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Tarcoola. Data release made in lieu of a 25% first partial relinquishment at licence renewal: [Part 1 of 2] progress reports for the period 7/6/1978 to 19/4/1984.
In 1978 exploratory rotary drilling (11 holes, total 629 m) for inferred sediment-hosted roll-front uranium orebodies buried beneath salt lake topographic depressions east of Tarcoola intersected low levels of uranium (max 14 ppm) at fresh water /...-
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The Eyre Peninsula Project, and in part the Corrobinnie Uranium Joint Venture. Joint annual reports for the period 29/12/2008 to 31/12/2013.
During the sixth year of the project, licensee Adelaide Resources did not do any exploration directed at gold or base metals that might possibly occur on the subject tenements. However, its joint venture partner Quasar Resources undertook significant...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1914
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Colona North and Barton (the Barton Magmatic Nickel-Copper-Platinum Project) and Fig Tree Corner (the three together constituting Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1). Joint annual reports for the period 10/9/2001 to 28/2/2010.
Two adjoining exploration Licences 2840 “Colona North” and 2841 “Barton” were acquired by Adelaide Exploration Limited to search principally for nickel, copper and platinum group precious metals (PGM) mineralisation within Proterozoic and Archaean...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ardrossan, Minlaton and Ardrossan coast areas (the Pine Point Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/8/2008 to 1/8/2014.
Rex Mineral’s ('Rex') primary objective in the Pine Point Project area is to determine the potential for economic basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation such as that found at Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Ernest Henry and...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warrior (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/2/2005 to 16/2/2010.
Tasman Resources is exploring an area that is centred about 78 km north-west of Tarcoola for possible economic buried occurrences of sedimentary roll front style uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels and nickel mineralisation in Archaean -...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1910
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Fig Tree Corner. Second partial surrender report, for the period 10/3/2005 to 4/4/2019.
Most of a sizeable licence area located on SA's Far West Coast, which formerly extended for 10 to 90 km inland from the vicinity of Bookabie, has now been partially relinquished owing to its perceived diminished prospectivity for Tertiary marine...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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Ceduna (part of Eucla Basin tenement Group 2). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2006 to 17/4/2017.
The remnant portion of EL 4962, which is centred ~30 km north-east of Ceduna, has now been fully surrendered owing to a perceived lack of prospectivity for economic detrital zircon entrapped there within Tertiary Eucla Basin sediments. During the...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1917
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Poondinga. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/2004 to 4/4/2019.
309.6 square km or ~18.77% of the pre-existing area of EL 5564 Poondinga was partially relinquished on 19/2/2019 because in the licensee's view this south-eastern portion of the licence are does not appear to exhibit the geological features required...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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Penong A area (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 2). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 29/7/2009 to 26/4/2018.
An attenuated licence area extending for 40-75 km north to north-east of Penong was taken up to explore part of the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin for possible economic buried Tertiary detrital heavy mineral (HM) marine sand placer deposits. Over...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1918
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Kalanbi West and Ooldea South (part of Eucla Basin tenement Group 2). Final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/4/2005 to 23/8/2017.
Between 2008 and 2013, Iluka drilled a total of 45 vertical exploratory aircore holes on EL 3330/4546 for a total penetration of 1324.9 m, as part of reconnaissance drilling along traverses spaced 1 km apart with holes put in at 50 m intervals....-
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Published: 13 Sep 1917
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Penong B area and Yumbarra (part of the Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Joint final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2017.
Two adjoining areas located north of Koonibba were taken up to explore this part of the south-eastern Eucla Basin for possible buried economic marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM), because they were believed to contain shallow or exposed...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1917
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Yellabinna and Poondinga. Respective second partial surrender reports, for the period 27/10/2004 to 13/4/2018.
Two adjoining areas located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, and centred ~60 km north-east of Fowlers Bay, are being explored for possible buried economic occurrences of zircon-rich heavy mineral sands (HMS) that may have been formed along...-
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Published: 31 May 1918
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Fig Tree Corner, Ooldea South, Barton, Colona North, Ooldea Range and Pidinga (the Eucla Basin HMS Project tenement Group One). Joint annual reports for the period 1/3/2011 to 31/12/2015.
During the 2011-2012 joint reporting year, Iluka undertook drilling on ELs 3638, 3742 and 4544 with three aims: to extend the Typhoon HM deposit resource, to follow-up results of brownfields drilling at the Sonoran prospect, and to do further infill...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1916
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Cowell Jade Province: rock sample petrographic descriptions.
A collection of Amdel petrographic reports providing raw data for a petrogenetic study of Cowell area jade specimens and related host rocks carried out by SADME, aimed at determining geological controls on the distribution of high quality nephrite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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Strawberry Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 4/10/89 to 3/1/94.
Exploration in the Wanilla - Cummins area searching for economic accumulations of heavy minerals in Eocene sands comprised 2 phases of aircore drilling (167 holes, total 4049 m). A resulting drill intersection yielded a 0.72% heavy-mineral...-
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1967 marine seismic survey (second reflection round), Eucla Basin (Esperance to Ceduna), final report.
AIM:To extend by seismic reflection profiling along tie-lines the information gained from previous offshore and onshore reflection and refraction work, thereby aiding in establishing the basin configuration and determining whether any prospective...-
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1967 marine seismic survey, Spencer Gulf, final report.
Comprises details of the operations, field acquisition, results and interpretation of the seismic survey. The objective was to determine section thickness, fault presence and the general structural configuration of the basement refractor in the area....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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1988 seismic survey, Booleroo, final report.
AIM: The Booleroo Seismic Survey was designed to: 1) improve data quality over that of earlier surveys through experimentation with acquisition parameters; 2) to add regional seismic coverage in the central part of Spencer Gulf; and 3) to further...-
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Pernatty Ridge. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1989 to 12/12/1991.
Possible stratabound, Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphide within the basal sediments of the early Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation was the target of exploration in the Pernatty Ridge area. Aberfoyle's work has comprised a review of existing...-
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Final drilling report - CRAE boreholes 83KD1 and 83KD1A.
The intersection of massive halite in the ?Lower Palaeozoic sequence in Occidental Petroleum's Mercury 1 wildcat oil exploration well drilled in the offshore Polda Basin generated interest in the Tuckey area onshore for potash associated with similar...-
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