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Data release - as updated : Muckanippie Outstation. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/1/2020.
An area centred ~70 km north-west of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried economic iron ore (particularly haematite DSO) and for buried copper-gold or copper-nickel-chromium massive sulphide mineralisation that may have formed within...-
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Published: 17 Feb 2020
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Verran. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint venture project joint reporting, for the period 29/1/2010 to 28/1/2014.
An area located in the Cowell Hills is being explored for possible economic buried iron ore deposits. The desired commodity is DSO (Direct Shipping Ore) haematite mineralisation similar to that of the Middleback Range iron deposits, where pods of...-
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Published: 23 May 2014
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ediacara, Blinman, Wilkawillina and Third Plain (the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports, for the period 1/1/2010 to 31/12/2018.
No work was completed on the subject three tenements during the 2010 reporting period, because the JV's focus then was to explore areas closer to the Beltana mine. However, it was believed that several other high priority base metal - prospective...-
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Published: 28 Feb 2019
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Matt Whim. First partial surrender report, for the period 16/11/2009 to 15/11/2012.
The potential for stratabound BIF-hosted iron ore, and for economic alluvial gold and possible epithermal/hydrothermal copper mineralisation, is being investigated within an area located approximately 70 km north-east of Orroroo. Within the now...-
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Published: 20 Jun 2013
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Gilles Downs (part of the West Middleback Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 8/7/2005 to 7/7/2008.
Three small areas totalling 150 square km have been relinquished from the western extremities of the two sub-blocks forming the subject licence. The only work conducted on this ground was the acquisition for the licensee during February 2007 of parts...-
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Published: 20 May 2008
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Blowout, Campfire Bore, Mulgathing, Jumbuck, Mobella and Sandstone (the Gawler Project Central Tenements Area). Joint venture operators' separate joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2010 to 30/6/2017.
Work targeting Archaean to Proterozoic iron ore in BIF that was carried out by the Iron Road JV partners during 2010-2011 comprised studies of the geological setting and physical characteristics of magnetite iron mineralisation delineated by Stage I...-
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Published: 30 Nov 2018
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Lake Gilles. First partial surrender report, for the period 13/2/2007 to 12/2/2010.
As part of a multi-commodity exploration programme being conducted in the district surrounding Lake Gilles, only reconnaissance calcrete sampling (381 samples) has been performed on the recently relinqished part of EL 3704, located east-southeast of...-
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Published: 23 Jul 2010
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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 3 partnership no. DPY3-28, Mount Woods IOCG Project mineral prospect. Project final report.
PACE Initiative Year 3 drilling project funds were secured by Goldstream Mining to explore for base metals and gold within two licence areas taken out over concealed Proterozoic basement of the Mt Woods Inlier, and which also cover parts of the Coober...-
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Published: 12 Dec 2006
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Manguri (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/12/1999 to 4/10/2006.
Possible craton margin magmatic nickel deposits or iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) type large base and precious metal deposits within buried Proterozoic basement were targeted in an area lying just to the north-west of Coober Pedy. Delays...-
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Published: 20 Nov 2006
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-44, Wilgerup (southern Gawler Craton) haematitic iron ore prospect. Project final report.
Centrex Metals commenced reverse circulation exploration and resource definition drilling at the Wilgerup iron ore deposit on 6/9/2006, which was partly funded by the PACE Initiative as a Year 3 approved project, with funds allocated for 1000 m of RC...-
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Published: 20 Apr 2007
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Gum Flat. Annual reports submitted prior to the commencement of joint reporting on the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 27/9/2005 to 26/9/2008.
An area lying immediately west of Port Lincoln and extending for ~10 km inland is being explored for buried occurrences of multiple metallic mineral commodities that may have been deposited within faulted, folded and metamorphosed Archaean basement...-
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Published: 20 Nov 2007
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Balta Baltana Creek. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/1/2010 to 20/1/2015.
An area located within the Mount Woods Inlier in the north of the Gawler Craton, which is centred ~70 km east-southeast of Coober Pedy, has been explored for possible economic buried Prominent Hill type IOCG mineralisation. No past mineral exploratory...-
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Published: 02 Feb 2015
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Roopena. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/8/2012 to 16/6/2016.
A small area centred ~10 km north-west of Whyalla, straddling the Iron Knob Road and extending northwards from there, has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG mineralisation that may have formed in Proterozoic basement rocks. During the...-
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Published: 17 Jun 2016
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Data release - as updated : Lake Woorong. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/6/2012 to 7/6/2019.
A large area centred ~80 km south-west of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried economic iron ore, including inferred DSO haematite mineralisation, and for base metal massive sulphide deposits that may have formed in Proterozoic basement...-
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Published: 30 Jul 2019
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Painted Hill, Birthday Hill, White Hill, Mount Hawker, The Twins and Balta Baltana (the Mount Woods Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2011 to 31/12/2018.
Exploration activities undertaken on the Mount Woods Project during 2011 comprised: - ongoing target generation and geological interpretation - continued geological and structural interpretation of the Mount Woods Inlier - drilling of 80 rotary...-
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Published: 28 Feb 2019
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Carappee Hill. Annual reports for the period 20/2/2010 to 19/2/2019.
The continuation during 2010 of exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic bedrock in a small area located 60 km west-northwest of Cowell has mainly consisted of the conduct of three shallow drilling campaigns and the examination and analysis of downhole...-
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Published: 25 Feb 2019
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Windy Valley. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/1/2010 to 24/1/2015.
An area centred over the south-central Coober Pedy Ridge tectonic feature, 55 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy township, is being explored for possible economic buried massive haematite and magnetite within either Proterozoic banded iron formation...-
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Published: 17 Mar 2015
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eurilla, Lake Gilles, Moseley Nobs and Uno (the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/6/2010 to 31/5/2018.
Four tenements, which all lie within a 60 km radius to the north of the township of Kimba, and are mostly located around Lake Gilles, are continuing to be explored by grant licensee Lincoln Minerals Ltd (LML) and its joint venture partner IronClad...-
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Published: 30 Jul 2018
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The Northern Gawler Project. Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for ELs 5566 and 5567 upon renewal of those licences : joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2015 to 31/1/2020.
Portions of two tenements located to the south and south-east of Coober Pedy were relinquished at the start of 2020, and all mineral exploration data previously acquired by licensee Southern Iron on these tenements and on four others that now comprise...-
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Published: 28 May 2020
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucolo Creek (also called the Churchill Dam Project). Annual reports for the period 31/1/2006 to 14/11/2018.
EL 3511 Eucolo Creek, of 528 square km, is situated near the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton within the Olympic Dam Domain, approximately 90 km south-west of the Olympic Dam IOCG-U deposit (3.98 billion tonnes at 1.1% Cu, 0.4 kg/t U3O8 and 0.5 g/t...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2018