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Hawks Nest. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 29/12/1982.
An area 100 km north of Kingoonya which exhibits a strong regional gravity high and other, intersecting pronounced crustal geophysical features was acquired to search for an Olympic Dam type of base/precious metals deposit. Semi-detailed and detailed...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Ongoing exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, during this period comprised 3D geophysical modelling of possible source geometries for, and RC drilling (10 holes, total...-
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RB 97/00039 Lineament tectonic data, South Australia, with a focus on the Cooper Basin.
The lineament mapping methods used by E.S.T. (Tim) O'Driscoll, which were a crucial factor in the discovery of Olympic Dam, the world's largest known Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, and of several other lesser Australian metallic orebodies, have now been applied...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
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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 1 partnership no. DPY1-12, Chianti mineral prospect. Project final report.
The subject report describes the results of drilling two fully cored rotary holes totalling 1161.10 m at the Chianti prospect, an unusually-shaped residual gravity anomaly located in Gunson Resources' EL 3264, 20 km north-east of the Mount Gunson...-
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Reconnaissance structural investigation of the southern Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
Photogeological fracture analysis, Landsat interpretation and aerial geophysical data interpretation techniques have been concurrently applied to the problem of identifying deep-seated linear structures on the Stuart Shelf. Results of a consultant's...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1981
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Mount Sabine and Snow Hill [Billa Kalina joint venture]. Joint final surrender report for the period 21/3/83 to 20/3/87.
Diamond exploration in the Bon Bon - Millers Creek region, about 80 km north-northeast of Kingoonya, included Landsat imagery and photogeological studies plus extensive reconnaissance soil and stream sediment sampling. No kimberlitic indicator...-
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Pernatty Ridge. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1989 to 12/12/1991.
Possible stratabound, Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphide within the basal sediments of the early Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation was the target of exploration in the Pernatty Ridge area. Aberfoyle's work has comprised a review of existing...-
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Rawlinson Hill, Mount Sabine, Snow Hill and Billa Kalina Homestead (Stuart Shelf / Arckaringa Basin). Joint progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 28/4/1987.
Over the report period Agip Australia completed the drilling and geophysical logging of 39 open rotary holes totalling 3845 m to investigate if economic coal seams occur within Permian sediments of the southern Arckaringa Basin. Although the Permian...-
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Charlinga. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/10/1979 to 24/10/1981.
Ongoing exploration for possible Mount Gunson - type base metal occurrences has included percussion drilling on a metal ratio geochemical anomaly identified proximal to inferred buried Beda Volcanics at Charlinga (10 holes totalling 1218 m), plus the...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1981
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Charlinga. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/8/1977 to 4/8/1979.
During ongoing exploration for Mount Gunson style economic base metal mineralisation buried on the south-central Stuart Shelf, new work completed by CSR has included the drilling of 59 rotary percussion holes totalling 3782 m in the Winnie Pinnie,...-
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Ruby Hill. Progress and final reports.
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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Stuart Creek. Final report at licence surrender for the period 6/3/1978 to 4/5/1978.
Exploration for possible stratabound base metal deposits, hosted within Adelaidean rocks overlapping an inferred shallow basement high that had been modelled as present to the west of the Torrens Fault, was not progressed after a re-interpretation of...-
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Published: 13 Jun 1978
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Trecompana Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 8/1/1979 to 7/1/1980.
A prominent regional aeromagnetic anomaly of unknown source depth, that is situated north-west of Roxby Downs along the strike of the Torrens Hinge Zone structural lineament, and which lies close to an intersection of other major lineaments, has been...-
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Ferguson Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1979 to 7/1/1980.
A prominent regional aeromagnetic anomaly of unknown source depth, that is situated north-northwest of Roxby Downs in a transitional position between the Stuart Shelf and the Adelaide Geosyncline, and which lies close to intersecting major lineaments,...-
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Codna Hill (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/5/1977 to 2/5/1979.
Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...-
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Kallioota. Data release made at licence's later surrender : first annual report for the period 27/6/2011 to 26/6/2012.
An area centred ~55 km north-northeast of Port Augusta was taken up to explore the concealed Mesoproterozoic basement rocks that lie along this part of the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton for possible buried economic iron oxide - associated...-
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Woomera. First partial surrender report, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/1/2015.
An area located immediately south and east of Woomera township has been acquired to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence of the...-
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Burt Lagoon. Data release made at licence's later surrender : first annual report for the period 27/6/2011 to 26/6/2012.
An area centred ~35 km north of Port Augusta was taken up to explore the concealed Mesoproterozoic basement rocks that lie along this part of the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton for possible buried economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold...-
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Kangaroo Bluff. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/8/1980 to 16/12/1982.
Following the acquisition and interpretation of a semi-detailed aerial magnetic survey, with ground gravity and magnetic surveys follow-up, 4 aircore/diamond drillholes, totalling 508.5 m, and 78 shallow RAB drill holes, totalling 974 m, were drilled...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1983
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Harcus Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/10/2004 to 13/10/2008.
During mineral exploration of an area located approximately 30 km west of Olympic Dam, an initial search for possible diamondiferous kimberlites entailed modern era reprocessing and image analysis of available post-1990 regional aeromagnetic data, to...-
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