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Iron Baron (part of Roopena Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/9/2004 to 1/9/2008.
Exploration for possible buried iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the eastern side of the Middleback Range in the vicinity of Iron Knob, has consisted of a review of historical calcrete sampling data and the acquisition and processing...-
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Published: 04 Nov 2008
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Barna. Annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 30/8/2002 to 29/8/2004.
Exploration for possibly economic small deposits of agricultural grade gypsum conducted on Eyre Peninsula has located several such occurrences within the remnant evaporitic sediments of past Holocene lakebeds, and in related nearby lunette dunes. The...-
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Published: 13 Jul 2005
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Lochaber. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 5/7/1999 to 12/6/2006.
A 12-year period of exploration for economic evaporitic carbonate minerals in the Lochaber area, 25 km north-west of Naracoorte, concentrated on investigating ultrafine Recent carbonate deposits under the bed of a 2 km diameter seasonal salt lake...-
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Published: 12 Jun 2006
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Manna Hill. Third partial surrender report, for the period 6/5/2008 to 5/5/2015.
A total of 78 square km or ~52.7% of the former area of EL 5330 has recently been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for near-surface copper and gold mineralisation, as borne out by the results of the licensee's in situ...-
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Published: 07 Mar 2016
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Beltana / Copley. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/6/2003 to 23/11/2013.
During licence Year 11, on renewed EL 3111 (to 27/7/2004), Perilya's exploration was focussed on expanding the mineralised intersections found near Reliance in the previous year, and on investigating the open-at-depth mineralised palaeo-karstic...-
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Published: 08 Jan 2014
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 9/8/2010 to 8/8/2015.
During licence Year 16, on its renewed EL 4534 over the period October to December 2010, South Australian Coal Limited (SA Coal) undertook a drilling campaign of 15 rotary mud partly cored vertical holes for 2871 m which included 2064.7 m of coring,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2016
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Mount Rose. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2015.
An area of 145 square km comprising the northern ~38% portion of EL 4554 centred ~50 km north-east of Leigh Creek has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for copper and gold mineralisation. Work conducted on the...-
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Published: 07 Mar 2016
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Stony Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 2/12/2004 to 23/12/2016.
During the life of the subject licence, the focus of exploration was to determine the area's potential for DSO haematite iron ore, with a secondary consideration being magnetite and haematite BIF. After conducting geophysical surveys and exploratory...-
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Published: 17 Jan 2017
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Finke. Annual reports including 'no work' letters, for the period 12/8/2015 to 11/8/2018.
An area centred ~45 km south-west of Tarcoola is being explored for possible buried epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold and magmatic copper-nickel-PGE mineralisation which could have formed within Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. During the...-
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Published: 09 Oct 2018
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-12, Big Bang IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
This PACE Initiative - subsidised drilling project aimed to discover a new copper-gold mineralised Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) magmatic centre, similar to that which forms the setting of the Olympic Dam deposit, but lying within the northern margin...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2005
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Andamooka Island. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 10/1/2000 to 9/1/2004.
Two licence sub-areas located along the north-western side of Lake Torrens and extending out into the middle of the lake were taken up to explore for possible Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold(-uranium) deposits, concealed at depth...-
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Published: 09 Dec 2003
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Acropolis South and North Roxby. Combined joint first annual/joint first partial surrender report, for the period 26/4/2002 to 25/4/2003.
Two areas which lie adjacent to and are situated respectively south and north from Olympic Dam, are considered very prospective for iron-oxide copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of Olympic Dam style. While historic drilling intercepts have shown that...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2003
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-35, Mount Darling area magmatic nickel-copper-PGE mineral prospects. Project final report.
Two negative magnetic anomalies within EL 3228 Mount Darling that were believed to be caused by buried layered ultramafic intrusive rocks of the Mesoproterozoic Giles Complex were the targets of the subject exploration by Crossland Minerals, since...-
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Published: 13 Jan 2008
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Hiltaba. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1996 to 6/12/2000.
Gawler Range Volcanics and Hiltaba Suite granitoids were investigated for possible volcanic epithermal gold and Olympic Dam - style plutonic Cu-U-Au-Ag mineralisation in an area of the south-western Gawler Ranges, 60 km north-east of Poochera....-
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Published: 03 Nov 2000
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Morgan. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1977 to 1/9/1978
During Dampier's exploration conducted near Morgan township in the western Murray Basin, the main target was possible economic coal measures in Cretaceous or Tertiary sediments, with the base metal potential of pre-Mesozoic basement rocks constituting...-
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Bunyeroo Well. Annual reports for the period 17/10/97 to 16/10/2000.
MMI soil sampling and a gravity survey were carried out over a circular magnetic anomaly adjacent to the Torrens Hinge Zone, 70 km north of Hawker. Two RC holes were drilled to 314 and 433 m in the zone of highest residual gravity, but were abandoned...-
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Published: 06 Oct 2000
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Crystal Brook, Port Broughton, Port Pirie, Mundoora and Winninnowie (the Moonta North Project). Annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 19/10/2000 to 1/8/2008.
Buried basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style is the target of exploration across a number of scattered Exploration Licences trending from Port Broughton in the south to...-
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Published: 18 Sep 2008
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Elliston. Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/6/2014 to 24/11/2014.
A large area centred ~100 km south-east of Streaky Bay was taken up to explore for possible buried Tertiary, palaeodrainage sediment-sourced, palaeomarine shoreface placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM). Diatreme believed that the coastline of...-
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Published: 22 Sep 2014
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tarkarooloo. First annual report for the period 14/8/2002 to 13/8/2003.
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Published: 20 Oct 2003
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Kingston (South-East). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 19/12/2000 to 12/6/2006.
Three salt lakes that extend in chain-like fashion along the inner Coorong - Lacepede Bay shoreline, over a distance of 24 km to the north of Kingston (SE) township, have been investigated for possible economic evaporitic mineral deposits that may...-
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Published: 12 Jun 2006
