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RB 58/00031 Geological investigation of a quartzite deposit, section 147, Hundred of Lincoln.
200,000 tonnes of ballast are required by the BHP Co. to construct a proposed tramway that will connect the calcareous sand deposits of Coffin Bay with its bulk loading installation being constructed at Proper Bay, 3 miles south-west of Port Lincoln....-
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Published: 10 Feb 1964
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RB 60/00054 Geological report no. 1 on the Oolanta anomaly, Hd Stokes, southern Eyre Peninsula (Cummins and Tumby 1-mile sheets).
10 miles north-west of Tumby Bay, a syncline of jaspilite, with a shallow southerly plunge, could contain 8-13 million tons of magnetic iron ore per vertical 100 feet. Unweathered jaspilite with magnetite occurs. Assessment of the potential of the...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1965
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Verran and Fair View (the Corunna Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/2005 to 28/4/2009.
A search for possible economic North/South Alligator Rivers or McArthur River (NT) style epicratonic, unconformity - related sedimentary uranium deposits was conducted across two licences taken up over areas located west and south of Cleve on central...-
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Myola. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/11/1996 to 29/7/2003.
Palaeoproterozoic gold, copper and base metal occurrences were the targets of exploration in an area surrounding the Iron Baron mine that, in a tectonic sense, incorporates parts of the Cleve, Middleback and Moonta Subdomains. Regional calcrete...-
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Elbow Hill. Information status at licence surrender, for the period 12/4/2013 to 29/5/2014: no work performed.
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 24/9/2001 to 23/9/2005.
The buried Menninnie Dam zinc-lead(-silver-copper) deposit, located approximately 55 km north of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula, and sitting adjacent to the south-eastern margin of the Gawler Ranges, is being evaluated for its future commercial...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Kolendo [not "Taringa"] (part of the Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2013.
An area located adjacent to the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges, that includes some exposures of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV), and which at its southern boundary lies approximately 15 km north-east of the Menninnie Dam Pb-Zn-Ag...-
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Mount Miccollo (part of the Wilcherry Project). Second and third partial surrender report, for the period 10/6/2011 to 27/5/2021.
An area centred ~100 km west of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now relinquished...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-21 - Eyre Peninsula Project, Central Gawler Gold Province, Baggy Green North prospect biogeochemical anomaly. Drilling project final report.
Early in 2016, Adelaide Resources submitted a proposal to DSD for a grant of PACE Initiative Year 9 collaborative drilling project subsidy funds to help it drill ~80 exploratory aircore or RC holes for a total of approximately 8000 m to further...-
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Uno (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 29/7/2009 to 24/1/2020.
An area centred ~105 km west-southwest of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-12 - Corunna Station, north-eastern Eyre Peninsula, structurally controlled Mesoproterozoic epithermal Ag-Au and base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Musgrave Minerals Ltd (MGV) is the holder of the subject EL 5497 Corunna North, located in the southern Gawler Ranges approximately 65 km west of Port Augusta and 10 km north of Iron Knob, where it is exploring for economic base and precious metal...-
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Cowell nephrite deposit. Technical appraisal reports submitted during the period 1970 to 1988.
A consultant geologist's reports prepared in 1970 for by mining lease optionholder Murumba Minerals NL describe his detailed mapping of the then known jade (nephrite) deposits within the Cowell Jade Province. Two potentially mineable deposits were...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1980
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo. Joint second partial surrender report, for the period 14/2/1989 to 13/2/1992. Plus: Carpie Puntha and Waddikee. Joint final report to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 14/2/1989 to 24/6/1992.
TARGET: Possible commercial Menninnie Dam type stratabound or stratiform base metal deposits in the Cowell - Kimba - Buckleboo region. EXPLORATION: Field reconnaissance and rock chip geochemical sampling of prospective areas identified from...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Verran and Malbrom (the Verran Project, then the Arno Graphite Project). Joint annual reports plus annual report, for the period 29/1/2014 to 28/1/2019.
Two licence areas together covering the hinterland to Arno Bay and Port Gibbon on eastern Eyre Peninsula, and extending as far north-westwards as Rudall, are being explored for economic buried graphite deposits that may have formed in deformed high...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-25 - Wilcherry Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, Zealous prospect Mesoproterozoic epithermal calc-silicate skarn Sn-U-Pb-Cu-Ag mineral occurrence. Final report.
Arising out of exploratory drilling carried out by Ironclad Mining in 2012, which aimed to test the shallow subsurface haematite ore potential of an ironstone outcrop located in the central north of the Wilcherry Hill licence area, an unexpected...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-11, Thurlga Ramp, northern edge of Cleve Domain, volcanic epithermal / hydrothermal replacement type precious metal prospects. Drilling final report.
A licence area, which lies adjacent on the west to Investigator Resources' Peterlumbo Hill EL 5368 containing the Paris silver deposit (where there is a currently inferred resource of 42 Moz @ 139 ppm Ag), is being explored under a joint venture with...-
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Arno Bay. Combined first progress / final report at licence full surrender, for the period 19/5/1978 to 18/10/1978.
Exploration for possible economic fluvial sediment-hosted uranium deposits within inferred buried Tertiary palaeochannels draining the Cleve Uplands in the Arno Bay area has consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 8 open rotary holes for...-
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Cummins. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/11/1971 to 10/11/1972.
In order to appraise a potentially economic discovery of very pure, high reflectivity kaolin clay located near Kapinnie on southern Eyre Peninsula, a drilling programme is planned by Endeavour Oil which aims to outline around 33 million tons of kaolin...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1972
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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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