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Arkaroola. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/12/2001 to 4/12/2011.
An area on northern Arkaroola Station, which has since 26/4/2012 has been legally quarantined from mineral exploration operations under the South Australian Mining Act, was considered by its former titleholders to be prospective for an array of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Callabonna / Petermorra (part of the Lake Elder Project). Annual reports for the period 19/3/1998 to 30/4/2015.
Exploration Licence 2494 was granted in March 1998 to Paladin Energy Minerals NL and Brightstar Power Corporation Pty Ltd - the Paladin Brightstar Joint Venture (PBJV), with Paladin Resources NL as manager. The target commodity being explored for by...-
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Published: 20 May 1915
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Garford [Outstation], Indooroopilly Outstation and Half Moon Lake (the Challenger West Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/4/2003 to 13/10/2010.
The three licences comprising the Challenger West Project were taken up principally to explore for economic gold, which could possibly occur in strike extensions of known gold lodes formed within Archaean basement rocks that constitute the Challenger...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Rounsevell Hill, Yellabinna and Mulgathing Homestead (the Ambrosia Project). Joint annual reports for the period 24/5/2005 to 1/6/2015.
Some large areas of vacant ground located in the south and west of Mulgathing Station that lie adjacent to the Bulgunnia Fault Zone were taken up by Monax Mining initially to explore primarily for Olympic Dam type IOCG-U mineralisation and also for...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1915
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Data release - as updated : Warrior. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/2005 to 20/9/2017.
An area centred approximately 50 km west-northwest of Tarcoola was taken up to explore for possible economic Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted roll front type sedimentary uranium mineralisation. EL 3372 contains the Warrior Palaeochannel, a tributary of...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kottata Well, Eldale, Tootla and Broadacres (also part of the Yaninee Project). First annual report for EL 3135, plus subsequent joint annual reports, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2009.
An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....-
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EL 4005 - EL 4011, Lake Blanche Project. Combined annual technical reports for the period 16/12/2007 to 16/12/2011.
The Lake Blanche Project lies on the western edge of the Eromanga Basin in South Australia to the north Frome Embayment. The Eromanga Basin of central Australia is a major oil-producing, sedimentary basin of Mesozoic age. Sediments in this basin...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Blanchewater Hill, Camp Hill, Murnpeowie and Ooloo Hill (the Marree Uranium Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/8/2005 to 9/8/2016.
An extensive area of Tertiary Lake Eyre Basin and Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments lying immediately to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage and Mount Painter inliers is being explored for possible economic roll-front style palaeochannel...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1916
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Combined report on the full surrender of Sheringa EL 688 and partial surrenders for McLachlan EL 670 and Tuckey EL 687, Polda Basin, South Australia, 17th May 1982.
Relinquishment of parts of the licenses held in the Lock, Tuckey and Tooligie area was made following drilling (31 holes totalling 2 960 metres) to investigate lignite occurrence in the Polda Basin. Possible reserves of Jurassic and Eocene coals in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Heartbreak Bore (part of Afmeco's Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/1/1982.
Portions of regional airborne radiometric and magnetic surveys, plus a small part of the HW-IV seismic refraction traverse, and 20 line km of gravity and ground magnetic surveys, were undertaken by joint venture operator Afmeco as part of its Project...-
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Mount Treloar (NW of Oodnadatta). Progress and final reports for the period 30/6/80 to 29/12/80.
Follow-up investigations of possible buried channel redox front uranium mineralization on the edge of the Eromanga Basin, in the vicinity of the SA-NT border, included a geophysical and structural interpretation of available data, the drilling and...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1981
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Milang. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 25/8/2005 to 31/7/2009.
Exploration work undertaken within an area located 80 km north of Yunta and just to the south of Baratta has concentrated on two regional targets: Cainozoic sediments hosting possible alluvial gold, evaporite and uranium deposits, and Neoproterozoic...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1908
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Palaeodrainage and Cenozoic coastal barriers of South Australia (2nd edition).
Since the first edition of this map was released in May 2007, the collection by the Department's Geological Survey of much new geoscientific data and interpretations arising from South Australian regional surveys and exploration activities has...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1912
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Millers Creek. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 8/6/1973 to 3/12/1973.
Four stratigraphic rotary drillholes totalling 424 m were put down near the Woolshed bore on Millers Creek Station to explore for possible buried sedimentary uranium deposits. The holes penetrated Early Permian marine sediments, as dated by limited...-
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Lake Callabonna. Progress reports for the period 11/6/1970 to 10/6/1971.
Exploration for possible sedimentary uranium deposits buried within the Tertiary fluvial sequence deposited to the west and south-west of Lake Callabonna comprised part of a regional aerial scintillometric survey, and the drilling and gamma logging of...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1970
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Tarcoola. Progress and final reports for the period 21/10/1974 to 20/4/1975.
Refraction seismic and gravity surveys were undertaken to aid in the selection of drill sites in a program targeted at Tertiary uranium. It was also suspected that the Mulgathing Trough would contain basal arkosic sediments which could also host...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Lock. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/10/1970 to 19/9/1971.
As part of a regional search for possible economic deposits of sedimentary uranium in the central Eyre Peninsula region, a reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling programme (8 holes for 1715 feet) was undertaken in November 1970 along the eastern...-
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RB 2022/00011 Eucla Basin and peripheral paleovalleys.
The Cenozoic Eucla Basin is located on the southern margin of the Australian continent, with a present-day basin onshore edge which extends for over 2,000 km from Western Australia into South Australia. The basin’s sediment fill comprises a thin...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2022
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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