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Naracoorte Range. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2010.
Exploration of an area located in the south-eastern Kanmantoo Trough, 70 km north-west of Naracoorte, aimed to discover a giant stratabound sedex, skarn or sandstone-hosted silver-lead-zinc-copper deposit by drilling into previously untested...-
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Published: 19 Aug 1910
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The Padthaway Ridge Sedimentary Uranium Project. Joint annual technical reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 3/9/2013.
A package of fourteen mineral exploration tenements were taken up that straddled the north-eastern and south-western sides of the Padthaway Ridge, to allow the licensee to explore both the Tertiary Murray Basin and Gambier Basin sediments where they...-
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Published: 16 Jul 1913
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Coonalpyn. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2010.
An area located in the southern Delamerian Fold Belt, and extending for ~50 km parallel to the Princes Highway north and north-west of Coonalpyn and Coomandook, has been explored for possible economic basement-hosted uranium and base metal skarn...-
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Hawksnest, Geegeela, Keppoch, Bordertown, Sugarloaf Hill, Kumorna and Peacock Range. Combined report covering either the respective licences' first partial surrender or full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 29/1/2010.
A number of portions of licence areas flanking known outcropping uraniferous basement rocks of the Padthaway Ridge have recently been relinquished, after originally being taken up to explore for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits that...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1910
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Policeman Point. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 29/1/2009.
Exploration of an area located in the upper South-East for possible economic coal or uranium mineralisation has consisted of office studies only, examining regional data to interpret whether favourable structural settings for coal deposition exist,...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/6/2007 to 24/6/2012.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend is being explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where previous explorers' drilling had...-
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RB 2007/00012 Mount Monster rhyolite deposit near Keith - potential resumption of quarrying.
Over the period from 1955 until 1976 an outcrop of Ordovician porphyritic rhyolite was quarried for road-sealing aggregate and rail ballast from two quarries at Mount Monster, 12 km south of Keith. The total recorded production was 548,000 tonnes....-
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Published: 01 May 2007
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Coonalpyn. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/1998.
Exploration for possible mesothermal Cu-Au mineralisation was undertaken over the Padthaway Ridge between Coonalpyn and Tintinara, in an area of promising northwest-trending aeromagnetic fabric. Reconnaissance calcrete and soil geochemical sampling...-
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SA/Vic Border Groundwater Review Committee - Five-year technical review, 1996 - 2000.
The Groundwater (Border Agreement) Act of 1985 provides the legislative framework for the joint management of the groundwater resources along the South Australia/Victoria State border. The Act established a 40 km wide Designated Area along the...-
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Tintinara. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1979 to 7/1/1980.
Exploration for possible economic Tertiary lignite and coal seams within sediments overlying the northern flank of the Padthaway Ridge palaeo-archipelago in the western Murray Basin has consisted of the drilling and geological/geophysical logging of 7...-
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Tailem Bend - Bordertown - Mount Gambier area (South-Eastern Coastal Plains Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/7/1974 to 19/7/1975.
Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1975
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Interpreted basement geology to the Murray Basin and surrounds.
The purpose of this interpretation is to provide an initial framework for the basement to the Murray Basin upon which to plan the Geological Survey of South Australia’s MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative drilling project targeting the Delamerian...-
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Published: 07 Jul 2020
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Coonalpyn. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/3/1982 to 6/9/1985.
Cambrian rocks lying beneath relatively thin Phanerozoic cover on the western edge of the Murray Basin were targeted by CSR principally for stratiform volcanogenic massive copper sulphide deposits, and for epigenetic Palaeozoic gold occurrences...-
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Coonalpyn. First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/3/1995 to 30/11/1996.
Eight buried anomalous gravity/magnetic bullseye features in the Coonalpyn - Tintinara area, previously identified by CSR Ltd from SAEI aeromagnetic data and regional gravity surveying, were followed up by ground magnetic, Sirotem and IP surveys. The...-
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Bordertown - Naracoorte area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
A wide-ranging geochemical exploration programme has continued, testing soils of the region for possible mercury emissions from basement, by performing laboratory analyses of samples of the soil vapour after these were first trapped in shallow auger...-
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Published: 23 Apr 1971
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Kingston [South-East]. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 18/6/1970 to 15/12/1970.
Outcropping small exposures of granitic rocks, found in nine isolated locations within and lying just to the east of the subject licence, were examined for their potential to host possible economic occurrences of molybdenum and tungsten mineralisation...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1970
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Coonalpyn (part of the Coorong Project). Progress reports for the period 8/12/1971 to 7/6/1972.
An area of SA's Upper South-East located inland just to the east of the Coorong is being explored for possible buried, sediment-hosted secondary uranium mineralisation that may occur near the base of the cover adjacent to known radioactive granite...-
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Woolumbool Range and Glenstrae. Combined first progress / final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 4/2/1971 to 28/6/1971.
Two areas located north-east of Kingston (SE) were taken up to explore for shallowly covered igneous rock bodies which might contain economic hydrothermal / metasomatic base metal mineralisation similar to that recently found on Spilsby Island in...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1971
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RB 2020/00024 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration Data – Delamerian basement to the Murray Basin
The Delamerian basement to the Murray Basin has been selected as the focus region for a major Geological Survey of South Australia project being conducted as part of the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2020
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Yumali. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 4/1/1984 to 19/9/1985.
A sequence of Cambrian rocks buried beneath thin Phanerozoic cover on the western edge of the Murray Basin was explored for possible skarn-related base metal mineralisation associated with concealed Ordovician granitic intrusions, for stratiform...-
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