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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Camel Lake. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2023.
An area located ~ 70 km north-east of Ooldea Siding and 50 km east of Maralinga is being explored for the industrial mineral kaolin, and more particularly its crystallographic form halloysite, which typically occurs as microtubules or nanotubes which...-
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Published: 21 Nov 2023
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Mount Craig Copper Project. Final report for June to December 2021 geophysical and drilling program, Project ADI RD02-268 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2021].
An area centred ~28 km east of Hawker is being explored for possible buried epigenetic/hydrothermal, skarn style and sediment-hosted stratabound base and precious metals mineralisation that may have formed within prepared Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Published: 02 Nov 2021
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Webling Bay. Annual reports for the period 02/06/2016 to 01/06/2019.
Exploration licence 5777 “Webling Bay” covers an area of 82 square km is situated on the western Yorke Peninsula. The project area consists entirely of Cainozoic quartz sand cover with minor outcrop of Tickera granite along the coast. The Cainozoic...-
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Published: 29 Jul 2018
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (the Moonta Project). Annual reports for the period 12/4/2008 to 11/4/2018.
During the 2008-2009 project reporting year (Year 13), Adelaide Resources Limited continued to review all of the past exploration in the Moonta region. This disclosed 190 surface gold anomalies that the company thought warranted further consideration,...-
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Published: 10 Jun 2018
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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 2 partnership no. DPY2-12, Big Bang IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
This PACE Initiative - subsidised drilling project aimed to discover a new copper-gold mineralised Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) magmatic centre, similar to that which forms the setting of the Olympic Dam deposit, but lying within the northern margin...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2005
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Acropolis South and North Roxby. Combined joint first annual/joint first partial surrender report, for the period 26/4/2002 to 25/4/2003.
Two areas which lie adjacent to and are situated respectively south and north from Olympic Dam, are considered very prospective for iron-oxide copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of Olympic Dam style. While historic drilling intercepts have shown that...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2003
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Hiltaba. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1996 to 6/12/2000.
Gawler Range Volcanics and Hiltaba Suite granitoids were investigated for possible volcanic epithermal gold and Olympic Dam - style plutonic Cu-U-Au-Ag mineralisation in an area of the south-western Gawler Ranges, 60 km north-east of Poochera....-
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Published: 03 Nov 2000
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Bunyeroo Well. Annual reports for the period 17/10/97 to 16/10/2000.
MMI soil sampling and a gravity survey were carried out over a circular magnetic anomaly adjacent to the Torrens Hinge Zone, 70 km north of Hawker. Two RC holes were drilled to 314 and 433 m in the zone of highest residual gravity, but were abandoned...-
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Published: 06 Oct 2000
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Crystal Brook, Port Broughton, Port Pirie, Mundoora and Winninnowie (the Moonta North Project). Annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 19/10/2000 to 1/8/2008.
Buried basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style is the target of exploration across a number of scattered Exploration Licences trending from Port Broughton in the south to...-
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Published: 18 Sep 2008
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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 2003
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Kingston (South-East). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 19/12/2000 to 12/6/2006.
Three salt lakes that extend in chain-like fashion along the inner Coorong - Lacepede Bay shoreline, over a distance of 24 km to the north of Kingston (SE) township, have been investigated for possible economic evaporitic mineral deposits that may...-
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Published: 12 Jun 2006
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Shell Lagoon. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/1/2001 to 7/5/2010.
Exploration for possible diamondiferous kimberlites in an area located immediately north-west and west of Woomera was undertaken to follow up promising reports of numerous kimberlitic indicator minerals detected by CRA Exploration in previous work...-
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Published: 08 Jun 2012
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 7/11/2008 to 6/11/2011.
No field work was undertaken during licence Year 7, but Stellar instead did a review of the Cowell area's prospectivity for Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium mineralisation. Previous drilling data for the local Pirie Basin sediments...-
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Published: 05 Dec 2011
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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 2019
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Data release - as updated : Playford. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 18/6/2015.
A largely sand dune and salt lake - covered area of the north-central Stuart Shelf, centred about 65 km north-west of the Olympic Dam mine, is being explored for possible economic buried IOCGU mineralisation that may be hosted by Mesoproterozoic...-
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Published: 25 Oct 2015
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Gairdner South [SW margin]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/10/2002 to 24/10/2007.
An area flanking the south-western margin of Lake Gairdner was taken up by Rudy Gomez to explore for possible economic buried precious and base metal epithermal mineralisation of Olympic Dam or Tunkillia style within volcanic rocks of the Proterozoic...-
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Published: 05 Apr 2008
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Data release - as updated : Lucas Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/2011 to 30/7/2019.
An area centred ~25 km south-east of Woomera township is being explored for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation that may be related to a poorly defined gravity anomaly and associated magnetic anomaly in the vicinity of Lucas Hill. A...-
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Published: 05 Aug 2019
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-04 - Woodmurra Project, Denison Inlier, Proterozoic metamorphosed volcanogenic basement stratiform/syngenetic Broken Hill type Pb-Zn-Ag prospects. Final report
An area lying ~70 km east and south-east of Oodnadatta is being explored for possible buried economic giant Broken Hill type (BHT) stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag deposits which may be contained within strongly deformed and metamorphosed Palaeo- to...-
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Published: 31 Oct 2016
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Vivonne Bay (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/5/2017 to 8/5/2019.
A small area located immediately west and north-west of Vivonne Bay on Kangaroo Island has been explored for possible economic occurrences of the lithium, tantalum and rare earth element (REE) - bearing accessory minerals lepidolite, zinnwaldite and...-
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Published: 18 Jul 2019
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pine Creek area. Annual technical report for the period ending 13/08/2018.
Exploration Licence 6000 ‘Pine Creek’, held by SA Exploration Pty Ltd is located on the eastern Adelaide Fold Belt, northeast of Burra on the margin of the Murray Basin. The tenement is considered prospective for copper and gold as noted by the...-
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Published: 13 Jul 2018