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Braemar. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/5/1990 to 3/9/1991.
In a search for possible economic buried copper-gold mineralisation that might be associated with an inferred south-western extension of the major Anabama - Redan Fault Zone system, the licensee conducted reconnaissance minus 80 mesh stream sediment...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Manunda. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting on the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, for the period 10/12/2007 to 9/12/2009.
The banded iron formations associated with various tillite in South Australia have been recognised as being potential sources for iron however the low-grade nature of these bands has been one of the limiting factors in why they have not been...-
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Wiawera. Second partial surrender report, for the period 13/12/1996 to 12/6/2001.
Sheeted vein type gold, Telfer style gold, and BIF hosted gold and base metals were the targets of exploration carried out in Adelaidean sediments of the Anabama - Radium Hill area. Work included an interpretation of aeromagnetic survey data, auger...-
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Wiawera. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1996 to 12/12/2001.
Exploration for possible sheeted vein type gold, Telfer - style gold, and BIF hosted gold and base metal sulphide deposits that may have formed in Adelaidean metasediments occupying the area between Anabama and Radium Hill, 10-30 km south-east of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonython Hill (part of the Border Project). Annual reports for the period 23/2/2007 to 18/5/2014.
During Year 7 of reporting, exploration work included two 1 km soil geochemical traverses, field inspection of Neogene palaeochannels and land access negotiations with landowners. Previous exploration in the region has recognised the correlation...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2015.
A licence area in the Olary district comprising three separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences within partly concealed Neoproterozoic bedrock. The subject ground was taken up by Wentworth Metals...-
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Manunda, Tiverton Outstation, Iron Peak and Pualco Range (the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, later the Mawson Iron Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2016.
Three adjoining licence areas in the Baratta Trough within the northern Nackara Arc have been taken up to explore for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic metasedimentary semi-stratabound iron ore. Central EL 4267 covers ~3 km strike length of the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Border JV Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2015 to 31/12/2016.
During the first year of joint reporting for the five licences which are now subject to an amalgamated exploration expenditure agreement, work commenced with the acquisition of 31 line km of ground magnetic survey data over 9 proposed drill sites for...-
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Mutooroo (latterly part of the Border JV Project). Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1997 to 18/4/2017.
Four separate large portions of a long-held licence area abutting the SA/NSW state border in the vicinity of Mutooroo have been relinquished as part of statutory requirements. The following summary prepared by Minotaur Exploration describes work done...-
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Iron Peak. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/3/1986 to 11/3/1987.
Stratabound gold in rocks of the Adelaidean metasedimentary sequence was the target of exploration undertaken on Manunda Station, about 45 km south-east of Yunta. No significant gold values were detected in a programme of stream sediment bulk...-
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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Copperlinka. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/1/1983 to 23/3/1989.
TARGET: Gold . as Telfer-style stratabound mineralisation at the contact between Tapley Hill Formation and Tarcowie Siltstone; . as mineralisation of large scale, placer type in the Appila Tillite and Wilyerpa Formation; and . as hydrothermally...-
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Manunda Creek. Combined first progress/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/1977 to 22/8/1978.
Exploration for possible economic Olympic Dam - type epithermal/hydrothermal or Zambian Copperbelt - type stratabound/replacement base metal deposits, in an area located approximately 40 km south-east of Yunta, focussed on magnetic anomalies and...-
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RB 2018/00039 Origin, classification and modes of emplacement of Sturtian glaciomarine megaclasts of the MacDonald Corridor, Bimbowrie Conservation Park, near Olary, South Australia.
Ten glacial megaclasts, unique perhaps from a global perspective, have been identified in the half-graben rift of the MacDonald Corridor. The MacDonald Corridor is the most easterly of four half-grabens containing Neoproterozoic low-grade...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2018
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tiverton Outstation. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting on the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, for the period 17/9/2007 to 16/9/2009.
The banded iron formations associated with various tillite in South Australia have been recognised as being potential sources for iron however the low-grade nature of these bands has been one of the limiting factors in why they have not been...-
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RB 2014/00003 Geology and mineral resources of Bimbowrie Conservation Park – the MacDonald Corridor and adjacent parts of the Palaeo- to Mesoproterozoic basement.
Former sheep station ‘Bimbowrie’, situated in the Olary Ranges, South Australia, was purchased by the South Australian Government as a conservation park in 2004. It has had a long history of mining, mineral exploration and geoscientific investigation....-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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Wiawera. First partial surrender report, for the period 13/12/1996 to 12/12/1998.
As part of exploration for sheeted vein, stratabound Telfer style and banded iron formation hosted Homestake style gold and base metal deposits in metasediments of Adelaidean age, a programme of soil auger drilling and calcrete sampling conducted 20...-
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Peaked Hill [formerly Trinity mine area]. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1981 to 26/7/1983.
Ongoing exploratory RAB bedrock drilling of 302 shallow holes totalling 1919 m, over an area located approximately 40 km south-east of Olary, has shown that the Pegline Dam prospect is not base metal mineralised, and that the source of an IP anomaly...-
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