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Data release : Mount Sarah, Alamilda Hill and Todmorden (the Mount Sarah Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to the successive expiry/full surrender of ELs 6129 and 5634, for the overall period 23/6/2015 to 22/6/2020.
Three adjacent areas located in dissected hilly country 70-90 km to the north-west of Oodnadatta were successsively taken up under licence to cover a significant, 8 mGal regional gravity anomaly which could have potential for IOCG type basement-hosted...-
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Published: 24 Jun 1920
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Yarlbrinda South. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/1/2004 to 10/1/2011.
An area located approximately 80 km north-east of Streaky Bay was taken up to explore for possible Hiltaba Suite intrusion-related, structurally controlled gold mineralisation formed at the southern end of the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone (YSZ) , in a...-
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Tallaringa and Jindivic Bore. Joint annual reports to licences' combined expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/7/2007 to 12/8/2013.
A search for possible economic buried IOCG mineralisation which might exist within a widespread region of sparsely explored ?Archaean to Mesoproterozoic high grade metamorphic basement terrain, which underlies three licence sub-areas located 100-180...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1913
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Teetulpa Goldfield. Combined annual, annual and progress reports, plus related technical consultants' reports, submitted until licence renewal/re-issue, for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/11/2006.
An area surrounding and extending to the south of the Teetulpa Goldfield, which is centred about 60 km west of Olary and 31 km north of Yunta, was taken up primarily to try to find the source for the significant (>100,000 ounces so far recovered)...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1906
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fowlers Bay. Annual reports for the period 11/10/2004 to 8/3/2015.
An area centred about 40 km north-west of Fowlers Bay is being explored for possible buried economic nickel-copper mineralisation that may be hosted in a craton boundary setting by ultrabasic intrusive igneous bodies, in a manner similar to that of...-
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Yartoo (part of the Nuckulla Hill Gold Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 24/7/2013 to 23/7/2015.
A soil-covered licence area lying adjacent to the southern part of the mineralised Yarlbrinda Shear Zone is being explored for possible buried structurally controlled gold that may have been emplaced in Archaean gneissic or Mesoproterozoic granitic...-
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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 1 of 2].
Aquila Resources took up ownership of the much previously-explored ground comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project with the intent of exploring for the first time the iron oxide - associated copper-gold & uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation potential of...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration tenement group [Group 3]. Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2004 to 31/5/2010. [Index part 1 of 2].
As part of a continuing search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands deposits within its tenement holdings in the eastern Eucla Basin, licensee Iluka Resources carried out scout drilling on ELs 3163, 3201 and 3203...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1910
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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
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Sandstone [Outstation] (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project's Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/9/1994 to 13/10/2004.
An area located 140 km north-west of Tarcoola was taken up to explore for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite clays formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and associated playa lakes. This was a response to a discovery of palygorskite...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1904
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulloo Creek [ not Bulloo South ] (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/6/1994 to 28/9/2005.
Exploration for Kalkaroo or Portia style copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill type stratiform lead-zinc-silver deposits, both possibly formed within the Palaeoproterozoic basement intrusive rocks and high grade metasediments in an area lying...-
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Kondoolka and Mount Wallaby (part of the Nuckulla Hill Project). Joint first partial surrender report at renewal of the first-mentioned licence, for the period 26/4/2010 to 26/6/2015.
The Nuckulla Hill gold and silver project is located approximately 115 km north-east of Ceduna in South Australia, and covers approximately 60 km of strike of the mineralised Yarlbrinda Shear Zone, approximately 35 km south of Tunkillia (0.8M oz Au,...-
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RB 29/00008 Luxemburg gold mines.
A SADM geological survey of the Luxemburg group of abandoned gold/copper mines, 14 miles east of Olary, was carried out during October 1949 to determine their remaining prospectivity. The four major mining areas, discovered in 1887, had exploited...-
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Published: 08 Nov 1950
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RB 2003/00013 North-western Murray Basin geological synthesis, South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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RB 2007/00010 Investigation of geochemical exploration techniques in the Curnamona Province : CurnaMinEx Project results, 2005-2006.
Thick sediment cover in the Proterozoic Curnamona Province impedes effective mineral exploration in some of the most prospective areas located away from bedrock outcrop. The objectives of the CurnaMinEx project are to test the effectiveness of surface...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2007
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RB 2010/00001 Investigation of partial leach soil surveys at the Tunkillia gold prospect, South Australia.
Geochemical soil samples were taken along two traverses over shear-hosted gold mineralisation in Area '223' at the Tunkillia gold prospect, located 550 km north-west of Adelaide. The objective was to assess the effectiveness of near-surface soil...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2009
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RB 2009/00001 Explanatory Notes for [the] CALLABONNA 1:250 000 Geological Map, sheet SH 54-6.
The CALLABONNA map area includes the southern end of the Strzelecki Desert and the north- eastern Flinders Ranges, between latitudes 29° to 30° S and longitudes 139° 30' to 141° E. Cameron Corner adjoins New South Wales and Queensland in the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2009
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Willouran Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/8/1998 to 23/8/2000.
A review of previous exploration indicated prospectivity for secondary Cu mineralisation near old workings in the Willouran Hill area, approximately 20 km south-west of Marree. A more systematic evaluation of anomalous Au was also considered to be...-
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King George [Shoal] area, offshore from Moonta. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 13/11/2000 to 6/7/2001.
Significant gravity and magnetic anomalies located offshore in Spencer Gulf were the target of novel exploration for base and precious metal mineralisation of possible Olympic Dam style. BHP Minerals has exclusive world-wide use of the proprietary...-
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Assessment of exploration of the Welcome Home Reef, ML 4650, Tarcoola Goldfield, South Australia.
Surface geological mapping followed by reconnaissance and detailed exploratory drilling of the Welcome Home lode (40 holes totalling 1945 m) has defined a small resource in the oxidized zone amenable to mining by underground methods. An initial...-
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