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Parabarana. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/5/1974.
Under a joint venture agreement made between North Flinders Mines and Dampier Mining Co. (a BHP Exploration subsidiary), operative over the 7 square mile SML 705 between 14/9/1973 and 14/3/1974, at least 3500 feet of additional appraisal diamond...-
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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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Tarcoola. Data release in lieu of a 25% second partial surrender at licence renewal : progress and annual reports for the period 7/12/1990 to 20/4/2003. [ Index Part 1 of 4 ].
The abstract for this Envelope is contained (in three parts) as separately indexed records, due to SAMREF database system individual record data size limits presently applicable.-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-21, Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, subsidiary fault plays, Tunkillia - style gold prospects. Project final report.
It has lately been recognised by explorers that subsidiary fault splays developed adjacent to the main Yarlbrinda Shear Zone may be more prospective for hydrothermal gold deposits than the main zone. In an approved PACE Initiative Year 2 drilling...-
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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well and Wirrida. Six-monthly progress, plus combined annual and final reports, to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/12/1993 to 18/7/2006.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of epithermal/hydrothermal gold, plus precious metals and base metals, which might have formed in poorly outcropping Archaean and Proterozoic basement, commenced with a detailed interpretation of SAEI imaged...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1906
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Giles Nob. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 7/7/1988.
Exploration for possible economic gold deposits in an area located approximately 25 km south of Olary addressed three principal objectives: . hydrothermally-sourced gold within quartz-albite-dolomite vein stockworks formed in phyllitic siltstones of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wild Horse Plain. Annual reports for the period 8/7/2005 to 23/2/2019, plus partial surrender reports to 23/2/2021.
An upland area located approximately 100 km south-west of Whyalla on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, and with its eastern boundary running parallel to the coast at a distance of 15 km from Cowell and Franklin Harbour, is being explored for uranium,...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1921
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Monarto (part of the Adelaide Hills Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 23/5/2013 to 22/5/2016.
28 square km, or the whole southern half, of an area centred ~14 km north-west of Murray Bridge has now been relinquished because of a recently assigned competing land usage classification that would make it difficult to do mineral exploration there....-
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Geological report no. 1 on the Cutana copper mine, Olary district, SA.
Secondary copper mineralisation at the Cutana copper mine appears to be limited to a length of about 30 feet at the surface, where historic workings have excavated a swell to 3 feet wide in a quartz-ironstone reef that otherwise narrows to 18 inches...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1971
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North Well Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/1994 to 14/11/1999.
Exploration, initially for rare metal elements, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village and Umberatana Homestead. Work comprising petrography, rock chip sampling, stream...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1900
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Weekeroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/10/1970 to 30/9/1971.
A detailed examination of mineralised rock sequences within the metamorphosed Precambrian basement and Adelaidean cover rocks of the Weekeroo area, and recording of their relationship to successive deformational events and resulting rock structures,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
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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 3 partnership no. DPY3-55, Glenloth Goldfield mineral prospects. Project final report.
Historical workings at the Glenloth Goldfield were the target for 10 exploratory RC drillholes put down by Minotaur Exploration during May-June 2006 as a PACE Initiative Year 3 project. Their accepted proposal was to drill a series of RC percussion...-
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Mount Olinthus. Annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1996.
Base metal mineralisation, indicated by newly discovered shafts at the historic Atkinson Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine, was the impetus for exploration in the upland area 20 km north-west from Cowell. Grab samples collected from shafts, stockpiles and dumps varied...-
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Manna Hill (part of the Manna Hill Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/8/2010 to 27/8/2015.
An area located immediately south of Manna Hill township and the Barrier Highway was taken up to explore for sediment hosted primary gold deposits similar to those found in the Wadnaminga Goldfield. However, the target Neoproterozoic metasedimentary...-
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Published: 09 Nov 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Carappee Hill. Annual reports for the period 20/2/2010 to 19/2/2019.
The continuation during 2010 of exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic bedrock in a small area located 60 km west-northwest of Cowell has mainly consisted of the conduct of three shallow drilling campaigns and the examination and analysis of downhole...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty [Station] and Yeltacowie (the Punt Hill IOCG Project). Joint annual reports for the period 29/11/2009 to 6/1/2012.
Two adjoining licence areas located in the country east of Pernatty Lagoon that lies between 80 and 180 km north of Port Augusta are being explored by Monax Mining Limited (Monax) for economic Proterozoic basement-hosted Iron-Oxide associated...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana (part of the Mullaquana, later called Samphire, Uranium Project). Annual reports for the period 20/11/2009 to 19/11/2018.
During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Carrapateena Arm, Hatch Hill, Beda Arm and Lake Torrens South (the OZ Minerals Carrapateena Project). Annual reports (separate and joint) for the period 8/1/2008 to 6/1/2016.
Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...-
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Mount Fitton South. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 17/6/1968 to 16/6/1969.
Historic mining of mainly secondary copper ores plus some sulphides disseminated in granite and locally concentrated in fissure veins at Mount Fitton South has yielded about 2500 tons of material, but possible extensions of the better lodes remain...-
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Published: 05 May 1969
