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Andamooka, Stuart Creek, Arcoona, Lake Torrens, Todds Dam, Lake Arthur, Woodforde Hill and Murdie Island (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint first partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1986.
WMC's Stuart Shelf exploration activities from 1975 to 1985 have sought mainly Olympic Dam style mineralisation (copper - uranium - precious metals in haematitic breccia host rocks), with lesser emphasis directed at: possible distal analogues of the...-
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RB 83/00101 Geology, geophysics and stratigraphic drilling at Depot Creek, southern Flinders Ranges.
Depot Creek is one of few localities with sedimentary contact between the Burra and Callanna Groups. The Depot Creek 1 drillhole [TD 874.35 m] provided subsurface control for making an interpretation of the structure of the eastern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 88/00019 Stratigraphic and tectonic overview of the Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia.
The Adelaide Geosyncline contains an extremely thick folded Late Proterozoic to Middle Cambrian sequence deposited initially in rifted troughs and later in broad zones of regional subsidence. Age constraints on deposition are based on dating of rare...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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Princess Royal, Burra West, Burra North, Florieton, Mount Bryan, Burra Central, Mongolata, Redbanks, Hallett Hill and The Gums (the Burra Project tenement group). Joint annual reports for the period 1/5/2009 to 30/4/2017.
A multi-licence project area centred on the historic abandoned Burra copper mine is being explored for possible economic, buried Burra type copper oxide and copper carbonate mineralisation that may have formed within Neoproterozoic metasedimentary...-
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Burra Project licence group. Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for ELs 6102, 6103, 6158, 6305 and 6306 : joint annual reports for the period 25/1/2018 to 2/12/2020 plus initial annual annual report.
To date exploration in the Burra region of the Adelaide Geosyncline has focussed on historic copper-gold oxide workings, with the aim of delineating further mineralisation along strike, or sulphide mineralisation at depth. Lately however, rather than...-
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Published: 04 Feb 1921
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Morialpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports and annual reports for the period 16/12/1995 to 8/8/2003.
Initial exploration for stratiform Cu-Au mineralisation hosted within Adelaidean sediments in the Morialpa area, 40 km north- west of Olary, comprised soil, stream sediment, rock chip and ironstone lag geochemical sampling, and 1:10,000 scale...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1903
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Weekeroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/10/1970 to 30/9/1971.
A detailed examination of mineralised rock sequences within the metamorphosed Precambrian basement and Adelaidean cover rocks of the Weekeroo area, and recording of their relationship to successive deformational events and resulting rock structures,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
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Willouran Ranges Stratiform Copper Project. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/12/1976 to 21/12/1978.
Detailed geological mapping, rock and soil sample geochemistry, sedimentary petrology, and rotary percussion and diamond drilling were undertaken in the Willouran Ranges, south-west of Marree, to explore for stratiform copper mineralisation,...-
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Red Banks (part of the Burra Project tenement group). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 21/1/2010 to 24/12/2015.
Exploration undertaken within an area centred ~10 km east of Burra comprised portable XRF soil geochemical sampling, and the re-processing of available geophysical data. The aim was to identify possible buried copper oxide and copper carbonate...-
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Data release - as updated : Kapunda North / Bagot Well North (part of the Eudunda Project). Licence-specific annual reports and final report submitted to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/2005 to 12/12/2015.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within an area centred immediately north-northeast of Kapunda has as its initial objective to find shallow deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra and Kapunda, focussing...-
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Mt Craig Critical Minerals Project. Final report, Project ADI RD03-411 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 3, 2022]. Morgan Creek Prospect Drilling and Geophysics Programs, April 2023.
This ADI funded programme consisted of exploration drilling, geophysics programs and aboriginal employment relating to critical mineral exploration conducted over the Mt Craig Project in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. ADI funded activities...-
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Anabama North and Anabama (the Anabama JV Project). Data release made at licences' joint full surrender: joint annual reports for the period 1/5/2008 to 18/12/2014.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Manna Hill township on the Barrier Highway was taken up to explore for possible economic buried epithermal, VHMS style copper-gold or other base and precious metal mineralisation which could have formed within...-
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Nilpinna Homestead area (part of the Australian Diamond Exploration joint venture). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 22/2/1987.
Diamond exploration undertaken in the Peake and Denison Ranges included the acquisition and processing of aerial magnetic, radiometric and heliborne magnetic and VLF-EM surveys, with follow-up ground magnetic and Sirotem surveys, plus extensive...-
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Yongala. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 4/4/79 to 3/10/80.
In a search for possible concealed kimberlitic, carbonatitic or Cu-U-bearing igneous breccia intrusions within the Adelaidean fold belt succession, across a narrow north-south trending area west of Peterborough, 6 structurally disrupted localities...-
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Jamestown. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 25/4/79 to 23/10/80.
To guide a search for diamonds in the vicinity of Jamestown, structural loci for possible kimberlite targets were defined by lineament analysis. Ground magnetics and radiometrics, done as follow-up to stream sediment and soil sampling undertaken over...-
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Published: 31 Mar 1981
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Terowie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/10/1974 to 20/10/1976.
Known, previously worked anomalous surface copper, lead, zinc and gold occurrences within gossanous basal Burra Group metasediments located on the flanks of the overturned Ulooloo Anticline, have been investigated with 1:2500 scale geological mapping,...-
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Port Augusta - Wilkatana area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/10/1969 to 4/8/1972.
An area surrounding the Emeroo Range, and extending from the vicinity of Port Augusta to 30 km west of Hawker, was explored by Utah for possible economic stratabound base metal deposits which it was thought could be associated with certain favourable...-
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RB_83/00107 Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No.10, Adelaide Geosyncline, Sedimentary Environments and Tectonic Settings, Symposium A.M.F. Adelaide Dec 9, 1983
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Published: 01 Dec 1983
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ExpNotes WINTINNA: Explanatory Notes WINTINNA
A new generation, first edition WINTINNA 1:250 000 scale geological map and explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's geological mapping program undertaken in the...-
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RB 62/00034 Geology of the Spalding Willouran Inlier.
The Spalding inlier is a lens-shaped area of tightly-folded Willouran rocks of the Adelaide System (Upper Precambrian), extending north-south for about 10 miles; it is about 100 miles north of Adelaide. The rim of the inlier is marked in most places...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1966
