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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-36, Dingo Hill (Cariewerloo Basin) Palaeozoic / Mesoproterozoic unconformity - related uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
The Dingo Hill prospect lies within the eastern Gawler Craton, approximately 90 km west of Port Augusta. EL 3579 licensee Hindmarsh Resources is exploring for possible economic secondary stratiform uranium mineralisation associated with regional...-
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Gawler Province regional geology 3D Model (3D version 1).
The Gawler Province 3D Geological Model is the second product of PIRSA's early 3D modelling trials conducted using 3D GeoModeller software. The work began with identifying the statigraphic units that were to be modelled. Due to the regional scale of...-
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HandBk 005 - Opal: South Australia's Gemstone. Barnes L.C. et al. (1992 revised edition)
South Australia's famous desert opalfields supply about 80% of the world output of precious opal, with current production coming almost entirely from the major fields at Andamooka, Coober Pedy and Mintabie, each of which is expected to increase output...-
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Geology of the Roopena and Uno 1:100 000 sheet areas, eastern Gawler Craton.
This report describes the results of a MESA consultant's second generation regional geological mapping and drillhole data interpretation work for the Roopena and Uno 1:100 000 sheets on PORT AUGUSTA, performed during 1993 and 1994 as part of the SAEI...-
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Cultana basement regional geology 3D Model.
The Cultana basement 3D Geological Model covers a region which includes the Roopena, and western half of the Cultana, 1:100,000 mapsheet areas. The subsurface geology that has been modelled comprises a succession of deformed Palaeoproterozoic...-
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RB 60/00106;Amdel 00410 SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/77 : (Adelaidean geological unit) Age relationships, Moonabie Range. Final report.
This work was undertaken to try to determine the age relationships between the various formations in the Moonabie Range, namely, the Moonabie Grit, the Moonabie Porphyry and the Corunna Conglomerate. The stratigraphic relationships that were observed...-
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Published: 01 May 1965
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Verran. First partial surrender report for the period 29/4/2005 to 28/4/2008.
As part of a search for possible economic Alligator Rivers or McArthur River (NT) style epicratonic, unconformity - related sedimentary uranium deposits in an area located west of Rudall on central Eyre Peninsula, the licensee conducted 3190 line km...-
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Roopena West. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/10/1993 to 17/12/1996.
Exploration for Stuart Shelf type or Mount Isa Eastern Succession type Fe-oxide associated Cu-Au in the Roopena West area, northeast of Iron Knob, comprised gravity infill, IP surveys and reconnaissance lag sampling. No significant anomalism was...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-27 - Cleve area Proterozoic unconformity-style uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
In May 2009 a total of 45 aircore blade or hammer holes (total penetration 1332 m) were drilled by Adelaide Resources along six northeast-southwest trending traverses laid out immediately south-west of Cleve, to test a conceptual unconformity - style...-
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Moonabie Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/7/1984 to 1/7/1986.
Exploration of a thick sequence of Middle Proterozoic sediments and volcanics deposited within the Moonabie Graben, and regarded as similar in age and tectonic setting to that seen at Olympic Dam, has comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and INPUT...-
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Rudall - Cowell and Darke Peak - Mount Geharty areas, Eyre Peninsula. Joint final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 15/8/1968 to 1/3/1969.
A large area of the eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to test the potential of this region for hosting possible stratabound uranium deposits of Rum Jungle (Northern Territory) type. Following the conduct of a regional aerial radiometric survey,...-
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Published: 09 Apr 1969
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Summary report on ground scintillometer surveys, SMLs 204 and 205.
Ground scintillometer work carried out by BHP over its SMLs in the Middleback Range area has been shown not to be an effective reconnaissance tool for finding uranium anomalies, but it does have demonstrated value for identifying sources of...-
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Iron Knob. Progress report to licence surrender for the period 20/4/1972 to 23/7/1972.
Uranium exploration in a known uraniferous area located immediately north of Iron Knob comprised numerous ground radiometric survey traverses made across outcropping Mesoproterozoic rocks, mainly the Corunna Conglomerate. A thin phosphatic basal bed...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1972
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Uno. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 10/12/1971 to 10/9/1972.
TARGET: Sediment hosted uranium. EXPLORATION: Radiometric survey along tracks. 6 diamond drillholes. RESULTS: Low uranium levels in Corunna Conglomerate in DDH Au-U-6.-
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Published: 10 Sep 1972
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Burkitt. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/6/1972 to 5/9/1972.
The radioactive Burkitt Granite batholith, which outcrops in an area extending from 10 to 30 km north-west of Iron Knob, was surveyed by CRA in 1972 with close-spaced helicopter-borne scintillometric traverses, as part of a regional exploration...-
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Published: 26 Oct 1972
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Mount Messenger. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/11/1975 to 13/11/1976.
Ongoing base metal exploration in the Cleve district of eastern Eyre Peninsula has comprised detailed regional mapping, extensive geochemical and petrological sampling, and percussion drilling of selected geochemical anomalies. Assay results indicate...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1976
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Mount Messenger. Second partial surrender report, for the period 25/5/1973 to 13/2/1976.
1069 square km or ~79.5% of the originally granted area of EL 218 have been relinquished to comply with the licence conditions previously agreed to with SADM for renewing of tenure at the expiry of the company's former EL 67. Work undertaken on the...-
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RB 2016/00030 Mineral Systems Drilling Program in the southern Gawler Ranges, South Australia.
The Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) was a $3.5M cash and $4.11M in-kind collaborative drill program involving government, researchers, service providers and the minerals industry. The objective of the MSDP was to further the understanding of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2017
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RB 2020/00006 SHRIMP geochronology of the Mount Double area, Southern Gawler Ranges margin
This geochronological study was undertaken within the scope of the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP), a program that was aimed at improving the understanding of the geology and prospectivity of the southern Gawler Ranges margin area on northern...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2020
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ExpNotes YARDEA: Explanatory Notes YARDEA, SI 53-03.
The YARDEA 1:250,000 scale regional geological map area straddles the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges on northern Eyre Peninsula. The only major township within the area is Minnipa, with Kimba and Wudinna both located immediately south of the...-
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