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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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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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Arckaringa Basin, SA. 1984 diamond exploration report.
Evaluation of the diamond potential of the Arckaringa area, 50 km south-west of Oodnadatta, which is here considered to be a region both tectonically and geologically favourable for the past emplacement of kimberlitic intrusive bodies, has comprised...-
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Sawpit 1. Test reports.
Contains a report on seismic modelling of the Pretty Hill Sandstone section in the well,and a regional petrological review of this formation centering on Sawpit 1 data, plus some brief faxed comments regarding the well palynology.-
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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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Investigation and tests of garnet in flotation tailings from Kanmantoo mines, SA. Progress reports for the period March 1973 to April 1976.
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Published: 20 Apr 1976
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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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Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1979.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform/volcanogenic base metal sulphide deposits hosted by the (elsewhere) pyrite - bearing Early Cambrian Bruckunga Formation, in the Vivonne Bay district on south-central Kangaroo Island, was hampered by the...-
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Published: 27 Apr 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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......[Key SAMREF record for accessing referenced reports and data via DEM Content Manager - SPOT]...... Mount Toondina. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/2/1995 to 15/8/1998.
The Mount Toondina structure, a small but pronounced vertically fault-bounded inlier of Permian sediments within a flat-lying Mesozoic sequence, is represented by an annular magnetic feature located 45 km south of Oodnadatta. A single gravity profile...-
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Pinnaroo, Mount Timothy and Dingo Range (the Pinnaroo Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1999.
An airborne magnetic survey acquired by the grant licensee over the Lameroo district during August 1997 generated a number of shallow-source anomalies which suggested that there was fair potential for discovering buried Tertiary palaeocoastal...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1999
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Terowie Kimberlite Province. Progress and technical reports for the period 26/2/1980 to 26/2/1982.
Following a literature review of the mode of occurrence, field relationships, matrix mineralogy and geochemistry of Terowie - type kimberlite intrusions, the lease operator undertook large scale costeaning and bulk sampling of four kimberlites in that...-
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Northern Kangaroo Island. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/12/1967 to 30/11/1968.
Laboratory beneficiation feasibility tests have been conducted on a 250 lb bulk sample of known heavy mineral - bearing beach sands which were taken from nearshore dunes located along the northern coastline of Kangaroo Island at Nepean Bay. It was...-
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Published: 28 Oct 1968
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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 2010
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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 2012
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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 2010
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Lyons, Commonwealth Hill Station, Jumbuck Outstation, Mount Christie Siding and Sandstone Outstation (part of Tarcoola/Barton Project). Joint final [plus ELs 826 and 830 partial surrender] report for the period 13/4/1981 to 12/4/1983.
After two intensive regional reconnaisance programmes of heavy mineral sampling, backed up by air photointerpretation and drill hole record checks, the licensee has concluded that the tenement areas relinquished have a low prospectivity for diamonds....-
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Lake Alexandrina. Combined first annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1996 to 6/6/1997.
Possible Cainozoic garnet-rich heavy mineral sand placer deposits that might have been derived from erosion of Cambrian Kanmantoo Group metasediments were investigated by very shallow auger drilling (11 holes, total 19 m) and beach sand sampling...-
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