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Wheal Motley area. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 16/7/1970 to 26/3/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound/hydrothermal copper and other base metal deposits in an area located on the northern margin of the Murray Basin, south-west of Yunta, failed to find evidence of diapiric breccia and did not reveal any...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1971
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Oraparinna. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 22/7/1969 to 21/7/1970.
Exploration of the area around the margins of the Oraparinna Diapir for commercial barite deposits has consisted of aerial photographic studies, plus ground geological traverses of photo-interpreted fault structures, and geological mapping, trenching...-
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Tallacootra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/11/1975 to 2/8/1976.
A largely soil and dune-covered area bordering the eastern side of the Nullarbor Plain near Lake Tallacootra was investigated initially for possible Precambrian metasedimentary iron ore ocurrences, that may be associated with a number of narrow...-
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Weekeroo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1974 to 21/12/1974.
In a search for possible economic epithermal / stratiform / metamorphic base metals and gold within the Weekeroo Inlier, detailed geological mapping, rock chip sampling and an office evaluation of previous exploration were carried out for the Weekeroo...-
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West of Lake Gilles. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/10/1970 to 31/9/1971.
Follow-up rotary/diamond drilling (in 2 holes totalling 603 feet) by a new explorer, which aimed to determine the magnetic source for an elongate, 4000 foot long and 400 gammas peak intensity ground magnetic anomaly mapped as occurring to the west of...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1971
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RB 56/00066 Search for iron ore, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. In: Society Exploration Geophysicists Mining Geophysics, vol 1, case histories (published).
An extensive search for economic iron ore deposits has been made on Eyre Peninsula by the South Australian Government. Originally the search was made in the Middleback Range area, which was until recently the source of all of the iron ore used in...-
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Published: 08 May 1963
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Nuckulla Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/10/2002 to 28/11/2008.
Exploration for possible buried Ernest Henry or Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation in the Nuckulla Hill area, 120 km north-east of Ceduna, did not progress during the first two years of tenure due to uncertainties in selecting a new remote...-
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Published: 22 May 1909
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Pinerow. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/10/2004 to 9/11/2008.
To continue the assessment of the dimension stone and ornamental stone potential of granitic basement outcrops present on EL 2851, a 5-year Retention Lease, RL 116, was taken out on 7/2/2006 to cover 5.9 ha of the Middle Camp granite pluton. Several...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1909
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Lake Labyrinth (part of the Gawler and the Labyrinth Joint Venture Projects). Data release at second partial relinquishment : project licences' combined annual reports for the period 27/8/1999 to 28/9/2008.
In a continuation of exploration for economic deposits of gold and base metal mineralisation in the Lake Labyrith area, joint venture operator MIM Exploration carried out a proprietary 'MIMDAS' geophysical survey (utilising combined dipole-dipole IP...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1909
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Bulgunnia. Second partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/1992 to 31/8/1996.
A 577 square km area north of Tarcoola, the subject of this report, was relinquished in August 1995. Aeromagnetic interpretation of bedrock geology yielded only a few magnetic anomalies with perceived low priority as epigenetic Cu-Au mineralisation...-
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Mulgathing Rocks. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 17/3/1983.
Exploration by Afmeco for uranium and base metals in an area north of Mount Christie included a consultant's interpretation of previously acquired aeromagnetic and aerial radiometric data (for surveys flown by Austirex in November 1979), a...-
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Warramboo area. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/11/1993 to 28/11/1995.
Cu-Au and iron ore exploration, undertaken over ground situated 10-15 km south and east of Kyancutta, comprised the acquisition of an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey and ground gravity, ground magnetic and IP surveys, followed by RC drilling of 5...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1995
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Stafford [Rise]. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/12/1993 to 29/12/1994.
Exploration for possible Archaean volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits 100 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy comprised the drilling of one vertical reverse circulation hole to a total depth of 200 m over a Sirotem basement conductor. No...-
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Peaked Hill [formerly Trinity mine area]. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1981 to 26/7/1983.
Ongoing exploratory RAB bedrock drilling of 302 shallow holes totalling 1919 m, over an area located approximately 40 km south-east of Olary, has shown that the Pegline Dam prospect is not base metal mineralised, and that the source of an IP anomaly...-
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Mount Irwin. First and final report for the period 3/4/95 to 2/4/96.
Results of reconnaissance geochemical sampling of outcrop and lag gravels of ?Birksgate Complex ferruginous quartzites within the eastern Musgrave Block did not justify further exploration for potential Broken Hill-style exhalative Pb-Zn-Ag deposits.-
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......[Key SAMREF record for accessing referenced reports and data via DEM Content Manager - SPOT]...... Kartanya. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1999.
Previous drilling by WMC at the Kartanya prospect, 30 km west of Rudall in the central-southern Eyre Peninsula, yielded several high grade Fe intersections with up to 1% P and 140 ppm Zn. Reassaying of drillhole samples returned reduced levels of...-
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Mount Messenger. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/11/1992 to 26/11/1994.
Lead-zinc exploration undertaken in the vicinity of Mount Messenger, and which also covered an area extending from 5 km to 50 km south-eastwards of Kimba, comprised the acquisition during November 1993 of a 4386.5 line km airborne magnetic /...-
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Green Patch. Progress, annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/7/1991 to 1/3/1996.
Following a review of previous company exploration and image interpretation of SAEI and BMR aeromagnetic data, a 3166 line km airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, with follow-up ground magnetics and air core drilling (282 holes, 4559 m), was carried...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-27 - Cleve area Proterozoic unconformity-style uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
In May 2009 a total of 45 aircore blade or hammer holes (total penetration 1332 m) were drilled by Adelaide Resources along six northeast-southwest trending traverses laid out immediately south-west of Cleve, to test a conceptual unconformity - style...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-29, Wilcherry Hill Magnetite Project, Hercules Proterozoic stratabound iron ore mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Iron ore mineralisation similar to that mined in the Middleback Range has been investigated at the Hercules prospect, located 90 km west-northwest of Whyalla, where a large, high intensity aeromagnetic anomaly and associated 12 km long outcrop of...-
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