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Emu Hill. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/4/1991 to 21/4/1996.
Diamond exploration undertaken north-west of Moolawatana included the acquisition of airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground magnetic surveys, plus soil, stream sediment, gravel, loam and rock chip sampling, and aircore/diamond drilling (25 holes,...-
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RB 78/00141 Golden Grove construction materials survey, Hd Yatala, Co. Adelaide.
Major source of construction materials for metropolitan Adelaide, currently supplies 25% of natural construction sand, 60% of white plastic clay and 45% of brick shale. 2 brick works produce 63 million bricks annually. Total reserves of 85 million...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Nullarbor, Yalata North and Yalata East (the Western Gawler Craton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 24/10/2012 to 2/4/2018.
A cluster of adjoining licence sub-blocks taken up in the Yalata region are being explored for possible buried Thompson Belt style magmatic copper-nickel mineralisation which could be associated with large strike-slip fault structures transecting the...-
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Pidinga (part of the Eucla-Maralinga Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 27/8/2004 to 28/2/2009.
An area located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, and centred ~60 km north-east of Fowlers Bay, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for possible buried economic occurrences of zircon-rich heavy...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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RB 2021/00011 Models, geology and exploration of heavy mineral deposits in South Australia.
This study draws together diverse aspects of South Australia’s heavy minerals (HM) resources geoscience to provide an overall context for evaluating their occurrence, economic significance and origins. Two main objectives are addressed by the subject...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2021
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Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 5/3/2002 to 28/2/2009.
The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...-
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Bookabie area (near Fowlers Bay). Annual, partial surrender and final reports to licence expiry for the period 10/9/2001 to 9/9/2003.
Heavy minerals concentrated within the Ooldea Sand of the Eucla Basin, and possibly reworked and upgraded by later marine incursions into such deposits, which might have led to their redeposition elsewhere as translocated strandlines that are still...-
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Colona North (formerly part of the Colona Joint Venture Project). First partial surrender report for the period 29/6/2004 to 18/10/2008.
No heavy mineral sands exploration of the Tertiary sedimentary sequence was carried out on the now relinquished area, as the licensee considers it to have low prospectivity in comparison to others of its tenements held in the region south-east of...-
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Published: 31 Jan 2009
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Fig Tree Corner (part of the Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 1). First partial surrender report, for the period 10/3/2005 to 3/9/2013.
The now relinquished south-western portion of a licence area centred ~130 km north-west of Ceduna has been explored for possible economic marine placer heavy mineral sands deposits. The only work which took place on this ground was the aircore...-
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Published: 23 Sep 2013
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hardy (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/3/2002 to 17/3/2007.
A licence area located at the eastern end of the Deering Hills in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 150 km south-west of Ayers Rock (Uluru), is being explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) and Delta Gold, as part of...-
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Published: 12 Apr 2007
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Hanging Knoll (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/3/2002 to 17/3/2007.
A licence area located at the south-eastern end of the Mann Ranges in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 90 km south-southwest of Ayers Rock (Uluru), is being explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) and Delta Gold, as...-
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Published: 12 Apr 2007
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 2012
