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Scobie Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
New work undertaken on an area located near Manunda Homestead during the current licence period has been restricted by the need to try to attract a joint venture partner, efforts towards which have proved unsuccessful. A geological inspection of the...-
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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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Jenner Hill, Pearson Hill and Sandy Point (the Stuart Shelf JV Project). Joint progress reports, plus later annual reports and final report to full surrender of remnant licence EL 1808, for the overall period 4/10/1989 to 24/10/1996.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style mineralisation, undertaken over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead on the Stuart Shelf, which includes WMC's formerly partly tested Emmie Bluff prospect, has comprised the acquisition of ground...-
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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 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 60/00048 Ground magnetic and gravity survey of the Warramboo aeromagnetic anomaly, central Eyre Peninsula. Geophysical report no. 1.
The project followed a logical appraisal, from conducting high level aeromagnetics through low level aeromagnetics, ground geophysics, drilling and shaft sinking, to metallurgical testing. All geophysical methods used divide the anomaly into three...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1965
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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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RB 46/00179 Iron ore (potential) near Radium Hill. Preliminary statement.
Extensive deposits of medium-high grade stratiform iron ores occur in the Radium Hill area. Deposits readily amenable to open cut mining occur over large areas, in beds ranging to 60 feet in width and varying considerably in the content of...-
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Published: 20 Feb 1951
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RB 84/00028 Petrography of 25 specimens from Mount Grainger Goldfield.
Specimens from the Mt Grainger Goldfield include quartzites, sandstones in which kaolinite is believed to represent earlier feldspar, siltstones, shales, diamictites of probable glaciogene origin, granitoids and andesites. Low to moderate temperature...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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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 97/00012 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Review of previous company exploration on the BILLA KALINA and COOBER PEDY 1:250 000 map sheets.
This report is a summary of company exploration of the Coober Pedy Ridge and Mount Woods Inlier, northern Gawler Craton, for the period until 1993, being information extracted from data on open file with the emphasis on data referring to the iron ore...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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RB 97/00010 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Giffen Well prospect.
As part of the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, MESA has targeted Palaeoproterozoic banded iron formation (BIF) rocks at Giffen Well prospect as a possible iron ore resource. Ground magnetic, gravity and drilling programmes have identified...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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RB 97/00008 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Regional bedrock drilling 1995.
Following the acquisition and interpretation of 435 line km of ground magnetic surveys over selected aeromagnetic anomalies within regions of high magnetic relief on the northern Gawler Craton, 121 reverse circulation holes totalling 8609.25 m were...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1997
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RB 97/00001 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Summary report.
Mines and Energy South Australia, as part of its contribution to the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, has defined an iron ore resource in the Coober Pedy region. Extensive ground magnetic, gravity and drilling programs identified four...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1996
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RB 97/00009 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Peculiar Knob prospect.
As part of the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, MESA has targeted significant aeromagnetic anomalies in the search for a possible iron ore resource. At Peculiar Knob prospect, previous company exploratory drilling in 1985 of such a magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-04, Churchill Dam area iron oxide - associated copper-gold and uranium mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
EL 3511 licensee Debnal and its joint venture partner Venture Minerals are exploring an area of the eastern Gawler Craton having a predicted high potential for the discovery of Olympic Dam type iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCG-U)...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hope. Annual reports for the period 12/4/2002 to 14/3/2019.
Exploration of an area located on western Eyre Peninsula between Sheringa and Mount Hope is continuing, with the intent of discovering economic buried base and precious metal deposits of volcanogenic sediment-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) style...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Manunda. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting on the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, for the period 10/12/2007 to 9/12/2009.
The banded iron formations associated with various tillite in South Australia have been recognised as being potential sources for iron however the low-grade nature of these bands has been one of the limiting factors in why they have not been...-
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to 18/5/1970.
Exploration for possible economic hypogene base metal sulphide deposits associated with poorly exposed iron-rich linear outcrops, overlying faulted Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic basement which is obscured by extensive Cainozoic sedimentary cover rocks...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1970
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Mount Grainger (Oodla Wirra). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/1970 to 7/10/1971.
Extensive literature and geological and geochemical field investigations of historic mines and prospects at the Mount Grainger and Oodla Wirra Goldfields have failed to disclose any remaining economic gold occurrences. The sparse native gold occurs...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1971
