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Woomera, Portulacca Ridge and Red Lake. Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 15/2/1983 to 7/11/1986.
The three licences now being surrendered were originally taken out by Seltrust in the mid-1970s to search for stratabound base metals and Olympic Dam type mineralisation. After Seltrust withdrew from the subsequently formed Stuart Shelf joint venture...-
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RB 57/00015 Seismic refraction tests, Williamstown area (22/7/1963).
Two seismic refraction tests were carried out near Williamstown to determine whether the method could be used to trace buried river channels in the search for deep lead gold deposits. The bedrock surface could not be detected as the velocity of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 88/00015 Seismic refraction survey Teetulpa Goldfields.
2 seismic refraction profiles aimed to test the method in searching for alluvial channels incised into Adelaidean bedrock in EL1413. Interpreted depths to bedrock of 6-10 metres were confirmed by follow-up drilling and an indication of the bedrock...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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RB 88/00052 Mittopitta Goldfield seismic refraction survey 1988.
5 profiles were recorded to define the extent of a subsurface alluvial channel. The western limit is controlled by outcropping Adelaidean bedrock, while to the east interpreted depths of 30-40 metres to bedrock were indicated. To date the eastern...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1988
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Ooloo mine prospect. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 23/10/1969 to 22/10/1970.
14 lines of grid-based IP and resistivity profiling were carried out at the abandoned Ooloo silver-lead mine by contractor McPhar Geophysics, to try to detect any possible subsurface extensions of the mineralised lodes under alluvial cover. Several...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1970
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Margaret Creek (part of the G2 Lineament Project). First and second partial relinquishments' combined report, for the period 13/10/2000 to 12/10/2004.
Diamond exploration undertaken within the relinquished portions of EL 2759, which are located immediately south of William Creek and near the Oodnadatta Track, was focussed on the margin of the Gawler Craton where it is cut by the NNW-trending G2...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-42 - Mount Woods Project area, Gawler Craton: assessing the potential for ISGC style mineralisation within the Mount Woods Inlier. Drilling final report
Historically, exploration undertaken for finding Iron Oxide - associated Copper-Gold (IOCG) mineralisation on the eastern Gawler Craton, over the long period since the discovery of the Olympic Dam deposit in July 1975, has targeted positive gravity...-
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Minlaton. First partial surrender report for the period 9/4/1984 to 8/4/1985.
For the now relinquished portion of the licence area, a detailed literature search, interpretation of recently acquired third-party seismic reflection profiles, and examination of available magnetic and gravity data for anomalies did not provide any...-
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Roger Corner. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/7/1982 to 27/1/1984.
An area on southern Yorke Peninsula, located 5-15 km north-west of Yorketown, was targeted for possible buried Moonta - type Cu(Mo,Au) mineralisation, on the basis of recently SADME-recognised dissolved trace heavy metal anomalism (Cu, Ag and Ba) in...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1984
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Teetulpa Goldfield. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 17/7/1987 to 24/12/1987.
TARGET: Possible untested ?Pliocene deep leads of auriferous gravels that might be concealed beneath reported thick calcrete caprocks, in an area that lies downstream from historic alluvial gold workings in Brady's Gully and Strawbridge's Gully....-
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Published: 23 May 1988
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Melton Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/1989 to 17/7/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic alluvial gold occurrences hidden beneath a broad floodplain formed north of the Waukaringa Goldfield. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of two seismic refraction profiles to try to map bedrock depth, which could not be interpreted,...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1990
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Minlaton. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 9/7/1984 to 8/3/1985.
Exploration of an area extending both to the north and south of Minlaton was undertaken to look for Olympic Dam type mineralisation in a possible Middle to Late Proterozoic fault-bound graben. After inspecting regional geophysical data and performing...-
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Stuart Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1979 to 18/10/1982.
One vertical stratigraphic diamond drillhole [the 1a re-drill] was fully cored to 1450 m total depth over a regional gravity high in the western half of the licence which was thought to be prospective for Olympic Dam type polymetallic mineralisation...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 1/5/1977. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
(Abstract continued) During the fifth quarter of WMC's tenure of EL 190, a programme of stepout appraisal diamond drilling was continued, to assess the size of the copper-uranium occurrence discovered by hole RD1 (previously called RDD1 by WMC)....-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 1 of 3 ].
Exploration of an extensive area lying to the north of and surrounding Strathalbyn, 40 km south-east of Adelaide, is targeting possible economic stratiform base and precious metals mineralisation hosted within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Group...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 1/5/1977. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
An inaugural exploration licence covering land in the Roxby Downs Station and Andamooka Station holdings was taken up by Western Mining Corp. (WMC) to document the stratigraphic section present in the northern portion of the Stuart Shelf tectonic...-
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Summary report on the copper deposits of Kapunda mines (South Australia).
This reinterpretation of information available about the Kapunda copper deposit has outlined a substantial orebody. The orebody is located in kaolinised feldspathic rocks and is comprised of two distinct horizons of supergene copper carbonates and...-
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Parachilna - Mernmerna area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/6/1966 to 14/11/1969.
Continuing exploration for Ediacara - type, Early Palaeozoic carbonate sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits in the Bunyeroo Gorge - Parachilna Gorge area of the Flinders Ranges comprised regional and detailed stream sediment, rock chip and soil...-
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Published: 13 May 1969
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Preliminary report on SML 470, Weekeroo, SA. Report no. 12.
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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Comet Outstation, Gina Outstation, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 15/12/2008 to 30/6/2013.
A group of contiguous exploration licences centred ~100 km south-west of Coober Pedy are being explored principally for epithermal and Challenger-style gold mineralisation hosted by covered Archaean basement rocks, as well as for any economic base...-
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Published: 31 Aug 2013
