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Hanns Hill. Progress reports for the period 19/1/81 to 6/12/82.
Follow up to stream sediment sampling near Oodnadatta in the Mount Dutton area suggests that anomalous nickel, chromium and cobalt values are associated with ironstone, and anomalous niobium with geodes. No kimberlites were discovered.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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Mount Sabine. Partial surrender report for the period 12/2/1981 to 22/1/1986.
As part of a regional diamond and kimberlite exploration programme, 50 drainage and loam samples were collected for heavy mineral analysis from within the two areas being relinquished, which lie respectively 50 km NW and 40 km NE of Kingoonya. No...-
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Port Augusta. Progress and final reports for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/4/1974.
Detailed follow-up to earlier regional stream sediment sampling, which had disclosed several robust kimberlitic garnet indicator anomalies in relatively featureless terrain, was successful in discovering three outcropping thin kimberlite sills in the...-
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Pualco West. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/10/1973.
Reconnaissance and detailed bulk loam sampling undertaken to look for diamonds or kimberlite indicator minerals in the vicinity of the Pualco Anticline, plus spectrographic analyses of the derived heavy mineral concentrates for gold and base metals...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1973
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Gawler Ranges. Diamond exploration relinquishment report, November 1982.
An integrated programme for diamonds combining heavy mineral and geochemical sampling, photogeology, and some geophysics has shown that EL 827's prospectivity for diamonds is extremely low. Heavy mineral sampling was negative, geochemical results...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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(South-eastern) Lake Torrens area. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1994 to 13/10/2000.
Features interpreted from detailed low-level infill airborne coverage to a 1995 SAEI aeromagnetic survey, flown over a large area of disturbed, mainly Adelaidean sedimentary diapiric terrain located between Hawker and the south-eastern shore of Lake...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1900
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Mount Misery. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1985.
Stratabound, chemically precipitated Telfer - type replacement style vein gold was the target of exploration undertaken over an area 25 km north-west of Yunta, which contains good exposures of Neoproterozoic Umberatana Group clastic metasediments that...-
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Mount Painter district (the Gunsight Joint Venture Project). Individual licence's progress reports and annual reports to project licences' joint full surrender, for the period 1/12/1982 to 16/11/1993.
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Cleve. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/2/1986 to 27/9/1994.
Diamond exploration undertaken near Cleve on eastern Eyre Peninsula comprised stream and loam mineralogical and geochemical sampling, the reprocessing of Pancontinental's 1979 aeromagnetic survey data, and the conduct of ground magnetic surveys and...-
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Peachna. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/9/1988 to 8/9/1994.
Possible economic Broken Hill - type stratiform Pb and Zn, and Middleback Range style iron ore, were targeted near Lock on central Eyre Peninsula by Western Mining Corp., who farmed-in to Stockdale's EL 1516 on March 1st, 1990 as part of a regional...-
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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RB 84/00075 Review of phlogopite in kimberlitic rocks as a possible source of vermiculite in South Australia.
Vermiculite is an alteration product of phlogopite. Kimberlitic bodies of sufficient size and phlogopite content for possible exploitation have been discovered in South Australia during past exploration for diamonds and base metals. Sampling is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1984
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 92/00037 Review of mineral exploration, KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map area.
This report was prepared as a summary of all open file mineral exploration data from the KINGOONYA 1:250000 mapsheet area that are held in the SADME records management Envelope system. The aim of the holdings review was to describe past exploration,...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1991
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RB 93/00026 Pulpara Kia Ora Bendigo bedrock drilling programme, 1992.
During the period September to December 1992, as part of the SA Exploration Initiative (SAEI), SADME completed an investigative drilling programme of concealed bedrock in the area of the Delamerian Bendigo Granite and surrounding metasediments of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1993
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RB 94/00031 Interpretation of NOAA-AVHRR satellite images over the ABMINGA 1:250 000 sheet, investigating the suspected kimberlite signatures in the SAEI aeromagnetic data.
A 400 m line spacing aeromagnetic survey was conducted over ABMINGA during 1992-1993 as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative (SAEI). Short wavelength 'bullseye-dipole' anomalies observed on the aeromagnetics appear very similar to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1995
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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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McDouall Peak Station (part of the Central Gawler Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/2004 to 19/5/2009.
Exploration for diamonds undertaken by Flinders Mines Ltd (as part of the JV agreement made with Tasman Resources) on the subject EL, located about 70 km south of Coober Pedy, commenced with a re-assessment of open file airborne magnetic data in an...-
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Gina Outstation (part of the Central Gawler Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/2004 to 19/5/2009.
Exploration for diamonds undertaken by Flinders Mines Ltd (as part of the JV agreement made with Tasman Resources) on the subject EL, located about 30-45 km east of Commonwealth Hill, commenced with a re-assessment of open file airborne magnetic data...-
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Paratoo (was formerly part of the Grainger Project; recently made part of the Flinders Ranges JV Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/2005 to 9/11/2009.
Portions of a helicopter-borne detailed aerial magnetic survey, the third in a series of large regional magnetic surveys undertaken by Flinders Diamonds Ltd within the Flinders Ranges in recent years, were flown across the now relinquished parts of EL...-
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