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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/7/2008 to 18/7/2018.
During Year 12 of the Olary JV Project (2008-2009), field work was undertaken only on EL 3849 Outalpa to make up for the earlier underspending on that licence relative to commitments. In early 2009, a ground radioactivity survey was acquired using a...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1918
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Willys [Water]Hole and Turkey's Nest Bore. Final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/4/1986 to 8/4/1989.
TARGET: Possible massive iron ore deposits and sizeable Olympic Dam type mineralisation in postulated shallow Proterozoic basement on the Mabel Creek High. A major dipolar magnetic feature, the Paragon Bore prospect, trending 75 degrees True with a...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1989
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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] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 7/11/2008 to 6/11/2011.
No field work was undertaken during licence Year 7, but Stellar instead did a review of the Cowell area's prospectivity for Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium mineralisation. Previous drilling data for the local Pirie Basin sediments...-
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Published: 05 Dec 1911
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Data release : Mount Sarah, Alamilda Hill and Todmorden (the Mount Sarah Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to the successive expiry/full surrender of ELs 6129 and 5634, for the overall period 23/6/2015 to 22/6/2020.
Three adjacent areas located in dissected hilly country 70-90 km to the north-west of Oodnadatta were successsively taken up under licence to cover a significant, 8 mGal regional gravity anomaly which could have potential for IOCG type basement-hosted...-
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Published: 24 Jun 1920
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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] : Commonwealth Hill, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2013 to 30/6/2018.
During the sixth year of the project, base metals exploration was focussed on the Mars-Aurora Tank, Wirrida and Bundi prospects using ground gravity and IP survey methods. Some trial magnetotelluric and audio-frequency magnetotelluric survey profiles...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1918
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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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Engenina Creek - Mount Brady and Balta Baltana Creek areas, south-east of Coober Pedy. Progress reports and final annual report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/4/1981 to 23/6/1993.
{ELs 822, 1145, 1494 programme}: TARGET: Roxby Downs and Tennant Creek - style copper, gold, and uranium, plus diamonds in kimberlite diatremes and metamorphic and hydrothermal breccia - related iron ore, in the Engenina Creek area, 60 km south-east...-
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Published: 24 Jul 1993
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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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Cockabidnie North. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2010.
A small (11 square km) area located approximately 40 km south of Kimba has been explored for possible economic uranium, gold or base metal deposits, including Menninnie Dam style lead-zinc-silver mineralisation, that may have formed in Archaean to...-
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Published: 12 Mar 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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