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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Lake Tallacootra. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
In a search for possible Proterozoic - Cainozoic unconformity - related, concealed sedimentary uranium deposits in an area of the Eucla Basin located 60 km north of Fowlers Bay, 42 rotary mud drillholes totalling 1432.4 m were put down on 5 traverses...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Ifould Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
Continuing exploration for possible buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium deposits in the vicinity of Ifould Lake consisted of ground truthing of aerial radiometric anomalies by scintillometer surveys and chemical analysis of auger...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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RB 83/00003 Report on 1979 helicopter geological survey, western Officer Basin of South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 79/00114 Palaeodrainage systems in western South Australia. Their detection by Landsat imagery, stratigraphic significance and economic potential.
Two major palaeodrainage systems of Tertiary age, with watersheds of up to 35 000 square km and channel lengths of 200-250 km, have been recognised and delineated using LANDSAT imagery, during 1:250 000 scale geological mapping in western South...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 97/00056 An assessment of the groundwater resources of the Lake Maurice area, northwest South Australia, for the Oak Valley Community, Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Lands.
The Oak Valley Community requires a more convenient water supply. If potable groundwater cannot be found then a supply suitable for purification must be found. Current requirements are a supply of 1 L/s of water of salinity not greater than 40 000...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1997
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-01, north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands prospects. Project final report.
As a result of PACE Initiative - subsidised regional exploratory drilling for Tertiary heavy mineral sands carried out on the north-western Eyre Peninsula during February-April 2006, comprising 349 aircore drillholes put down along 19 traverses for a...-
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Published: 08 Jun 1906
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-10, Watraba (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands prospect. Project final report.
This partly PACE-funded drilling project aimed to discover a heavy mineral sand deposit along the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin in the EL 3363 Watraba project area, located 40 kilometres north to north-west of Ceduna. Drilling tested an...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1906
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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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Tallaringa and Mount Igy (the Tallaringa JV Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/1/2009 to 6/2/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project joint reporting year, the following activities occurred: - the conduct of an Aboriginal heritage work area clearance survey in the northern part of EL 3485 Tallaringa by the Antakarinja Land Management Council Native...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Annual, joint annual and combined annual reports for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2009.
A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1909
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Seven Mile Swamps (part of the Euria Project). Annual report and progress report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/5/1996 to 10/2/1998.
Calcrete sampling, mapping, and RAB and aircore drilling (211 holes, total 7334 m) were carried out 20 km north of Penong, in an area underlain by Hiltaba Suite granitoids, Archaean gneisses and a major associated shear zone. Although geochemical...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1997
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.
Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...-
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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 3 partnership no. DPY3-22, Barton West heavy mineral sand prospect. Project final report.
Previous drilling in 2005, undertaken as part of another PACE project, DPY2-52, discovered significant occurrences of heavy mineral sands within an area of 15 km x 5 km in the southern part of EL 3092 (the Notrab prospect). These sands were...-
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Mount Igy. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licence joint reporting for the Tallaringa JV ELs, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2009.
An area centred ~150 km WSW of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried economic sandstone-hosted secondary uranium deposits which might have formed within northeastwards-draining tributaries of the Tertiary Tallaringa Palaeochannel. Another,...-
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Published: 23 Apr 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warrior (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/2/2005 to 16/2/2010.
Tasman Resources is exploring an area that is centred about 78 km north-west of Tarcoola for possible economic buried occurrences of sedimentary roll front style uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels and nickel mineralisation in Archaean -...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1910
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The Eyre Peninsula Joint Venture Project. Joint annual reports for the period 19/9/2002 to 31/12/2008.
A number of tenements on central northern Eyre Peninsula are being explored by Adelaide Resources and its joint venture partner Newmont Mining for possible economic buried deposits of gold, copper and other base metals which may have formed in the...-
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Published: 27 Feb 1909
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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 1923
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Sahara Prospect. Final report, Model Test and Core Scanning. Project ADI RD02-270 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises exploration conducted by Western Areas between May 2021 and October 2021, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/270-ED Sahara Prospect Model Test and Core Scanning. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide at Sahara in 2020,...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1922
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[SADME] Colona drilling program. [Geological results] Data package.
AIM: The Colona Drilling Project aimed to test concealed basement in the vicinity of two ground magentic profiles that have been run across the most south-western, teardrop - shaped aeromagnetic anomaly of the Fowler Suture Zone. METHODS: 45 vertical...-
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