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Pernatty Lagoon - Woocalla - Mount Gunson area. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1963 to 25/8/1966.
TARGET: The area of abandoned shallow historic workings for secondary copper and manganese ore aligned along a sandstone - dolomitic limestone contact on the western edge of Pernatty Lagoon. EXPLORATION: A field inspection of the above workings,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 7/10/2009 to 6/10/2013.
New work undertaken on EL 4187 during the 2009-2010 licence year has included: • Ongoing documentation and interpretation of MGD 55 & 56 • Drilling of MGD57 to 1243 m at Emmie Bluff prospect • Down hole EM and IP logging of MGD57 •...-
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Report on the Magazine Hill clay, Pandurra area, SA.
The Magazine Hill clay stratum is a weathering product of the black shale facies beds of the Woocalla dolomite and of the siltstones of the Yudnapinna Beds. Some evidence suggests that the stratum was formed during a pre-Marinoan marine regression and...-
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Published: 18 Oct 1974
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Petrology of samples from Charlinga, Pandurra and Mount Gunson DDHs LD24, LD25, J-12, MG11 - MG14 and WOB-12.
Samples studied for stratigraphic identification.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Report on geophysical surveys, MG14 area, Mount Gunson.
Follow up of an orientation INPUT survey anomaly with ground magnetic and IP surveys focussed attention on the MG14 area. This report describes the geophysical results and subsequent drill testing (DDH LY3), and their interpretation.-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1975 to 19/7/1977.
As part of continuing brownfields exploration for extensions to known stratiform base metal mineralisation in the area lying to the west of Pernatty Lagoon, much stratigraphic drilling (210 rotary percussion holes totalling 12,441 m, including 1167 m...-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Ongoing appraisal work conducted by CSR at the company's newly discovered Cattlegrid copper deposit that lies at the top of the Pandurra Formation has included infill rotary percussion and diamond drilling (13 holes for 554 m, including 166 m cored),...-
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Beddome Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
An area centred approximately 90 km north-west of Woomera has been explored for possible economic copper mineralisation associated with geophysical anomalies thought to originate within Adelaidean metasedimentary bedrock. After considerable delays and...-
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RI 042 Base Metal Mineralization in the Pernatty Lagoon Region
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1975 to 15/4/1977.
Stratiform copper sulphides, hosted within the basal Tapley Hill Formation, and extensions of known kimberlite bodies were targeted in this program. Reconnaissance and closer (down to 1 km x 1 km) spaced diamond and percussion drilling (28 and 83...-
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RB 72/00189 Base metal mineralization in the Pernatty Lagoon region, South Australia.
Concentrations of copper occur in sandstone (Whyalla Sandstone Member) and dolomite (Woocalla Dolomite) which rest disconformably on an undulating surface of quartzite (Pandurra Formation) in the Mount Gunson area. Several attempts have been made to...-
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Published: 04 Oct 1972
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 3/12/1970 to 2/12/1971.
Work included percussion and diamond drilling to evaluate ore reserves, geological mapping, and a review of all previous drilling. Exploration drilling in dolomite areas at the Old Manganese Workings, Sweet Nell Mines and near Woocalla quarry failed...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Torrens (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 30/1/1976 to 29/1/1978.
Exploration undertaken by Western Mining Corp. in a search for possible economic Mount Gunson - type stratiform copper mineralisation that could have formed within a sequence of buried Adelaidean metasediments of the eastern Stuart Shelf which in part...-
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Woocalla (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Fourth partial surrender report for the period 4/8/1995 to 29/10/2009.
As part of a project examining the sequence of Adelaidean cover rocks that surrounds the Pernatty Culmination on the southern Stuart Shelf for possible economic stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles known to be present in the Mount...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucolo Creek (also called the Churchill Dam Project). Annual reports for the period 31/1/2006 to 14/11/2018.
EL 3511 Eucolo Creek, of 528 square km, is situated near the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton within the Olympic Dam Domain, approximately 90 km south-west of the Olympic Dam IOCG-U deposit (3.98 billion tonnes at 1.1% Cu, 0.4 kg/t U3O8 and 0.5 g/t...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1918
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Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Third partial surrender report, for the period 16/6/1994 to 22/9/2010.
No work has been undertaken recently on the currently relinquished portion of EL 4460. However, previously this piece of ground, located between Lake Dutton and the southern end of Pernatty Lagoon, has formed part of three successive licences held...-
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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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Manganese resource assessment, Pernatty Lagoon, SA.
Manganese ores were sampled for evaluation as an oxidant source to retain uranium in its soluble hexavalent state in the planned Olympic Dam metallurgical circuits. Simplistic resource estimates indicate an available tonnage of 167 500 tons grading...-
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Pandurra. First partial surrender report, for the period 23/3/1973 to 6/4/1976.
Surface geological mapping and open hole rotary drilling of 21 stratigraphic holes totalling 8717 m were carried out within the relinquished ground portion, which from reviewing the results is regarded as having low potential for copper and other base...-
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