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Wallaroo and Moonta mines and smelters, Yorke's [sic] Peninsula, South Australia. History, nature and methods.
A detailed account of the large scale copper mining and processing operations occurring in the 'Copper Triangle' region of South Australia in the few years following the end of the First World War. The included metrics and pictorial coverage of many...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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Review of stratiform gold within the Adelaidean sediments, Mount Painter Province, South Australia.
The southern portion of the Mount Painter Province held under ELs 871 and 1049 contains Adelaidean sediments of the Upper Callanna Beds and Burra Group overlying the Carpentarian Mount Painter Complex. Reconnaissance work by Marathon Petroleum during...-
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RB 89/00044 Mineral resources of the Kapunda District Council area.
Kapunda DC is underlain by folded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments which host important mineral deposits in the area. An estimated 15 million tonnes of ore averaging 1.2% copper remains near the Kapunda mine, with potential for further...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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Toolgerie, Yalata and Black Hill (Fowler Project). Data release at project first partial surrender upon licences' renewal : combined annual reports for the period 30/6/2004 to 29/6/2009.
A group of project exploration licences covering the wholly buried Yalata Ultramafic Complex, which occupies an area of approximately 25 km x 75 km that lies partly within the Yalata Aboriginal Reserve to the north-west of Fowlers Bay, are being...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1909
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Wynbring [Siding]. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report upon licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 30/8/2004 to 29/8/2009.
An area located approximately 160 km north-northwest of Ceduna is being explored for possible economic nickel-copper-platinum group metal magmatic mineral deposits, which may have formed within Archaean to Proterozoic basement rocks in a geological...-
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Mount Norwest. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 29/9/2004 to 15/4/2008.
A structurally complex area located 50-70 km south-west of Marree was taken up to explore for possible diamonds, this strategy being based on recognition of apparently favourable geological criteria for the presence of diamond-bearing kimberlites and...-
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Published: 26 Aug 1908
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Iron Baron (part of Roopena Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/9/2004 to 1/9/2008.
Exploration for possible buried iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the eastern side of the Middleback Range in the vicinity of Iron Knob, has consisted of a review of historical calcrete sampling data and the acquisition and processing...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1908
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Whyalla. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2003 to 11/6/2008.
Evaluation of the perceived Olympic Dam style copper-gold and Stuart Shelf type stratabound copper potential of, respectively, the Proterozoic basement and the Adelaidean cover rocks in an area lying immediately to the west of the Cultana Inlier was...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1908
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West Woomera. Annual reports and progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2000 to 30/5/2005.
Copper-gold exploration undertaken over a small area within the Woomera Prohibited Area, 20 km west of Woomera township, was restricted to carrying out geophysical data interpretation and conceptual modelling for generating drill targets based around...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1904
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Lobethal (part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Data release made upon the commencement of project licences' joint reporting] : annual reports for the period 29/9/1993 to 3/3/2003.
A large, 722 square km area of the central Adelaide Hills extending between Jupiter Creek and the Warren Conservation Park is being explored for diamonds, gold and base metals, in host geological structures that appeared to be associated with...-
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Houghton. Annual reports and partial relinquishment report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/10/2001 to 21/10/2006.
Three potentially economic gold and platinum / palladium - bearing, known primary uranium-mineralised targets in the Palaeoproterozoic Houghton basement inlier have been evaluated through the conduct of office-based geological and geophysical studies,...-
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Published: 26 Apr 1907
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Peake and Denison Ranges. Data release made at subsequent licences' expiry/full surrender : annual reports for the period 12/7/1993 to 11/7/1995.
An area covering most of the northern outcropping Peake and Denison Ranges basement inliers was taken up by Pancontinental Mining to test for possible economic occurrences of lead-zinc and copper-gold mineralisation (broadly matching Mount Isa Block,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarcoola. Annual reports for the period 2/6/2008 to 29/7/2018.
During the first year of renewed EL 4167, in October and November 2008, Stellar Resources Ltd ("Stellar") completed a 5 hole, 1286.9 m RC and 2 hole, 157.1 m diamond cored inclined drilling programme at the Coolybring prospect which is located...-
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Published: 11 Sep 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Torrens area. Annual reports for the period 6/4/2009 to 17/8/2018.
During the 2009-2010 reporting period, work completed by Straits included: • participation in Native Title and Land Access activities and negotiations, which have constituted the majority of the work undertaken; and • Holding numerous meetings and...-
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Mount Grainger (Oodla Wirra). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/1970 to 7/10/1971.
Extensive literature and geological and geochemical field investigations of historic mines and prospects at the Mount Grainger and Oodla Wirra Goldfields have failed to disclose any remaining economic gold occurrences. The sparse native gold occurs...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1971
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-06 - Intercept Hill, Stuart Shelf, Mesoproterozoic IOCGU mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
EL 5372 Intercept Hill is centrally located in the world class Olympic Dam Iron Oxide Cu-Au-U Province, at the centre of a cluster of iron oxide copper occurrences including Emmie Bluff, Oak Dam and Winjabbie. The Intercept Hill area has available...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : [south-western] Lake Torrens area. Annual reports for the period 13/10/2010 to 12/10/2012.
An area centred ~30 km north-east of Bookaloo, which is mostly located within the Lake Torrens National Park, is being explored primarily for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation of the type exemplified by major deposits occurring at...-
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Published: 05 Nov 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Midgee (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2019.
An area of the northern Cowell Hills was taken up to explore for possible economic basement-hosted copper-gold mineralisation of epigenetic style, analogous to that found at the Ernest Henry deposit, which may be associated with magnetic anomalies and...-
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Published: 08 May 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Brady. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/1/2010 to 24/1/2015.
An area centred over the central Coober Pedy Ridge tectonic feature, 28 km east-southeast of Coober Pedy township, is being explored for possible economic buried massive haematite and magnetite within banded iron formation (BIF) type iron ore...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1915
