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High Bluff. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/1/1978 to 23/2/1985.
Exploration for possible Alligator Rivers (Northern Territory) style uranium deposits occurring in potential host rocks (carbonaceous pelites and carbonate rocks) within an Early Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence underlying a Middle Proterozoic...-
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Cleve. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/2/1986 to 27/9/1994.
Diamond exploration undertaken near Cleve on eastern Eyre Peninsula comprised stream and loam mineralogical and geochemical sampling, the reprocessing of Pancontinental's 1979 aeromagnetic survey data, and the conduct of ground magnetic surveys and...-
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RB 87/00105 Eyre Peninsula field excursion notes for the Field Geology Club of South Australia, Sept. 26 to Oct. 4, 1987.
Examines numerous outcrops illustrating the geological and tectonic evolution of the region. This excursion is based on the EPIC tour of the Geological Society of Australia 8th Australian Geological Convention excursion series in February 1986. This...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 81/00045 Blue Range Beds of central Eyre Peninsula.
The nomenclature of a mapped lithologic unit of unmetamorphosed arenites which is widespread in outcrop on central Eyre Peninsula has been reviewed, with the name "Blue Range Beds" being adopted. The unit's stratigraphic relationships suggest that it...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 90/00074 Explanatory Notes for the ELLISTON 1:250 000 map sheet.
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Published: 01 Nov 1990
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RB 88/00066 Petrography of Proterozoic Blue Range Beds in Newland DDH1, western Eyre Peninsula.
A sandstone and 3 conglomerate samples consist mainly of quartzite and monocrystalline quartz clasts, but also contain substantial feldspar, principally microcline. Much of the microcline is fresh and some contains inclusions of quartz. Opaque heavy...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1988
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RB 91/00081 Eyre Peninsula. A brief review of mining and mineral potential.
Several commodities are currently mined on Eyre Peninsula including iron ore, dolomite, graphite, lime sand, gypsum, silica, granite, nephrite jade, talc and salt. Historically, copper, lead, silver and gold have also been mined and there are known...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1991
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-01, Central Eyre Peninsula (Karkarook area) Mesoproterozoic unconformity - style sedimentary uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
Investigation of the potential of a known surface radiometrically-anomalous area 20 km west-southwest of Cleve to contain unconformity - style uranium mineralisation, inferred to occur at and just above the subsurface stratigraphic contact of...-
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Published: 31 Mar 1907
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Colton. Combined third annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 25/4/2005.
Exploration for possible diamondiferous kimberlite in the Colton area of western Eyre Peninsula, located approximately 95 km south-east of Streaky Bay and 35 km north-east of Flinders Island, has formed part of a regional search by Orogenic...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wild Horse Plain. Annual reports for the period 8/7/2005 to 23/2/2019, plus partial surrender reports to 23/2/2021.
An upland area located approximately 100 km south-west of Whyalla on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, and with its eastern boundary running parallel to the coast at a distance of 15 km from Cowell and Franklin Harbour, is being explored for uranium,...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1921
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Karkarook. Combined annual and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal/full surrender, for the period 24/6/2004 to 1/9/2014.
A area centred ~ 25 km west of Cleve is being explored for possible buried economic sediment-hosted or basement unconformity - related uranium mineralisation. The tenement covers part of the Driver River and Driver River Pan which contains a...-
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Published: 26 Sep 1914
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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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Rudall. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2012 to 23/5/2017.
A small area centred ~ 19 km west-northwest of Cleve was taken up primarily to explore for possible economic buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal...-
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Rudall. First partial surrender report, for the period 24/5/2012 to 2/12/2016.
Most of a small licence area located ~19 km west-northwest of Cleve has been surrendered following the completion of a helicopter-borne EM survey over the entire tenement during July 2012, looking for signs of possible buried graphite mineralisation...-
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Published: 24 Oct 1916
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Ungarra / Triple Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1979 to 7/11/1983.
As part of a regional evaluation of the variably exposed Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence on eastern Eyre Peninsula for possible economic pitchblende mineralisation, portion of a semi-detailed airborne radiometric/magnetic survey was flown...-
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Mount Wedge. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 12/10/88 to 27/5/92.
TARGET: Possible diamonds in the Mount Wedge region. EXPLORATION: Heavy mineral sampling, an airborne magnetic-radiometric survey, remote sensing Landsat TM plus aeromagnetic and radiometric data interpretation, detailed ground follow-up of more than...-
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Triple Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/7/1979 to 4/10/1982.
Exploration for possible buried occurrences of unconformity-related uranium mineralisation, undertaken within an area located approximately 26 km west-southwest of Cowell on eastern Eyre Peninsula, has included the acquistion during July 1979 of a 500...-
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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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RB 00794 Investigation of the basement rocks from Apollo no. 1 and Gemini no. 1 (inter alia).
This student vacational project report, for the Department's Petroleum Exploration Div., aimed to correlate the basement rocks met with in Great Australian Bight area offshore and near onshore petroleum exploration wells with outcropping formations...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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Cockabidnie North. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2010.
A small (11 square km) area located approximately 40 km south of Kimba has been explored for possible economic uranium, gold or base metal deposits, including Menninnie Dam style lead-zinc-silver mineralisation, that may have formed in Archaean to...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1910
