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Lake Bring. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 710) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium associated with high order radiometric anomalies over lakes on the edge of the sand dune country, east of the Nullarbor Plain. EXPLORATION: Closely spaced (300-500 m), low level (65 m altitude) aerial scintillometer...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Archaean Metabasic Diamond Drilling Project.
The Archaean Metabasic Diamond Drilling Project was undertaken by SADME Regional Geology Branch (part of the Geological Survey of South Australia) in two locations within the north-western Gawler Craton. Metasediments in this region include banded...-
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RB 98/00010 Regolith studies related to the Challenger gold deposit, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Challenger gold deposit - Volume 1: text, and Volume 2: appendices.
The Challenger gold deposit lies in the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, 750 km NW of Adelaide, and 140 km NW of Tarcoola. A 1.5 km traverse (the regolith line) was chosen for the study of geochemical dispersion and regolith stratigraphy...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 96/00025 Exploration for coal in the Coober Pedy area, South Australia.
As part of the Government's South Australian Exploration Initiative (SAEI), and in support of the South Australian Steel and Energy (SASE) Project, a small coal exploration program was initiated by MESA to investigate a number of subtle magnetic lows...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1996
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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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Wynbring [Siding]. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report upon licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 30/8/2004 to 29/8/2009.
An area located approximately 160 km north-northwest of Ceduna is being explored for possible economic nickel-copper-platinum group metal magmatic mineral deposits, which may have formed within Archaean to Proterozoic basement rocks in a geological...-
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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. DPY2-52, Notrab mineral prospect, Barton West area. Project final report.
Dominion Gold Operations applied to PIRSA for PACE Initiative Year 2 funding in 2005 to assist with the drilling evaluation of the geology and mineral potential of a 6 km x 2 km, peak 86 ppb gold-in-calcrete geochemical anomaly at the Notrab prospect,...-
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Sandstone Outstation area (part of the Central Gawler Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 20/5/2005 to 19/5/2009.
Exploration for diamonds undertaken by Flinders Mines Ltd (as part of the JV agreement made with Tasman Resources) for the subject 39 square km of relinquished portions of EL 3343, located about 70 km south-west of Coober Pedy, commenced with a...-
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A petrographic study of regolith samples from the Challenger Project, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
60 weathered rock samples collected from the overburden to the Challenger gold deposit in South Australia have been studied using petrographic and carbonate staining methods. Most of the samples represent near-surface regolith materials taken from...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1998
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Johns Outstation / Giffen Well. Annual reports for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2018.
To date, land access restrictions imposed by the Commonwealth Department of Defence have prevented any field work from occurring on the subject tenement, taken up to cover the Giffen Well magnetite iron ore deposit and adjacent inferred prospective...-
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Snake Rocks. Final annual technical report for the period 4/12/99 to 3/12/2000.
EL 2674 followed on from EL 2015, for which all data have been released to Open File in Envelope 8686. The subject EL area, which is peripheral to the Muckanippie Anorthosite Complex and was being explored under terms of a joint venture agreement now...-
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Lake Barry and Warrior (Mulgathing area). Joint annual reports to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 19/10/1992 to 18/12/1998.
An area centred 60 km north-west of Tarcoola was selected for its association of Archaean Mulgathing Gneiss Complex rocks, Proterozoic Kimban age and Hiltaba Suite intrusives, Gawler Range Volcanics, and structural and geochemical signatures....-
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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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Wildingi [Claypan] and Galaxy [Outstation]. Licence-specific annual reports, plus joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/11/1995 to 13/4/1999.
21 gold exploration targets with anomalous regolith Au > 10 ppb were generated by extensive regional and infill calcrete sampling of an area 80 km south-west of Coober Pedy. Aircore, RAB and RC drilling at four of these prospects (269 holes, total...-
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Tarcoola. Data release made in lieu of a 25% first partial relinquishment at licence renewal: [Part 1 of 2] progress reports for the period 7/6/1978 to 19/4/1984.
In 1978 exploratory rotary drilling (11 holes, total 629 m) for inferred sediment-hosted roll-front uranium orebodies buried beneath salt lake topographic depressions east of Tarcoola intersected low levels of uranium (max 14 ppm) at fresh water /...-
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Wilkinson Lakes East. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 6/2/2015.
An area centred ~150 km west of Coober Pedy, that is located mostly north-west of and that also has a small part lying immediately south-east of the Karari Fault, a major crustal structure which has controlled deposition at the southern limit of the...-
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Lake Anthony. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 711) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
An area located just to the east of the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, occupied by many scattered large and small salt lakes surrounded by sand dunes, with Precambrian basement [of the western Gawler Craton] subcropping near the surface, has been...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Lake Barry, Lepa and Mount Christie. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/1981 to 15/11/1983.
Intensive surface sampling of mineralogical anomalies associated with possible buried intrusive plugs in the Mount Christie region has recovered one only small diamond, now interpreted as a false source indicator and probably due to laboratory...-
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Published: 05 Dec 1983
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Mulgathing. First quarterly and final report for the period 31/3/87 to 30/6/87.
Exploration for gold and platinum in banded iron formations and ultramafic units of the Mulgathing Complex consisted of reconnaissance rock chip sampling. Assay results provided no encouragement for further work.-
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Warrior. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 28/7/1982 to 30/3/1987.
Continuing investigation of the sedimentary uranium potential of the Tertiary Warrior Palaeochannel, in an area 40 km west of Tarcoola, initially comprised undertaking a test radon emanometry survey over a site of known uraniferous roll-front...-
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