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The MIM-Peko Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project. Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender and their re-issue as a single replacement tenement, for the period 15/2/1983 to 20/10/1989.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, undertaken over areas to the south-east of Arcoona Homestead and in the vicinity of Woomera township, has comprised numerous reconnaissance and then detailed gravity, ground magnetic and CSAMT...-
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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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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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Uro Bluff [latterly with Cultana and Tregolana]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to the full surrender of EL 1003 Uro Bluff, for the period 13/3/1980 to 15/1/1985.
Exploration which aimed to test the base of the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation for economic sedimentary copper deposits has included 10 rotary drillholes (total 1731.8 m), notably with a successful intersection of 1 metre of chalcocite - bearing...-
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Lake Torrens - Port Augusta and Point Paterson areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/11/1977 to 30/11/1979.
SALT MINING STUDY: Field tests on the feasibility of Lake Torrens salt production to supply raw material for the planned Redcliff Petrochemical Project were continued, with project planning technical data demonstrations given to visiting officials of...-
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Pandurra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/9/1979 to 17/9/1981.
Continued exploration for stratabound base metals across an area of the southern Stuart Shelf, extending west and north-west of Port Augusta, has included an evaluation of the results of previous stratigraphic drilling on the prior-held EL 332, plus...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1981
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Sugarloaf Hill - Tregolana areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 30/6/1980 to 29/6/1981.
In a search for possible economic stratiform copper deposits which might have formed at the base of the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation, 4 vertical rotary mud/diamond drillholes totalling 939.5 m were put down in the vicinity of Tregolana and...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1984
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[Results of a] Mini - Sosie seismic reflection survey, Myall Creek, 1980.
In a trial Mini-Sosie reflection seismic survey carried out over a 750 m section of exploration grid line near Myall Creek, where the method consisted of 6-fold profiling at 5 m trace spacing, the unconformity at the base of the Tapley Hill Formation...-
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Cultana [latterly with Uro Bluff, Tregolana and Sugarloaf Hill]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/6/1984.
In the search for Mount Gunson type sedimentary copper, 4 deep exploratory diamond drillholes (out of 22 totalling over 5000 m) intersected subeconomic mineralisation at the target base of the Sturtian Tapley Hill Formation (best value 3 m @ 1.55% Cu...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1984
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Charlinga. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/10/1979 to 24/10/1981.
Ongoing exploration for possible Mount Gunson - type base metal occurrences has included percussion drilling on a metal ratio geochemical anomaly identified proximal to inferred buried Beda Volcanics at Charlinga (10 holes totalling 1218 m), plus the...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1981
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CSR Mount Gunson Project : logs of exploratory/stratigraphic drillholes, Elizabeth Creek and Canegrass Dam areas.
Includes geological logs for the following drillholes: Mount Gunson to Canegrass Dam area: 3-14-1P to 3-14-46P (Mount Gunson Mines, 1972). Canegrass Dam area: 3-14-19P to 3-14-41P (Pacminex, Feb 1972); TOC1 - TOC4 (Pacminex, Nov 1976); SP1 -...-
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Tregalana - Sugarloaf Hill area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/6/1976 to 20/6/1978.
Vertical percussion drilling (4 holes totalling 577 m) and diamond drilling (3 holes totalling 538.4 m) undertaken in the Tregalana and Sugarloaf Hill areas of the Stuart Shelf disclosed weak base metal mineralisation (0.05-0.65% Cu spread unevenly...-
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Lincoln Gap (part of the Eastern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/9/2009 to 29/9/2011.
An area located approximately 20 km south-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic unconformity-hosted uranium at the base of the Pandurra Formation, for copper sulphides near the Beda Volcanics - Pandurra Formation contact, and...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty Lagoon [East]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2002.
An area of the Stuart Shelf located between Pernatty Lagoon and the Beda Arm of Lake Torrens, with its western boundary lying 15 km east of the historic Mount Gunson copper mining field, is being explored for possible economic basement-hosted IOCG...-
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RB 2016/00014 Geology of the Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Special Edition Map Sheet.
The Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2016
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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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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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Myall Creek. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 14/5/1998 to 30/3/2000.
Exploration for Olympic Dam type Cu-Au in the Myall Creek area, located 15-50 km north of Whyalla, comprised surface geological mapping and orientation calcrete geochemical sampling, together with the re-logging, petrographic examination and...-
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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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South Tent Hill and North Tent Hill. Joint annual reports submitted until licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2010.
Two adjoining licence areas located immediately west and north-west of Port Augusta, which cover the southern end of the Cariewerloo Basin and extend north-westwards for 60 km, are being explored for possible economic unconformity-style uranium...-
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Published: 14 Dec 2010
