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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Moonta - Wallaroo area. Second partial surrender report, for the period 10/1/2002 to 11/4/2009.
Work completed within the three now relinquished small portions of this licence (total 6.16%) has included regional and semi-detailed calcrete sampling (56 samples taken at 1 km spacing, plus 111 infill samples taken on 400 m grid centres), parts of...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-19, Murninnie mine area (north-eastern Spencer Domain) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Murninnie Cu-Bi-Au deposit and mine environs, located approximately 40 km south-west of Whyalla, have not been seriously explored in more than 50 years due to quarantining of the deposit under Private Mine title. The lode-style deposit is exposed...-
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Mount Paisley (part of the Mount Woods Project). Fourth partial surrender report for the period 23/3/2000 to 8/8/2009.
Exploration Licence 3387 (Mt Paisley) is located about 110 km north-west of Woomera, 110 km west-northwest of Olympic Dam, and 45 km south-east of Prominent Hill. The EL lies within the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), and most of the tenement covers...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Woocalla (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a reduced area, for the period 4/8/1995 to 3/8/2000.
Stuart Metals took up EL 2099 covering ground in the Wirrappa - Lake Blyth - Bookaloo Siding area primarily to explore it for stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles present in the Mount Gunson area. In addition, it was thought that the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ardrossan, Minlaton and Ardrossan coast areas (the Pine Point Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/8/2008 to 1/8/2014.
Rex Mineral’s ('Rex') primary objective in the Pine Point Project area is to determine the potential for economic basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation such as that found at Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Ernest Henry and...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Alford. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/10/2007 to 4/11/2012.
Work performed at the Alford Project, until the latter half of 2007, had so far mainly concentrated on the Netherleigh Park prospect, with the density of drilling there now providing the main insights into prospectivity and controls on mineralisation....-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 3 of 4 ].
During the eighth year of tenure, work done on EL 2639 included: - the conduct of infill ground gravity and CSAMT surveys; - geophysical modelling and interpretation of the new survey data; - geological interpretation and refinement of drilling...-
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Woomera. Second partial surrender report, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/1/2017.
An area located immediately south of Woomera township has been acquired to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence of the Stuart...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-08 - northern Yorke Peninsula, Alford Copper Belt, structurally controlled IOCG mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
As part of ongoing mineral exploration within the Moonta-Wallaroo region of South Australia, Peninsula Resources Limited via its parent company Adelaide Resources Ltd is exploring for economic buried copper-gold mineralisation within its EL 4961,...-
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West Lake Torrens (part of the Murdie Project). Final report for geophysical, drilling and logistics program, Project ADI RD01-120 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
ADI funding was granted by DEM to Kelaray to conduct approved geophysical surveys and exploratory drilling and apply logistical support within its Murdie Project, for a combined expenditure of up to A$320,000. At the outset of the project, Kelaray...-
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Andamooka Creek, Willaroo Dam, Island Dam and Stuart Shelf / Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports on activities undertaken by the Joint Venture consortium for the period 11/10/1996 to 10/10/2009 [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
The four Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project exploration licences collectively cover approximately 2668 square km of semi-arid pastoral land surrounding the Olympic Dam mine and extending east and south-eastwards as far as Lake Torrens [the Olympic Dam...-
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Moonta - Wallaroo mining area investigations, central Yorke Peninsula. Partial surrender report for the period 1/9/1960 to 9/6/1977, for a sector of Exploration Licence 249.
Exploration for buried metallic minerals carried out over seventeen years on northern and central Yorke Peninsula included the acquisition of ground magnetic, IP and electrosounding surveys, extensive soil geochemical sampling, drilling of 1341 auger...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1977
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (where licence is subject in part to the Moonta Porphyry Joint Venture). Annual reports for the period 24/12/1996 to 11/4/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 106 square km area, comprising two blocks which cover the main historic copper and gold - producing districts centred around the towns of Moonta and Kadina, is being explored afresh in an attempt to identify ore resources of quantity sufficient to...-
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RB 2018/00018 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration data - Woomera Prohibited Area within the Gawler Craton. 2nd edition.
The Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) is a military testing range covering 122,188 square km of the land surface of central South Australia. Underlying it are highly economic minerals - prospective rocks of the Gawler Craton, a major province of the...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2018
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RB 70/00185 Bute aeromagnetic anomaly.
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Published: 30 Nov 1970
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Minlaton (part of the Moonta South Project). Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 19/4/2002 to 28/9/2008.
EL 3875 is located on the western edge of the Yorke Peninsula, and forms part of the tenement package of Rex Minerals Ltd ('Rex') referred to as the “Moonta South Project”, which covers the majority of the southern half of the peninsula between the...-
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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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Balta Baltana Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2012.
Exploration for possible economic base and precious metal deposits in buried basement rocks, and for possible sedimentary uranium mineralisation in overlying Jurassic-Cretaceous Eromanga Basin sediments, within an area centred about 80 km east of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Alford. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/4/1992 to 24/10/2007.
Exploration field activities operated by the parent company of the new licensee commenced during March-May 2003, when Argonaut Resources (Argonaut) undertook a rotary mud/diamond drilling programme to test targets located at Netherleigh Park, Alford...-
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