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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana. Annual reports for the period 20/11/2006 to 19/11/2009.
A tenement area located close to and along the eastern seaboard of the Eyre Peninsula, and which extends from Whyalla southwards for approximately 60 km, has been taken up to explore for possible economic buried primary, hard rock hosted uranium and...-
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Published: 20 Jun 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Midgee (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2019.
An area of the northern Cowell Hills was taken up to explore for possible economic basement-hosted copper-gold mineralisation of epigenetic style, analogous to that found at the Ernest Henry deposit, which may be associated with magnetic anomalies and...-
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Published: 08 May 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana (part of the Mullaquana, later called Samphire, Uranium Project). Annual reports for the period 20/11/2009 to 19/11/2018.
During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1918
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Cowell. Second partial surrender report, for the period 7/11/2007 to 6/11/2016.
Exploration undertaken within the original EL 3978/5307 Cowell area by Hiltaba Gold and joint venture partners 1) UraniumSA and 2) Renaissance Uranium / Renascor Resources has included geological interpretation, geochemical sampling, ground and...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 7/11/2008 to 6/11/2011.
No field work was undertaken during licence Year 7, but Stellar instead did a review of the Cowell area's prospectivity for Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium mineralisation. Previous drilling data for the local Pirie Basin sediments...-
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Published: 05 Dec 1911
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Data release - as updated - Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/11/2011 to 6/11/2017.
During licence Year 10 to 6th November 2012, exploration work undertaken by JV partner Renaissance Uranium (RNU) comprised the drilling of five rotary mud-diamond drill holes targeting five local geophysical anomalies within the Glensea Prospect,...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1917
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Cowell. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/5/1978 to 22/4/1980.
The exploration targets in an area extending along the Spencer Gulf coastal plain between Cowell and Whyalla were sandstone type roll-front uranium deposits, developed in possible Eocene palaeochannels that may have drained the Cleve Uplands and...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1980
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False Bay. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/7/1969 to 30/6/1971.
Site investigations of the coastal area abutting False Bay, immediately north of Whyalla, were undertaken by BHP's Industrial Minerals Div. to gauge the feasibility of expanding their Whyalla Salt Works from its existing 60,000 tons per annum...-
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Published: 07 May 1970
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Port Broughton (part of the Pirie Basin Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2010 to 30/5/2014.
Eocene fluvial sediments underlying the coastal plain immediately north of Port Broughton have been explored for possible economic buried occurrences of palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium, as part of a regional programme being conducted by Areva...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-27 - north-eastern Cleve Domain - basement granite investigations related to the Mullaquana area Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium mineral prospect. Final report.
The area of the Mullaquana Exploration Licence 3652 is underlain by a circular aeromagnetic anomaly which has been interpreted as being potentially a Hiltaba Suite granite pluton that may be the source of the uranium mineralisation recently discovered...-
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Published: 30 May 1911
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Murninnie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/4/2006 to 14/11/2013.
During August 2006, Australasia Gold acquired a 45% interest in the historic abandoned Murninnie copper mine (Private Mine 156) and a surrounding small exploration licence (EL 3542), which are located ~30 km south-southwest of Whyalla. In July 2007,...-
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Published: 13 Oct 1914
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RB 2002/00013 Late Eocene-Early Oligocene sediments in KGD[010]01 drillhole, offshore Spencer Gulf, South Australia.
Palynological analysis of one drill cuttings sample taken from the rotary precollar portion of BHP Minerals' Spencer Gulf diamond drillhole KGD01001 indicates the presence of Late Eocene - Early Oligocene sediments that are attributed to the upper...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2002
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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Mullaquana. First partial surrender report, for the period 8/12/1980 to 7/12/1981.
Exploration targets were economic deposits of oil shale and coal in Eocene sediments deposited on the downthrown parts of fault blocks, under the coastal plain between Whyalla and Cowell. Four rotary drillholes totalling 133.5 m tested the Cainozoic...-
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Port Pirie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 30/6/1982.
Continuing exploration for possible buried Mount Gunson and Olympic Dam type copper deposits, or other stratabound base metal occurrences within shelfal facies of Adelaidean sediments or in the pre-Adelaidean Wandearah Formation Carpentarian age...-
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Port Pirie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/4/1977 to 19/4/1979.
Concerted exploration for possible stratiform Mount Gunson type or epithermal Olympic Dam type base metal deposits, on the south-eastern edge of the Stuart Shelf near Port Pirie, was begun by North Broken Hill Ltd in response to the public release by...-
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Progress reports. EL 427 Whyalla North, South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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Surface Geology of Six Mile Hill – Mineral Systems Drilling Program Special Map Series, 1:75 000 scale.
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Published: 01 Dec 1916
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Cultana basement regional geology 3D Model.
The Cultana basement 3D Geological Model covers a region which includes the Roopena, and western half of the Cultana, 1:100,000 mapsheet areas. The subsurface geology that has been modelled comprises a succession of deformed Palaeoproterozoic...-
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Mullaquana. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/12/1980 to 7/12/1982.
The target was lignite or oil shale hosted by Tertiary sediments possibly preserved on top of a series of tilted fault blocks bordering the western shoreline of Spencer Gulf, due south-west of Whyalla. 29 vertical rotary mud drillholes (total 2729...-
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