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Roopena and Iron Knob. Joint progress reports, joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/4/1992 to 23/2/2000.
Exploration for Mount Isa style, Fe-oxide associated Cu-Au mineralisation has targeted Whyalla Group metasediments and associated Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions within a 110 km long x 15 km wide, north - south aligned corridor situated west of...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1978.
Stratabound, metasedimentary iron ore was the principal target of exploration undertaken by BHP over a large area surrounding the Moonabie Range that extends along strike and borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf. Base and precious metals...-
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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 74/00209 Seismic refraction investigation of a tank site at Whyalla - EWS Department.
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 2016/00027 The Gluepot Granite: CA-TIMS geochronology and constraints on the timing of deformation on northeastern Eyre Peninsula.
The Gluepot Granite is a heterogeneous granite comprising coarse-grained porphyritic granite and medium-grained equigranular granite, as well as late stage pegmatite and aplite phases. It occurs as a large pluton intruding the c. 1755 Ma Moonabie...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2017
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Moonabie Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 19/2/1982.
Exploration in the Moonabie area, located 40 km south-west of Whyalla, was aimed at possible concealed epithermal or Alligator Rivers (NT) type stratabound uranium occurrences within the Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary/metavolcanic sequence....-
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Uno (synonym Aroha). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1978 to 5/3/1980.
Exploration for uranium in the vicinity of Lake Gilles targeted the Lower Proterozoic Cleve Metamorphics and the unconformably overlying sandstone, conglomerate and rhyolite units of Carpentarian age, searching initially for analogues to the deposits...-
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Aroha. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/5/1980 to 26/5/1982.
As part of Esso's continued exploration programme for buried Late Proterozoic stratiform uranium deposits in the Uno - Corunna area, detailed geochemical, petrological, thermoluminescence and lead isotope studies were performed on samples obtained by...-
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Mullaquana. First partial surrender report, for the period 8/12/1980 to 7/12/1981.
Exploration targets were economic deposits of oil shale and coal in Eocene sediments deposited on the downthrown parts of fault blocks, under the coastal plain between Whyalla and Cowell. Four rotary drillholes totalling 133.5 m tested the Cainozoic...-
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RB 2008/00011 Definition of the Cultana Subsuite, Gawler Craton: a high level felsic Hiltaba Suite age intrusive with hydrothermal alteration and brecciation.
This paper provides a formal definition of the Cultana Subsuite, outlining the igneous petrology of the intrusion, its geochemical characteristics, and the nature of hydrothermal alteration and brecciation affecting the rocks. The Cultana Subsuite is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Summary report on ground scintillometer surveys, SMLs 204 and 205.
Ground scintillometer work carried out by BHP over its SMLs in the Middleback Range area has been shown not to be an effective reconnaissance tool for finding uranium anomalies, but it does have demonstrated value for identifying sources of...-
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