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Tumby Bay. Progress and annual reports to licence surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 28/12/1982.
TARGET: Epithermal and unconformity - type uranium in Archaean to Early Proterozoic rocks of the southern Gawler Craton. EXPLORATION: - an aerial magnetic and radioactivity survey flown at 800 m, 1600 m and 400m spacing by Austirex in November 1979;...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1983
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-25 - Wilcherry Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, Zealous prospect Mesoproterozoic epithermal calc-silicate skarn Sn-U-Pb-Cu-Ag mineral occurrence. Final report.
Arising out of exploratory drilling carried out by Ironclad Mining in 2012, which aimed to test the shallow subsurface haematite ore potential of an ironstone outcrop located in the central north of the Wilcherry Hill licence area, an unexpected...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Middleback Range and Moonabie Hills. Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2007 to 30/1/2019, plus surrender reports to 9/7/2023.
Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1918
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Arno Bay. Combined first progress / final report at licence full surrender, for the period 19/5/1978 to 18/10/1978.
Exploration for possible economic fluvial sediment-hosted uranium deposits within inferred buried Tertiary palaeochannels draining the Cleve Uplands in the Arno Bay area has consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 8 open rotary holes for...-
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Cleve West. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/9/1979 to 27/1/1985.
The target within an area centred ~35 km north-west of Cleve was massive stratiform Broken Hill and Aggenys style base metals mineralisation associated with the Lower and Upper Middleback Jaspilite units of the Hutchison Group. A world class sized...-
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Cummins. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/11/1971 to 10/11/1972.
In order to appraise a potentially economic discovery of very pure, high reflectivity kaolin clay located near Kapinnie on southern Eyre Peninsula, a drilling programme is planned by Endeavour Oil which aims to outline around 33 million tons of kaolin...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1972
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kimba Gap [North] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 60 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd(SAIOG), a subsidiary of WA-based Portman Iron Ore...-
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Green Patch. Annual reports for the period 3/12/2001 to 30/5/2006, plus the last six years of tenure' combined annual reports/final report ('no work' letter only) to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/2/2015 to 31/8/2021.
An area centred on the hamlet of Green Patch, located ~10 km north-west of Port Lincoln, was taken up to appraise the iron ore potential of known near surface BIF magnetite mineralisation occurring at the Greenpatch (sic) prospect that had been...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1921
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pondooma. Annual and combined annual reports for the period 3/12/2002 to 2/12/2005.
Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, consisting of two separate sub-blocks that are centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, is located immediately west of the Middleback Range and 5 km west of Onesteel’s Iron Duke mine. This licence was granted to SA...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : [Coastal Magnetite Project] Iron ore prospects, eastern Eyre Peninsula. Project operator's report re. the prospects' 2002-2003 evaluation programme.
The key advantages of location and simple metallurgy of coastal Eyre Peninsula magnetite ores presented Portman Mining Ltd with an opportunity to enter a major under-explored and under-developed iron ore province and develop a new export business....-
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Data release - as updated : Cockabidnie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2001 to 13/8/2015.
Early in 2001, Helix Resources Ltd entered into a joint venture agreement with Centrex Resources Limited to allow it to explore for precious and base metals on some of the tenements held by Centrex on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, including...-
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Moseley Nobs (part of the Eastern Eyre Peninsula Project). Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/7/2006 to 4/7/2011.
An area located approximately 40 km north-northwest of Kimba is being explored primarily for possible buried basement-hosted Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold(-uranium) deposits, as well as for fault-related vein style uranium...-
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Published: 09 Sep 1911
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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 1 of 2].
Aquila Resources took up ownership of the much previously-explored ground comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project with the intent of exploring for the first time the iron oxide - associated copper-gold & uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation potential of...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1908
