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Angaston. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/12/1981 to 10/12/1984.
As part of a base metal exploration programme looking for possible stratabound or exhalative/hydrothermal deposits in Cambrian metasediments, which was undertaken approximately 75 km north-east of Adelaide, stream sediment sampling along the base of...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Blowout, Campfire Bore, Mulgathing, Jumbuck, Mobella and Sandstone (the Gawler Project Central Tenements Area). Joint venture operators' separate joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2010 to 30/6/2017.
Work targeting Archaean to Proterozoic iron ore in BIF that was carried out by the Iron Road JV partners during 2010-2011 comprised studies of the geological setting and physical characteristics of magnetite iron mineralisation delineated by Stage I...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1918
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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 [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Victor. Annual reports for the period 30/7/2012 to 29/7/2018.
A large area of the south-eastern Flinders Ranges piedmont plains lying ~50 km north-west of Manna Hill, and centred on Mount Victor, is being explored for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic stratabound iron ore of low grade but probable high...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Hawks Nest. Annual reports for the period 8/4/2009 to 14/4/2019.
During the 2009-2010 reporting year, as part of the strategy to significantly advance the future development of the Hawks Nest Iron Ore Project, Western Plains Resources (WPG) successfully concluded a series of complex joint venture negotiations with...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1918
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Darbies Bore and Hawks Nest. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/10/1983 to 25/2/1990.
TARGET: Possible diamonds; Olympic Dam style Cu-Au-U mineralisation; gold associated with banded iron formations; iron ore; and stratiform base metal sulphide mineralisation hosted by Lower to Middle Proterozoic metasedimentary units that include...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1990
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Lake Namba. Progress and final reports for the period 4/11/1975 to 26/10/1981.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium deposits in the Lower Tertiary sediments overlying the Mesozoic Frome Embayment and Cambrian Moorowie Syncline stratigraphic succession, adjacent to and overlying the western flank of the Proterozoic Benagerie Ridge....-
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Lonesome Dam, Lagoon Waterhole, Willys Hole, Turkeys Nest Bore, Leonard Rise and Pile Hill. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 8/7/1986 to 11/11/1990.
TARGET: The Coober Pedy Ridge was investigated for possible iron ore, diamond and Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation. EXPLORATION: Examination of available water bore data, aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys, aerial photography, a regional...-
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Published: 27 Sep 1990
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1978.
Stratabound, metasedimentary iron ore was the principal target of exploration undertaken by BHP over a large area surrounding the Moonabie Range that extends along strike and borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf. Base and precious metals...-
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RB 62/00041 Report on gravity and magnetic survey over an aeromagnetic anomaly, Warunda Cummins 1-mile sheet.
The gravity and magnetic anomalies mapped suggest a buried basement ridge 200-300 feet high, rising to within about 70 feet of the surface and containing a narrow, vertical band of magnetic material. This is possibly minute amounts of magnetite in a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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Razorback Ridge (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/6/2010 to 9/6/2013.
Iron ore exploration undertaken within two small licence subareas centred 60 km south of Yunta, in the vicinity of the outcropping Razorback Ridge banded iron formation of Sturtian age, was directed at assessing the economic potential of the...-
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Martins Well. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/1/2006 to 10/5/2013.
An area located on the far south-western side of the Frome Embayment, in the vicinity of Martins Well, was initially secured mainly to investigate its prospectivity for sediment hosted uranium deposits within the local Tertiary strata. However,...-
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Published: 15 May 1913
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Cooinchina Creek (synonym: the West Lake Eyre Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/9/2007 to 20/9/2010.
An area located approximately 50 km east of William Creek and abutting the western shoreline of Lake Eyre North was taken up to explore for possible concealed IOCG style base metal and uranium deposits, that could have formed in buried Archaean to...-
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Published: 30 Jun 1910
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Green Patch. Annual reports for the period 3/12/2001 to 30/5/2006, plus the last six years of tenure' combined annual reports/final report ('no work' letter only) to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/2/2015 to 31/8/2021.
An area centred on the hamlet of Green Patch, located ~10 km north-west of Port Lincoln, was taken up to appraise the iron ore potential of known near surface BIF magnetite mineralisation occurring at the Greenpatch (sic) prospect that had been...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1921
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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 21/1/2008 to 20/1/2014.
A small, north-western part of a licence located immediately south of Olary township has recently been relinquished due to it having perceived minimal iron ore potential. The only work undertaken on the relinquished ground was the acquisition along...-
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Data release - as updated : Cockabidnie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2001 to 13/8/2015.
Early in 2001, Helix Resources Ltd entered into a joint venture agreement with Centrex Resources Limited to allow it to explore for precious and base metals on some of the tenements held by Centrex on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, including...-
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The Springfield Project [Part]. Data release at licences' partial relinquishment / full surrender: base metal exploration farminee's joint annual reports for the period 27/10/2006 to 31/12/2009.
Copper Range is exploring a number of the Springfield Project mineral tenements for base and precious metals under the terms of a joint venture agreement that it made with licensee Flinders Diamonds on 19/3/2007, whereby the latter retains all rights...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1910
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Olary (latterly part of the Olary Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/1/2008 to 20/01/2015.
A large area located immediately south and south-west of Olary has been explored initially for possible economic buried primary epithermal to mesothermal copper-gold and gold only mineralisation that might have formed in Adelaidean and older bedrock,...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1915
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West Creek (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 29/8/2010 to 28/8/2015.
A very small area centred ~70 km south-east of Olary, and lying immediately west of the SA / NSW border and on the northern edge of the Murray Basin, has been explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences within concealed...-
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Mount Freeling and Wooltana [Station] areas. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/6/2010 to 27/6/2015.
An area of the central far northern Flinders Ranges consisting of two separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic iron ore / manganese mineralisation which could be present within the unconformable contact between Mesozoic and...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1915
