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Roopena Station. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 26/6/1985.
Exploration of an area situated between Whyalla, Iron Knob and The Bluff overlooking Myall Creek, 20 km south-west of Port Augusta, aimed to test for Olympic Dam - type Cu-U-Au mineralisation associated with products of igneous activity located in and...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1985
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RB 92/00039 Kingoonya bedrock drilling 1991.
36 reverse circulation drillholes totalling 1448 m (average depth 40.2 m) were drilled to determine the bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary cover, in selected locations on the KINGOONYA 1:250,000 mapsheet area that had been recommended...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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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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Heartbreak Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 27/9/1996 to May 1999.
Regional and infill calcrete sampling over two now relinquished licence sub-areas lying respectively 10 km north and 25 km south-east of Tarcoola identified minor, slightly elevated Au and Cu values in both areas. Follow-up rock chip sampling and...-
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Myola. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/11/1996 to 29/7/2003.
Palaeoproterozoic gold, copper and base metal occurrences were the targets of exploration in an area surrounding the Iron Baron mine that, in a tectonic sense, incorporates parts of the Cleve, Middleback and Moonta Subdomains. Regional calcrete...-
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Tarcoola. Data release made in lieu of a 25% first partial relinquishment at licence renewal: [Part 2 of 2] progress reports for the period 19/7/1984 to 6/12/1990. Part 1 of 2 also included.
Exploration of the Tarcoola Gold Field by Aberfoyle Resources began in mid-1984, following a partial relinquishment of other ground at licence renewal, when some promising gold assay values were detected from rock and mine dump sampling. Geological...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-36, Roopena area copper/gold mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
Three previously untested, significant gravity anomalies were the targets for 4 exploratory vertical RC drillholes totalling 750 m, put down in areas west and north-west of Whyalla by Minotaur Exploration with funding assistance from PIRSA through its...-
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Roopena. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/6/1986 to 29/6/1988.
TARGET: Uranium in Proterozoic rocks in areas where these largely concealed by alluvial or weathered materials. EXPLORATION: RAB drilling during March-April 1987 (87 vertical open holes totalling 3583 m), investigation of radiometric anomalies...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Dingo Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
An area of the southern Stuart Shelf, with untested potential for hosting possible stratiform base metal deposits within a probable concealed Early Proterozoic sedimentary basin embayment, was explored by BP as part of their regional mineral...-
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Island Lagoon. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
Basal Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation - hosted stratiform copper was targeted primarily in this exploration programme, which consisted of reconnaissance deep percussion drilling (17 holes for a total advance of 4167 m) on the centres of...-
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Coondambo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender,for the period 3/5/1977 to 3/2/1978.
As part of a regional search for possible buried Olympic Dam type, Middle Proterozoic basement-hosted base and precious metal deposits, a prominent aeromagnetic anomaly located just to the east of Pinery Dam was delineated and its source modelled by...-
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Charlotte Well. First annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1994 to 3/6/1996.
Ground magnetic, ground gravity and electrical geophysical surveys were carried out during base metal exploration of SAEI-identified structural and aeromagnetic anomalies located along the northern margin of Lake Gairdner, searching for epithermal...-
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Lake Ross, Lake Hanson, Kowal and Gosses areas (Glendambo Project). Annual and final reports for the period 18/3/97 to 3/4/2000.
Interpretation of existing geophysical and drillhole data, including core chip re-assaying and petrography, was carried out for four areas located approximately 60 km north-west of Woomera. Interpreted geophysical features of the basement are...-
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Coondambo. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/1/1997 to 9/1/2001.
The area surrounding the town of Glendambo, 260 km north-west of Port Augusta, is underlain by a prospective crystalline basement composed of Proterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics, Hiltaba Suite granite and Gairdner Swarm dykes, buried beneath a variable...-
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Garford. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 7/6/1994 to 14/6/2000.
Initial investigations undertaken in the Garford area, 170 km north-west of Tarcoola, comprised lag and soil geochemical sampling, ground magnetic surveying, and petrographic descriptions of outcrop samples. Follow-up aircore and RAB drilling (78...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-36, Dingo Hill (Cariewerloo Basin) Palaeozoic / Mesoproterozoic unconformity - related uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
The Dingo Hill prospect lies within the eastern Gawler Craton, approximately 90 km west of Port Augusta. EL 3579 licensee Hindmarsh Resources is exploring for possible economic secondary stratiform uranium mineralisation associated with regional...-
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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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Mount Miccollo. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 9/8/93 to 8/8/95.
Rock chip sampling of Proterozoic hydrothermally much altered ?volcanic basement outcrop in the vicinity of Mt Miccollo, 50 km west-northwest of Iron Knob, returned anomalous Cu, Pb, Zn and As values. A pronounced circular aeromagnetic anomaly,...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1995
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/6/1991 to 16/4/1996.
Exploration for possible buried stratabound base metal deposits within Hutchison Group metasediments east of Kimba comprised an airborne magnetic-radiometric survey, ground magnetic surveys, RC drilling (338 holes, total 14,663 m) and one 279 m deep...-
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Charlotte Well. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/8/1994 to 31/7/1995.
The source of a large, intense aeromagnetic anomaly at the Pinery Dam prospect, located just north of the north-eastern shore of Lake Gairdner, was not disclosed by ground magnetic surveying and RC aircore and diamond drilling (5 vertical holes, total...-
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