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Sedimentology and petroleum geochemistry of the Ouldburra Formation, eastern Officer Basin, Australia.
Deposition of the Early Cambrian Ouldburra Formation, a mixed siliciclastic/carbonate, marine carbonate and evaporite succession, occurred in the shallow marine setting of the Manya Trough. The observed variations between the facies are interpreted...-
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Willouran Ranges Stratiform Copper Project. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/12/1976 to 21/12/1978.
Detailed geological mapping, rock and soil sample geochemistry, sedimentary petrology, and rotary percussion and diamond drilling were undertaken in the Willouran Ranges, south-west of Marree, to explore for stratiform copper mineralisation,...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-11, Moseley Dam mineral prospect. Project final report.
As part of its programme of exploration for Neoproterozoic stratiform copper mineralisation in the Mount Gunson district, based on prior target generation through soil geochemical sampling and electrical geophysical surveying, Gunson Resources...-
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Yarramba. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 8/3/1976 to 7/3/1978.
Ongoing exploration for sedimentary uranium ore deposited in buried 1.5 - 6 km wide and 50 m thick Tertiary palaeochannels in the Yarramba area, located adjacent to the SA-NSW border 50 km northwest of Cockburn, included three detailed and...-
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Paralana Creek and Four Mile Creek [part of the Paralana Plains Joint Venture area]. Progress reports for the period 15/4/1968 to 14/4/1971.
A licence area covering the flat alluvial Paralana Plains extending out eastwards from the northern Flinders Ranges was taken up by the the consortium of Exoil NL, Petromin NL and Transoil NL to explore for possible economic buried occurrences of...-
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Report on drilling results, Beverley prospect, SML 564, Paralana Plains, SA.
Following the February 1972 farm-in of US-based company Western Uranium Ltd (WU) for 42 months to SML 564 in the Lake Frome area of South Australia, a drilling programme was undertaken by it to evaluate a series of buried fluvial uranium occurrences...-
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Mount Chandler (Musgrave Ranges Project). Annual and final reports for the period 11/11/1996 to 10/11/1999.
Cu-Au-U prospects associated with shear zones and Kulgeran age granites have been identified in an area approximately 60 km north-west of Marla. Best assay results were obtained from the Indulkana Shear Zone, where rock chip sampling returned up to...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Harcus. Annual reports for period 27/6/2005 to 26/6/2010.
Mt Harcus EL3368 is located within the Palaeoproterozoic Musgrave Province. The region is recognised by PepinNini Minerals Ltd as prospective for magmatic Ni-Cu Sulphide mineralisation, platinum group metals, base metals, diamonds, and precious...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Prospect Hill. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2018.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation at three known separate occurrences in the Prospect Hill area, lying 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, has focussed on the untested zone immediately below the known...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kalabity. Annual reports for the period 25/2/2009 to 11/3/2019.
The main exploration activities undertaken during the first year of tenure of renewed EL 4239 (licence Year 6, 2009-2010) consisted of drill testing of uraniferous prospects defined by previous exploration, after the prior acquisition of an airborne...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Acropolis South and North Roxby. Joint annual reports for the period 26/4/2003 to 3/5/2009.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of buried, Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-U style mineralisation is being conducted over two separate multiple-block licence areas in the Olympic Dam district, EL 2931 (Acropolis South) and EL 2932...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Carrapateena Arm, Hatch Hill, Beda Arm and Lake Torrens South (the OZ Minerals Carrapateena Project). Annual reports (separate and joint) for the period 8/1/2008 to 6/1/2016.
Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...-
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Coober Pedy. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/11/2016 to 31/10/2019.
A large area situated on the north-eastern side of the Stuart Range, comprising three separate sub-blocks that taken together are centred ~20 km north of Coober Pedy township, has been explored for possible economic near-surface accumulations of the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Kolendo [not "Taringa"] (part of the Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2013.
An area located adjacent to the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges, that includes some exposures of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV), and which at its southern boundary lies approximately 15 km north-east of the Menninnie Dam Pb-Zn-Ag...-
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Coober Pedy. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/11/2016 to 31/10/2018.
An area located immediately east and north-east of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic near-surface accumulations of the evaporite industrial mineral epsomite. Historic drilling and costeaning in this area performed by CRA Exploration...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Beltana. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1993 to 15/4/1998.
Contains a subset of data compiled by the licensee on the subject of commercial use of coloured iron oxides, plus some progress reports dealing with an assessment of red dolomitic marble from the Ajax Limestone unit for its potential use as an...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY8-30 - Eucla Basin Eocene and Pleistocene low-stand beach ridge marine heavy mineral placer prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Nundroo Range and Bookabie Range are prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which are located ~200 km west of Ceduna and ~100 km south of the...-
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Mount Moulden. Technical data submitted in support of a mineral exploration licence application.
Dataset comprises an information package which was supplied by the licence proponents to the Executive Board of Anangu Pitjantjatjara, as part of the formal process of seeking their permission to conduct mineral exploration activities within the...-
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Barton Siding (North). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1979 to 4/1/1988.
Carpentaria's exploration for Olympic Dam - type base and precious metal mineralization included the acquisition of aerial magnetic (Geoex Pty Ltd, March 1979), helicopter-borne gravity (Layton Geophysical, September 1979) and ground magnetic surveys,...-
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