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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2012.
Twelve licence areas owned and operated by Gold Fields Australasia (GFA), comprising two subareas respectively located approximately 50 km east of Burra and 15 km south-east of the Benda Range, on the eastern edge of the Adelaide Fold Belt, are being...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana (part of the Mullaquana, later called Samphire, Uranium Project). Annual reports for the period 20/11/2009 to 19/11/2018.
During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : North-west of Cockburn area. Annual reports for the period 22/10/2009 to 21/10/2014.
An area centred located approximately 80 km west of Broken Hill and 19 km north-west of Cockburn is being explored for possible buried economic Broken Hill type stratiform Pb-Ag-Zn mineralisation. The tenement is also prospective for Kalkaroo or...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Carrapateena Arm, Hatch Hill, Beda Arm and Lake Torrens South (the OZ Minerals Carrapateena Project). Annual reports (separate and joint) for the period 8/1/2008 to 6/1/2016.
Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hall. Annual reports for the period 23/7/2013 to 22/7/2015.
An area extending inland between Baird Bay and Venus Bay, 50-80 km South-east of Streaky Bay, has been taken up to explore for significant buried occurrences kaolin associated with the deep Cenozoic weathering of Proterozoic granite, in order to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonython Hill. Annual reports for the period 16/9/2005 to 1/11/2013.
A small area located ~25 km east of Olary was taken up to explore mainly for possible buried economic uranium mineralisation, and to a lesser extent for gold and base metals, that may exist there in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks. No field work...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1913
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Whichelby (part of the Poochera Kaolin Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2022.
The Great White Kaolin Project (previously the Poochera Kaolin Project), until recently, comprised four Exploration Licences operated by Andromeda Industrial Minerals Pty Ltd, namely, EL 6096 Whichelby, EL 6202 Mount Hall, EL 6426 Mount Cooper and EL...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1922
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Lake Torrens South, Beda Arm and Carrapateena Arm (latterly the Lake Torrens Joint Venture Project). Annual reports (singular and combined) to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 21/2/1996 to 7/1/2008.
Economic Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation has been the target of exploration carried out in three adjoining areas which together extend for about 55 to 170 km north of Port Augusta, covering southern Lake...-
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Cudyea. Progress reports for the period 14/2/89 to 13/11/90.
TARGET: Archaean greenstone-hosted gold, hypothermal iron and base metals, and Olympic Dam style mineralisation within an area located about 170 km north-west of Tarcoola. EXPLORATION: Regional and follow-up soil sampling (253 samples), geological...-
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Published: 07 Dec 1990
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Antechamber Bay. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/11/1986 to 26/11/1989.
TARGET: Evaluation of the gemstone tourmaline and kaolin clay potential of the Dudley Pegmatite on Kangaroo Island. It is believed that this known occurrence of coloured tourmaline is one of only two locations in Australia which have produced...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Meningie. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/8/1980 to 5/4/1984.
Ongoing evaluation of the stratiform base metal potential of the Cambrian metasedimentary bedrock sequence, in an area located just to the east and north-east of Meningie, addressed a regional north-south trending, sinuous zone containing a number of...-
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Published: 08 Feb 1984
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Combined final report at surrender of EL 1529, for the period 12/10/1988 to 31/7/1989, and partial surrender report for EL 1526 for the period 6/10/1988 to 6/9/1989.
Possible primary gold associated with buried Archaean metabasic lithostratigraphic units (greenstones) was the target of exploration undertaken in the Mount Christie - Mulgathing region. Work consisted of regional soil sampling at 2 km centres,...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1989
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Hawks Nest. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/3/2004 to 7/4/2009.
During licence Year 6, in November 2005, Mt Gibson Iron Limited (MGI) undertook a brief exploration campaign at Hawks Nest, acting under the terms of an access and option agreement which it had made with Felix Resources Limited, a company seeking to...-
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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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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Joint annual reports for the period 4/1/2009 to 3/1/2019.
During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1919
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Kalabity - Boolcoomata region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1970.
The sources of previously reported noteworthy radiometric anomalies located near Old Boolcoomata Homestead, which had been detected in 1962 during a SADME/BMR aerial scintiilometer survey, were investigated by the present joint venturers along with...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1970
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The Murray Basin Project. Joint progress reports and joint final report to remnant licences' full surrender, for the period 7/10/1980 to 6/12/1984.
Thirteen contiguous exploration licences located along the western margin of the Tertiary Murray Basin were taken up by CRA to search for economic buried brown coal / lignite deposits of the type already known from small discoveries that had been made...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Barney Bore. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/7/2013 to 8/3/2018.
An area located approximately 65 km south of Oodnadatta, on the Boorthanna Plain near Peake Creek, was taken up to explore for iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) or similar style mineralisation which might be hosted by basement Proterozoic rocks on the...-
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Published: 04 Apr 1918
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Gravity interpretation of PEL 24, South Australia.
Different ages are indicated for the three sedimentary troughs in PEL 24 delineated by the previous magnetics interpretation. The Tallaringa Trough has a basal unit of Cambrian limestones which thicken to the southwest. This is overlain by Permian or...-
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