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Mount Sarah Homestead. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/5/2002 to 23/5/2007.
An area located approximately 75 km north-west of Oodnadatta is being explored for possible economic sedex style or MVT base metal sulphides that could have formed in Permian and early Cambrian sediments, and for any Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG...-
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Glenloth (part of the Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 11/7/2003 to 2/11/2009.
When exploring for nickel sulphide mineralisation within buried ultramafic rocks of the Archaean Lake Harris Greenstone Belt, over TEMPEST aerial EM anomalies lying ~16 km north-west of Yerda Outstation, Mithril Resources carried out a ground EM...-
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Yarlbrinda South. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/1/2004 to 10/1/2011.
An area located approximately 80 km north-east of Streaky Bay was taken up to explore for possible Hiltaba Suite intrusion-related, structurally controlled gold mineralisation formed at the southern end of the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone (YSZ) , in a...-
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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 [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Burra Hill (part of the Burra South Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 1/5/2006 to 30/4/2009.
Within a small licence area centred about 15 km south-south-east of Burra township in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, Copper Range initially targeted near-surface copper oxide mineralisation associated with an altered and brecciated contact zone...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulloo Creek [ not Bulloo South ] (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/6/1994 to 28/9/2005.
Exploration for Kalkaroo or Portia style copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill type stratiform lead-zinc-silver deposits, both possibly formed within the Palaeoproterozoic basement intrusive rocks and high grade metasediments in an area lying...-
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RB 2014/00002 Carbonate hosted Pb-Zn-Ag deposits. exploration using light hydrocarbons as pathfinders.
Surveys recently conducted in England, Ireland and Australia have shown that there are major spatial variations in the 'light' [molecular weight] hydrocarbon gas content of rocks which are closely related to the presence of underlying mineralisation....-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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RB 2013/00019 Characteristics of porphyry Cu deposits and their potential as exploration targets in South Australia.
Porphyry Cu-(Au-Mo) deposits are typically large tonnage (>150 Mt) and low grade (<1% Cu) deposits which tend to occur in clusters, and the potential for discovering giant-sized such deposits makes them valuable exploration targets. Worldwide,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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Mount Howe, Mount Mead and Tieyon areas (East Musgrave Project). Annual and final report for the period 15/1/98 to 9/9/99.
As part of a search for possible concealed nickel-copper-cobalt sulphide mineralisation of Voisey Bay type buried within the Giles Complex at the eastern end of the Musgrave Ranges, Landsat and aeromagnetic interpretation of the mid-Proterozoic...-
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Cronje Dam. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1995 to 17/12/1997.
No new work was done. A partial relinquishment of 41% of the original licence area was made in December 1996. A desktop assessment made of the licence area's prospectivity consisted of a review of available aeromagnetic, radiometric and TM data,...-
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Roopena West. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/10/1993 to 9/3/2000.
Infill aeromagnetic and ground gravity surveys undertaken approximately 50 km west of Port Augusta were followed by an IP survey and lag sampling. Anomalous Cu and Au values were returned, but only a minimal IP response was recorded. Regolith mapping...-
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Mutooroo. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 27/7/1992 to 14/7/1999.
Gold and base metal exploration was centred around the old Mutooroo line of copper workings 15 km south-southwest of Cockburn. Work comprised an SP survey and soil, rock chip, float, shallow auger, BLEG and stream sediment sampling, the latter...-
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Eldale (part of the Yaninee Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/9/2004 to 28/9/2008.
Mineral exploration recently undertaken within the now surrendered subject licence in the Streaky Bay district has successively addressed the potential for finding Prominent Hill - style Proterozoic IOCG deposits and Tertiary palaeochannel - hosted...-
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Harcus Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/10/2004 to 13/10/2008.
During mineral exploration of an area located approximately 30 km west of Olympic Dam, an initial search for possible diamondiferous kimberlites entailed modern era reprocessing and image analysis of available post-1990 regional aeromagnetic data, to...-
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Musgrave Province, including APY Lands, Mineral Potential Modelling Data Package.
The purpose of this data package is to provide end-users with the GIS datasets and geophysical raster grids used for the 2010 modelling of mineral potential in the Musgrave Province region, which includes the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara -...-
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Northern Flinders Ranges Prospectivity Data Package.
The purpose of this data package is to provide end-users with the GIS datasets used for the 2009 modelling of mineral potential in the Northern Flinders Ranges. The package contains subsets of SA 1:100 000 scale surface geology (polygons) and...-
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Kottata Well and Broadacres (part of the Yaninee Project). Combined respective second and first partial surrender report, for the period 29/9/2003 to 28/9/2008.
Mineral exploration recently undertaken over the now relinquished parts of a large tenement package in the Streaky Bay district has addressed the potential for finding Prominent Hill - style Proterozoic IOCG deposits, Phanerozoic iron-depleted gold...-
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Yerka Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/12/1984 to 2/12/1985.
Reconnaissance geochemical exploration for gold and base metals carried out in an area of outcropping Early Proterozoic and Late Proterozoic metasediments, located 10 km north-west of Olary, has targeted particularly the lithostratigraphic middle...-
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Published: 05 Dec 1985
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Margaret Creek (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/7/1977 to 12/7/1979.
Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...-
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