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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North Roxby and Acropolis South. Joint annual reports, plus EL 3762 fifth annual report to licence sale, for the period 4/5/2009 to 3/5/2012.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of buried, Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-U style mineralisation is being conducted over two separate multiple-block licence areas in the Olympic Dam district, EL 3761 (North Roxby) and EL 3762...-
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Pernatty. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/3/2018 to 19/3/23.
The Pernatty Project is located approximately 20 km SSE of the IOCG deposit at Carrapateena, within Exploration Licence 6137. The area was initially targeted by Tasman Resources Ltd due to available geophysical data, the possibility of reasonable...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1923
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RB 2020/00015 Reconnaissance zircon U-Pb geochronology of the southeastern Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia.
The eastern Gawler Craton is the location of the Olympic Cu-Au Province, a world-class metallogenic province known for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena (Skirrow et al., 2007;...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2020
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Lake Gilles. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/12/2005 to 7/10/2010.
EL3466, located approximately 10 km west-southwest of Iron Knob, was taken up primarily to search the Proterozoic basement for possible buried Olympic Dam style Cu-Au-U mineralisation. Secondary exploration targets included orogenic lode gold...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1911
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-03 - Acropolis South area, eastern Stuart Shelf - Aphrodite IOCG mineral prospect. Project final report.
Over the past two years, Minotaur Exploration has identified and begun to explore a large new IOCG geophysical target (Aphrodite) that is located on EL 3762, and lies ~35 km SE of Olympic Dam. The target is a gravity-only anomaly with no discernible...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell, Plank Point, Midgee and Kooralla (the Cowell Project). Joint annual reports for the period 23/9/2004 to 22/9/2006.
Following the previously reported acquisition during January-February 2004 of a moving loop surface TEM survey covering the main area of magnetic anomalism adjacent to both the Glensea Granite and the three diamond holes COD001-003, Avoca subsequently...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1906
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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 23/9/2002 to 6/11/2008.
A large licence area, comprising two separate blocks aligned along strike, which cover the northern Cowell Hills and the less elevated country stretching north-east of Lucky Bay, was taken up by Avoca Resources Ltd as part of a much wider search...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Stuart Shelf. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence renewal / re-issue, for the period 17/6/1986 to 15/9/1996.
On 21/11/1986, Western Mining Corp. (WMC) signed a joint venture agreement with PNC Exploration (Australia) Pty Ltd [a subsidiary of the Power and Nuclear Fuels Corp. of Japan], whereby PNC can earn up to 25% equity in EL 1338 by funding exploration...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pernatty [Station]. Annual reports for the period 29/11/2005 to 28/11/2009.
An area centred approximately 110 km north of Port Augusta, covering part of the Pernatty Ridge plateau on the south-western side of Lake Torrens, approximately 145 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine, was taken up to explore for possible economic...-
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Published: 24 May 1910
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RB 2002/00018 16th Australian Geological Convention, Adelaide, South Australia, 1-5 July 2002 - Excursion A1 locality guide. Geology of Yorke Peninsula, and Cu-Au mineralisation at Moonta and Wallaroo.
This excursion was designed with the intent of introducing its participants to the geology, mineralisation and alteration styles present in the Moonta - Wallaroo region, through guided drill core inspection, a trip to the Wheal Hughes open pit mine,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2002
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RB 2001/00017 TER 001, Yorke Peninsula. Well completion report.
Drillhole TER 1, funded by the TEISA program, was drilled to test basement depth and stratigraphy to the west of Minlaton, Yorke Peninsula. This drilling project followed TEISA aeromagnetic and geological surveys of the Peninsula in 1999, which had...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2001
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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RB 2007/00005 Timing of the Kimban Orogeny on southern Eyre Peninsula.
Seven samples of Proterozoic basement rocks, representing syn and post-tectonic leucocratic melts that formed during the Kimban Orogeny within the Donington Suite and within cross-cutting Tournefort Metadolerite mafic dykes on the southernmost Eyre...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2007
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RB 2012/00014 Age of host rocks at the Chianti Cu-Au prospect, eastern Gawler Craton, from zircon U-Pb geochronology.
The primary aim of the U-Pb geochronology work reported herein was to constrain the age of granites that form the principal host unit to the minor mineralisation and extensive alteration present within the Chianti Cu-Au prospect located in the eastern...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2012
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RB 2000/00050 Gawler Craton PIRSA / AGSO / WMC field trip, 28 August - 12 September 2000. Trip itinerary and planned stops field guide.
The subject field excursion performed in August-September 2000 in part mimicked that held by the GSSA during September 1997, but included 6 additional stops programmed for Day 1 (31st August 2000) to examine Archaean geology at the southern tip of...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2000
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RB 2013/00014 IOCG-style mineralisation in the central eastern Gawler Craton, SA; characterisation of alteration, geochemical associations and exploration vectors.
While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2013
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Marion Bay. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 18/3/1997 to 17/9/2000.
Calcrete was sampled over the entire foot of Yorke Peninsula, approximately 200 km by road from Adelaide, to follow up aeromagnetic structures and anomalous base metals in groundwater. Several samples returned slightly elevated base metals, from...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1900
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-02, Carrapateena mineral prospect. Project final report.
PACE Initiative Year 2 funding, to assist with drilling two deep holes on the Carra-east anomaly located near Salt Creek, 8 km west of where the Carrapateena Arm southern shoreline meets central Lake Torrens, was granted to RMG Services in May 2005....-
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RB 2022/00012 Petrophysical characteristics of common stratigraphic units of the Gawler Craton.
Petrophysical properties of rocks are an underutilised data set that is rarely routinely collected. With the recent advances in geophysical modelling there is now an increasing need to collect petrophysical data as a vital link between geophysical...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2024
