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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Aurora Tank. First annual report for the period 2/2/2010 to 1/2/2012, plus the next submitted licence-specific annual reports for the period 21/3/2013 to 1/2/2016.
No field work was done on the subject licence during its first year, while land access permissions were being organised with the required authorities. The licence area is located approximately 100 km south-west of Coober Pedy and lies within the...-
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Geological report no. 1 on the Luxemburg South - Bill's Hill area, Olary district, SA.
Detailed geological mapping carried out in the Luxemberg South - Bill's Hill area has elucidated the controls on known secondary coper mineralisation. It occurs in amphibolitized zones within tillite, often associated with quartz-filled shears,...-
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Shorts Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/2002.
Gold, and copper or other base metal mineralisation hosted by Proterozoic metasediments of the Willyama Supergroup and by intrusive Mesoproterozoic granitoids, was the target of exploration in the Boolcoomata area, 40 km north-east of Olary. Regional...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1902
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Morialpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports and annual reports for the period 16/12/1995 to 8/8/2003.
Initial exploration for stratiform Cu-Au mineralisation hosted within Adelaidean sediments in the Morialpa area, 40 km north- west of Olary, comprised soil, stream sediment, rock chip and ironstone lag geochemical sampling, and 1:10,000 scale...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1903
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/7/1998 to 1/7/2001.
An area located 45 km west of Whyalla, which is underlain by Palaeoproterozoic and Archaean sediments, metasediments and intrusives, was inferred to have potential to host gold and base metal mineralisation. Interpretation of Landsat images and...-
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Lake Gilles district (the Barna Joint Venture). Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 15/3/1993 to 12/7/2000.
Exploration of mainly buried Proterozoic metasedimentary bedrock for possible Broken Hill type Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation and for Olympic Dam type Cu-Au mineralisation has been performed over two separate areas located 25 km north-east and 50 km east of...-
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Published: 11 Aug 1900
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Wildingi [Claypan] and Galaxy [Outstation]. Licence-specific annual reports, plus joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/11/1995 to 13/4/1999.
21 gold exploration targets with anomalous regolith Au > 10 ppb were generated by extensive regional and infill calcrete sampling of an area 80 km south-west of Coober Pedy. Aircore, RAB and RC drilling at four of these prospects (269 holes, total...-
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lipson Cove. Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 28/9/2014.
An area in the Cowell Hills centred ~20 km north of Tumby Bay on eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up primarily to explore and evaluate known talc and graphite occurrences, but the grant licensee's initial review of previous exploration data revealed...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Fitton. Annual reports for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2018.
An area comprising two separate sub-blocks located in the northern Flinders Ranges, which adjoins outside the western outcrop edge of the Mount Painter Inlier, has been taken up to explore for possible buried primary, bedrock-hosted vein or breccia...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1918
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Walparuta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2010 to 20/6/2019.
A small area centred ~30 km west of Olary has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform base metal sulphide mineralisation, vein barite mineralisation and also for epithermal copper-gold deposits that may have formed in...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Aurora Tank. Annual report for the period 2/2/2016 to 1/2/2017.
During the 2016-2017 reporting period, two phases of drilling were undertaken by Marmota: firstly, 98 inclined aircore (AC) holes for a total penetration of 4384 m, and secondly, 32 inclined reverse circulation (RC) holes for 2604 m, with 2408 drill...-
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Published: 05 May 1917
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Luxemburg Well. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/83 to 3/11/84.
Diamond drillcore obtained from the Luxemburg mine area, which was drilled by Sundowner Minerals Pty Ltd in 1969-70, was assayed and identified as consisting of altered pyroxenite, altered granitoids (adamellite, granodiorite, tonalite), and altered...-
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Meningie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration for possible Cambrian stratabound base metal sulphide deposits over an area in the vicinity of Meningie has targeted a number of N-S strike-elongated intense aeromagnetic and gravity anomalies presumed to originate in Kanmantoo Group...-
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Warrow. Progress and final relinquishment reports for the period 10/6/83 to 9/12/84.
Extensive geophysical prospecting, an 8 hole percussion drill coring programme (477 m) and a 140 hole RAB drilling programme (1798 m) at the Lady Franklin prospect were not encouraging. Percussion drillhole 83WP2 intersected a zone of primary but...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1984
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Jumbuck (Gawler Project Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/10/2004. [Index 1 of 3].
The abstract for this Envelope is contained (in 3 parts) as separately indexed records, due to SAMREF database system individual record data size limits presently applicable. Exploration for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal gold deposits...-
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Cudyea. Progress reports for the period 14/2/89 to 13/11/90.
TARGET: Archaean greenstone-hosted gold, hypothermal iron and base metals, and Olympic Dam style mineralisation within an area located about 170 km north-west of Tarcoola. EXPLORATION: Regional and follow-up soil sampling (253 samples), geological...-
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Published: 07 Dec 1990
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Meningie. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/8/1980 to 5/4/1984.
Ongoing evaluation of the stratiform base metal potential of the Cambrian metasedimentary bedrock sequence, in an area located just to the east and north-east of Meningie, addressed a regional north-south trending, sinuous zone containing a number of...-
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Published: 08 Feb 1984
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Victory Downs. Report on the airborne magnetic survey.
Results presented as profiles, contours, and interpreted geology. Several strong magnetic anomalies uncorrelated with known rock units. Recommended re-appraisal of the geology. 2 anomalies may represent nickel prospect.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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Mutooroo. Progress reports for the period 19/8/89 to 17/1/92.
TARGET: Evaluation of the historic Mutooroo copper mine area for shallow copper-gold-cobalt mineralization that may be amenable to open pit mining. EXPLORATION: A review of all existing data, re-assaying of drill cores, and exploratory reverse...-
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