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Lake Hart. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/9/1980 to 4/9/1982.
Airborne magnetic/radiometric surveys and follow-up gravity surveys carried out in a search for possible Olympic Dam type orebodies have indicated depths to magnetic basement in excess of 1000 m in the Lake Hart area of the Stuart Shelf. The...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1982
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Report on the Shamrock uranium prospect.
Uranium mineralisation was first discovered at the old Shamrock Copper Mine during a systematic search of old mine dumps by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1955. Follow-up investigations located a small high-grade uranium lode (Valley...-
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/6/1980 to 3/7/1996.
Aeromagnetic, ground magnetic and EM surveys, with follow-up rock chip, stream sediment and soil sampling, RAB drilling (688 holes, total 17,553 m) and RC drilling (12 holes, total 1149 m), have defined an extensive zone of anomalous base metal...-
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Published: 15 May 1996
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Ongoing exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, during this period comprised 3D geophysical modelling of possible source geometries for, and RC drilling (10 holes, total...-
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Andamooka, Stuart Creek, Arcoona, Lake Torrens, Todds Dam, Lake Arthur, Woodforde Hill and Murdie Island (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint first partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1986.
WMC's Stuart Shelf exploration activities from 1975 to 1985 have sought mainly Olympic Dam style mineralisation (copper - uranium - precious metals in haematitic breccia host rocks), with lesser emphasis directed at: possible distal analogues of the...-
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Cooyerdoo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/re-issue as part of another licence, for the period 14/9/1981 to 13/3/1983.
Following the signing of an eighteen month exploration joint venture agreement with Stockdale, farminee Mobil Energy Minerals undertook continuation of the uranium search over the anomalous ground lying east and south-east of Lake Gilles, besides...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1983
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RB 81/00029 Gawler Range Volcanics in diamond drillhole Myall Creek RC1.
The wholly cored SADME DDH Myall Creek RC1 was sited at the eastern extremity of the exposed Gawler Range Volcanics, and was completed [as a vertical hole] at 551.34 m total depth [the limit of drilling rig capability] on 26/10/1978, without reaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 88/00038 Bulgunnia 1 and 2. Well completion report.
Bulgunnia 1 tested acid and basic volcanics, extruded from an adjacent major fracture, that are interbedded with a probable coarse-grained breccia. Bulgunnia 2 tested a sedimentary breccia with possible volcanic interbeds. The project aimed to...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1988
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RB 93/00004 Tarcoola - Tallaringa bedrock drilling 1991. Summary.
Archaean and Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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Coondambo. Second partial surrender report, for the period 7/6/2001 to 6/6/2009.
As part of a search for possible buried economic Olympic Dam type IOCG-U deposits in volcanic basement, or for stratiform Athabasca Basin type uranium occurrences in the overlying cover, farminee Marathon Resources carried out detailed calcrete...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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Progress reports SML 498 in the Corunna area, SA.
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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Poochera. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 8/1/1996 to 15/1/2000.
As part of a search for structurally related Ernest Henry - style Cu-Au mineralisation and other possible polymetallic deposits, analysis of aeromagnetic data obtained from an area 60-100 km east to north-east of Streaky Bay indicated the presence of...-
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Unalla Hill, Moonaree and South Lake Gairdner (Lake Gairdner Project). Annual and final reports for the period 25/10/96 to 24/10/99.
Exploration targeted Olympic Dam style mineralisation associated with Hiltaba Suite intrusives and Gawler Range Volcanics at the southern end of Lake Gairdner, between Mount Ive and Moonaree. Sampling of poorly developed calcrete together with rock...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1998
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Roopena and Iron Knob. Joint progress reports, joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/4/1992 to 23/2/2000.
Exploration for Mount Isa style, Fe-oxide associated Cu-Au mineralisation has targeted Whyalla Group metasediments and associated Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions within a 110 km long x 15 km wide, north - south aligned corridor situated west of...-
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Minnipa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial relinquishment report : annual reports for the period 7/6/1996 to 6/6/1999.
Within an area spanning the Eyre Highway between Pygery and Karcultaby, acquisition of an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey was followed by calcrete geochemical sampling. Twenty-eight aircore holes (total 1616 m) were drilled at three prospects to...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1999
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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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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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Gilles Downs. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal (as part of a larger area), for the period 12/3/1979 to 11/3/1981.
Ongoing diamond exploration by Stockdale over the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area has concentrated on country to the east and south-east of Lake Gilles, where some microdiamonds and kimberlitic indicator minerals were discovered during the period...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1981
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Tarcoola. Data release made in lieu of a 25% first partial relinquishment at licence renewal: [Part 1 of 2] progress reports for the period 7/6/1978 to 19/4/1984.
In 1978 exploratory rotary drilling (11 holes, total 629 m) for inferred sediment-hosted roll-front uranium orebodies buried beneath salt lake topographic depressions east of Tarcoola intersected low levels of uranium (max 14 ppm) at fresh water /...-
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