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Bute. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/1989 to 17/7/1991.
TARGET: Economic hydrothermal copper or gold mineralisation in shallowly concealed pre-Adelaidean meta-igneous and metasedimentary bedrock known to occur over an area near Bute township. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetic profiling over previously defined...-
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Stuart Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1979 to 18/10/1982.
One vertical stratigraphic diamond drillhole [the 1a re-drill] was fully cored to 1450 m total depth over a regional gravity high in the western half of the licence which was thought to be prospective for Olympic Dam type polymetallic mineralisation...-
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[Structural geology and tectonics research]. Applying the modified stress / strain ellipsoid to the Adelaide Geosyncline / Nackara Arc.
This report describes a case study aiming to explain the structural styles of tectonic features present in the Adelaide Fold Belt and its marginal zones, through analysing the observable products of interactions via relative motions between identified...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Port Augusta Project. Joint annual reports for the period 8/5/2013 to 7/5/2018 and subsequent expiry/full surrender reports to 6/10/2023.
Two small adjacent areas located 25 km north of Port Augusta, on the south-eastern Stuart Shelf close to the Torrens Hinge Zone, are being explored for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation which could have formed within inferred deep and...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1918
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Port Augusta Seismic Survey (09AG03).
Torrens Energy Ltd contracted Terrex Seismic Services to record the 2009 Port Augusta Seismic Survey during May 2009 in Geothermal Exploration Licences(GEL) 285 and 501. The location of the survey area was 10km north of Port Augusta as a single line...-
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Parachilna 2D Seismic Survey.
Torrens Energy Ltd contracted Terrex Seismic Services to record the 2009 Parachilna seismic Survey during January 2009 in Geothermal Exploration Licences(GEL) 230 and 278. The location of the survey area is on the western flank of the Flinders ranges...-
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Kootaberra (part of the Port Augusta Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/2018 to 24/1/2022.
47 square km or ~13% of the former area of EL 6218 Kootaberra has been relinquished to comply with the Amalgamated Expenditure Arrangement mandatory area reduction conditions for FMG's Port Augusta Project. This licence lies outside of and to the...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1922
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Nilpena Seismic Survey (09AG04).
Torrens Energy Ltd contracted Terrex Seismic Services to record the 2009 Nilpena Seismic Survey on Geothermal Exploration Licences 230, 407 and 408. The location of the survey area was on the western flank of the Flinders Ranges, extending westwards...-
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Baker Dam. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 23/3/1977 to 29/9/1977.
Exploration carried out 20 km north-west of Port Augusta targeting possible buried Olympic Dam type mineralisation consisted of ground geophysical traverses over regional magnetic and near-coincident regional gravity anomalies. No discrete...-
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Published: 23 Dec 1977
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Baker Dam. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 26/1/1978 to 25/4/1979.
A subtle regional gravity high located 10 km east of Uro Bluff on the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf was the subject of further investigation by a new group of licensees seeking buried Olympic Dam type mineralisation. After a consultant's review...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1979
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Bute - Port Broughton area. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1979 to 18/1/1991.
TARGET: Uranium and base metal deposits associated with Early to Middle Proterozoic basement geological structures and rock units in Spencer Gulf coastal areas east and south of Port Broughton. EXPLORATION: Aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys,...-
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Warrioota Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated south of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the Viburnum Trend (Mississippi Valley) - type mineral potential of...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1980
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Facies trends in the Bunyeroo and Wonoka Formations, EL 361, Beltana area, SA.
Report presents the results of eight weeks (August-September 1977) spent in the licence area under application, measuring and describing nine stratigraphic sections, with the aim of examining possible sedimentary controls on the known widespread...-
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William Creek (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress report to the end of the Newmont JV agreement exploration phase, for the period 12/8/1979 to 9/5/1980.
The subject tenement forms part of an ongoing multi-licence programme of exploration for Roxby Downs / Olympic Dam style copper-gold-uranium [IOCG-U] mineralisation that might exist along the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf. No new exploration...-
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Trecompana Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 8/1/1979 to 7/1/1980.
A prominent regional aeromagnetic anomaly of unknown source depth, that is situated north-west of Roxby Downs along the strike of the Torrens Hinge Zone structural lineament, and which lies close to an intersection of other major lineaments, has been...-
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Lincolnfields. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/9/1980 to 4/9/1981.
Ongoing exploration of a small area located 10 km north-northwest of Bute, looking for possible Zambian Copperbelt type base metals within the buried Late Proterozoic Adelaidean metasedimentary sequence, comprised reconnaissance auger drilling for...-
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Published: 29 Jun 1981
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William Creek (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/8/1979.
Exploration for possible Olympic Dam type mineralisation in an area located 20 km south-west of William Creek has consisted of grid-based ground gravity and magnetic surveys followed by the drilling of a deep diamond exploratory / stratigraphic hole...-
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Codna Hill (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/5/1977 to 2/5/1979.
Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...-
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Price. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
In continuing regional exploration conducted over north-eastern Yorke Peninsula, further reconnaissance stratigraphic drilling and wireline geophysical logging (in 3 vertical rotary percussion holes totalling 373 m) was carried out in May 1976 to test...-
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RB 00811 Redcliff Project: geological setting and preliminary assessment of environmental factors.
This report has been compiled at the request of the Redcliff Steering Committee to assist in the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement. It relies almost entirely on work carried out by Departmental officers and private consultants during...-
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