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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/219: Geochronology of the Stuart Shelf. Progress reports nos 1-3 for the period 27/9/78 to 24/6/81.
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Curdimurka. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/4/1979.
An area located along the Marree - Alice Springs Railway in the region of Curdimurka was selected to be explored on the basis of its potential to contain deposits of bedded trona in closed basins, and to have sodium carbonate brines present in near...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-49, Bird-In-Hand Mine Deeps Project gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
At the historic Bird-In-Hand mining claim, where previous mine exploration drilling beneath the old workings by current licence operator Maximus Resources had delineated an inferred remaining gold resource of 53,000 ounces over the depth extent from...-
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Oolgelima Hill. Progress reports plus second partial surrender report, for the period 14/7/1983 to 14/10/1986.
Evaporite minerals in black shale at the base of the Early Cretaceous Bulldog Shale near the western margin of the Eromanga Basin were the target about 50 km NE of Coober Pedy. Reconnaissance mapping, soil sampling, auger drilling and the backhoe...-
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Published: 03 Nov 1986
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White Hill. Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/7/2002 to 9/12/2004.
Reconnaissance geological mapping of existing, previously quite productive opal workings in the White Hill area of the Stuart Range 'Breakaway' country, 100 km south-east of Coober Pedy, was followed by exploratory and infill narrow-hole auger deep...-
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Eurelia. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 23/6/1969 to 22/6/1970.
In an area located approximately 7 to 20 miles north of Orroroo, a number of previously worked old small barite and copper prospects were examined in detail, and recommendations were made for additional work to be done, e.g. bulldozer trenching, soil...-
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Published: 10 Jul 1970
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Cook North, Chilbinga, Wyola Lake, Nurrai Lakes South, Nurrai Lakes and Cook (Wyola Project). Final report at licences' joint surrender, for the period 6/10/1980 to 27/2/1981.
TARGET: Possible commercial oil shale beds in either the Cretaceous Madura Formation or the Cambrian Observatory Hill Formation; possible Mississippi Valley - type lead-zinc deposits within the Observatory Hill Formation; economic lignite seams...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1981
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Mount Woods. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/5/1962 to 30/4/1964.
An investigation of several well-defined and relatively high intensity aeromagnetic anomalies (up to 20,000 gammas), disclosed by an Aero Services Corp. 1962 regional survey conducted partly in the vicinity of Mount Woods, was undertaken in a search...-
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Mount Grainger. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 8/7/1968 to 7/5/1969.
No economic or potentially economic mineralisation was noted during a geological survey of the old surface and underground gold workings on the Mount Grainger Goldfield. The Mount Grainger anticlinal structure is considered by the authors to be quite...-
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Spring Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/7/1968 to 14/7/1970.
Appraisal of the historic Spring Creek copper mine area, located approximately 8 miles south-southeast of the township of Wilmington, commenced with an IP survey of the immediate mine site, where the lode outcrops over some 20 feet in weathered...-
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Report on Beltana concession, SML 113, South Australia.
SML 113 covering about 1000 square km of Upper Proterozoic and Lower Cambrian sediments, and scattered masses of intrusive diapir, was taken out in the vicinity of Beltana to explore for copper deposits analogous to those found by SA Department of...-
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Lake Dutton. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/11/1970 to 4/11/1971.
Possible stratiform / hydrothermal syngenetic base metals deposited on the flanks of the Pernatty Culmination in the vicinity of fault lineations were targeted in an ongoing regional drilling programme (in part comprising 7 vertical rotary percussion...-
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Report on Beltana concessions, Special Mining Leases 113, 136 and 142, SA.
An area surrounding Beltana in the Flinders Ranges, which is known to contain low level base metal mineralised Adelaidean and Cambrian sedimentary rocks and diapiric intrusive structures, has been prospected by a combination of photogeological studies...-
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Northern Willouran Ranges. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/9/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound/stratiform copper, zinc and vanadium mineralisation occurring within a large area located south-west of Marree has consisted of geological field mapping and regional stream sediment sampling (3470...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1971
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Burra [Ridge]. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry / full surrender, for the period 26/3/1972 to 25/3/1973.
Exploration of the 'Burra Ridge' highland of Adelaidean Burra Group rocks outcropping along a direct line between the towns of Burra and Robertstown, which has a history of mineral production from nine major early copper mines and many smaller...-
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Reaphook Hill. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/10/1969 to 15/4/1971.
Exploration undertaken in the vicinity of Reaphook Hill addressed the potential of previously reported anomalous stream sediment zinc and manganese values found in the Wilkawillina Limestone at locations a few miles north of the hill, and also...-
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Oolgelima Creek. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
Three separate small areas on the eastern edge of the Stuart Range, that are located 30 to 45 km north and north-east of Coober Pedy, have been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large...-
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Published: 10 Oct 2014
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Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
An area centred over Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, which is located ~70 km east-northeast of Coober Pedy, has been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large sedimentary evaporite occurrences of...-
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Published: 10 Oct 2014
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Copley and Wearing Gorge areas. Joint annual reports to licences' surrender, for the period 18/6/2007 to 1/11/2011.
Several small areas in the vicinity of the Mount Coffin Diapir, which covers ~5 square km within the north-central Flinders Ranges immediately to the south-east of Copley, have been explored with the hope of finding additional copper resources near...-
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Published: 05 Sep 2011
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Tregalana (part of the Spencer Project). Annual reports for the period 22/2/2005 to 12/9/2018.
A north-south elongated, narrow licence area centred ~30 km north of Whyalla and covering ground inland adjacent to the Lincoln Highway, has been taken up to explore for possible economic buried stratiform/stratabound, Mississippi Valley type...-
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Published: 18 Sep 2018
