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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pernatty [Station]. Annual reports for the period 29/11/2005 to 28/11/2009.
An area centred approximately 110 km north of Port Augusta, covering part of the Pernatty Ridge plateau on the south-western side of Lake Torrens, approximately 145 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine, was taken up to explore for possible economic...-
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Published: 24 May 1910
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RB 2006/00021 Tectonics of the southeastern Gawler Craton, South Australia: A field guide to the Palaeoproterozoic gneisses of Corny Point, Yorke Peninsula
This field guide presents an introduction to the geology and tectonics of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, particularly as observed at the Corny Point locality. Topics covered include the detrital zircon age distributions within the Corny Point...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2003/00011 Metamorphic investigation of the Palaeoproterozoic metasediments of the Willyama Inliers, southern Curnamona Province, South Australia.
The deformed metasediments of the South Australian Willyama Inliers (in the southern Curnamona geological province) preserve petrologic evidence of a complex and protracted metamorphic history. To assist with unravelling this history, there currently...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2003
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RB 2017/00046 Koongawa Grey dimension stone deposit geological investigations: evaluation of gneiss on ML 6426 for use as dimension stone.
The Resource Assessment and Advice (RAA) team of the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) was approached by John Chesini of Chesini House Pty Ltd to provide feedback as to the suitability of stone within Mining Lease (ML) 6426 for the purpose...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2018
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Carrieton West. Progress reports to licence renewal, for the period 7/6/1979 to 15/5/1981.
While looking for possible westward extensions to the Eurelia Kimberlite Province, Stockdale's stream gravel sampling for kimberlitic indicators, followed by ground magnetometer traversing and observation of vegetation anomalies, led to the discovery...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1981
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SADM / Amdel Project no. 1/1/148 : Fission-track dating of South Australian rocks. Progress reports for the period August 1973 to September 1978.
This project has been undertaken to develop fission-track dating expertise for several common minerals, which can subsequently be applied to specific geological or geochronological problems in South Australian regional geological mapping. In...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1978
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Lake Alexandrina. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/11/1997 to 2/11/1999.
Exploration for lacustrine evaporites and for detrital heavy minerals on and near the shores of Lake Alexandrina, south of Milang, had previously located minor deposits of garnet sands along a 700 m stretch of beach on the northern shore of Sturt...-
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New diamond field discovered in South Australia.
The Gawler Craton has, for some time, been known to have potential for kimberlite discoveries. Recently, Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd found a complete range of kimberlitic indicator minerals, and five small diamonds, on Flinders Island, about 40 km...-
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Pinnaroo, Mount Timothy and Dingo Range (the Pinnaroo Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1999.
An airborne magnetic survey acquired by the grant licensee over the Lameroo district during August 1997 generated a number of shallow-source anomalies which suggested that there was fair potential for discovering buried Tertiary palaeocoastal...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1999
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Terowie Kimberlite Province. Progress and technical reports for the period 26/2/1980 to 26/2/1982.
Following a literature review of the mode of occurrence, field relationships, matrix mineralogy and geochemistry of Terowie - type kimberlite intrusions, the lease operator undertook large scale costeaning and bulk sampling of four kimberlites in that...-
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Kimberlites near Orroroo, South Australia.
A suite of Jurassic kimberlite dykes occur near Orroroo, South Australia. They range in thickness from a few millimetres to 30 metres. The intrusions are all extensively altered at surface, but a few of them are petrographically similar, and have...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1982
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Reports on hyperspectral mapping of geology within the Curnamona Province.
An 11 km x 23 km area located east of Broken Hill township was chosen for the acquisition of an experimental OARS (Operational Airborne Remote Sensing) and prototype TIPS (Thermal Infrared Profiling System) hyperspectral survey flown during the period...-
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Tumby Bay. Progress and final reports for the period 20/11/1969 to 19/11/1971.
Exploration conducted primarily for base metals, over an area extending for 5-50 km north of Port Lincoln, has consisted of reconnaissance and detailed stream sediment surveys followed by soil and rock chip sampling, plus limited geological mapping....-
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Mineral Resource Potential Map Series - Echunga.
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Published: 01 Jun 1915
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Lyons, Commonwealth Hill Station, Jumbuck Outstation, Mount Christie Siding and Sandstone Outstation (part of Tarcoola/Barton Project). Joint final [plus ELs 826 and 830 partial surrender] report for the period 13/4/1981 to 12/4/1983.
After two intensive regional reconnaisance programmes of heavy mineral sampling, backed up by air photointerpretation and drill hole record checks, the licensee has concluded that the tenement areas relinquished have a low prospectivity for diamonds....-
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Lake Alexandrina. Combined first annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1996 to 6/6/1997.
Possible Cainozoic garnet-rich heavy mineral sand placer deposits that might have been derived from erosion of Cambrian Kanmantoo Group metasediments were investigated by very shallow auger drilling (11 holes, total 19 m) and beach sand sampling...-
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Mount Arthur. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/9/1980 to 5/3/1983.
Exploration for possible kimberlite pipes in the Mount Arthur - Mount Toodla area, 30 km east-southeast of Oodnadatta, has included preliminary gravity and ground magnetic surveys, stream sediment sampling, and the drilling of a single diamond cored...-
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Published: 09 Jun 1983
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Mount Irwin. First and final report for the period 3/4/95 to 2/4/96.
Results of reconnaissance geochemical sampling of outcrop and lag gravels of ?Birksgate Complex ferruginous quartzites within the eastern Musgrave Block did not justify further exploration for potential Broken Hill-style exhalative Pb-Zn-Ag deposits.-
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