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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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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 [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Ive Project. First annual report, for the period 1/1/2016 to 31/12/2016.
The “Mt Ive Project” forms the western part of the “Gawler Ranges Project”. The “Gawler Range Project” comprises 11 tenements covering a total area of 4,749 km2 in northern Eyre Peninsula. All 11 tenements are licenced to and operated by Menninnie...-
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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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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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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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Tarcoola Goldfield geological investigations. Reports on drilling and geological studies made over the period January 1987 to October 1988.
The main focus of a recently begun gold exploration programme on the Tarcoola Goldfield has been the Tarcoola Blocks mine, where gold occurs in subvertical quartz reefs, up to 2 m wide, which cross-cut folded Mid-Proterozoic sandstone and carbonaceous...-
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Emmie Bluff IOCG Mineral System 3D Model (3D pdf version).
The eastern Gawler Craton hosts the giant Olympic Dam iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposit, as well as several other world class IOCG deposits (i.e. Prominent Hill and Carrapateena). The region is covered by a thick sequence of...-
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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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Yalymboo, Dingo Hill and Black Oak Hill (the Cariewerloo Project). Joint annual reports and separate final reports to licence's respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 20/6/2009.
Possible Mesoproterozoic unconformity-related uranium deposits within the Cariewerloo Basin, involving an inferred structural preparation component whereby basic intrusive members of the Gairdner Dyke Swarm cut across this unconformity in a manner...-
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Published: 19 Nov 2009
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Pandurra. First partial surrender report for the period 16/9/2005 to 15/9/2006.
As part of a regional search for possible shallowly buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold deposits related to altered Gawler Range Volcanics hidden under younger cover rocks, Minotaur undertook ground gravity surveys in the two subareas of its EL...-
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Mount Eba. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2008.
An area within the northern Stuart Shelf which extends from 15 to 65 km south of the Prominent Hill mine site has been explored for possible similar IOCG-U type economic mineral deposits by a new industry entrant uranium explorer, Uranium Exploration...-
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Published: 16 Jan 2009
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Gawler and the Labyrinth Joint Venture Projects). Data release at second partial relinquishment : project licences' combined annual reports for the period 27/8/1999 to 28/9/2008.
In a continuation of exploration for economic deposits of gold and base metal mineralisation in the Lake Labyrith area, joint venture operator MIM Exploration carried out a proprietary 'MIMDAS' geophysical survey (utilising combined dipole-dipole IP...-
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Published: 18 Mar 2009
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South Vivian [Homestead]. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2007 to 11/6/2009.
An area located on the northern Stuart Shelf between Olympic Dam and Prominent Hill, approx. 50 km south-southwest of the latter, has been explored for possible Olympic Dam type iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits and for Canadian...-
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Published: 17 Oct 2009
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Data release - as updated : Mount Paisley (part of the Mount Woods JV Project). Annual reports to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/3/2000 to 10/5/2014.
Possible iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) type large base and precious metal deposits which may have formed within buried Proterozoic basement are being targeted in an area centred about 145 km south-east of Coober Pedy and 100 km north-west...-
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Published: 24 Jun 2014
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ExpNotes YARDEA: Explanatory Notes YARDEA, SI 53-03.
The YARDEA 1:250,000 scale regional geological map area straddles the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges on northern Eyre Peninsula. The only major township within the area is Minnipa, with Kimba and Wudinna both located immediately south of the...-
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Yudnapinna. Annual reports to commencement of Pandurra JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 5/6/2006 to 23/2/2012.
An area centred approximately 90 km west-northwest of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible buried economic IOCG style epithermal/hydrothermal mineralisation that may have formed within Mesoproterozoic basement rocks of the south-eastern...-
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Published: 31 Aug 2011
