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Rudall. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2012 to 23/5/2017.
A small area centred ~ 19 km west-northwest of Cleve was taken up primarily to explore for possible economic buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal...-
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Cockabidnie. Second partial surrender report, for the period 25/5/2016 to 6/4/2021.
Two portions which constitute the majority of the two sub-blocks which form EL 5791, together covering 63 square km or ~82% of the formerly held area, have been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for economic graphite,...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-42 - Mount Woods Project area, Gawler Craton: assessing the potential for ISGC style mineralisation within the Mount Woods Inlier. Drilling final report
Historically, exploration undertaken for finding Iron Oxide - associated Copper-Gold (IOCG) mineralisation on the eastern Gawler Craton, over the long period since the discovery of the Olympic Dam deposit in July 1975, has targeted positive gravity...-
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Mikkira. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 2/3/1981 to 27/10/1987.
Exploration for graphite and base metals in the Uley - Mikkira region, south-west of Port Lincoln, comprised an aerial INPUT / magnetic / radiometric survey, with ground EM34-3, magnetic, SP and IP surveys to follow-up INPUT responses. 4 EM anomalies...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1987
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Cootra. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 25/11/80 to 28/3/84.
Pioneer exploration for possible stratabound base metal deposits that have a facies relationship to metamorphic iron deposits, which was carried out in the Cootra area, located 20 km east south-east of Warramboo on central Eyre Peninsula, has...-
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Published: 09 Apr 1984
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Teetulpa, Wattle Dam and Manna Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 24/3/86 to 23/12/86.
Exploration which was centred on the Teetulpa and Mannahill gold fields comprised intensive geochemical sampling (rock chip, soil, stream sediment, battery slimes and mine dumps) and IP, Sirotem and ground magnetic surveys. Several significant gold...-
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Mount Gawler. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 27/5/1983 to 26/5/1988.
TARGET: Evaluation of the Koppio and Kookaburra Gully graphite prospects on southern Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: Prospect gridding, 1:1000 scale geological mapping, orientation Max-Min II ground EM surveys, extensive trenching and channel sampling,...-
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Statement of proposed mining operations and Declaration of Environmental Factors for the Uley graphite mine, South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo. Joint second partial surrender report, for the period 14/2/1989 to 13/2/1992. Plus: Carpie Puntha and Waddikee. Joint final report to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 14/2/1989 to 24/6/1992.
TARGET: Possible commercial Menninnie Dam type stratabound or stratiform base metal deposits in the Cowell - Kimba - Buckleboo region. EXPLORATION: Field reconnaissance and rock chip geochemical sampling of prospective areas identified from...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Waddikee. Annual reports for the period 24/5/2010 to 31/1/2018.
During licence Year 6, on renewed EL 4662, Monax and its JV earn-in partner OMM undertook auger soil geochemical sampling, ground magnetic and IP surveys, and exploratory drilling in their continuing search for economic iron ore and manganese...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Verran and Malbrom (the Verran Project, then the Arno Graphite Project). Joint annual reports plus annual report, for the period 29/1/2014 to 28/1/2019.
Two licence areas together covering the hinterland to Arno Bay and Port Gibbon on eastern Eyre Peninsula, and extending as far north-westwards as Rudall, are being explored for economic buried graphite deposits that may have formed in deformed high...-
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EL 6789, EL 6790, EL 6791 - First and Final Technical Reports from 27/06/2022 to surrender 13/06/2024.
The tenement group consists of EL 6789 (234 km2) granted to Open Minerals Pty Ltd (subsidiary of Pinnacle Minerals), EL 6790 (300 km2) grated to Pegasus Prospecting Pty Ltd (subsidiary to Pinnacle Minerals), and EL 6791 (517 km2) granted to Titan...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-11, Thurlga Ramp, northern edge of Cleve Domain, volcanic epithermal / hydrothermal replacement type precious metal prospects. Drilling final report.
A licence area, which lies adjacent on the west to Investigator Resources' Peterlumbo Hill EL 5368 containing the Paris silver deposit (where there is a currently inferred resource of 42 Moz @ 139 ppm Ag), is being explored under a joint venture with...-
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Wirrabara. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 5/9/78 to 4/9/80.
EL 417 Wirrabara was secured by CRA to investigate previously untested aeromagnetic, induced polarisation and resistivity anomalies in the Wirrabara - Charlton area, and a reported kimberlite at Bangor. Work has consisted of: - 3 line km of IP...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1980
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Bull 037 Geology and Mineral Resources of Southern Eyre Peninsula
A regional geological survey covered 15 standard 1-mile map sheets. Detailed mapping established a 50 000 ft sequence of Archaean sedimentation of gneissose, schistose and granitoid rocks, migmatite, quartzite, dolomite and haematitic quartzite. These...-
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Bull 013 Pigment Minerals in South Australia
During the past twenty years attention has been directed to the natural resources of the State in pigment materials, and a considerable body of information, based 011 official reports, has been accumulated, which is now collected into this Bulletin,...-
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MR 001 Short review of mining operations in the State of South Australia during the year 1903
The total value of South Australian mineral production during the year 1903 maybe estimated at £520,000 Articles include: Copper: Paramatta and Yelta mines; Burra Mine; Kapunda mine Gold: the most important gold-mining district during the past year...-
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SP 003 Mining in South Australia - A Pictorial History
In recognition of the centenary of Henry Yorke Lyell Brown's appointment as the first Government Geologist for South Australia, and the foundation of the Department of Mines and Energy, aspects of South Australia's colourful and vital mining and...-
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RB 66/00078 Report on Darke Peak copper prospect, section 28 Hd Campoona.
At the Darke Peak copper prospect there are minor concentrations of copper in thin shears parallel to the rock layering. The copper occurs near the surface as malachite and azurite in thin veins (average thickness 1 foot) having near vertical dip. No...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 75/00006 Introduction to laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks.
'Industrial minerals' are those minerals or assemblages of minerals which are economically important because of their physical or chemical properties, rather than their metal or energy content. The term is synonymous with 'non-metallic minerals', and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1974