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Frome Downs. Progress reports and partial relinquishment reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/6/1978 to 14/9/1982.
153 rotary mud open holes (total 19,689 m) and 11 cored holes (total 1384 m) have been drilled during the reporting period to evaluate the Goulds Dam uranium deposit and to further explore the region to its north and south for sedimentary uranium...-
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Frome Downs and Curnamona. Respective progress reports, annual reports and JV partner's final report to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 11/2/1971 to 12/2/1973.
77 rotary / diamond holes drilled by Pacminex (total 9385 m, including 196 m cored) plus another 53 holes drilled within SML 544 by joint venturer Esso (total 7029 m) indicate that a highly prospective radioactive mineralised zone occurs within...-
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North Fowlers Bay - Chundaria. Annual reports and progress reports for the periods 15/9/1993 to 14/9/1998, and 28/10/1998 to 12/3/1999.
North Ltd's Barton Project commenced in 1990 across a number of licences progressively taken out over the western Gawler Craton, which eventually came to include EL 1865. Initial exploration for heavy mineral sand in the Barton-Ooldea area, 100-200...-
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Published: 06 May 1999
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Ongoing exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, during this period comprised 3D geophysical modelling of possible source geometries for, and RC drilling (10 holes, total...-
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Gunsight aerial magnetic/radiometric survey, Mount Painter region, December 1982. Metadata.
Comprises the operator's summary of survey details, plus a SADME record location manifest for output data map transparencies and flight line record digital tapes.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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Kalabity. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1971 to 17/6/1973, plus related technical reports about in situ leach uranium mining methods in Wyoming.
The recently completed drilling of 189 open rotary holes (total penetration 22,427 m), plus the redrilling and geophysical re-logging by joint venturer Minad-Teton of 19 previously completed Carpentaria Exploration Co. uranium exploration holes (for a...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1974
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Callington. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 6/6/1978 to 24/4/1985.
The target in the Kanmantoo mine area was Cambrian stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation known to be associated with pyritic units of the Brukunga Formation, and copper associated with andalusite-staurolite-garnet-chlorite-biotite schists in the same...-
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Published: 28 Mar 1985
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Mount Painter, Mount Gee and Mount Ward. Progress reports and technical reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/6/1965 to 29/11/1985.
Exploration disclosed widespread uranium mineralisation, with drill-indicated reserves of 6 million tonnes, at an average grade of 0.8 kg / tonne U3O8, existing in 5 major deposits. About 625 drill holes totalling 53,000 m tested these major deposits...-
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Keyneton. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 6/8/1973 to 17/4/1974.
Continuing geological, geochemical, petrographic and ground magnetic work was done by AAP along 26 sampling profiles to try to unravel possible stratigraphic and tectonic controls on known base metal mineralisation at the Royal Keyneton and Hope mine...-
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Strathearn. First partial surrender report, for the period 20/8/1986 to 17/5/1994.
Exploration for possible Broken Hill type mineralisation formed within the Bimba Formation, in an area located 70 kilometres north-west of Olary, has comprised the acquisition of ground magnetic, EM, IP and Sirotem surveys, plus the drilling of 43 RC...-
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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Cleve. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/2/1986 to 27/9/1994.
Diamond exploration undertaken near Cleve on eastern Eyre Peninsula comprised stream and loam mineralogical and geochemical sampling, the reprocessing of Pancontinental's 1979 aeromagnetic survey data, and the conduct of ground magnetic surveys and...-
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Proterozoic basement exploration, 1979-1982, Billeroo West [EL 722 partial relinquishment report to 14/9/82].
Basement magnetic anomaly M2 located near Sandyoota Dam on Curnamona Station, one of three anomalies mapped within EL 722 south of Lake Frome by geophysical consultant J. Ashley, was investigated for Olympic Dam style mineralization by detailed ground...-
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Results of airborne radiometric/magnetic survey (1980). EL 464, Lake Dey Dey, EL 465, Lake Maurice, EL 466, Ooldea Range.
A regional survey (6130 line km; line spacing: 1 km; altitude: 90 metres) was carried out in March, 1980. The radiometric data show intense U-channel responses over an area of small salt lakes west of Lake Dey Dey. Limited ground investigations show...-
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Operational report. Airborne geophysical survey, Maralinga area, South Australia.
The 5450 line km survey (altitude: 90 metres) was carried out from 20.2.81 to 10.3.81 and consisted of 115 lines spaced at 1 km intervals and 18 reconnaissance lines spaced at 1.5 km intervals, in groups of 5, with 11 tie lines spaced at 10 km intervals.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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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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Jenner Hill, Pearson Hill and Sandy Point (the Stuart Shelf JV Project). Joint progress reports, plus later annual reports and final report to full surrender of remnant licence EL 1808, for the overall period 4/10/1989 to 24/10/1996.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style mineralisation, undertaken over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead on the Stuart Shelf, which includes WMC's formerly partly tested Emmie Bluff prospect, has comprised the acquisition of ground...-
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Gunsight and Yudnamutana. Quarterly and annual reports for the period 25/5/79 to 30/8/83.
A sequence of exploration programs in the Mount Painter Province, undertaken on Special Mining Leases since 1965, have been previously released. Exploration for base metals, gold, uranium and REE since 1974, in an area extending 50 km southwest from...-
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Mount Clive. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/8/1991 to 8/2/1995.
Exploration for possible buried diapir or diatreme - associated diamonds, copper and gold, within an intensively faulted, folded and eroded area of the northern Flinders Ranges situated 35 km east and south-east of Lyndhurst, comprised gravel, stream...-
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Pichi Richi Pass [south of Quorn]. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/12/1992 to 1/12/1997.
Diamond exploration undertaken over a much dissected 460 square km area of the south-central Flinders Ranges between Stirling North and Mount Arden comprised aeromagnetic interpretation and heavy mineral processing of a regional suite of 170+ stream...-
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