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Andamooka, Stuart Creek, Arcoona, Lake Torrens, Todds Dam, Lake Arthur, Woodforde Hill and Murdie Island (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint first partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1986.
WMC's Stuart Shelf exploration activities from 1975 to 1985 have sought mainly Olympic Dam style mineralisation (copper - uranium - precious metals in haematitic breccia host rocks), with lesser emphasis directed at: possible distal analogues of the...-
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RB 60/00116 Water supply, Andamooka Opalfield. Report on recent drilling.
The drilling of four bores was undertaken by SADM during April 1965 in an attempt to augment the limited supplies of potable water presently available for the residents of the Andamooka Opalfield. The existing supplies of such water are drawn from...-
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Published: 08 Jun 1965
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RB 91/00041 Geology of the KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map sheet area.
Extensive field geological mapping, augmented by petrological and geochemical studies, reinterpretation of company drilling and water-bore logs and a nine-hole drilling programme has detailed the geology of the KINGOONYA area. The stratigraphy spans...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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RB 92/00037 Review of mineral exploration, KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map area.
This report was prepared as a summary of all open file mineral exploration data from the KINGOONYA 1:250000 mapsheet area that are held in the SADME records management Envelope system. The aim of the holdings review was to describe past exploration,...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1991
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Rawlinson Hill, Mount Sabine, Snow Hill and Billa Kalina Homestead (Stuart Shelf / Arckaringa Basin). Joint progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 28/4/1987.
Over the report period Agip Australia completed the drilling and geophysical logging of 39 open rotary holes totalling 3845 m to investigate if economic coal seams occur within Permian sediments of the southern Arckaringa Basin. Although the Permian...-
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Stuart Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1979 to 18/10/1982.
One vertical stratigraphic diamond drillhole [the 1a re-drill] was fully cored to 1450 m total depth over a regional gravity high in the western half of the licence which was thought to be prospective for Olympic Dam type polymetallic mineralisation...-
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Portulacca Ridge. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/12/1975 to 23/3/1976.
After a geological reconnaissance conducted in the Lake Torrens area located some surface geochemical enrichments of phosphate within an attenuated basal section of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone at several different stratigraphic levels within that...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1976
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Billa Kalina Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/1977 to 14/2/1979.
Airborne and ground geophysical surveys were undertaken in the Billa Kalina area, prior to commencing to drill in a search for Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au mineralised haematitic breccias, in order to delineate and detail several broad magnetic anomalies...-
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Andamooka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/3/1970 to 25/3/1971.
Exploration for supergene Cu-Pb-Zn mineralisation within the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone, 12 miles north-east of Andamooka, comprised broad scale surface geochemical sampling (302 samples), detailed mapping of the resulting prospects, bulldozer...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1971
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Reedy Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/2/1987 to 2/2/1992.
TARGET: Possible diamondiferous kimberlites subcropping under Cainozoic cover in an area located 110 km north-east of Glendambo. EXPLORATION: Acquisition and interpretation of 6759 line km of airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys, regolith heavy...-
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RB 00790 Summary of seismic experiments [conducted] in EL 190, May 1975.
Refraction and experimental reflection seismic shooting was undertaken in EL 190 on Roxby Downs Station during May 1975, along 3 lines totalling 13.2 line km. The aim was to map Cambrian and Precambrian sedimentary horizons using methods generally...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-02, Titan mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Titan prospect is located within Exploration Licence 3209, and lies 30 km north of the Olympic Dam mine. The prospect was first drilled by Western Mining Corp. in 1976 with diamond drillhole BD 1, and in 1981 with a second hole, BD 2. Both holes hit...-
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White Cliff (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 24/7/2003 to 7/4/2016.
Only minimal work has been conducted on the small area comprising all of the now surrendered remaining part of EL 5366, which is centred 20 km north-northeast of Roxby Downs township. That work began with Tasman Resources' generation of a conceptual...-
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Andamooka North area (the Saddle Hill Project). First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1996 to 6/6/1998.
Gravity and targeted mobile metal ion (MMI) soil geochemical surveys were carried out north-east of Olympic Dam, adjacent to WMC's tenements, to explore for Olympic Dam style mineralisation in Middle Proterozoic basement rocks at depth below the...-
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Beddome Dams. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 28/7/1980 to 3/8/1983.
Ground magnetic and regional infill and detailed gravity surveys, plus Maxi-Probe ground EM soundings, were carried out on two grids laid out near Beddome Hill, which lies 35 km west of Roxby Downs Homestead, to investigate a 4-6 mGal regional gravity...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1983
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Ediacara Range. Progress and final reports on evaluation of phosphate prospects, for the period June to November 1975.
Exploration for possible commercial accumulations of sedimentary shallow marine phosphorite ore in the Ediacara 'Sub-basin', 26 km west of Beltana, has consisted of a search within the Early Cambrian strata for any sites or layers of phosphate...-
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Reedy Lagoon. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/10/1977 to 16/10/1979.
As part of a regional search for possible buried Olympic Dam type base metal mineralisation, one vertical percussion hole was drilled to 200 m total depth at a site located 9.5 km NNW of Parakylia Homestead, principally to gather stratigraphic...-
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Beddome Hill. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
Exploration for possible economic basement-hosted Roxby Downs style base metal sulphide deposits was undertaken in an area located approximately 90 km north-west of Woomera. Existing regional geophysical airborne survey coverage was too sparse to...-
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Lake Torrens. Final report to licence surrender for the period 6/4/1976 to 23/7/1976.
The phosphate potential of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone, inferred to outcrop on the plain near the lake shoreline just to the north-east of Lake Torrens, was investigated by geological photointerpretation and ground reconnaissance. Due to poor...-
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Roxby Downs. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 14/9/1966 to 10/8/1967.
Exploration within SML 129 formed part of a larger project aimed at delineating potentially mineralised areas of outcropping or covered Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks. Initial regional geochemical and geological exploration was completed over a much...-
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Published: 27 Sep 1967
