenements are licenced to and operated by Menninnie...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 7/10/2009 to 6/10/2013.
New work undertaken on EL 4187 during the 2009-2010 licence year has included: • Ongoing documentation and interpretation of MGD 55 & 56 • Drilling of MGD57 to 1243 m at Emmie Bluff prospect • Down hole EM and IP logging of MGD57 •...-
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Roopena. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/6/1986 to 29/6/1988.
TARGET: Uranium in Proterozoic rocks in areas where these largely concealed by alluvial or weathered materials. EXPLORATION: RAB drilling during March-April 1987 (87 vertical open holes totalling 3583 m), investigation of radiometric anomalies...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Coondambo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender,for the period 3/5/1977 to 3/2/1978.
As part of a regional search for possible buried Olympic Dam type, Middle Proterozoic basement-hosted base and precious metal deposits, a prominent aeromagnetic anomaly located just to the east of Pinery Dam was delineated and its source modelled by...-
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Gilles Downs (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report (prior to start of joint reporting status) for the period 8/7/2005 to 7/7/2006: and final report submitted at licence full surrender, for the succeeding period to 30/7/2015.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located on the plains extending to the west of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to explore for possible economic buried deposits of stratabound magnetite iron ore...-
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Shell Lagoon. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/1/2001 to 7/5/2010.
Exploration for possible diamondiferous kimberlites in an area located immediately north-west and west of Woomera was undertaken to follow up promising reports of numerous kimberlitic indicator minerals detected by CRA Exploration in previous work...-
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Published: 08 Jun 1912
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Data release - as updated : Mount Paisley (part of the Mount Woods JV Project). Annual reports to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/3/2000 to 10/5/2014.
Possible iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) type large base and precious metal deposits which may have formed within buried Proterozoic basement are being targeted in an area centred about 145 km south-east of Coober Pedy and 100 km north-west...-
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Published: 24 Jun 1914
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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 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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Charlotte Well. First annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1994 to 3/6/1996.
Ground magnetic, ground gravity and electrical geophysical surveys were carried out during base metal exploration of SAEI-identified structural and aeromagnetic anomalies located along the northern margin of Lake Gairdner, searching for epithermal...-
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