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Yudnamutana Project, SML 704. Old Noll prospect. Report on drilling DDH NFK1.
Diamond drill-hole NFK1 was drilled to a total depth of 289.56 metres at the Old Noll prospect in November - December 1972, with the aim of intersecting the buried source of mineralization that has given rise to the boxwork structures outcropping...-
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RB 35/00035 Report on (the) Spring Creek copper mine.
The abandoned and flooded Spring Creek mine, located 7 miles south of Wilmington on the north-western slope of Mount Remarkable, was visited by an officer of the SA Dept of Mines in order to check whether any radioactive minerals were present in still...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1953
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RB 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 43/00062 Copper prospect, Mutooroo Station.
Copper carbonates are found irregularly dispersed within two types of quartz reef occurring in sheared Adelaide System quartzites and slates, 26 miles east south-east of Radium Hill and 4 miles south- southwest of Mutooroo Homestead. Mining there was...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1956
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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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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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Walparuta. Progress and annual reports, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/12/1994 to 20/4/2009.
Ground encompassing the Palaeoproterozoic basement Weekeroo Inlier of the Olary district, which includes the historic Walparuta copper-gold mine located approximately 20 km north of Manna Hill township, was taken out to search for possible economic...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1909
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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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Coomandook and The Coorong [East] (part of the Padthaway Project). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 27/3/2014 to 26/3/2017.
The licensee's compilation of existing geological, geochemical and geophysical data has indicated to it that the Padthaway area is fertile for volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) style polymetallic mineralisation, with economic deposits possibly...-
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Published: 16 May 1917
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Interim report on mapping of surficial materials in ELs 113 and 114.
The Kapunda region is principally one in which prolonged denudation, or lowering of the landsurface, has been operative over the past 100 Ma, while the present topographic amplitude of the region is also at its greatest since the onset of the...-
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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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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2012 to 28/8/2014.
During Year 7 of the project, Goldfields did no more field work, but undertook office-based analyses of bedrock geochemical and geological data obtained in its 2012 aircore drilling campaign. Image processing and interpretation of the Canegrass...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1915
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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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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Willow Springs. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/12/2011 to 30/11/2016.
An area centred ~65 km north-east of Hawker in the Central Flinders Ranges, and located adjacent to the eastern side of the Oraparinna Diapir, has been explored for possible buried economic epigenetic copper, gold and uranium mineralisation. During...-
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Published: 03 Jan 1917
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Penong B area and Yumbarra (part of the Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Joint final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2017.
Two adjoining areas located north of Koonibba were taken up to explore this part of the south-eastern Eucla Basin for possible buried economic marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM), because they were believed to contain shallow or exposed...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1917
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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
