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Report on the Shamrock uranium prospect.
Uranium mineralisation was first discovered at the old Shamrock Copper Mine during a systematic search of old mine dumps by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1955. Follow-up investigations located a small high-grade uranium lode (Valley...-
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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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RB 77/00051;Env 03054 Porphyry style copper/molybdenum mineralization at Anabama Hill and the Cronje Dam copper prospect.
For a project to determine the base metal potential of known copper-mineralised igneous rocks which outcrop in an area located approximately 59 km south-west of Olary, the South Australian Government has completed detailed mapping, geochemical...-
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Published: 17 May 1977
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Bulgunnia, Gosse and Kingoonya (the Mentor Project). Data release made at the surrender of subsequent licences : annual reports for the period 27/10/1992 to 15/11/1997. [Index entry Part 1 of 2 - a very long abstract is split between these two parts].
The Gawler Joint Venture partners (Dominion Mining and Resolute Resources) have been exploring three near-contiguous areas located in the north of the Tarcoola - Kingoonya district, seeking possible economic concealed epithermal/mesothermal...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hope. Annual reports for the period 12/4/2002 to 14/3/2019.
Exploration of an area located on western Eyre Peninsula between Sheringa and Mount Hope is continuing, with the intent of discovering economic buried base and precious metal deposits of volcanogenic sediment-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) style...-
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The Padthaway Project. Data release made at the full surrenders of four included licences: joint first annual report, for the period 16/6/1999 to 15/6/2000.
Exploration for possible economic metallic mineral products of hidden copper-gold deposit mineralising systems, which possibly were genetically related to fractionated, high crustal level emplaced Cambro-Ordovician intrusive rocks, is addressing an...-
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Mount Gunson. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/re-issue over a larger area, for the period 25/10/1979 to 20/12/1985.
As part of an ongoing search for extensions to the Cattlegrid orebody style of stratiform Cu-Fe-Mn mineralisation within its exploration licences on the Stuart Shelf, besides testing for any indications of Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au deposits in the...-
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Data release - as updated : Brooker (part of the Brimpton Lake Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2003 to 24/8/2018.
Exploration Licence 3096 “Brooker” covering an area of 682 square km lies east of Elliston on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It is one of three adjacent tenements that form the “Brimpton Lake Project”; the other two are EL 2662 (initially...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Outalpa (part of the Curnamona Project). Annual reports for the period 10/6/2012 to 9/6/2018.
The Outalpa (EL 3472) licence area, comprised of two separate sub-blocks respectively centred ~30 km north-northeast and ~45 km north-northwest of Manna Hill, is one of five adjacent tenements held by PepinNini Minerals within the eastern Adelaide...-
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Ballara. First and final progress report to licence surrender for the period 28/4/1983 to 28/7/1983.
An aeromagnetic anomaly and nearby gravity anomaly identified in Palaeoproterozoic basement 17 km south of Mingary were tested for base metal mineralisation of Broken Hill or Olympic Dam type by performing a gravity survey and by drilling 7 percussion...-
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Goode Homestead. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/12/1982 to 5/12/1984.
TARGET: Possible diamondiferous kimberlites, Olympic Dam style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, and base metals associated with chemosedimentary iron formations. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetic and gravity surveys, rock chip and loam sampling, and stratigraphic...-
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Published: 11 Mar 1985
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Tarcoola and Theseus Projects. Joint annual reports for the period 31/5/2010 to 31/12/2014.
A large part of the Harris Greenstone Domain basement tectonostratigraphic block, extending from 10 km to 130 km west of Kingoonya, is being explored for possible buried economic gold, nickel and other base metal mineralisation which may be associated...-
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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Jubilee Dams. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 14/12/1977.
A programme of ground magnetic surveying along 7 short traverses, plus air/mud drag-bit percussion drilling (5 vertical open holes totalling 509 m) was used to investigate a set of previously untested discrete aeromagnetic high anomalies covered by...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1977
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Bull 033 The Geology and Iron Ore Resources of the Middleback Range Area
This report deals comprehensively with the physiography, prospect geology, and ore genesis, and includes an assessment of the iron ore reserves and other mineral resources of an area which has been almost the sole source of the iron ore used in...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarkarooloo. First annual report for the period 14/8/2002 to 13/8/2003.
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Published: 20 Oct 1903
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Geological mapping and geochemical appraisal of an area extending from Brindana Gorge to Parabarana Hill SMLs 704-705 SA.
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Moolawatana. Progress and technical reports for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/5/1974.
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-30 - Trafford Resources Ltd, Wilcherry Hill Project, Oxy's Bore prospect magnetic anomaly IOCG target. Drilling project final report.
Trafford Resources Ltd ('Trafford'), the owner since March 2007 of the seven exploration licences comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project, has as its primary focus exploration of these tenements for economic precious and base metal deposits. The...-
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RB 2009/00018 BHEI 2009 - OLARY field excursion to Ameroo Hill, Tommie Wattie [Bore] and the Walparuta Inlier. [September 25-26, 2009].
The Curnamona Province is the southern remnant of the Palaeoproterozoic Pb-Zn belt, and represents but a small fragment of the original superbasin. Geological data supports the idea of the basin being a rift, with sediments in the Broken Hill Domain...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2009
