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Wildingi Claypan (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/10/2005 to 13/1/2015.
Two separate small areas located just north of Comet Outstation, that were originally taken up to explore for possible diamonds and Triassic-Jurassic kimberlite intrusions that could be associated with intensely faulted shallow basement, have also...-
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Published: 19 Dec 2014
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Data release - as updated : Ooldea. Annual reports, fourth partial surrender report, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/2003 to 1/4/2016.
A small licence area located 170 km north-northwest of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia is being explored for possible large occurrences of high grade IOCG mineralisation that may be hosted by Proterozoic basement rocks, and for Tertiary...-
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Published: 21 May 2016
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Sahara Prospect. Final report, Model Test and Core Scanning. Project ADI RD02-270 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises exploration conducted by Western Areas between May 2021 and October 2021, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/270-ED Sahara Prospect Model Test and Core Scanning. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide at Sahara in 2020,...-
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Published: 31 Oct 2022
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Moonaree. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 15/11/2005 to 10/1/2012.
An area of the central Gawler Ranges located immediately west of Lake Gairdner has been explored primarily for possible sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation that may have formed with reduced Tertiary sediments that unconformably overlie the...-
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Published: 07 Feb 2012
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Cudyea. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2011.
Mineral exploration conducted in an area centred approximately 125 km west of Tarcoola has addressed targets including possible Challenger type metamorphic gold mineralisation or Olympic Dam type epithermal IOCG mineralisation, and also less deeply...-
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Published: 21 Mar 2011
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Noorina - Areas 1 and 2. Joint first annual report, plus separate final reports to each licence's respective full surrender, for the overall period 12/10/2012 to 28/1/2015.
Exploration of two adjacent very remote desert areas located 200 to 220 km north of Cook has targeted possible buried heavy mineral sands marine placer accumulations that may have formed along an arcuate DEM feature interpreted as a Tertiary shoreline...-
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Published: 06 Nov 2014
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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 2010
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Orwell Well. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/4/2006 to 18/4/2010.
An area located approximately 30 km north of Glendambo was explored primarily for possible sedimentary uranium deposits formed in buried Tertiary palaeochannels, as well as for possible Proterozoic IOCG-U deposits of Olympic Dam type, and for...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2010
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East Nullarbor Regional Reserve, Lake Tallacootra and Nullarbor (the Watson Joint Venture Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 1/4/2008 to 15/9/2010.
As part of continuing joint venture investigations into the Tertiary sedimentary uranium mineralisation potential of the Watson Palaeochannel, 9 vertical rotary mud exploratory holes with a total penetration of 639 m were drilled into that wholly...-
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Published: 07 Oct 2010
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Camel Lake. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2023.
An area located ~ 70 km north-east of Ooldea Siding and 50 km east of Maralinga is being explored for the industrial mineral kaolin, and more particularly its crystallographic form halloysite, which typically occurs as microtubules or nanotubes which...-
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Published: 21 Nov 2023
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Noorina - Area 2. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 11/10/2012 to 3/10/2014.
An area centred ~200 km north of Cook has been explored for possible buried heavy mineral sands (HM) marine placer accumulations that may have formed along a topographic high that is geographically situated immediately north of the Ooldea Range, and...-
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Published: 19 Aug 2014
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Elliston. Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/6/2014 to 24/11/2014.
A large area centred ~100 km south-east of Streaky Bay was taken up to explore for possible buried Tertiary, palaeodrainage sediment-sourced, palaeomarine shoreface placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM). Diatreme believed that the coastline of...-
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Published: 22 Sep 2014