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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-34, Drew Hill JV area Curnamona Group base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
During early 2005, the Drew Hill joint venture partners conducted a regional base metal exploration programme over their mineral tenements located approximately 20-70 km north-east of Olary. Possible epithermal iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG)...-
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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. DPY1-12, Chianti mineral prospect. Project final report.
The subject report describes the results of drilling two fully cored rotary holes totalling 1161.10 m at the Chianti prospect, an unusually-shaped residual gravity anomaly located in Gunson Resources' EL 3264, 20 km north-east of the Mount Gunson...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-57, Streaky Bay area gravity highs and lows - IOCG and sedimentary uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
As part of the PACE Initiative Year 3 subsidised drilling programmes, Minotaur Exploration proposed exploring a large tenement package in the Streaky Bay area simultaneously for Prominent Hill style iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) and palaeochannel...-
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Naarack, Mabel Creek and Wintinna (part of the Arckaringa Basin Project). Respective final reports at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/3/2008 to 2/4/2010.
In a search for postulated Tertiary heavy mineral sands marine placer deposits that may have been formed outside of the presently known north-eastern extent of such age sedimentary basins (i.e. along a proto Eucla Basin coastline existing within the...-
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Kottata Well and Broadacres (part of the Yaninee Project). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2008.
Mineral exploration in the Streaky Bay district has addressed the potential for finding Prominent Hill - style Proterozoic IOCG deposits, Phanerozoic iron-depleted gold mineralisation, and Tertiary palaeochannel - hosted sedimentary uranium...-
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Peake and Denison Ranges. Data release made at subsequent licences' expiry/full surrender : annual reports for the period 12/7/1993 to 11/7/1995.
An area covering most of the northern outcropping Peake and Denison Ranges basement inliers was taken up by Pancontinental Mining to test for possible economic occurrences of lead-zinc and copper-gold mineralisation (broadly matching Mount Isa Block,...-
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The Mount Grainger JV Project with Rio Tinto, and the Nackara Arc JV Project with Range River Gold. Progress reports and combined annual reports to the cessation of these joint ventures, for the period 16/6/1999 to 31/1/2006.
The 5 tenements cover 3240km2 of pastoral grazing land centred approximately 45 km northeast of Peterborough within the Orroroo SI54-01 and Olary SI54-02 1:250 000 sheets, in north central South Australia. The Mt Grainger Project Area lies within the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Blinman (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports to the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 21/4/1999 to 20/4/2002.
Exploration Licence 2593 “Blinman” is located 500 km north of Adelaide in the Central North Flinders Ranges, South Australia. The licence covers an area of 1616km2 and was initially granted to Minotaur Gold NL on 21 April 1999. Minotaur was targeting...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo (the Olary Creek Project). Annual reports for the period 15/11/2005 to 7/2/2019.
An area centred ~50 km south west of Cockburn is being explored for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed in buried Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, as well as for any secondary uranium mineralisation that may...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Davies (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 4/3/1999 to 23/9/2009.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, and centred approximately 20 km to the south-east of the Surveyor Generals Corner at the borders of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, has been...-
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Deep Well Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 2/9/1994 to 13/4/2003.
The Deep Well Dam area, which lies 60 km north-northwest of Olary, is located within the Palaeoproterozoic Olary Domain and encompasses rock sequences prospective for stratabound Zn-Pb and Cu-Au mineralisation. Initial work performed there comprised...-
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/7/1998 to 1/7/2001.
An area located 45 km west of Whyalla, which is underlain by Palaeoproterozoic and Archaean sediments, metasediments and intrusives, was inferred to have potential to host gold and base metal mineralisation. Interpretation of Landsat images and...-
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Unalla Hill, Moonaree and South Lake Gairdner (Lake Gairdner Project). Annual and final reports for the period 25/10/96 to 24/10/99.
Exploration targeted Olympic Dam style mineralisation associated with Hiltaba Suite intrusives and Gawler Range Volcanics at the southern end of Lake Gairdner, between Mount Ive and Moonaree. Sampling of poorly developed calcrete together with rock...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1998
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Mount Goddard, Mount Deception and Parachilna (part of Flinders Ranges Project). First partial surrender report for the period 14/10/1999 to 13/10/2000.
Three areas in the Parachilna - Beltana - Leigh Creek area were excluded from prospectivity for Cambrian base metal mineralisation following reconnaissance soil and rock chip sampling and a review of previous exploration.-
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Reconnaissance structural investigation of the southern Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
Photogeological fracture analysis, Landsat interpretation and aerial geophysical data interpretation techniques have been concurrently applied to the problem of identifying deep-seated linear structures on the Stuart Shelf. Results of a consultant's...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1981
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Germein Gorge. Annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 17/5/2002 to 16/5/2004.
Known magnesite beds within the Adelaidean Skillogalee Dolomite were the targets of exploration in the southern Flinders Ranges, 20 km north-east of Port Pirie, to determine their viability for mining as potential feedstock for a planned magnesium...-
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Murnpeowie. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/11/2003 to 4/11/2005.
Possible accumulations of placer gold and other economic heavy minerals were the targets of exploration that was begun over an area of piedmont outwash alluvial fans formed at the northern extremity of the Flinders Ranges uplifted igneous basement....-
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Deep Well (part of Mount Grainger JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 16/6/1999 to 15/6/2004.
Exploration of a small area within the Nackara Arc region, lying 15-20 km north-west of the Mount Grainger Goldfield, has sought economic Telfer-type stratabound gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been...-
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Mount Chandler (Musgrave Ranges Project). Annual and final reports for the period 11/11/1996 to 10/11/1999.
Cu-Au-U prospects associated with shear zones and Kulgeran age granites have been identified in an area approximately 60 km north-west of Marla. Best assay results were obtained from the Indulkana Shear Zone, where rock chip sampling returned up to...-
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Yardea. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1996 to 6/6/1998.
Regional calcrete geochemical sampling carried out approximately 140 km north-east of Streaky Bay has outlined a northeasterly-trending 5 km x 1.5 km area containing weakly anomalous gold values of 3-9 ppb Au (Toondulya prospect), which appear to be...-
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