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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/4/2000 to 8/8/2010.
During the sixth licence year, on renewed EL 2717 covering the same area as previously, the licensee, now a wholly owned subsidiary of AuIron Energy Limited (formerly Meekatharra Minerals Limited), progressed its investigations of the geology of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Wirrida. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/4/1980 to 6/6/1983.
A large area centred ~95 km north of Tarcoola was explored initially by grant licensee Afmeco for possible buried economic epithermal / hydrothermal / fault controlled primary uranium mineralisation that may have formed in outcropping or shallowly...-
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Combined final report at surrender of EL 1529, for the period 12/10/1988 to 31/7/1989, and partial surrender report for EL 1526 for the period 6/10/1988 to 6/9/1989.
Possible primary gold associated with buried Archaean metabasic lithostratigraphic units (greenstones) was the target of exploration undertaken in the Mount Christie - Mulgathing region. Work consisted of regional soil sampling at 2 km centres,...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1989
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Commonwealth Hill Station - East (part of the Commonwealth Hill Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2019.
Two portions in the north and south of the subject licence area, with a combined total area of 45 square km, have been surrendered due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for iron ore, gold, uranium and base metals. During the period of...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1920
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill area (the Eaglehawk Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 22/6/2012 to 21/6/2017.
An area centred ~115 km south-west of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic buried precious and/or base metal mineralisation (including iron ore) that may exist in predominantly buried Archaean or younger Proterozoic basement rocks, as...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1917
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Blowout, Campfire Bore, Mulgathing, Jumbuck, Mobella and Sandstone (the Gawler Project Central Tenements Area). Joint venture operators' separate joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2010 to 30/6/2017.
Work targeting Archaean to Proterozoic iron ore in BIF that was carried out by the Iron Road JV partners during 2010-2011 comprised studies of the geological setting and physical characteristics of magnetite iron mineralisation delineated by Stage I...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1918
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Indooroopilly, Muckanippie and Commonwealth Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a joint partial surrender report for ELs 5799, 6166 and 6348: all project licences' joint annual reports for the period 21/3/2015 to 30/6/2019.
An agglomeration of exploration licences which partly surrounds the Challenger gold deposit at distances of between 35 and 80 km is being explored for similar type economic lode gold mineralisation that may exist in buried Archaean bedrock relatively...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warrior (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports for the period 17/2/2010 to 20/6/2015.
During the sixth licence year, in February 2011, new licence owner Marmota Energy Limited ('Marmota') undertook a reconnaissance biogeochemical survey at the Pundinya prospect, collecting 54 x 30 g grab samples of vegetation of Mulga trees, in the...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1915
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Commonwealth Hill Station - Central (part of the Commonwealth Hill Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 11/5/2007 to 10/5/2017.
Six separate portions of the subject licence, with a combined total area of 35 square km, have been surrendered due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for iron ore, gold, uranium, PGEs and base metals. During the period of their tenure,...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2013 to 30/6/2018.
During the sixth year of the project, base metals exploration was focussed on the Mars-Aurora Tank, Wirrida and Bundi prospects using ground gravity and IP survey methods. Some trial magnetotelluric and audio-frequency magnetotelluric survey profiles...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1918
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Engenina Creek - Mount Brady and Balta Baltana Creek areas, south-east of Coober Pedy. Progress reports and final annual report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/4/1981 to 23/6/1993.
{ELs 822, 1145, 1494 programme}: TARGET: Roxby Downs and Tennant Creek - style copper, gold, and uranium, plus diamonds in kimberlite diatremes and metamorphic and hydrothermal breccia - related iron ore, in the Engenina Creek area, 60 km south-east...-
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Published: 24 Jul 1993
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RB 2018/00018 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration data - Woomera Prohibited Area within the Gawler Craton. 2nd edition.
The Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) is a military testing range covering 122,188 square km of the land surface of central South Australia. Underlying it are highly economic minerals - prospective rocks of the Gawler Craton, a major province of the...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2018
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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 4 partnership no. DPY4-07, Mirikata mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Mirikata EL 3537 joint venture partners, Newcrest Operations Ltd and PlatSearch NL, have completed a planned four hole drilling campaign over three separate magnetic and/or gravity anomalies located 30-40 km west-southwest of Prominent Hill on...-
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Lyons [Siding] [formerly called Rounsevell Hill]. Third partial surrender report, for the period 25/10/2002 to 2/12/2008.
As part of a regional search for possible economic IOCG type mineralisation in an area of covered Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions north-west of Tarcoola, EL 3994 (formerly EL 3040) was covered by a regional gravity survey in September-October 2005,...-
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Gibraltar Rocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/4/2001 to 24/11/2008.
Exploration of an area with poor basement outcrop located approximately 40 km north of Tarcoola, primarily sought possible fault or breccia-hosted mesothermal gold +/- base metal mineralisation in likely multiphase Mesoproterozoic felsic volcanic and...-
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Published: 14 Aug 1908
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Data release - as updated : Robin Rise. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/5/2005 to 20/6/2019.
The Robin Rise exploration licence, centred approximately 35 km south-southwest of Coober Pedy, covers portions of the Palaeoproterozoic basement domain known as the Coober Pedy Ridge, an east-northeast trending magnetic block of variable magnetic...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1919
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Muckanippie, Garford, Commonwealth Hill and Mulgathing Hill (part of the Central Gawler Project). Joint annual reports to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/2005 to 19/5/2010.
Tasman Resources' Central Gawler Project acreage, originally comprising seven exploration licences ELs 3339 to 3345, was initially applied for on the basis of perceived prospectivity for diamonds, however, further potential for discovering buried...-
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Wildingi Claypan (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/10/2005 to 13/1/2015.
Two separate small areas located just north of Comet Outstation, that were originally taken up to explore for possible diamonds and Triassic-Jurassic kimberlite intrusions that could be associated with intensely faulted shallow basement, have also...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1914
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Mirikata. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/1/1996 to 14/7/2011.
A small licence area located close to the Stuart Highway approximately halfway between Glendambo and Coober Pedy, i.e. approximately 90 km south of Coober Pedy, was taken up to explore three discrete, high intensity aeromagnetic anomalies which were...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1911
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Mulgathing (part of the Woomera Project). First partial surrender report for the period 22/6/2012 to 27/8/2015.
EL 4931, which is centred approximately 100 km north-east of Tarcoola, is being explored principally for potentially economic banded iron formation type iron ore occurrences, and for iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation within the buried...-
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Published: 13 Aug 1915
