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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hill - Tod River area. Annual reports [to the commencement of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 13/3/2002 to 12/3/2005.
An area which has had little exploration for iron ore done previously was taken up by Centrex Metals Ltd to cover potentially magnetite-rich Early Proterozoic banded iron formation (BIF) strata outcrops and subcrop located within the Lincoln Uplands...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Nonning (latterly part of Terramin's Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 30/3/2006 to 30/11/2012.
An area centred ~70 km north of Kimba, which also lies about 7 km north of the Menninnie Dam lead-zinc-silver deposit, was taken up to explore for possible buried economic volcanic epithermal/hydrothermal Mesoproterozoic Fe-rich Cu-Au mineralisation...-
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Mount Olinthus. Progress reports plus interim final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/7/1978 to 7/11/1987.
TARGET: Unconformity related, vein-like and vein-type uranium in the Cleve Metamorphics, Katunga Dolomite and Mangalo Schist; lead-zinc sulphides of Broken Hill or Balmat-Edwards type in the Hutchison Group. EXPLORATION: Uranium exploration...-
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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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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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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. 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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Kooralla. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2002 to 17/1/2005.
EL 2888 was applied for to cover prospective magnetic anomalies thought to be underlain by magnetite-rich banded iron formations (BIF), that exist close to Cowell on the eastern Eyre Peninsula. One geological interpretation of the magnetic anomalism...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1977.
A total of 3074 square km or ~86.25% of the originally granted area of EL 266 which borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf has recently been relinquished by BHP after one year of work, due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for...-
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PACE Copper Gawler Craton Airborne Survey, Region 7, data package.
During the period 11 June 2018 to 6 August 2018, approximately 60% of the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250k map sheet area, that covers the far north-eastern portion of the Eyre Peninsula, was flown under contract to the SA Government and Geoscience Australia as...-
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Cleve East. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 17/2/1977 to 16/2/1978.
As part of a regional programme evaluating the potential of the Eyre Peninsula for economic stratabound base metal deposits, an area of relatively good outcrop lying north-west and west of Cowell was explored by 1:20,000 scale geological mapping, rock...-
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Published: 11 Apr 1978
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Aeromagnetic and airborne radiometric survey, SMLs 204 and 205, Whyalla, SA.
A 5550 line mile semi-detailed airborne geophysical survey was conducted for BHP in the north Middleback Range - Whyalla area by contractor Geophysical Resources Development Co. during July-August 1969. East-west lines spaced 1/4 mile apart were...-
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Investigation of a thorium anomaly at Iron Prince, Middleback Range, SA.
In July and August 1969 a ground radiometric survey of readings taken at 25 foot intervals on a 100 foot grid was conducted on the eastern flanks of the Iron Prince massif, with the aim of further investigating 3 radioactive anomalies discovered there...-
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Summary report on ground scintillometer surveys, SMLs 204 and 205.
Ground scintillometer work carried out by BHP over its SMLs in the Middleback Range area has been shown not to be an effective reconnaissance tool for finding uranium anomalies, but it does have demonstrated value for identifying sources of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Middleback Range and Moonabie Hills. Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2007 to 30/1/2019, plus surrender reports to 9/7/2023.
Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...-
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Published: 29 Mar 2018
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Gilles. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Eurilla JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 30/1/2007 to 29/1/2010.
A sparsely drill-tested area centred about 10 km west of Lake Gilles is being explored for a variety of buried, possibly economic basement-hosted polymetallic mineralisation occurrences, including deposits of Menninnie Dam style Pb-Zn-Ag (Cu-Au),...-
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Published: 30 Mar 2010
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Woollinie. Progress reports and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/12/1991 to 20/11/1995.
Exploration for Broken Hill / Menninnie Dam type Pb-Zn, and later for iron oxide - associated Cu-Au, that was undertaken over an area located north of Kimba within and adjacent to the Pinkawillinie Conservation Park, comprised the acquisition during...-
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