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Blackford (WMC's Kingston Lignite Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting area-specific reports for this licence's third and fourth partial surrenders: progress reports and related technical reports for the period 23/2/1988 to 22/2/1990.
Ongoing coal exploration conducted by Western Mining Corp. in the upper South-East region has targeted commercial-grade lignite occurrences within the Tertiary upper Dilwyn Formation, which may have formed in geological settings similar to that of the...-
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Mount Boothby (part of the Padthaway Ridge Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/1/1989 to 8/7/1989.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed within the Early to Middle Pleistocene marginal marine sediments deposited around and behind basement shoals of the Padthaway Ridge. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance reverse...-
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Woorloo Hill (part of the Padthaway Ridge Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/1/1989 to 8/7/1989.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed in the area extending between Padthaway, Bordertown and Lameroo. EXPLORATION: A sedimentological review of the subsurface distribution of the Pliocene sand sequence,...-
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Bordertown. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
A wide-ranging geochemical exploration programme has continued, testing soils of the region for mercury emissions from possible stratiform base metal sulphide orebodies that may exist in the Cambrian volcanic/metasedimentary basement, by performing...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1971
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Kingston (South-East). Progress reports [until the commencement of WMC's Kingston Coal Project multi-licence joint reporting, approved from 1/5/1980] for the period 21/8/1979 to 20/2/1980.
Continuing reconnaissance and evaluation of potentially economic Tertiary or Jurassic age coal seams, both known to be present in the Naracoorte and Kingston areas, has consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 92 open rotary holes...-
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Padthaway - Black Range area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/5/1979 to 28/3/1980.
Exploration for possible economic lignite and coal that may occur within Tertiary sediments of the western Murray Basin covering the crest of the Padthaway Ridge, consisted of drilling 14 rotary mud vertical holes, 4 being partially diamond cored,...-
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Published: 12 May 1980
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RB 00710 Gambier Basin study. Geological interpretation of seismic time sections.
Time sections from several hundred miles of seismic reflection surveys carried out by Geoseismic (Australia), Western Geophysical Co., Namco International, and the South Australian Mines Department, are subdivided into superimposed groups of...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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Moorlands. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/9/2001 to 9/9/2006.
Possible buried economic volcanic-hosted base metal sulphide (VHMS) deposits and magmatic epithermal/hydrothermal gold veins which might be associated with Cambro-Ordovician island arc porphyritic intrusions were the targets of exploration conducted...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1909
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Coonalpyn. Combined first annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/1/2010 to 20/1/2011.
Assessment of the economic potential of a historically worked manganese mineral occurrence located just north of Mount Boothby, near Coonalpyn, initially comprised a field inspection of two remnant infilled costeans during October 2009, plus the...-
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Published: 19 May 1911
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Coonalpyn. First partial surrender report, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2009.
For an area located in the southern Delamerian Fold Belt, and extending for ~50 km parallel to the Princes Highway north and north-west of Coonalpyn and Coomandook, a consultant's desktop interpretation of ASTER 2000, ASTER NTIR, DEM Raster and...-
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Naracoorte Range. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2010.
Exploration of an area located in the south-eastern Kanmantoo Trough, 70 km north-west of Naracoorte, aimed to discover a giant stratabound sedex, skarn or sandstone-hosted silver-lead-zinc-copper deposit by drilling into previously untested...-
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Published: 19 Aug 1910
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The Padthaway Ridge Sedimentary Uranium Project. Joint annual technical reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 3/9/2013.
A package of fourteen mineral exploration tenements were taken up that straddled the north-eastern and south-western sides of the Padthaway Ridge, to allow the licensee to explore both the Tertiary Murray Basin and Gambier Basin sediments where they...-
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Published: 16 Jul 1913
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Coonalpyn. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2010.
An area located in the southern Delamerian Fold Belt, and extending for ~50 km parallel to the Princes Highway north and north-west of Coonalpyn and Coomandook, has been explored for possible economic basement-hosted uranium and base metal skarn...-
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Hawksnest, Geegeela, Keppoch, Bordertown, Sugarloaf Hill, Kumorna and Peacock Range. Combined report covering either the respective licences' first partial surrender or full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 29/1/2010.
A number of portions of licence areas flanking known outcropping uraniferous basement rocks of the Padthaway Ridge have recently been relinquished, after originally being taken up to explore for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits that...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1910
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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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RB 2007/00012 Mount Monster rhyolite deposit near Keith - potential resumption of quarrying.
Over the period from 1955 until 1976 an outcrop of Ordovician porphyritic rhyolite was quarried for road-sealing aggregate and rail ballast from two quarries at Mount Monster, 12 km south of Keith. The total recorded production was 548,000 tonnes....-
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Published: 01 May 2007
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Coonalpyn. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/1998.
Exploration for possible mesothermal Cu-Au mineralisation was undertaken over the Padthaway Ridge between Coonalpyn and Tintinara, in an area of promising northwest-trending aeromagnetic fabric. Reconnaissance calcrete and soil geochemical sampling...-
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Mount Rough. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/12/1994 to 10/6/1998.
Ground magnetic survey and gravity survey traverses were conducted south-southwest of Tintinara over aeromagnetic features considered to be prospective for base and precious metals. 13 rotary mud/diamond drillholes (respective total penetration 1048...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1998
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Braemar, Redcliffe, Blanchetown, Palmer and Oratan Rock areas (part of the Padthaway Project). Final report at licences' joint surrender, for the period 16/6/1999 to 24/11/2000.
Exploration for hidden copper-gold deposit mineralising systems, possibly genetically related to fractionated, high crustal level emplaced Cambro-Ordovician intrusives, has addressed an arcuate, 300 km long north-south and 50 km wide east-west segment...-
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Coonalpyn and Padthaway areas (part of the Coomandook Joint Venture Padthaway Project). Annual reports, partial relinquishment report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/7/1999 to 25/7/2004.
Possible metallic mineral products of porphyry / skarn and iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralising systems related to fractionated high level Cambrian to Ordovician igneous intrusions were the targets of exploration in the Coonalpyn -...-
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Published: 08 Aug 1904
