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RB 45/00104 Recovery of lanthanons and thorium from Radium Hill barren leach liquor. Part one. Separations involving partial neutralisation.
A separation of the lanthanons was obtained by hydrolysing the unwanted liquor constituents from the oxidized barren liquor at approximately pH 4. However, this procedure was impracticable owing to the costs involved and the fact that little or no...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Data release - as updated : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2008 to 11/11/2018.
Reedy Lagoon Corp. (RLC) has continued to look for minerals other than diamond, operating as the manager of exploration work for base metals (mainly copper) and uranium that was undertaken by the Edward Creek Base Metal Joint Venture (“ECBMJV”) during...-
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Mount Norwest. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/6/2014 to 14/12/2017.
An area located in the south and central Willouran Ranges, and centred ~45 km south-west of Marree, has been explored for possible buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform copper mineralisation and inferred MVT, replacement or diapir-related other...-
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Published: 24 Jan 1918
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Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock and Arkaba Hill (part of the Torrens Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 17/1/2012 to 14/12/2017.
An adjoining group of tenements located between Hawker and Wilpena Pound were taken up to explore for possible buried economic hydrothermal stratiform copper mineralisation which may have formed in sandy strata next to significant disruptive...-
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Kanyaka. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 27/11/1987 to 26/5/1988.
An area located 70 km north-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible gold and rare earth occurrences in Lower Cambrian sediments near known base metal occurrences and / or zones of structural complexity. Work has consisted of a review of...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1988
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Freeling Heights (part of Gunsight Project). Progress and partial surrender reports for the period 7/1/1983 to 6/1/1984.
Evaluation of previous investigations, and geochemical sampling of an Ordovician granite intrusion in the Valley Bore area, particularly for pegmatitic tin-tantalum mineralization, has located only low order anomalous values. Some restricted...-
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Mount Gee. Progress and final reports for the period 6/1/87 to 5/1/90.
TARGET: Rare earth elements and epithermal gold mineralization in the Mount Painter Inlier. EXPLORATION: Regional bulk cyanide leach (BCL) stream sampling, and rock chip sampling; logging and sampling of stored cores from three previous diamond drill...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 7/11/2008 to 6/11/2011.
No field work was undertaken during licence Year 7, but Stellar instead did a review of the Cowell area's prospectivity for Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium mineralisation. Previous drilling data for the local Pirie Basin sediments...-
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Published: 05 Dec 1911
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Granite Downs. Progress and final reports for the period 28/8/1969 to 22/10/1970.
Field reconnaissance and assessment of surface mineralisation, regional geological mapping and geochemical sampling, detailed ground magnetic and radiometric surveying, and shallow vertical percussion drilling (5 holes, total 491 feet) were carried...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1970
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-31 - Peterlumbo Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources (IVR) applied on 30/1/2015 to participate in the PACE Initiative Year 8 (2015) collaborative drilling grant program between industry and government being administered by DSD. The application for subsidy funds submitted by IVR...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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Kalkaroo and Benagerie. Final report on an investigation of rare earth element mineralisation in the Benagerie Dome, Project ADI RD01-105 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
The primary objective of the subject successful Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) project proposal has been to determine the nature, extent and economic potential of rare earth elements (REE) mineralisation in the Benagerie Ridge portion of the...-
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Mount Gee. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/5/1990 to 10/12/1993.
Exploration for uranium and associated copper, gold and rare earth elements undertaken in the Mount Painter area comprised the acquisition of a helicopter-borne magnetic and radiometric survey during July 1990, plus the conduct of a stream sediment...-
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Kalabity - Old Boolcoomata area [= Olary 'A' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
As part of exploration for economic metallic mineral deposits within an area of partly outcropping Precambrian calcsilicate rocks present on Kalabity Station, a field reconnaissance of all known mineralised areas was carried out initially. The...-
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[East of] Lake Frome area (part of the Benagerie Ridge JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2012.
EL 3019 located in the Curnamona Province of South Australia covers a portion of the north-south trending buried palaeotopographic high known as the Benagerie Ridge. The north-south elongate licence area occupies part of Quinyambie Station, and is...-
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Coober Pedy. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2009.
In a search conducted over an area lying beyond but near the southern edge of Coober Pedy township, looking primarily for possible economic buried Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted copper-gold deposits of predominantly IOCG type, the licensee Nova...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1910
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Mount Norwest (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2013.
A search primarily directed at assessing the stratiform copper and magnesite potential of an area centred 50 km south-west of Marree has consisted mainly of office studies comprising the collection and review of open file geoscientific data. Early in...-
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Data release - as updated : Nuckulla Hill, Lake Gairdner and Kondoolka (the Nuckulla Hill Gold Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 25/8/2009 to 23/3/2018.
The Nuckulla Hill Au-Ag Project, originally consisting of three exploration licences covering 640 square km, is located approximately 115 km north-east of Ceduna in South Australia, and covers approximately 60 km strike length of the mineralised...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1917
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Harris Bluff. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2006 to 18/10/2015.
An area located immediately north of Lake Gilles and centred on Harris Bluff in the Uno Range was taken up to explore for possible buried unconformity style uranium mineralisation which could have formed at the base of the Corunna Conglomerate, and...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1977 to 10/8/1979.
At the commencement of the term of the subject licence, exploratory/appraisal diamond drilling using a single rig was continued on the Olympic Dam gravity anomaly by the licensee for gathering more geological information to use to try to understand...-
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