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Charba Hill, Peltabinna Hill and Unalla Hill. Joint progress reports plus joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/12/1989 to 14/11/1990.
TARGET: Possible epithermal gold and base metal deposits associated with volcanic centres; related hydrothermal alteration deposits; and diamonds. EXPLORATION: Regional and follow-up geochemical sampling (gravel, stream sediment and rock chip, plus...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1990
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-31 - Peterlumbo Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources (IVR) applied on 30/1/2015 to participate in the PACE Initiative Year 8 (2015) collaborative drilling grant program between industry and government being administered by DSD. The application for subsidy funds submitted by IVR...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-24 - Nankivel Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources Limited (IVR) is continuing to explore its contiguous tenement package in the Southern Gawler Ranges for economic precious and base metals, following its discovery of the Paris silver deposit in 2011. A prospective region called...-
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Published: 20 Jun 1917
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RI 056 Geology of the Coober Pedy Precious Stones Field Results of Investigations, 1981-86
The Coober Pedy Opal Fields, since their discovery in 1915, have been the largest producer of precious opal in the world, with the estimated value of production over the period 1978-86 averaging $25 million per year. Mining is now done mainly by...-
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RB 66/00012 Oliver's phosphate deposits.
A deposit of bedded phosphate rock occurs in a siltstone unit 40-50 feet thick within an essentially calcareous sequence 25 miles south of Adelaide. Approximately 8,000 tons of phosphate rock were removed in the period 1907 to 1930. There are possible...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 76/00110 Investigation of heavy mineral sands, Morrison Beach, Kangaroo Island.
Heavy mineral sands are mined at Morrison Beach for their rutile and zircon content, with ilmenite and staurolite recovered as by-products. There appears to have been only one main period of heavy mineral deposition, which occurred during a high...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Billa Kalina, Welcome Creek, Millers Creek, Margaret Creek and Francis Swamp (the Billa Kalina G2 Diamond Project). Data release made at remaining licences' joint partial surrender: joint annual reports for the period 25/2/2006 to 29/8/2012.
As part of continuing diamond exploration on the subject five licences, more of the first pass sampling program was completed by Flinders Diamonds in August 2006 via aircore drilling of 47 vertical holes for an aggregate 1852 m aimed at penetrating to...-
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Published: 10 May 1912
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Francis Swamp and Margaret Creek (part of the Billa Kalina G2 Diamond Project). Data release made upon the full surrender of subsequent licences: annual reports and combined annual reports to licences' joint renewal, 13/10/2000 to 12/10/2005.
Exploration for possible commercial diamond deposits has been carried out along a portion of the G2 gravity lineament located immediately south of William Creek and the southern Peake and Denison Ranges, looking for inferred diamondiferous kimberlite...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1907
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Drew Hill. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/1984 to 3/10/1994. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
During February-March 1990 Aberfoyle conducted detailed, 1:10,000 scale geological mapping and rock chip geochemical sampling at previous Esso base metal prospects, Bulloo Well, Putts Well and Shorts Dam, identifying several strongly zinc, lead and...-
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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Trial Well. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 15/6/79 to 4/1/82.
TARGET: An assessment of the potential for uranium and lignite deposits within the Eocene Pidinga Formation, and separate investigations of coincident, possible Olympic Dam target type magnetic and gravity anomalies in the crystalline Precambrian...-
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RB 2014/00005 WINTINNA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SG53-14. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The WINTINNA 1:250 000 mapsheet area lies between latitudes 27° to 28° South and longitudes 133°30’ to 135°00’ East. This ~16 400 square km area includes the Marla and Cadney Park settlements, and is crossed by the Stuart Highway and Adelaide to...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2015
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Special Mining Leases nos 153, 153A and 153B; Mineral Claim nos 5092 and 5350. Summary report for the period 10/7/1967 to 16/7/1971.
This report summarises, in categoric fashion, all of the various exploratory and mine development activities carried out over the past four years on the broader Puttapa area exploration licence (as renewed), and within the mineral claims taken out...-
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Ely Hill & Ant Hill. Joint first annual & final report for the period 10/1/1997 to 13/1/1998 (Ant Hill Project minerals search), plus joint first partial surrender report for the period 14/7/1997 to 8/12/1998 (Coober Pedy North Project opal exploration).
Two structurally controlled Cu-Au targets, plus a possible kimberlite pipe and a coal prospect, were interpreted in re-processed geophysical data derived from an area approximately 55 km north-northwest of Coober Pedy. The area was seen to contain...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1999
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Naracoorte. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/12/1996 to 9/12/1997.
Exploration carried out immediately south-east of Naracoorte targeted possible gold and base metals mineralisation which might occur in basement rocks under 100 m thickness of cover, within an inferred northerly continuation from Tasmania of the...-
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Final exploration report, Kapunda area, South Australia, for the period 24/7/1964 to 12/11/1968 [plus supporting data transferred from other sources].
During a period of almost 52 months, Mines Exploration, the operator of the presently active Kanmantoo copper mine, has also been conducting near-mine exploration at the historic Kapunda copper mine prospect, searching for economic extensions to known...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1969
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RB 2017/00045 PACE Copper Coompana Drilling Project: Drillhole CDP008 preliminary field-data report.
The Geological Survey of South Australia, in partnership with Geoscience Australia, is undertaking a regional pre-competitive geoscience research drilling program in the far west of South Australia called the Coompana Drilling Project. The Coompana...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2017
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......[Key SAMREF record for accessing referenced reports and data via DEM Content Manager - SPOT]...... Kartanya. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1999.
Previous drilling by WMC at the Kartanya prospect, 30 km west of Rudall in the central-southern Eyre Peninsula, yielded several high grade Fe intersections with up to 1% P and 140 ppm Zn. Reassaying of drillhole samples returned reduced levels of...-
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Watson Siding - Ooldea area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/4/1980 to 16/4/1982.
Interpretation of available SADME/BMR airborne magnetic survey data, and subsequent ground magnetic and gravity surveys to define five targets, were conducted in the area between Watson Siding and Ooldea, prior to drilling two rotary percussion holes...-
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Published: 20 Jul 1982
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Koppamurra. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/8/1995 to 28/8/1998.
Ground magnetic and gravity surveys were carried out over a south - southeast trending aeromagnetic feature located 20 km south-east of Naracoorte. It was concluded that drilling to depths of around 150 m would be required to test for the possible...-
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Published: 24 Nov 1998