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Geochemical mapping of a copper mineral system, Lyndhurst area (for the ARC North Project). Final report, Project ADI RD01-126 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
As a part of searching for economic deposits of sediment-hosted copper (SHC) mineralisation that might have formed within rocks of the Adelaide Rift Complex Neoproterozoic sedimentation sequence occupying an area located due east of Lyndhurst in the...-
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Data release made at renewal of the Sturt Joint Venture Project ELs 4062 through 4090, in lieu of submitting a joint partial surrender report for them : joint annual reports, for the period 25/2/2008 to 24/2/2013.
A very large area of the remote far north-east of the State was taken up early in 2008 by the unlisted Thorne-Clarke family company, to explore for sediment-hosted secondary uranium mineralisation of the type found in intracratonic sedimentary basins...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 1. Joint annual reports, for the period 1/1/2016 to 31/12/2018. Plus EL 6369 surrender.
27 contiguous licence areas within the eastern Eucla Basin, that span a combined 21,772 square km of ground between points as far as 90 km north of the Trans Australian Railway, 50 km east of Nullarbor and extending right down to the coastline, and...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1919
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Curnamona base and precious metals JV Project area (including Benagerie and Kalkaroo). Combined annual reports for the period 10/5/2003 to 31/12/2018, plus subsequent surrender reports.
During 2013, the tenth year of the Curnamona Project, field activities were conducted by MMG on ELs 4225, 4259, 4313, 4441, 4691, 4782 and 4940. Four ground gravity surveys were acquired on parts of six licences. In total 7519 new stations were read...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1924
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : formerly confidential statements that were removed from original EL reports, which have now been reclassified to open file status. Reporting period: April 1977 to August 1981.
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Barton, Barton Range North and Paling Range, plus Wells and north-eastern Eucla Basin licence Areas A through Y (Iluka's Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 4). Joint annual reports for the period 19/10/2009 to 31/12/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project reporting year, Iluka completed exploration work costing $5,200,532 across its combined thirty-one Group 4 tenements, to assess the north-eastern Eucla Basin's sediment stratigraphy and heavy mineral sand (HM) potential...-
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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] : North-west Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports plus annual reports for the period 8/10/2013 to 7/10/2018. Plus partial/expiry/full surrender reports to 24/04/2024.
Ten licences distributed across a broad region of the north-eastern Gawler Craton, between Roxby Downs and Coober Pedy, are being explored for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation. Research and interpretation completed by the licensee...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1918
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Data release made in lieu of submitting a final report at the full surrender of EL 5285 Ingomar on 23/6/2018 : Jumbuck Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/11/2013 to 31/10/2018.
A large area of the west-central Gawler Craton which is underlain by inferred gold-prone Archaean high grade metamorphosed rocks is being explored for Challenger style orogenic type lode gold that may have formed in the buried basement. The subject...-
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Published: 28 Dec 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curnamona base and precious metals JV Project area (including Benagerie and Kalkaroo). Combined annual reports for the period 1/1/2008 to 31/12/2012.
During the fifth year of the Curnamona Project, field activities were carried out only on Benagerie EL 3586, and consisted of the drilling of 2 inclined diamond cored holes for 424.3 mm (NPDD034 and NPDD035) at the North Portia prospect during August...-
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The Arckaringa Basin Coal Project. Progress reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/5/1980 to 2/7/1990.
TARGET: Coal in the Arckaringa Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary drilling (248 holes totalling 56,498 m, including 59 partly cored holes totalling 3555 m. RESULTS: The Wintinna, East Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie coal deposits were discovered and...-
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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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Andamooka, Stuart Creek, Arcoona, Lake Torrens, Todds Dam, Lake Arthur, Woodforde Hill and Murdie Island (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint first partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1986.
WMC's Stuart Shelf exploration activities from 1975 to 1985 have sought mainly Olympic Dam style mineralisation (copper - uranium - precious metals in haematitic breccia host rocks), with lesser emphasis directed at: possible distal analogues of the...-
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The Eyre Peninsula Project, and in part the Corrobinnie Uranium Joint Venture. Joint annual reports for the period 29/12/2008 to 31/12/2013.
During the sixth year of the project, licensee Adelaide Resources did not do any exploration directed at gold or base metals that might possibly occur on the subject tenements. However, its joint venture partner Quasar Resources undertook significant...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1914
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The Adelaide Hills Project (now including the former Fleurieu Project tenements). Annual reports for the period 1/10/2013 to 30/11/2018 plus expiry/full surrender reports to 7/10/2023.
During the twelfth, 2013-2014 project year, work on the now combined licence holdings of the Terramin Group focussed on prospect evaluation done at Bird-in-Hand (environmental and hydrological studies), Wheal Barton and Golden Slope, plus the ongoing...-
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The Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2011 to 31/12/2016, plus individual licence full surrender final reports.
During the sixth year of the project, three gravity anomalies located on West Lake Torrens EL 4754, a short distance east of the Carrapateena IOCG prospect, were identified by Copper Range as worthy of follow up. A detailed infill ground gravity...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Tarcoola and Theseus Projects. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2015 to 31/12/2018.
During the fourth year of project licences' joint reporting, for the Theseus Project, Endeavour undertook further RC and diamond core drilling at the Minos prospect on EL 5280, and did detailed auger calcrete geochemical sampling over the Lake...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1919
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Meribah, Halidon, Mantung, Karoonda and Woolpunda (parts of the Murray Basin HMS Project). Individual licence first or second partial surrender reports, describing relevant subsets of exploration work performed between 29/9/1997 and 5/9/2018.
Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...-
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Ilkina, Acraman, Yarranna Hill, Poondana Rock, Waddikee Rocks, Mount Sturt, Yaninee, Nunjikompita, Poochera, Wandana and Smoky Bay (Narlaby Palaeochannel area). Combined progress and technical reports for the period 5/1/81 to 31/12/83.
Carpentaria's exploration for sandstone type uranium deposits in the West Coast region of SA over the period 1979-1982 has revealed a major Tertiary buried palaeochannel system. The main Narlaby Palaeochannel is 170 km long, up to 10 km wide and is...-
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Indooroopilly, Muckanippie and Commonwealth Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a joint partial surrender report for ELs 5799, 6166 and 6348: all project licences' joint annual reports for the period 21/3/2015 to 30/6/2019.
An agglomeration of exploration licences which partly surrounds the Challenger gold deposit at distances of between 35 and 80 km is being explored for similar type economic lode gold mineralisation that may exist in buried Archaean bedrock relatively...-
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