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Frome Downs and Curnamona. Respective progress reports, annual reports and JV partner's final report to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 11/2/1971 to 12/2/1973.
77 rotary / diamond holes drilled by Pacminex (total 9385 m, including 196 m cored) plus another 53 holes drilled within SML 544 by joint venturer Esso (total 7029 m) indicate that a highly prospective radioactive mineralised zone occurs within...-
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RB 78/00117 Bumbarlow 1 - Well completion report.
Bumbarlow 1 (TD 720.33 m) aimed to test the lithology and petroleum potential of the Cambrian section in the central part of the eastern Arrowie Basin. It continuously cored a sequence over 300 m thick of flat-lying Proterozoic sediments interbedded...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1978
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RB 81/00098 Leigh Creek town water supply groundwater investigation, progress report no. 2.
Fractured rock aquifers were investigated by drilling of 7 vertical holes and 2 angle holes in the Windy Creek area. 1 well was completed as production well with an airlift yield of 12 L/s. The steeply dipping fractured sandstone aquifer responds as a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Willochra area. Annual technical report for the period ending 21 July 2018.
Exploration licence 5821 the “Willochra” is located 50 km north-east of Port Augusta. The tenement has the potential to host large-scale zinc, lead and copper stratiform sedimentary mineralisation (SEDEX deposit). Stratiform zinc (+/- lead and...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 26/2/1988.
Economic deposits of Mississippi Valley type stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation within in Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration undertaken on and near the Wirrealpa Diapir. A preliminary field reconnaissance had shown that surface...-
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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 25/10/1979 to 25/2/1988.
As part of a regional project of exploration for Mississippi Valley type (MVT) lead-zinc mineralisation emplaced in tectonically and structurally 'prepared ground' within Lower Cambrian limestones, Dampier/BHP investigated rocks of this age which...-
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Mount Roebuck. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 28/3/90 to 29/10/91.
TARGET: Diamonds, gold and copper in the Mount Roebuck area. EXPLORATION: Drainage, loam and rock chip sampling, ground magnetic, radiometric and IP surveys, and diamond drilling (4 holes totalling 739 m). RESULTS: A single, 0.5 mm x 0.4 mm diameter...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1991
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Pioneer Dam. Progress and final reports for the period 14/2/91 to 13/8/92.
Exploration of Pioneer Dam and Billeroo West by CRA Exploration included interpretation of geophysical data, ground magnetic and gravity traversing, and the construction of drillhole DD91PD1 to a depth of 409 metres to test for possible base-metal...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1992
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Commodore. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 21/10/1986.
Multicommodity exploration undertaken in the Commodore - Parachilna area of the west-central Flinders Ranges, just outside of the western boundary of the newly proclaimed national park and the included Heysen Range, has comprised limited gravel...-
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Curnamona. First partial surrender report for the period 2/7/1976 to 1/7/1977.
In a search for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits, a resistivity survey and a 19 hole, 2818 m reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling and downhole geophysical logging programme were carried out in parts of the Tertiary Curnamona...-
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Published: 25 Jul 1977
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Wilpena Creek. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/7/1977 to 25/7/1978.
A licence area centred approximately 150 km north of Yunta, and bordering the south-eastern Flinders Ranges, was taken up to try to locate basinward extensions of a previously found Lower Tertiary palaeochannel sequence, in order to evaluate the...-
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Lake Namba. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/1975 to 26/10/1981.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium deposits in the Lower Tertiary sediments overlying the Mesozoic Frome Embayment and Cambrian Moorowie Syncline stratigraphic succession, adjacent to and overlying the western flank of the Proterozoic Benagerie Ridge....-
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Furlough Dam. Progress reports for the period 28/7/80 to 27/4/81.
Results of the deep stratigraphic / mineral exploratory well MU-2 drilled near Mulyungarie Homestead, east of Lake Frome and adjacent to the SA/NSW State border, are presented, besides the interpretation of a gravity survey conducted earlier in the...-
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Published: 17 Nov 1981
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RB 72/00160 Frome Embayment stratigraphic drilling project. Preliminary report on SA Department of Mines Wooltana no. 1, Yalkalpo no. 1 and Wertaloona no. 1 stratigraphic bores.
This report contains downhole geological and wireline logging data summarizing the results of recent stratigraphic drilling in the Frome Embayment by the South Australian Department of Mines. Conclusions are tentative and may be subject to revision...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1972
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RB 76/00042 Proposed Aroona Dam silt traps, seismic profiles and engineering geology - EWS Department and ETSA.
Shallow seismic refraction traverses have been carried out at six proposed sites for silt traps upstream of Aroona Dam, near Leigh Creek. The aims of the survey were to determine seismic velocities in the soil and weathered rock overburden, and in the...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1976
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : (for 10 exploration licences comprising) the Lake Torrens JV Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2007 to 31/12/2011.
A group of ten, mainly adjoining licence areas occupying the plains surrounding the northern end of Lake Torrens, are now being jointly explored for possible economic buried Olympic Dam style IOCG related mineralisation that may have formed in the...-
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Mount McCallum. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1979 to 17/12/1981.
In follow-up evaluation of a sedimentary uranium discovery made on the preceding EL 203 in two previously drilled exploratory open rotary holes, 203-1 and 203-2, which encountered downhole radiometric log indications of uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1982
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Telechie. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
An area located approximately 40 km north-west of Olary is being explored for possible economic Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium mineralisation. Work undertaken within the now relinquished portion of EL 297 has comprised...-
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