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Bull 033 The Geology and Iron Ore Resources of the Middleback Range Area
This report deals comprehensively with the physiography, prospect geology, and ore genesis, and includes an assessment of the iron ore reserves and other mineral resources of an area which has been almost the sole source of the iron ore used in...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1978.
Stratabound, metasedimentary iron ore was the principal target of exploration undertaken by BHP over a large area surrounding the Moonabie Range that extends along strike and borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf. Base and precious metals...-
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Cowell. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/5/1978 to 22/4/1980.
The exploration targets in an area extending along the Spencer Gulf coastal plain between Cowell and Whyalla were sandstone type roll-front uranium deposits, developed in possible Eocene palaeochannels that may have drained the Cleve Uplands and...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1980
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Kimba Gap [South] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports [to the commencement of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 17/9/2003 to 16/9/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 50 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group (SAIOG) to explore for possible concealed economic...-
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1993 to 14/3/1998.
A low-lying small area situated 40 km west of Whyalla has been explored primarily for economic gypsum occurrences within Recent surficial sediments, while latterly, a search for metallic minerals has also commenced, via a geological survey of basement...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kimba Gap [North] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 60 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd(SAIOG), a subsidiary of WA-based Portman Iron Ore...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pondooma. Annual and combined annual reports for the period 3/12/2002 to 2/12/2005.
Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, consisting of two separate sub-blocks that are centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, is located immediately west of the Middleback Range and 5 km west of Onesteel’s Iron Duke mine. This licence was granted to SA...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : [Coastal Magnetite Project] Iron ore prospects, eastern Eyre Peninsula. Project operator's report re. the prospects' 2002-2003 evaluation programme.
The key advantages of location and simple metallurgy of coastal Eyre Peninsula magnetite ores presented Portman Mining Ltd with an opportunity to enter a major under-explored and under-developed iron ore province and develop a new export business....-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kolendo (part of the Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 27/7/2009 to 26/7/2012.
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 south-eastern corner lies approximately 12 km north-west of the Menninnie Dam Pb-Zn-Ag...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kimba Gap, Ironstone Hut, Ironstone Hill, Stony Hill, Gilles Downs and Minbrie areas (the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/12/2005 to 31/1/2013.
Exploration for possible economic occurrences of magnetite and/or haematite iron ore formed in concealed Proterozoic basement to the west of the Middleback Range is being carried out by Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) joint venturer Centrex...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/6/1990 to 5/6/1995.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks that cover ~460 square km of Palaeoproterozoic BIF ironstone outcrops in the northern and southern parts of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up by The Broken Hill Pty...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Wanilla. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the multi-licence Southern Eyre Peninsula JV Project, for the period 28/10/2004 to 27/10/2006.
A narrow north-south aligned area centred approximately 25 km west-northwest of Port Lincoln, which is mainly covered by Quaternary ferricrete, has been taken up by Centrex Metals Ltd to explore for possible concealed economic deposits of iron ores...-
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Ironstone Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/9/2003 to 17/9/2015.
During the majority of its tenure term, very little field work was conducted on the subject ground. Initially, office studies of available geophysical and open file geological data were performed during 2005 to try to identify possible drilling...-
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Moonabie Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 19/2/1982.
Exploration in the Moonabie area, located 40 km south-west of Whyalla, was aimed at possible concealed epithermal or Alligator Rivers (NT) type stratabound uranium occurrences within the Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary/metavolcanic sequence....-
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Ironstone Hill. Combined first annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/3/1996 to 21/3/1997.
A possible southerly extension to the Iron Duke deposit was indicated by aeromagnetic and gravity data. However, one 150 m deep exploratory RC drillhole put down on the coinciding anomalies encountered quartz-magnetic BIF with no haematite enrichment.-
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Crossville. Annual and final report for the period 26/3/99 to 25/3/2000.
Regional calcrete, lag, rockchip and bulk cyanide leach drainage geochemistry were carried out over an area immediately to the east of Cleve. Gold in calcrete was recorded in two areas, which also returned elevated gold values in chip samples of vein...-
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Charleston (north of Cowell, eastern Eyre Peninsula). Annual and final report for the period 11/1/2001 to 10/7/2002.
EL 2789 covered the Charleston Granite, a large inferred Hiltaba Suite granitoid located at the southern termination of the Middleback Range, 60 km southwest of Whyalla. The area was considered prospective for shear - hosted gold mineralisation...-
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Ironstone Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1997 to 10/8/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey and surficial calcrete, soil and MMI sampling targeted Challenger/Tunkillia-type gold and Olympic Dam style copper-gold, associated respectively with a number of shear zones and with the Charleston Granite,...-
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Mount Ive Gate. Annual and final surrender reports for the period 21/2/2002 to June 2003.
Regional scale interpretation of available data highlighted the presence of a gravity anomaly at the intersection of magnetic lineaments in the Mt Ive Gate area, 60 km north of Kimba, in a region considered to be prospective for iron oxide related...-
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