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Appraisal of the northern Flinders Gunsight Project, South Australia.
This report reviews exploration work done from 1965 through 1993 by North Flinders Mines and four joint venturers on the Northern Flinders Ranges Gunsight Project. The enormous number of reports and interpretive maps generated are listed as...-
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Woomera, Emmie Bluff, Salt Creek, Portulacca Ridge and Red Lake. Progress reports for the period 21/8/1979 to June 1983.
Continuing exploration in the Woomera area has included the acquisition of a ground magnetic and gravity survey over the Buller Dam anomaly, which lies on the western flank of the Acropolis aeromagnetic anomaly, and this work confirmed that the former...-
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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-31 - Bute township area mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
The licensee, Peter Forwood, has been involved in mineral exploration at Bute for many years, initially with North Broken Hill Ltd in ELs 248, 420, 577 and 972, and has pursued the exploration of the area through many phases. Two important features...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-63, Mongolata area epithermal gold and base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
An observed trend between base metals anomalism in soils and previously identified magnetic and gravity anomalies within inferred Adelaidean basement metasediments present within the eastern part of Mongolata EL 3164 provided the impetus for the...-
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Data release - as updated : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2008 to 11/11/2018.
Reedy Lagoon Corp. (RLC) has continued to look for minerals other than diamond, operating as the manager of exploration work for base metals (mainly copper) and uranium that was undertaken by the Edward Creek Base Metal Joint Venture (“ECBMJV”) during...-
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Unalla Hill, Moonaree and South Lake Gairdner (Lake Gairdner Project). Annual and final reports for the period 25/10/96 to 24/10/99.
Exploration targeted Olympic Dam style mineralisation associated with Hiltaba Suite intrusives and Gawler Range Volcanics at the southern end of Lake Gairdner, between Mount Ive and Moonaree. Sampling of poorly developed calcrete together with rock...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1998
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South Eagle. Data release made at transfer of licence ownership : annual reports for the period 17/9/1997 to 16/9/2000.
The majority of mineral exploration undertaken in the South Eagle area, centred 40 km north-east of Olary, has targeted stratabound Pb-Zn-Ag, stratabound massive sulphide Cu-Zn-Co-Mn, and Cu-Au mineralisation that may have formed in Proterozoic rocks...-
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Lake Gregory. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 13/5/2016 to 9/3/2017.
A licence area covering a large salt lake (Lake Gregory) of the Cenozoic Lake Eyre Basin, and the underlying Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments situated to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage and Mount Painter inliers, ~120 km north-east of...-
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Roger Corner. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/7/1982 to 27/1/1984.
An area on southern Yorke Peninsula, located 5-15 km north-west of Yorketown, was targeted for possible buried Moonta - type Cu(Mo,Au) mineralisation, on the basis of recently SADME-recognised dissolved trace heavy metal anomalism (Cu, Ag and Ba) in...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1984
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Mount Playfair. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 28/3/90 to 24/5/91.
TARGET: Possible diamonds and diapir-associated copper mineralisation in an area extending south and west from Lyndhurst. EXPLORATION: Drainage geochemical and gravel sampling, ground magnetic and IP surveys, and percussion and shallow RAB drilling of...-
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Published: 04 Jun 1991
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Mutooroo. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/1/1990 to 9/12/1992.
TARGET: Lead-zinc-silver and copper-gold mineralisation in the Mutooroo area of the Willyama Inliers, 55 km east of Olary. EXPLORATION: Airborne EM surveying (~450 line km flown across strike, 75 Hz, at 300 m line spacing) with ground follow-up moving...-
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Published: 04 Jan 1993
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Cultana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 28/10/1975 to 27/10/1977.
Exploration for possible stratiform or hydrothermal/epithermal base and precious metals within Adelaidean metasedimentary cover and Middle Proterozoic crystalline basement in the Cultana area, 35 km south-southwest of Port Augusta, has consisted of...-
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RB 66/00034 Water supply, Puttapa zinc prospect, grid J.5 - Electrolytic Zinc Co. Australasia Ltd.
In company with Mr P. McPaul of the Electrolytic Zinc Co., an inspection was undertaken on January 18th, 1968 to advise on the provision of a water supply to the Puttapa zinc prospect, where exploration of a zinc-lead deposit is being conducted by EZ....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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Lyons [Siding] [formerly called Rounsevell Hill]. Third partial surrender report, for the period 25/10/2002 to 2/12/2008.
As part of a regional search for possible economic IOCG type mineralisation in an area of covered Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions north-west of Tarcoola, EL 3994 (formerly EL 3040) was covered by a regional gravity survey in September-October 2005,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] due to licence expiry and pending approval of its subsequent re-grant : Pine Ridge (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 25/2/1999 to 29/3/2007.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 140 km north-west of Marla, has been explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) as part of work planned for a larger set of project exploration licences currently...-
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Barton Range Central, Barton Range North and Paling Range, north-eastern Eucla Basin (Rio Tinto's Barton Range Project). Joint annual reports for work completed before the sale of these licences, for the period 15/3/2005 to 31/12/2009.
A sizeable part of the north-eastern Tertiary Eucla Basin marine palaeomargin is being explored for possible economic buried raised beach strandline deposits of detrital rutile, zircon and ilmenite-rich heavy mineral sands (HM) that may have formed...-
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Tanner Dam North. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 22/11/2012 to 26/2/2014.
An area centred approximately 130 km north-northwest of Kimba has been explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation, where the principal target is the igneous rock succession of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV) and...-
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RB 2012/00008 Abminga bedrock drilling program 2001.
The Abminga bedrock drilling program was initiated in 1999 as part of the Targeted Exploration Initiative of South Australia (TEISA) strategy conceived by the SA Government and implemented through PIRSA's Mineral Resources Group. Drilling was proposed...-
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Published: 01 May 2012
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Island Lagoon. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
Tapley Hill Formation - hosted, Zambian Copperbelt style stratabound copper was targeted in an exploration programme which consisted of ground magnetic surveying and stratigraphic percussion drilling and geophysical logging (10 holes for 2058 m total...-
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