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Mount Gunson Project. Cattlegrid mine : ore grade control mining / milling management reports and data for the period July 1975 to August 1983.
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Lake Frome [part of the Paralana Plains Uranium Project joint venture area]. Progress reports and technical reports to licence surrender/re-issue over a different area, for the period 22/4/1971 to 21/4/1973.
Exploration on SML 564 has consisted of a continuation of deep rotary mud open hole, plug and core drilling plus washing-out of existing, older Petromin "P...w" series drillholes to allow new generation downhole geophysical logging, aimed at further...-
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Mount Gunson Project. Cattlegrid mine (east-northeast areas B2, B3 and B4) - intended mining development plans drawn up in 1982 and 1983.
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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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Soil and groundwater investigation, Beverley prospect, SML 564. Report on Stage I feasibility study.
The Stage 1 feasibility study carried out during February-May, 1973 has included regional groundwater studies, pumping tests, logging and laboratory tests on drill cores, slope stability analyses, preliminary design of pit slopes and dewatering...-
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Published: 31 May 1973
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Data release - as updated : Brooker (part of the Brimpton Lake Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2003 to 24/8/2018.
Exploration Licence 3096 “Brooker” covering an area of 682 square km lies east of Elliston on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It is one of three adjacent tenements that form the “Brimpton Lake Project”; the other two are EL 2662 (initially...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Warcowie and Kanyaka (later part of the Springfield Project). Progress and annual reports to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 15/7/1994 to 13/10/2001.
Exploration Licenses 1947 (Druid Range) and 1948 (Kanyaka) are in the western central part of the Proterozoic to Cambrian Adelaide Geosyncline approximately 70 – 110 km north-east of Port Augusta, close to the town of Hawker. In a regional context,...-
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Lake Torrens. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/4/1973 to 12/4/1975.
Continuing exploration by Delhi of the industrial salt potential of subsurface brines in the Lake Torrens basin aimed to ascertain the potential reserves of NaCl in the southern part of the lake, and to confirm the availability of suitable brine...-
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Wattle Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1985.
15 vertical exploratory auger holes totalling 348.4 m were drilled in a search for shallowly buried deposits of aluminous clays or claystone located close to the licensee's Rapid Bay limestone quarry and coatal shipment facility, that might be of use...-
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Published: 15 Jan 1985
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/177 : Geochemistry of South Australian copper gossans and other ironstones. Progress reports 1 and 2 for the period May 1976 to August 1977.
85 samples of potential mineral deposit- related surface ironstones (68 copper gossans, 6 lead-zinc gossans and 11 false gossans) were analysed chemically and examined mineragraphically in polished section to try to determine geological parameters...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1977
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West Lake Torrens (part of the Murdie Project). Final report for geophysical, drilling and logistics program, Project ADI RD01-120 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
ADI funding was granted by DEM to Kelaray to conduct approved geophysical surveys and exploratory drilling and apply logistical support within its Murdie Project, for a combined expenditure of up to A$320,000. At the outset of the project, Kelaray...-
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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/1/1979 to 30/11/1984.
Adelaide Brighton Cement took up tenure of the Moorlands lignite deposit during September 1976 in order to conduct confirmatory drilling of the published coal resource, to prepare a mining study for Lobe 'E', and overall, to assess the coal's...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1984
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Lake Torrens South, Beda Arm and Carrapateena Arm (latterly the Lake Torrens Joint Venture Project). Annual reports (singular and combined) to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 21/2/1996 to 7/1/2008.
Economic Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation has been the target of exploration carried out in three adjoining areas which together extend for about 55 to 170 km north of Port Augusta, covering southern Lake...-
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Brukunga. Final report, Cross Borehole Tomography. Project ADI RD02-262 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
The Cross Borehole Tomography project (XHT) is a collaboration between Boart Longyear and Roqsense Pty Ltd, supported kindly by the South Australian Department of Energy and Mining with funding through successful application and award of the...-
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Economic geology and mineralogy of Birdwood kaolin, South Australia.
White clay is won from 5 pits operated by 3 companies for use in white cement and cream brick manufacture with some as a filler / extender. White clay formed by intensive kaolinization of mica schist and fine grained micaceous quartzite. Irregular...-
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Todmorden. Progress reports for the period 21/4/1986 to 20/11/1987.
TARGET: Native sulphur associated with possible salt dome structures, the locations of which were interpreted from past petroleum exploration seismic reflection surveys. EXPLORATION: A detailed gravity survey, and 2 rotary/core drillholes totalling...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1988
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Mineralization, geology, and structure, SML 118, Olary Province, South Australia.
A geological consultant's study of the Glenorchy - Plumbago granitic fault block area in the western half of SML 118, to try to elucidate its relationship to known uranium mineralisation, suggests that there is a structural association of lodes with...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1968
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Geological investigation of the Bowmans trial pit.
The sediments exposed in the Bowmans trial pit were mapped and sampled in detail. The oldest formation recognised is the mid to late Eocene Clinton Coal Measures, which is represented by low rank, soft brown coal and unconsolidated, medium grained...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1981
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EPP 24, Otway Basin. Farmin evaluation report.
EPP 24 lies in the north-western corner of the Otway Basin, offshore from Robe, South Australia. The permit geology is dominated by sediments of the Early Cretaceous Otway Group. A tectonic hinge-line called the Chama Terrace runs obliquely from...-
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Proposal to relinquish permit EPP 21, South Australia.
A complete re-evaluation of all known prospects and leads within EPP 21 was undertaken by the permittees in order to define any prospects worthy of drilling in permit Year 4, ending 28 June 1986, by which time a commitment to drill one well and...-
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