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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo. Annual reports for the period 3/11/2009 to 16/12/2018.
No exploration was undertaken on EL 3277 during the 2008-2009 final year of its term. An application for licence renewal was submitted and a subsequent licence, EL 4401, was granted to Hillgrove Resources on 17/12/2009. During the first year of EL...-
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Published: 10 Feb 1918
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Strathalbyn (part of the Fleurieu Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/6/2007 to 10/4/2019.
Base metal exploration of buried Cambrian metasediments, undertaken over part of the Bremer River valley located east and south-east of Strathalbyn, has consisted of a review of historical exploration results, limited new geochemical sampling of...-
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Coomandook, Kingston (South-East), Padthaway and The Coorong [East] (the Padthaway Project). Joint annual reports plus final reports to various licences' respective full surrenders, for the overall period 27/3/2014 to 26/3/2019.
A group of semi-contiguous licence areas in the Padthaway district, and one somewhat removed to the north-west, near Coomandook, have been explored for possible buried economic volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) style mineralisation that may have...-
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Published: 08 May 1919
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Callawonga. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/8/1986 to 28/4/1988.
Possible economic epithermal/hydrothermal gold associated with the known Callawonga Creek tungsten deposit was the target of exploration carried out in an area of Cambrian sediments located 15 km south-southeast of Yankalilla on the Fleurieu...-
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Mount Pleasant, Birdwood (The Promenade) and Hartley (Strathalbyn). Joint progress and prospectivity appraisal reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 30/7/1985 to 29/11/1988.
Possible economic gold and stratiform / stratabound base metal sulphide deposits, that had been surmised to have formed within certain reactive metasedimentary units in folded and faulted Cambrian strata lying between Mount Pleasant and Strathalbyn in...-
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Published: 05 Feb 1988
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Kanmantoo. Final report on drill testing of a deep magnetotelluric (MT) conductive zone having inferred monzonite related Cu-Au mineral potential, Project ADI RD02-281 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Hillgrove Resources Limited (Hillgrove) was granted ADI Round 2 programme subsidy funds to allow it to undertake diamond drill testing of a combined MT - gravity - magnetic anomaly located near its Kanmantoo mine, which it has termed the Stella...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1922
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[North of] Mount Barker. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/5/1991 to 9/6/1992.
Exploration for possible stratabound gold within Cambrian metasediments in the Mount Lofty Ranges east of Adelaide, which may have developed inside the alteration aureoles of late orogenic to post-tectonic granite intrusions, has consisted of the...-
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Meningie. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/8/1980 to 5/4/1984.
Ongoing evaluation of the stratiform base metal potential of the Cambrian metasedimentary bedrock sequence, in an area located just to the east and north-east of Meningie, addressed a regional north-south trending, sinuous zone containing a number of...-
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Published: 08 Feb 1984
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Tanunda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1989 to 26/7/1990.
Possible epithermal/hydrothermal and shear-related vein style gold, and Proterozoic and Cambrian metasedimentary-hosted industrial minerals, were the targets of reconnaissance exploration over a licence taken up in the Barossa region. 1:2000 scale...-
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Strathalbyn - Hindmarsh Valley area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1978.
As part of a search for possible economic stratiform Cambrian base metal deposits within the southern Kanmantoo Trough, all previous SADME soil and stream sediment sampling data were reviewed by CRA, and notable geochemical anomalies were followed up,...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1978
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Padthaway - Black Range area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/5/1979 to 28/3/1980.
Exploration for possible economic lignite and coal that may occur within Tertiary sediments of the western Murray Basin covering the crest of the Padthaway Ridge, consisted of drilling 14 rotary mud vertical holes, 4 being partially diamond cored,...-
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Published: 12 May 1980
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Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1979.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform/volcanogenic base metal sulphide deposits hosted by the (elsewhere) pyrite - bearing Early Cambrian Bruckunga Formation, in the Vivonne Bay district on south-central Kangaroo Island, was hampered by the...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1979
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Woodchester. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/1977 to 2/5/1978.
As part of a regional search for possible economic Mount Torrens - type stratiform base metal occurrences within the Kanmantoo Trough, the soil surrounding all outcropping pyritic Cambrian metasediment units within the licence area was geochemically...-
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Published: 17 Mar 1978
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RB 00769 Kitticoola mines appraisal. Mannum - Adelaide.
Kitticoola mine is situated within the outcrop of the Palmer Granite near the Palmer Fault. Copper bearing, sparingly auriferous sulphides occur in lodes following a conjugate fracture pattern. Early workings, dating from 1844, exploited enriched...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1972
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RB 2021/00015 LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon geochronology from the Delamerian Orogen.
A geochronological study of clastic metasedimentary units buried in the Delamerian Orogen region of South Australia has been undertaken to gain a better understanding of the age and provenance of these units and to assess their similarities to...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2021
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SP 001 Silver and a Trace of Gold
After placing the Aclare mine within its setting in the early mining history of the Kanmantoo and Callington districts, this historical account ranges widely, for the problems encountered during Aclare's period of operation plus the vicissitudes of...-
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RB 71/00125 Geology of the NARACOORTE 1:250 000 sheet area.
The most significant feature of the area, covered by the Naracoorte 1:250 000 sheet is the Padthaway Ridge which underlies all but the southernmost part of the area, where Mesozoic sediments, of the Otway Basin lap onto the ridge (Padthaway...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1971
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RB 74/00105 City of Monarto. Preliminary geotechnical investigations.
A geotechnical investigation of the proposed Monarto City site has been carried out by photogeological interpretation and a rapid shallow drilling programme. As a result of this a preliminary assessment of engineering conditions to be expected on the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Assessment of the base metal mineral potential, EL 2487, Sedan, South Australia.
The magmatic province of the eastern Delamerian Orogen concealed beneath the Murray Basin in eastern South Australia, including under EL 2487, has potential for several styles of mineralisation, including: - Magmatic-associated Cu-Au (+/_Fe)...-
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Strathalbyn [not Hartley] (part of the Fleurieu Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 4/6/2007 to 20/9/2013.
Two portions of the subject licence, totalling ~11% of the originally granted tenement area, have been relinquished by current holder Terramin as part of the management conditions applying to the company's multi-licence exploration project under the...-
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