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Three Creeks area (part of the Hawker Project). Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2010.
The Three Creeks EL 3567 covers, for the most part, the north-westerly plunging Yednalue Syncline. Lying to the south-east of the Worumba Anticline (a diapiric structure cored by disrupted Callanna Group), the syncline comprises Umberatana Group...-
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Published: 17 Sep 1910
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Partridge Range (part of the Gibraltar Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 4/3/1997 to 3/12/2008.
Exploration of an area with poor basement outcrop, located approximately 45 km north-east of Tarcoola, primarily sought possible fault or breccia-hosted mesothermal gold +/- base metal mineralisation in likely multiphase Mesoproterozoic felsic...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1908
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Wompinie (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/11/1995 to 5/12/2008.
Exploration for Kalkaroo or Portia style copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill type stratiform lead-zinc-silver deposits, both possibly formed within the Palaeoproterozoic basement intrusive rocks and high grade metasediments in an area lying...-
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Published: 14 May 1909
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Sandstone Outstation. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/11/1996 to 17/1/2006.
A collection of eight land parcels recently relinquished from the Resolute Resources / Dominion Mining JV EL 2018, and covering 215 square km in an area located approximately 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, was taken up by a new consortium intending...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1906
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Bookabie. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/2013 to 7/10/2016.
An area centred ~85 km west-northwest of Ceduna has ben explored for possible buried Ni±Cu±Co±Cr±PGE mineralisation of either Thomson Nickel Belt or Nova-Bollinger deposit styles, that may be associated with ultramafic–mafic rocks at four prospects...-
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Published: 07 Nov 1916
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Data release - as updated : McDouall Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2022.
Quasar Resources has been exploring a large licence area centred approximately 40 km south-west of the Prominent Hill mine for possible economic buried iron-oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) style mineralisation, epithermal base metal mineralisation of the...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1922
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Petina, Puntabie and Maltee (Ceduna - Streaky Bay district). Joint first partial relinquishment report, for the period 13/2/2004 to 11/11/2004.
The seaward portion of the subject licences, comprising 52% of the combined original area granted, has been relinquished after a reconnaissance RC aircore drilling programme which targeted economic heavy mineral sands within Cainozoic marine placer...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1904
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Waddikee Rocks and Corrobinnie (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint second and sixth respectively partial surrenders report, for the overall period 17/10/1996 to 11/7/2016.
The stated exploration strategy for the Joint Venture's Eyre Peninsula Project tenements (that are still extant) is to explore predominantly for gold and copper, with uranium as a secondary focus. Regional programmes of calcrete geochemical sampling,...-
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Buckleboo (part of the Buckleboo Project). Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 7/1/2014 to 20/2/2015.
A very small area located ~25 km north-west of Kimba has been explored for possible economic buried base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed within Archaean metasedimentary bedrock and be related to younger igneous intrusions....-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Oak Dam North-east. Annual reports for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
A relatively large but little-explored area of the central-eastern Stuart Shelf, which is almost wholly covered by scrubby sand dunes and swampy salt lakes, thereby making surface access very difficult despite it being located only ~30 km to 50 km km...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1911
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration tenement group [Group 3]. Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2004 to 31/5/2010. [Index part 2 of 2].
Within the subject south-eastern Eucla Basin tenements, Iluka's ongoing exploration has targeted the Tertiary-aged beach sands deposited during the five marine incursions that occurred from the Middle Eocene to the Pliocene, with a focus on exploring...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1910
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warrior (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/2/2005 to 16/2/2010.
Tasman Resources is exploring an area that is centred about 78 km north-west of Tarcoola for possible economic buried occurrences of sedimentary roll front style uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels and nickel mineralisation in Archaean -...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1910
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Cowell. Second partial surrender report, for the period 7/11/2007 to 6/11/2016.
Exploration undertaken within the original EL 3978/5307 Cowell area by Hiltaba Gold and joint venture partners 1) UraniumSA and 2) Renaissance Uranium / Renascor Resources has included geological interpretation, geochemical sampling, ground and...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1916
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Commonwealth Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/non-renewal, for the period 9/8/2012 to 8/8/2017.
An area centred ~20 km north of the Challenger gold mine has been explored for possible buried primary Challenger type basement gold lodes and also for secondary roll-front style uranium mineralisation that may be hosted in buried Tertiary fluvial...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1915
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-05 - Mount Sarah Project, Oodnadatta district, Proterozoic basement inferred epithermal/hydrothermal IOCG mineral prospect. Drilling final report.
A small licence area centred approximately 70 km north-northwest of Oodnadatta is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation that may have formed in the wholly concealed, almost unknown basement rocks there. Interest is...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cocata and Warramboo (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1996 to 5/6/2001.
Two adjacent licence areas forming part of a contiguous set of project tenements in the central Eyre Peninsula region are being explored by Adelaide Resources (AR) primarily for gold and base metals, which it is thought may occur in buried deposits...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1901
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Data release : Mount Sarah, Alamilda Hill and Todmorden (the Mount Sarah Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to the successive expiry/full surrender of ELs 6129 and 5634, for the overall period 23/6/2015 to 22/6/2020.
Three adjacent areas located in dissected hilly country 70-90 km to the north-west of Oodnadatta were successsively taken up under licence to cover a significant, 8 mGal regional gravity anomaly which could have potential for IOCG type basement-hosted...-
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Published: 24 Jun 1920
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North-west Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports plus annual reports for the period 8/10/2013 to 7/10/2018. Plus partial/expiry/full surrender reports to 24/04/2024.
Ten licences distributed across a broad region of the north-eastern Gawler Craton, between Roxby Downs and Coober Pedy, are being explored for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation. Research and interpretation completed by the licensee...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1918
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ExpNotes GILES: Explanatory Notes GILES
Concealed basement on GILES comprises ?Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic rocks belonging to the Nawa Subdomain of the Gawler Craton. These are intruded by Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granitic bodies and Mesoproterozoic or Neoproterozoic...-
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Roopena. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/7/2000 to 26/10/2008.
The 1373 square km Roopena licence area, which lies a short distance inland from Spencer Gulf between Port Augusta and Whyalla, was taken by Aurora Gold to explore for possible economic deposits of gold and copper mineralisation formed within a...-
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Published: 22 Oct 1908
