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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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RB 37/00134 Report on the absolute age of the uraniferous granite and Precambrian tillite in the Crocker Well area, Olary district, South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 49/00001 Supplementary gravity traverses over Bungalow aeromagnetic anomaly near Cowell, Eyre Peninsula.
Supplementary gravimeter traverses have been run over the strong Bungalow aeromagnetic anomaly to further define it. Earlier in the year a percussion drilling programme was carried out over the same area. In the light of both sets of results it is...-
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Published: 03 Jul 1959
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RB 89/00074 Industrial and non metallic minerals - Operations in South Australia.
This data package discusses mining and processing operations of the major non metallic and industrial mineral commodities in South Australia and is of interest to those in the industry and to manufacturers and suppliers of a range of machinery and...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wild Horse Plain. Annual reports for the period 8/7/2005 to 23/2/2019, plus partial surrender reports to 23/2/2021.
An upland area located approximately 100 km south-west of Whyalla on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, and with its eastern boundary running parallel to the coast at a distance of 15 km from Cowell and Franklin Harbour, is being explored for uranium,...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1921
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo (the Olary Creek Project). Annual reports for the period 15/11/2005 to 7/2/2019.
An area centred ~50 km south west of Cockburn is being explored for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed in buried Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, as well as for any secondary uranium mineralisation that may...-
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Cocunda and Calca (Poochera Kaolin Project). Progress reports, annual reports, and final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 12/5/1986 to 28/3/2002.
Kaolin, derived mainly from deep weathering of Hiltaba Suite granites, was the principal target of exploration in the area south and south-west from Poochera, near Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. Following a review made of historic drillhole...-
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South Eagle. Data release made at transfer of licence ownership : annual reports for the period 17/9/1997 to 16/9/2000.
The majority of mineral exploration undertaken in the South Eagle area, centred 40 km north-east of Olary, has targeted stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag, stratabound massive sulphide Cu-Zn-Co-Mn, and Cu-Au mineralisation that may have formed in Proterozoic rocks...-
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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 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Prospect Hill. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2018.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation at three known separate occurrences in the Prospect Hill area, lying 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, has focussed on the untested zone immediately below the known...-
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Charoba Tank and Euria Well. First and final quarterly report for the period 3/12/84 to 2/3/85.
The low proportion of heavy minerals derived from bedrock that were found in loam samples, plus the presence of thick Tertiary cover, downgraded the area's diamond exploration potential.-
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Published: 29 Mar 1985
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Hawks Nest. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/3/2004 to 7/4/2009.
During licence Year 6, in November 2005, Mt Gibson Iron Limited (MGI) undertook a brief exploration campaign at Hawks Nest, acting under the terms of an access and option agreement which it had made with Felix Resources Limited, a company seeking to...-
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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RB 66/00052 Granite deposit, Yarwondutta Rocks, secn 27, Hd Minnipa, Co. Le Hunte.
Two granite inselbergs known as Yarwondutta Rocks have been defined by a plane-table survey. Because of the desirability of preserving geomorphic features on the larger rock, an additional shallow-penetrating seismic survey was carried out on the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 66/00082 Seismic refraction survey at Yarwondutta Rocks, section 27 Hd Minnipa.
The results of a seismic refraction survey conducted near outcropping granite in the Minnipa area have indicated that within the survey area the depth of overburden is generally less than 30 feet. Difficulty was experienced in determining the velocity...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1993 to 14/3/1998.
A low-lying small area situated 40 km west of Whyalla has been explored primarily for economic gypsum occurrences within Recent surficial sediments, while latterly, a search for metallic minerals has also commenced, via a geological survey of basement...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarcoola. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/6/2003 to 1/6/2008.
Exploration Licence 3089 is located in the central Gawler Craton and is centred near the township of Tarcoola. Continuation of tenure over the same area, from former ELs 1827 and 2510, was renewed by Gravity Capital Ltd on 2/6/2003, and full licence...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kottata Well, Eldale, Tootla and Broadacres (also part of the Yaninee Project). First annual report for EL 3135, plus subsequent joint annual reports, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2009.
An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....-
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Warrior. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/11/1994 to 13/8/2001.
Following initial assessment of available data, exploration for copper, gold and base metals in an area 60 km west of Tarcoola concentrated on regional calcrete sampling. Analysis for gold and a suite of base metals indicated several areas of...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1901
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Murkaby Homestead. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 21/9/1972 to 13/8/1973.
SA Government - managed exploration of two magnetically anomalous areas located approximately 30 km east and north-east of Burra, which were thought to be underlain by porphyritic granite intrusions analogous to the Cu-Mo mineralised Bendigo Granite...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1973
