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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Wheal Ellen prospect. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/2004 to 25/8/2009.
The Wheal Ellen prospect situated at the centre of EL 3232 is named after the historical lead-zinc-silver mine which was worked there, primarily in the 1850s. Numerous other old shallow workings are also present along strike and in beds running...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Currency Creek (latterly part of the Fleurieu Joint Venture). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 4/6/1992 to 3/6/1995.
The subject licence was obtained to cover possible southerly extensions of sub-economic metallic mineralisation that had recently been discovered near Strathalbyn at the Angas prospect, situated 12 km to the north-east within Aberfoyle's EL 1582....-
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Parndana (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 8/7/2005 to 18/10/2014.
Approximately 10% of the area of EL 4581 has been relinquished upon its renewal for a second licence year. The only activities performed on this ground have been the acquisition of portions of ground gravity and airborne magnetic/radiometric surveys...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1914
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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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Dudley East areas 1 and 2 (the Dudley Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/8/2018 to 2/8/2020, plus respective licence's final reports to 2/8/2020 and 27/10/2021 upon their successive full surrender.
Two very small areas bordering the coastline of the Dudley Peninsula on the eastern end of Kangaroo Island have been explored for possible economic, felsic igneous intrusive late-stage pegmatitic vein - hosted, lithium, tantalum, tin, REE and kaolin...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1921
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EL 6176 - Wheal Ellen Mine area. Annual technical reports for period 28/06/2018 to expiry 27/06/2023.
Hillgrove Resources Ltd (Hillgrove) is exploring for base metals and associated gold mineralisation in the Cambro-Ordovician basement rocks of south-east South Australia. EL 6176 is one of 8 licences held by Hillgrove in this region. The licence is...-
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Published: 10 Jul 1923
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Data release - as updated : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2012 to 24/6/2017.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where the current licensees and previous...-
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Data release - as updated : Wheal Ellen prospect. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/8/2009 to 21/10/2017.
During the sixth licence year, on renewed EL 4354, no technical work was undertaken. Hillgrove Resources temporarily suspended exploration activities within EL 4354 – Wheal Ellen in 2010 to focus on the construction of the Kanmantoo copper mine....-
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Published: 08 Dec 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cassini area. Annual technical report for period ending 15/06/2018.
Exploration licence 5973 “Bonaventura Project” is in the Cassini area approximately 30 km west of Kingscote Kangaroo Island. The project lies on the southern margin of the Gawler Craton and covers a 40 km section of the Cygnet-Snelling Shear Zone....-
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Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek (formerly part of the Fleurieu JV Project, then part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/6/1992 to 18/10/2016.
Two slightly separated areas located in the west-central Kanmantoo Trough geological region have been explored for possible economic buried metalliferous deposits by successive licence owners over an almost 25 year - long tenure. The subject report...-
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Langhorne Creek, Bremer, Hartley and Currency Creek (the Fleurieu Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/10/2008 to 30/9/2013.
In the sixth year of the project, the principal activity was the drilling of two inclined diamond holes for 633.5 m during October 2008 to investigate a possible northern buried extension of the known Rankine Trend mineralisation on EL 3641 ground...-
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Cambrian black shales in the Karinya Syncline - stratigraphic distribution, sedimentology and kerogen composition.
The Heatherdale Shale and the stratigraphically younger Karinya Shale are transgressive units within the Lower Cambrian of the Karinya Syncline. Black muds of the Heatherdale Shale were deposited in an outer ramp setting of the Stansbury Basin under...-
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RI 057 Cambrian Sediment-hosted Exhalative Base Metal Mineralisation, Kanmantoo Trough, South Australia
A deformed and metamorphosed succession of sandstone, greywacke, siltstone and shale which accumulated in the Early Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough hosts a number of exhalative base and precious metal deposits. This sequence is apparently devoid of...-
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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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Pioneer Bend (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Combined third annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2010.
As part of a search for Mississippi Valley type base and precious metal mineralisation associated with a major regional fault structure, an area of Kangaroo Island located approximately 25 km west of Kingscote was taken up by Monax Mining to cover any...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1910
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 1 of 3 ].
Exploration of an extensive area lying to the north of and surrounding Strathalbyn, 40 km south-east of Adelaide, is targeting possible economic stratiform base and precious metals mineralisation hosted within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Group...-
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Parndana, Middle River and Yerda (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Joint annual reports, plus EL 4581 third partial surrender report, to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/10/2012 to 18/10/2015.
Monax Mining has being exploring since May 2005 along a 40 km stretch of the hinterland to the central-northern coast of Kangaroo Island, searching mainly for possible economic gold, silver and Mississippi Valley type base metal sulphide...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/6/2007 to 24/6/2012.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend is being explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where previous explorers' drilling had...-
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