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Indooroopilly, Muckanippie and Commonwealth Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a joint partial surrender report for ELs 5799, 6166 and 6348: all project licences' joint annual reports for the period 21/3/2015 to 30/6/2019.
An agglomeration of exploration licences which partly surrounds the Challenger gold deposit at distances of between 35 and 80 km is being explored for similar type economic lode gold mineralisation that may exist in buried Archaean bedrock relatively...-
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Commonwealth Hill Station - Central (part of the Commonwealth Hill Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 11/5/2007 to 10/5/2017.
Six separate portions of the subject licence, with a combined total area of 35 square km, have been surrendered due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for iron ore, gold, uranium, PGEs and base metals. During the period of their tenure,...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2013 to 30/6/2018.
During the sixth year of the project, base metals exploration was focussed on the Mars-Aurora Tank, Wirrida and Bundi prospects using ground gravity and IP survey methods. Some trial magnetotelluric and audio-frequency magnetotelluric survey profiles...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1918
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Engenina Creek - Mount Brady and Balta Baltana Creek areas, south-east of Coober Pedy. Progress reports and final annual report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/4/1981 to 23/6/1993.
{ELs 822, 1145, 1494 programme}: TARGET: Roxby Downs and Tennant Creek - style copper, gold, and uranium, plus diamonds in kimberlite diatremes and metamorphic and hydrothermal breccia - related iron ore, in the Engenina Creek area, 60 km south-east...-
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Published: 24 Jul 1993
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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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ComRev 016 Iron Ore opportunities in South Australia 2014 (historical reference only)
A 2016 summary of iron ore opportunities within South Australia. Each mine, deposit or prospect has detailed resource information and a snap-shot of the associated companies at that time.-
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ComRev 015 The South Australian Resources Sector 2016 (historical reference only)
Gold: Gold mineralisation is widespread in South Australia and occurs in most geological provinces Copper: Many of the deposits in South Australia’s copper provinces are covered by a sequence of younger rocks that have effectively hidden many large...-
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ComRev 011 Uranium in South Australia 2016 (historical reference only)
Australia has a substantial allocation of the world’s uranium resources, especially defined under the lower risk RAR (Reasonably Assured Resources) metric. Australia hosts 29% of the world’s uranium resources (RAR and inferred) recoverable at...-
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ComRev 009 Gold in South Australia 2016 (historical reference only)
Gold mineralisation is widespread and occurs in most geological provinces of South Australia. Gold in South Australia is obtained from two types of primary deposits - quartz veins (reefs or lodges) and deposits worked mainly for base metals from which...-
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ComRev 010 Copper in South Australia 2016 (historical reference only)
South Australia’s copper deposits are held within three significant regions, Gawler Craton, Curnamona Province and the Adelaide Geosyncline, which host 3 producing mines, 4 developing projects and over 40 copper prospects. Many of the deposits in...-
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ComRev 012 Iron Ore in South Australia 2016 (historical reference only)
South Australia is the birthplace of the Australian iron ore industry. There are existing operational mines in the Middleback Ranges. There are a further two mines approved and twenty developing projects across the State with identified resources of...-
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Lyons [Siding] [formerly called Rounsevell Hill]. Third partial surrender report, for the period 25/10/2002 to 2/12/2008.
As part of a regional search for possible economic IOCG type mineralisation in an area of covered Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions north-west of Tarcoola, EL 3994 (formerly EL 3040) was covered by a regional gravity survey in September-October 2005,...-
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Gibraltar Rocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/4/2001 to 24/11/2008.
Exploration of an area with poor basement outcrop located approximately 40 km north of Tarcoola, primarily sought possible fault or breccia-hosted mesothermal gold +/- base metal mineralisation in likely multiphase Mesoproterozoic felsic volcanic and...-
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Published: 14 Aug 1908
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Woorong. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/2/2007 to 19/2/2010.
Exploration of an area located approximately 90 km south-west of Coober Pedy was directed primarily at finding possible economic sedimentary uranium mineralisation within the subcropping Tertiary Garford Palaeochannel strata, as well as addressing the...-
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Published: 22 Apr 1910
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Data release - as updated : Robin Rise. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/5/2005 to 20/6/2019.
The Robin Rise exploration licence, centred approximately 35 km south-southwest of Coober Pedy, covers portions of the Palaeoproterozoic basement domain known as the Coober Pedy Ridge, an east-northeast trending magnetic block of variable magnetic...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1919
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Mount Christie Siding (part of the Eucla Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/7/2005 to 20/3/2013.
The subject licence area, one of eight tenements which constitute Hindmarsh Resources Limited’s (Hindmarsh’s) Eucla [Basin] Project, has been explored for possible buried economic sedimentary uranium deposits that may have formed in Tertiary...-
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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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Mirikata. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/1/1996 to 14/7/2011.
A small licence area located close to the Stuart Highway approximately halfway between Glendambo and Coober Pedy, i.e. approximately 90 km south of Coober Pedy, was taken up to explore three discrete, high intensity aeromagnetic anomalies which were...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1911
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mulgathing (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 9/10/1992 to 18/11/2005.
Emerging awareness of the geological similarities between the Archaean of the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia, with its many known gold deposits, and the Archaean of the Gawler Craton of South Australia, originally led Kevin Wills, Keith Yates and...-
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Published: 13 Jul 1906
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Sandstone [Outstation] (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project's Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/9/1994 to 13/10/2004.
An area located 140 km north-west of Tarcoola was taken up to explore for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite clays formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and associated playa lakes. This was a response to a discovery of palygorskite...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1904
