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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-18, Super Nova IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
This PACE-subsidised drilling project aimed to discover a new copper-gold mineralised Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) magmatic centre, similar to that which forms the setting of the Olympic Dam deposit, but lying within the northern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2005
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Jack's Reward [Dam]. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 14/8/2002 to 13/2/2006.
Exploration for Olympic Dam type or Cloncurry style iron oxide - associated copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill / Cannington style stratabound silver-lead-zinc deposits, both possibly formed within buried Palaeoproterozoic basement in an area of...-
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Published: 15 Feb 2006
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Investigation into public risks from potential landfill gas migration and abandoned underground clay mine workings in the Saint Agnes district of Adelaide.
Field investigations including drilling and soil gas sampling, carried out as part of a subsurface hazard assessment for a parcel of land at Saint Agnes, did not indicate any significant risks to an intended building development.-
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Published: 27 Feb 2003
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Lake Torrens South and Harris Crossing area, north of Port Augusta (the Torrens South Project). Combined annual reports plus separate final reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/1/2006 to 30/1/2010.
Exploration for possible buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill type iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the south-eastern side of the Stuart Shelf, in the vicinity of the southern end of Lake Torrens, initially consisted of a review of...-
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Published: 07 Apr 2010
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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 2009
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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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Aston Hill (part of the Nawa Domain Project). Annual report and final report to licence surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 4/6/2015.
No work - reports only contain comments about the Project area's perceived prospectivity.-
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Published: 07 Sep 2015
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/4/2000 to 8/8/2010.
During the sixth licence year, on renewed EL 2717 covering the same area as previously, the licensee, now a wholly owned subsidiary of AuIron Energy Limited (formerly Meekatharra Minerals Limited), progressed its investigations of the geology of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2016
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Data release made in lieu of submitting a final report at the expiry/full surrender on 4/11/2019 of EL 5212/6172 Alford (the last-held licence of the Alford Joint Venture Project) : Project joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2014 to 30/6/2016.
A group of four separate tenements located on northern Yorke Peninsula to the north-east and south-west of the historic Cu-Au producing Moonta-Wallaroo region has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG style mineralisation that may have...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2016
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual report for the period 24/3/1995 to 8/8/2018.
During the twenty-first licence year, now under tenure as EL 5719 covering the same area as former EL 4534, no new work was done. During the twenty-second licence year SA Coal commenced field work on their IOCG style mineralisation exploration...-
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Published: 29 Aug 2018
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Novel technologies for [use in] mining and [earth resource] exploration: remote smart sensor deployment for in situ geophysical analysis. Final report, Project ADI RD01-123 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2022].
Nine compact seismic motion recorders and nine co-located ground probe thermocouples have been deployed at various sites near the Carrapateena mine, to test the efficacy of making continuous remote data collection and the reliability of their...-
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Published: 27 Oct 2022
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (the Moonta Project). Annual reports for the period 12/4/2008 to 11/4/2018.
During the 2008-2009 project reporting year (Year 13), Adelaide Resources Limited continued to review all of the past exploration in the Moonta region. This disclosed 190 surface gold anomalies that the company thought warranted further consideration,...-
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Published: 10 Jun 2018
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Curnamona, Frome Downs, Billeroo Creek and Mulyungarie (the Curnamona Uranium JV Project). Partial surrender reports for the period 20/2/1997 to 19/2/2001.
Exploration for buried sedimentary uranium occurrences which might be amenable to extraction by in-situ leach mining was carried out on four contiguous ELs located immediately south and east of Lake Frome. Compilation of previous drilling data showed...-
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Published: 02 May 2001
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Nackara. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2009 to 15/11/2010.
Scout rock chip sampling carried out in the vicinity of the historic Wheal Bassett copper mine and Nackara and Nackara Reward gold mines, located near the Barrier Highway south and east of Nackara, failed to give direct encouragement to a proposed...-
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Published: 29 Nov 2011
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Hermitage Creek. Progress and annual reports for the period 22/7/1995 to 23/11/2000.
An area prospective for major metalliferous mineralisation at depth was identified at the intersection of the G2 and G7 structural corridors, 8 km south-west of Rhynie. Its potential was enhanced by coincident gravity, magnetic, radiometric and...-
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Published: 02 Jan 2001
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-18. Western Musgrave Province - Mount Caroline area magmatic nickel-copper-PGE and stratiform or epithermal / hydrothermal base metal mineral prospects. Final report.
In late 2008 PepinNini Minerals completed a stratigraphic drilling programme in the western Musgrave Province as an approved PACE Initiative Year 5 collaborative project with PIRSA. The programme was designed to investigate the Mount Caroline...-
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Published: 20 Jan 2009
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Peake. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/8/2004 to 28/9/2014.
An area located to the west and south of the Algebuckina Inlier of the Proterozoic Peake and Denison Ranges, which is centred approximately 50 km south-east of Oodnadatta, has been explored for possible roll-front style sedimentary uranium deposits...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2014
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Aurora Tank and Indooroopilly Outstation. Joint annual reports for the period 21/3/2011 to 20/3/2013.
Two separate tenements in the Challenger district which are now wholly owned by Marmota Energy Limited are being explored for possible economic buried Challenger style gold mineralisation that may be present within Archaean basement, and also, within...-
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Published: 12 Jul 2013
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Barton. Second partial surrender report, for the period 18/1/2006 to 28/9/2018.
A further ~24.3% of a licence located 130 km north of Fowlers Bay and immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway, in the vicinity of Barton Siding, has been relinquished due to its perceived diminished potential for finding economic deposits of...-
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Published: 05 Oct 2018