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The Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project. Joint and combined annual reports, for the period 19/12/1997 to 31/12/2010.
An assessment of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand accumulations has discovered numerous occurrences of economic to sub-economic amounts of heavy minerals...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1911
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports, plus individual licence final reports at their respective full surrender, for the period 19/12/1997 to 30/6/2018.
Previous investigations of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine littoral zone clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand (HM) placer accumulations have discovered numerous occurrences of economic to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : (for 10 exploration licences comprising) the Lake Torrens JV Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2007 to 31/12/2011.
A group of ten, mainly adjoining licence areas occupying the plains surrounding the northern end of Lake Torrens, are now being jointly explored for possible economic buried Olympic Dam style IOCG related mineralisation that may have formed in the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Painted Hill, Birthday Hill, White Hill, Mount Hawker, The Twins and Balta Baltana (the Mount Woods Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2011 to 31/12/2018.
Exploration activities undertaken on the Mount Woods Project during 2011 comprised: - ongoing target generation and geological interpretation - continued geological and structural interpretation of the Mount Woods Inlier - drilling of 80 rotary...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1919
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The Lake Torrens Project; plus the Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2010.
Licensee Copper Range originally took up a group of three tenements located in central South Australia covering areas within and west of Lake Torrens, with the intent, much reinforced following the Carrapateena deposit discovery made in 2005, of...-
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Published: 04 Mar 2011
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Oak Dam North-east, Lake Torrens, Glenside, Winjabbie and Trimmer Inlet; plus Shore Hill and Red Swamp (initially the UXA Stuart Shelf South JV Project; then OZ Minerals' Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/11/2010 to 6/1/2017.
In continued exploration for possible economic buried Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill type IOCG style mineralisation that may exist within Proterozoic bedrock, joint venture operator Straits Resources undertook the following work on the project...-
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Published: 06 Mar 2018
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Puntabie, Maltee, Mount Cooper and Pureba South [the north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration Tenement Group 3]. Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 28/4/2004 to 5/5/2016.
Iluka Resources has been exploring the four subject areas, located east of the townships of Streaky Bay and Ceduna, since April 2004, as part of a continuing regional search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands...-
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Published: 20 May 2016
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Andamooka Creek, Willaroo Dam, Island Dam and Stuart Shelf / Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports on activities undertaken by the Joint Venture consortium for the period 11/10/1996 to 10/10/2009 [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
The four Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project exploration licences collectively cover approximately 2668 square km of semi-arid pastoral land surrounding the Olympic Dam mine and extending east and south-eastwards as far as Lake Torrens [the Olympic Dam...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Central Gawler Craton Project. Joint annual reports ['no work' lettesr], for the period 17/7/2015 to 14/8/2018.
This project is a continuation by Rudy Gomez of his previous efforts, begun in January 1997, to explore the Lake Gairdner district for possible economic buried precious and base metal epithermal mineralisation of Olympic Dam or Tunkillia style within...-
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Published: 17 Aug 2018
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Data release - as updated : England Hill, Arckaringa and Copper Hill (the Arckaringa Coal Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2005 to 6/6/2019.
Under a new strategic focus, three licence areas covering three Early Permian buried coal deposits located at Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie in the northern part of the Arckaringa Basin, ~120 km north of Coober Pedy, have been evaluated both for...-
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Published: 29 Aug 2019
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Yeltacowie, Hesso, Charlinga, Bowen Hill and Kangaroo Bluff (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 16/8/2005 to 14/2/2014.
Uranium One Australia (U1A) acquired the Stuart Shelf Project tenements in 2005 with the aim of exploring for uranium mineralisation that has unconformity - related genetic features broadly analogous to those of deposits of the Athabasca Basin in...-
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Published: 28 May 2014
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Island Dam, Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports for the period 11/10/2009 to 30/6/2018.
Exploratory drilling carried out by BHP Billiton (BHPB) during the 2009-10 project reporting year took place at six prospects thought to have good IOCG mineralisation potential, based in part on earlier drilling results and also on refined target...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1918
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Lake Torrens South, Beda Arm and Carrapateena Arm (latterly the Lake Torrens Joint Venture Project). Annual reports (singular and combined) to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 21/2/1996 to 7/1/2008.
Economic Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation has been the target of exploration carried out in three adjoining areas which together extend for about 55 to 170 km north of Port Augusta, covering southern Lake...-
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The Alberga Diamond Project. Joint progress and annual reports to licences' joint surrender, for the period 19/3/1998 to 16/6/2000.
Kimberlite-seeking loam sampling and soil geochemistry, undertaken in the vicinity of 28 selected magnetic targets distributed within eight separate licence areas extending from 150 km west-northwest of to 120 km north of Oodnadatta, only yielded a...-
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Mount Willoughby and Bloods Creek / Vaughan Hill, Mount Algoochinna, Mount Alice and Mount Randolph (the Alberga Diamond Project). Final report on surrendered ELs 2500 and 2502, plus partial surrender report for ELs 2495, 2496, 2498 and 2501.
Diamond exploration in a region north to north-west of Oodnadatta comprised heavy mineral and geochemical sampling over magnetic anomalies selected from aeromagnetic surveys and further defined by ground magnetometry. Certain of this ground was...-
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Mount Clarence (part of the Coober Pedy Project). Joint annual reports, annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/8/2010 to 10/12/2015.
An area centred ~40 km north-west of Coober Pedy, and lying in the northern part of the Gawler Craton near the centre of the Mabel Creek Ridge crustal element and to the north of the east-trending Karari Fault Zone, has been explored for possible...-
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Published: 18 Dec 2015
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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well and Wirrida. Six-monthly progress, plus combined annual and final reports, to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/12/1993 to 18/7/2006.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of epithermal/hydrothermal gold, plus precious metals and base metals, which might have formed in poorly outcropping Archaean and Proterozoic basement, commenced with a detailed interpretation of SAEI imaged...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1906
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Andamooka Creek, Willaroo Dam, Island Dam and Stuart Shelf / Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports on activities undertaken by the Joint Venture consortium, for the period 11/10/1996 to 10/10/2009 [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
As a result of the BHP Billiton takeover of the Stuart Range Project, the mineral exploration strategy was changed. Formerly, WMC had been looking for economical targets of >500 Mt size containing on average more than 2.4% copper equivalent....-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY8-30 - Eucla Basin Eocene and Pleistocene low-stand beach ridge marine heavy mineral placer prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Nundroo Range and Bookabie Range are prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which are located ~200 km west of Ceduna and ~100 km south of the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Everard West (part of the Gawler Craton Joint Venture, and latterly part of the Tunkillia JV Project). Annual & surrender reports for the period 7/6/1996 to 18/05/2021.
An area with poor basement outcrop located approximately 60 km south of Tarcoola, which largely lies within the north-eastern corner of the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, is being explored primarily for possible economic fault or breccia-hosted...-
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