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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 56/00020 Iron Monarch, a centre of radial structures.
Analysis of the Corunna and Roopena one-mile sheets and plotting of structures subsequently recognised shows that the Iron Monarch area is a centre of radial structures. The structures and their arrangement are probably caused by upward vertical point...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 55/00091 Report no. 3 on sampling and logging techniques with summarised drill logs for the Warramboo aeromagnetic anomaly, central Eyre Peninsula. May-Nov 1961.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 57/00014 Report on visit to Western Australian iron and manganese deposits in May 1963.
A comparison of known iron deposits in Western Australia and South Australia suggests that large, high grade iron orebodies occur in flatly dipping favourable horizons which have a leached and oxidised appearance: siliceous, steeply dipping iron...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1963
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RB 55/00049 Ironstone deposits, Radium Hill district.
Reconnaissance of ironstone quarries and iron formation outcrops revealed Archaean (?) and Upper Proterozoic (Sturtian) iron formation and laterites derived from them. These are easily distinguished on geological and aeromagnetic criteria. While a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 46/00011 Mineragraphy of the Radium Hill uranium deposits.
The Radium Hill uranium mine is located approximately 60 miles S.W. of Broken Hill. The deposits are of hypogene metosomatic origin, and represent replacement lode deposits along anticlinal axial plane shears in folded Archean gneisses. Lode...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 46/00184 Trial blasting with ammonium nitrate and diesel oil at Iron Knob.
The use of ammonium nitrate mixed with carbon as an explosive has been pioneered in the United States of America. Advantages: The advantages are that ammonium nitrate can be freighted in bags by rail, truck, or ship similarly to superphosphate at much...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 97/00011 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Hawks Nest prospect.
As part of the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, MESA targeted Palaeoproterozoic banded iron formation (BIF) at Hawks Nest as a possible iron ore resource. Detailed ground magnetic, gravity and drilling programmes identified seven deposits;...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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RB 96/00035 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Geotechnical logging of boreholes from iron ore deposits.
Mines and Energy South Australia are currently investigating the geometry and ore grades of banded iron formation deposits within the Gawler Craton near Coober Pedy, for possible use in the production of pig iron. Core samples from five diamond cored...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1996
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Woods (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 19/12/2000 to 30/1/2011. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
During the 2006 reporting period for renewed Mount Woods EL 3518 (i.e. for licence Year 6), Goldstream conducted ongoing exploration that included campaigns of diamond, RC, RAB and AC drilling, plus, in relation to the possible iron ore / copper-gold...-
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South Puttapa. Progress and final summary reports for the period 15/7/1970 to 16/7/1971.
Appraisal of the Beltana zinc deposit continued during the current licence period, principally by diamond drilling (6 holes, total 2570 feet) aimed at delineating blind extensions to the main orebody on its southern side. The drilling was very...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2015.
A licence area in the Olary district comprising three separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences within partly concealed Neoproterozoic bedrock. The subject ground was taken up by Wentworth Metals...-
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Manunda, Tiverton Outstation, Iron Peak and Pualco Range (the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, later the Mawson Iron Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2016.
Three adjoining licence areas in the Baratta Trough within the northern Nackara Arc have been taken up to explore for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic metasedimentary semi-stratabound iron ore. Central EL 4267 covers ~3 km strike length of the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo mine, Bonython Hill, Mutooroo West, Oratan [Rock] and Cutana (the Curnamona South Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2014 to 31/12/2015.
Several separate areas that cover ground straddling the major tectonic boundary between the Olary and Broken Hill domains of the southern Curnamona Province are being explored for possible economic buried stratabound Proterozoic iron ore, epithermal...-
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/177 : Geochemistry of South Australian copper gossans and other ironstones. Progress reports 1 and 2 for the period May 1976 to August 1977.
85 samples of potential mineral deposit- related surface ironstones (68 copper gossans, 6 lead-zinc gossans and 11 false gossans) were analysed chemically and examined mineragraphically in polished section to try to determine geological parameters...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1977
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Paratoo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/3/1988 to 30/2/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic, open-pit mineable stratiform low grade gold and copper deposits within Adelaidean units of the Nackara Arc, in an area lying west of and including Yunta. EXPLORATION: A detailed geological field reconnaissance, review of...-
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Published: 19 May 1990
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Hawks Nest. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/3/2004 to 7/4/2009.
During licence Year 6, in November 2005, Mt Gibson Iron Limited (MGI) undertook a brief exploration campaign at Hawks Nest, acting under the terms of an access and option agreement which it had made with Felix Resources Limited, a company seeking to...-
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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