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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-14, Pernatty Lagoon area (eastern Gawler Craton) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
PACE proposal DPY3-14 aimed to discover a new iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralised magmatic centre, similar to the Olympic Dam setting, within the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton. The Pernatty Lagoon project is located less than...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1906
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Wheal Ellen mine area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/1998 to 24/6/2003.
Extensions to Cu-Pb-Co-Ag - rich lodes that were formerly exploited at the historic Wheal Ellen mine, located 40 km south-east of Adelaide, were the targets of recently renewed exploration for gold and base metals. Following the conduct of extensive...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1903
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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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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 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty [Station] and Yeltacowie (the Punt Hill IOCG Project). Joint annual reports for the period 29/11/2009 to 6/1/2012.
Two adjoining licence areas located in the country east of Pernatty Lagoon that lies between 80 and 180 km north of Port Augusta are being explored by Monax Mining Limited (Monax) for economic Proterozoic basement-hosted Iron-Oxide associated...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1912
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
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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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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 1912
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Mineralogy of heavy mineral separates from sediments of Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
35 surface samples of various clastic sediments deposited on Kangaroo Island were studied microscopically to see if the respective abundances, composition and mineralogical features of their heavy mineral grain components might shed light on possible...-
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Published: 07 Jun 1902
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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 1910
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RB 2006/00021 Tectonics of the southeastern Gawler Craton, South Australia: A field guide to the Palaeoproterozoic gneisses of Corny Point, Yorke Peninsula
This field guide presents an introduction to the geology and tectonics of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, particularly as observed at the Corny Point locality. Topics covered include the detrital zircon age distributions within the Corny Point...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
