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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-04, Churchill Dam area iron oxide - associated copper-gold and uranium mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
EL 3511 licensee Debnal and its joint venture partner Venture Minerals are exploring an area of the eastern Gawler Craton having a predicted high potential for the discovery of Olympic Dam type iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCG-U)...-
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Mount Gunson, Woocalla, Bernard Hill, Mount Moseley and Emmie Bluff (the Mount Gunson Project). Respective second to fourth partial surrender reports, for the overall period 15/7/1994 to 12/10/2004.
No work has been undertaken on the currently relinquished portions of ELs 3112, 2639, 3008 and 3022. However, as an attachment to the current EL 3112 relinquishment report, all technical data for Stuart Metals' recent diamond drillhole MGD24 (to...-
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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 [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Oak Dam North-east. Annual reports for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
A relatively large but little-explored area of the central-eastern Stuart Shelf, which is almost wholly covered by scrubby sand dunes and swampy salt lakes, thereby making surface access very difficult despite it being located only ~30 km to 50 km km...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1911
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Woomera and Wirrappa. Annual reports and first joint annual report, plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/11/2018.
Two adjacent areas located immediately south and east of Woomera township were taken up to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence...-
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Published: 07 Jan 1919
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Uro Bluff [latterly with Cultana and Tregolana]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to the full surrender of EL 1003 Uro Bluff, for the period 13/3/1980 to 15/1/1985.
Exploration which aimed to test the base of the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation for economic sedimentary copper deposits has included 10 rotary drillholes (total 1731.8 m), notably with a successful intersection of 1 metre of chalcocite - bearing...-
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West Lake Torrens (part of the Murdie Project). Final report for geophysical, drilling and logistics program, Project ADI RD01-120 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
ADI funding was granted by DEM to Kelaray to conduct approved geophysical surveys and exploratory drilling and apply logistical support within its Murdie Project, for a combined expenditure of up to A$320,000. At the outset of the project, Kelaray...-
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Cultana [latterly with Uro Bluff, Tregolana and Sugarloaf Hill]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/6/1984.
In the search for Mount Gunson type sedimentary copper, 4 deep exploratory diamond drillholes (out of 22 totalling over 5000 m) intersected subeconomic mineralisation at the target base of the Sturtian Tapley Hill Formation (best value 3 m @ 1.55% Cu...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1984
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Jenner Hill. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/10/1989 to 3/10/1992.
Possible Mesoproterozoic stratabound unconformity - related copper mineralisation of Mount Gunson / Cattlegrid type, and, after 1980, pre-Pandurra Formation stratigraphic level, basement - hosted, Olympic Dam style iron oxide associated...-
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Rawlinson Hill, Mount Sabine, Snow Hill and Billa Kalina Homestead (Stuart Shelf / Arckaringa Basin). Joint progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 28/4/1987.
Over the report period Agip Australia completed the drilling and geophysical logging of 39 open rotary holes totalling 3845 m to investigate if economic coal seams occur within Permian sediments of the southern Arckaringa Basin. Although the Permian...-
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Point Paterson - Port Pirie area. Progress, technical and final reports for the period 22/1/1970 to 10/12/1971.
Reports on the investigation of potential northern Spencer Gulf coastal sites for the solar evaporative production of seawater salt, principally as a feedstock for the proposed petrochemical plant which was being considered by Dow Chemical Corp. for...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1971
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Ongoing appraisal work conducted by CSR at the company's newly discovered Cattlegrid copper deposit that lies at the top of the Pandurra Formation has included infill rotary percussion and diamond drilling (13 holes for 554 m, including 166 m cored),...-
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Lake Hart. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/3/1977 to 3/2/1978.
Exploration for possible Precambrian sediment-hosted base metal deposits within an area lying just west and south of Lake Hart has comprised a photogeological study, geological mapping at 1:87,000 scale, a gravity survey along a single 30 km traverse,...-
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1975 to 15/4/1977.
Stratiform copper sulphides, hosted within the basal Tapley Hill Formation, and extensions of known kimberlite bodies were targeted in this program. Reconnaissance and closer (down to 1 km x 1 km) spaced diamond and percussion drilling (28 and 83...-
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RB 73/00008 Geological survey, Torrens Hinge Zone Project, Bute region. Report no. 1.
This report outlines the history and concept of the Torrens Hinge Zone project. An account is given of the regional geology, geophysics, geochronology and stratigraphic drilling in the Bute region and adjoining areas of northern Yorke Peninsula. An...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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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. DPY1-02, Titan mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Titan prospect is located within Exploration Licence 3209, and lies 30 km north of the Olympic Dam mine. The prospect was first drilled by Western Mining Corp. in 1976 with diamond drillhole BD 1, and in 1981 with a second hole, BD 2. Both holes hit...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty Lagoon [East]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2002.
An area of the Stuart Shelf located between Pernatty Lagoon and the Beda Arm of Lake Torrens, with its western boundary lying 15 km east of the historic Mount Gunson copper mining field, is being explored for possible economic basement-hosted IOCG...-
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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RB 2010/00003 High Resolution Resistivity Test Survey: Andamooka.
A new high-resolution resistivity measurement instrument, developed by ZZ Resistivity Imaging Pty Ltd, was tested within the Andamooka Precious Stones Field, located 640 km by road north of Adelaide, to determine its suitability for assisting in opal...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2010
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Charlotte Well. First annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1994 to 3/6/1996.
Ground magnetic, ground gravity and electrical geophysical surveys were carried out during base metal exploration of SAEI-identified structural and aeromagnetic anomalies located along the northern margin of Lake Gairdner, searching for epithermal...-
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