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Peachna. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/9/1988 to 8/9/1994.
Possible economic Broken Hill - type stratiform Pb and Zn, and Middleback Range style iron ore, were targeted near Lock on central Eyre Peninsula by Western Mining Corp., who farmed-in to Stockdale's EL 1516 on March 1st, 1990 as part of a regional...-
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RB 88/00095;Lib Archaean - Early Proterozoic granitoids, metasediments and mylonites of southern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
This excursion guide is a refinement of a 6-day excursion led by Parker, Fanning and Flint in 1980 at the height of economic interest in the basement geology of the Gawler Craton. The interest in those days was for Alligator River - style uranium...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Koppio. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/1/1995 to 7/4/1997.
Geochemical sampling of ferruginous lag, stream sediments, BLEG soils, and rock chips, targeted possible Thompson Belt - type nickel-copper and precious metal mineralisation hosted by Lower Proterozoic Hutchison Group metasediments in an area 40 km...-
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Sleaford. Partial surrender report for the period 13/2/1998 to March 1999.
Lag / laterite sampling and a geophysical data review of an area of concealed basement 25 km south-west of Port Lincoln, searching for granulite facies - hosted gold deposits within the Archaean Sleaford Complex, plus possible shear - related...-
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Cummins. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 10/1/1997 to 16/3/1999.
Thick and often unconsolidated cover sequences of Bridgewater, Uley and Wanilla Formations prevented systematic regolith sampling of much of the area between Wanilla and Peachna, 40 km north-west of Port Lincoln, while no coherent base metal anomalies...-
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Ceduna. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1996 to 17/7/2000.
Joint venture exploration over an area extending for 40, 35 and 50 km respectively west, north and east of Ceduna targeted Archaean and Proterozoic Yarlbrinda - style Au and Ernest Henry / Olympic Dam style Cu-Au associated with shear zones and...-
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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Moseley Nobs (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 23/3/2017 to 22/3/2019.
The easternmost and westernmost thirds (portions totalling ~52%) of the former area of EL 5931, located approximately 30 km north of Kimba, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished prospectivity for economic buried occurrences of...-
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Pinkawillinie (part of the Wilcherry Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/2012 to 10/4/2019.
An area originally consisting of three separate licence sub-blocks that are centred ~30 km north-west of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried occurrences of basement-hosted epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron,...-
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Uno (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 29/7/2009 to 24/1/2020.
An area centred ~105 km west-southwest of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now...-
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Wilcherry Hill. Drilling at the Weednanna Au-Fe deposit, an exploration model for gold deposits formed in the southern Gawler Craton. Collaborative drilling and research final report, Project ADI RD02-265 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Between 8 August and 6 October 2021, six inclined, rotary mud precollared diamond cored holes (21WDDH001 to 006) totalling 1560.6 m were drilled at the Weednanna gold and iron deposit located ~40 km north of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula, as part...-
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Uno [West] and Eurilla Dam (part of the Wilcherry Hill Project). Third and first partial surrenders' respectively combined report, for the overall period 10/10/2002 to 7/4/2022.
17 square km or ~65% of the former area of EL 5931, and 14 square km or ~12% of the former area of EL 6072, have recently been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for buried base and precious metal mineralisation. Work...-
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Mount Wedge. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 12/10/88 to 27/5/92.
TARGET: Possible diamonds in the Mount Wedge region. EXPLORATION: Heavy mineral sampling, an airborne magnetic-radiometric survey, remote sensing Landsat TM plus aeromagnetic and radiometric data interpretation, detailed ground follow-up of more than...-
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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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Coulta. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 23/2/1978 to 22/3/1979.
Exploration for possible economic vein-style primary uranium deposits hosted within basement rocks in a licence area located 55 km west-northwest of Port Lincoln has consisted of detailed (1:10,000 scale) geological mapping over a 650 square km area,...-
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RB 2004/00025 Beryl in South Australia
Gem-quality varieties of beryl occur rarely in South Australia and exist in insufficient quantities to be of current economic interest. Non-gem grade beryl, by contrast, is a widespread accessory mineral in many pegmatites of South Australia, but, at...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2004
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RB 2006/00004 Crustal evolution of the Gawler Craton, South Australia: Application of the TerraneChron technique to detrital zircon from modern stream sediments.
This report presents the results of a Terranechron [registered brand name for this proprietary technique] study of detrital zircons from modern stream sediments of the Gawler Craton. The Terranechron approach involves obtaining uranium - lead decay...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2006
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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 2001/00006 Reconnaissance sampling of basement rocks of the Gawler Craton, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Eighty-five sites of crystalline basement rocks on the Gawler Craton were inspected to determine which lithological or stratigraphical units have potential for use as dimension stone. The Gawler Craton contains a variety of rock types including...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2000
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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