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Karkaro. Progress report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/11/1974 to 25/2/1975.
TARGET: Possible open-pit mineable Lower Permian coal seams, present down to a depth of 100 m below surface, associated with an inferred basinal depression located to the north-west of and adjacent to previous SADM stratigraphic drillhole Karkaro 1,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Moorlands. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/6/1972 to 28/6/1973.
Lignite seams in three separate parts of the Moorlands Coalfield were further assessed for their potential to produce commercial grade montan wax in marketable quantities, via the drilling and sampling of three appraisal cable tool percussion/core...-
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Published: 07 Jan 1974
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Clinton. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/6/1972 to 28/6/1973.
Lignite seams in the Clinton Coalfield were further assessed for their potential to produce commercial grade montan wax in marketable quantities, via the drilling and sampling of two appraisal rotary/core holes with a total penetration of 533 feet, to...-
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Published: 07 Jan 1974
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Clay minerals of the Gidgealpa Permian sediments.
12 selected drill core specimens were analysed.-
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Strzelecki Desert [Moorari 2 environs]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/6/1974 to 1/2/1976.
A drilling programme has been carried out under tenure of a mineral exploration licence by the PEL 6 Patchawarra Farm-out Block partners, to investigate the origin of a 400 API unit radioactivity gamma-ray log kick noticed to occur at 47.12 m below...-
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Wilkatana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/4/1963 to 31/3/1964.
TARGET: Brine in fractures within a 200 foot thickness of the Wilkawillina Limestone, for salt production. EXPLORATION: Drilling of one rotary mud hole to 175.56 m, groundwater sample analyses, water yield pump tests, experimental salt recovery via...-
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Published: 13 Apr 1964
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Spilsby Island. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1966 to 28/6/1967.
South-westwards inclined diamond drillhole No. 11 was put in to 400 feet total hole depth by licensee Kennecott during the subject reporting period, to investigate the postulated buried inland extension of a continuously mineralised sheet-like body of...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1967
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Progress report on [near-mine] exploration activities [performed by the] Burra [Joint] Venture, for the period 10/10/1965 to 28/2/1967.
At the invitation of the South Australian Department of Mines, a mining company consortium has been formed to continue recent SA Government studies at Burra aimed at establishing the economic feasibility of re-opening the historic copper workings to...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1967
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Kidman North 1. Test reports.
Contains contractors results and Unit gasfield operators reservoir engineering interpretations of the single rate and modified isochronal gas production tests conducted on the Toolachee Formation (Upper production zone) and Patchawarra Formation...-
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Moomba 16, Moomba 17, Moomba 20 and Moomba 23 areas (part of the Sturt Joint Venture Project). Combined first partial surrender report, for the period 25/2/2008 to 31/12/2013.
Majority portions of four licences from a large, multi-licence acreage package that is centred on the Moomba gas processing plant have recently been relinquished owing to the exit of a joint venture partner from the project exploration consortium,...-
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Published: 30 Apr 2014
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Lochaber. Data release : final report at licence full surrender, for the period 29/8/2006 to 6/7/2009.
EL 3623 is located 220 km south-east of Adelaide, and lies to the west of the township of Naracoorte. The tenement is also located ~35 km to the south-east of the much larger Kingston lignite deposit contained within the subject licencee's related EL...-
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Published: 02 Sep 2009
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RB 2011/00004 [South Australian] Minerals Scorecard, 2009-2010.
The Minerals value-chain Scorecard, initiated in 2001, provides information regarding the performance of South Australia's mineral industry across the exploration, investment, production, processing and export stages of wealth creation. In doing so,...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2011
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RB 2008/00016 Review of the Burra Mine Project, 1980-2008 - a progress report.
The Burra (Burra) Mine, situated 150 km north of Adelaide within the Adelaide Geosyncline, produced 2.7 million tonnes of copper ore in two major mining phases - 1845-1877 and 1970-1981. The first phase was initially progressed by underground...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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PGSA 001 Volume 1 Otway Basin (Second edition) Petroleum geology of South Australia.
This monograph presents an integration and summary of all new data, and a consolidation of current concepts and ideas on the geological history, discovered fields and petroleum potential of the Otway Basin in South Australia. Many of these...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2002
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Blackford and Lochaber (the Kingston Lignite Project). Individual licence reports and a joint annual report, plus final report at the full surrender of the remaining (Blackford) licence, for the period 3/8/2005 to 20/2/2015.
The Kingston coal (lignite) deposit, delineated by Western Mining Corp. in the early 1980s, has been re-assessed for the energy generation potential its coal represents, viewed in the context of recent increased demand for liquid transport fuels and...-
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Published: 02 Mar 2015
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Willow Springs. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/12/2011 to 30/11/2016.
An area centred ~65 km north-east of Hawker in the Central Flinders Ranges, and located adjacent to the eastern side of the Oraparinna Diapir, has been explored for possible buried economic epigenetic copper, gold and uranium mineralisation. During...-
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Published: 03 Jan 2017
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ExpNotes STRZELECKI: Explanatory Notes STRZELECKI, SH 54-02.
The STRZELECKI 1:250 000 map area lies adjacent to the NSW border in the centre of the Strzelecki Desert, and covers some of the main hydrocarbon producing areas in SA around Moomba. Most of these oil and gas fields are located in the northern half of...-
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Innamincka 3 area (part of the Sturt Joint Venture Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/2/2008 to 24/2/2013.
A large area centred ~80 km north-east of Moomba has been explored for possible buried economic Tertiary to Recent sedimentary uranium mineralisation of roll front style, similar to what occurs as fluvial sandstone - hosted giant secondary deposits...-
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Published: 20 Jan 2014
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Gawler Project Central Tenement Block [Part]. Data release at licences' joint partial relinquishment: project combined annual reports, plus Southern Gold gold exploration JV - specific annual reports, 27/10/2004 to 30/6/2009. [Index Part 1 of 2].
During the first three years of the subject reporting period, exploration carried out by Dominion Mining as Gawler Project sole owner and operator was concentrated in and around the Challenger gold mine, to assist in defining ore reserves within the...-
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Published: 02 Feb 2010
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Warramboo (the Central Eyre Project). Annual reports [but excluding four separately held joint annual reports] for the period 6/6/2001 to 8/2/2019.
During the sixth year of tenure of the Warramboo licence, now held by Adelaide Exploration Limited as renewed EL 2846 covering the same 1363 square km area as before, the only exploration-related activity which occurred was the acquisition during...-
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Published: 28 Mar 2018
