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RB 93/00010 Explanatory Notes for the WARRINA 1:250 000 geological map.
The oldest rocks on WARRINA outcrop in the Peake and Denison Inliers, which comprise the Davenport and Denison Ranges and small inliers to the east. Basement in this area consists of Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic rocks which were intruded by...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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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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Wirrida. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 24/4/2008 to 23/4/2009.
No field work - a review of previous exploration and an interpretation of geophysical datasets downgraded the prospectivity of the licence area, located 55 km south of Coober Pedy, for finding non- to weakly magnetic IOCG(-U) mineralisation within...-
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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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Mount Paisley (part of the Mount Woods Project). Fourth partial surrender report for the period 23/3/2000 to 8/8/2009.
Exploration Licence 3387 (Mt Paisley) is located about 110 km north-west of Woomera, 110 km west-northwest of Olympic Dam, and 45 km south-east of Prominent Hill. The EL lies within the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), and most of the tenement covers...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 30/7/2003 to 6/10/2009.
The subject EL 3112 ground represents the continuation of tenure by Gunson Resources, over the same area, from its former EL 2516 Yeltacowie (for which see the relevant licence reports previously released in Envs 9530 and 9715). This replacement...-
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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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Galaxy Tank. Annual reports for the period 22/11/96 to 21/11/98.
Regional and infill calcrete sampling conducted 70 km southwest of Coober Pedy defined a 1.5 ppb Au anomaly 2 km wide, over a northeasterly strike distance of 7 km. An investigative drilling program had been planned, prior to a management decision to...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 7/10/2009 to 6/10/2013.
New work undertaken on EL 4187 during the 2009-2010 licence year has included: • Ongoing documentation and interpretation of MGD 55 & 56 • Drilling of MGD57 to 1243 m at Emmie Bluff prospect • Down hole EM and IP logging of MGD57 •...-
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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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Gosses Outstation. Combined first annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 11/5/2007 to 10/5/2008.
Three small licence subareas located approximately 85 km east of Tarcoola were assessed by a consultant, via desktop studies of available geoscientific data, for their diamond potential. It was concluded that the thick sedimentary cover of the...-
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Parakylia Hill. Combined first annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 11/5/2007 to 10/5/2008.
Three small licence subareas located approximately 80 km north-east of Woomera were assessed by a consultant, via desktop studies of available geoscientific data, for their diamond potential. It was concluded that the thick sedimentary cover of the...-
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Gilles Downs (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report (prior to start of joint reporting status) for the period 8/7/2005 to 7/7/2006: and final report submitted at licence full surrender, for the succeeding period to 30/7/2015.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located on the plains extending to the west of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to explore for possible economic buried deposits of stratabound magnetite iron ore...-
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Wartaka [Homestead] (part of the Parkinson Dam Project). Annual reports [to the commencement of project licences' combined reporting] and final report to licence surrender, for the period 20/6/2003 to 30/6/2012.
An area located approximately 50 km west of Port Augusta has been explored for economic epithermal gold and silver mineralisation following the discovery of such mineralisation a short distance to the north on the licensee's adjoining EL 3307 / 4475....-
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