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Francis Swamp. Progress and final reports for the period 27/10/83 to 26/1/86.
Diamond exploration over an area 60 km west of Lake Eyre South included drainage heavy mineral sampling and a remote sensing study. Data from portion of a 1982 aeromagnetic survey by Aerodata-McPhar Pty Ltd for Stockdale, covering the southern...-
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Stuart Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/4/1992 to 12/4/1994.
Exploration for buried Olympic Dam-type deposits, within a small area centred 20 km north-west of Andamooka, covered the untested northerly extension of a gravity anomaly recognised from the 1991 Snake Gully Gravity Survey data acquired on adjacent EL...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/1976 to 20/6/1978.
Ongoing exploration for possible buried Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, conducted over an area of the Stuart Shelf located 15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, has comprised RC drilling (20 holes, aggregate penetration 1768 m) and diamond...-
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Island Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/12/1980 to 14/9/1982.
Exploration over the now surrendered ground, which had been successively incorporated within ELs 301, 513 and 769, was initially directed at a search for stratabound base metal deposits which might exist within the flat-lying Neoproterozoic and...-
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Portulacca Ridge. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/3/1977 to 15/3/1979.
Areas around Woomera and extending to the north, to around 30 km west of Olympic Dam, were explored for concealed base metal deposits of Olympic Dam - type. Trace stratabound lead and zinc mineralisation (sphalerite and galena - few thousand ppm) had...-
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Baker Dam and Moonlight Dam. Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 9/9/1983 to 9/12/1985.
Exploration was undertaken in two areas 30-40 km north of Port Augusta for possible Olympic Dam type mineralisation emplaced along the Torrens Hinge Zone. A 4 mGal, barometrically-levelled gravity anomaly previously defined by Western Mining Corp. to...-
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Harcus Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/2/1984 to 15/10/1985.
In a search for possible diamondiferous kimberlite in an area situated 110 km north-west of Woomera, an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey was flown in July 1984 across the entire licence. 4 of 10 magnetic anomalies were selected as low...-
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Lake Finniss. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/3/2000 to 13/3/2005.
Proterozoic iron oxide - associated Cu-Au deposits of Olympic Dam type, and possible Yilgarn Craton style Archaean Cu-Ni mineralisation in ultramafic rocks, Pt-Cr mineralisation in layered mafic-ultramafic complexes and Cu-Pb-Zn in acid volcanic...-
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Port Augusta. Third annual report, first partial surrender report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/11/1993 to 28/11/1996.
Ground magnetic surveys were carried out over seven interpreted aeromagnetic anomalies located north-west of Port Augusta. Those with interpreted source depths that were shallow enough to be reached by RC drilling (6 holes, total 570 m) were found to...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/1975 to 2/3/1976.
Exploration for possible economic buried Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au mineralisation, undertaken over an area located 15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, comprised preliminary airphoto interpretation and surface geological mapping, outcrop sample...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1976
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Reedy Lagoon. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 20/7/81 to 4/8/86.
Exploration as part of a continuing regional search for possible diamondiferous kimberlites was undertaken 70 km west-northwest of Roxby Downs. Extensive sampling of current drainage lines in interdune swales, plus loam sampling in other...-
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Roxby Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/1980 to 30/6/1983.
A combined magnetic and 4 mGal gravity anomaly seen in the BMR airborne geophysical data coverage at Roxby Hill, near Woomera, was investigated by Esso, who performed 105 line km of confirmatory regional gravity surveying, plus detailed gravity and...-
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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/1/1976 to 11/1/1978.
The exploration target for stratabound base metals in the Red Lake area, which lies just to the east of Pernatty Lagoon and abuts the Arcoona Plateau, was the top of Pandurra Formation erosional surface. Percussion (17 holes totalling 2619 m) and...-
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Tutop Ridge. Progress and final reports for the period 24/9/84 to 23/9/85.
Diamond exploration was carried out in an area surrounding the Stuart Creek Opal Field, 30 km north-west of Lake Torrens, to follow up a previously reported discovery of some kimberlitic indicator minerals. 6 out of 20 additional gravel and loam...-
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Published: 03 Oct 1985
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Griffin Well. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 17/3/2009.
An area within the north-western Stuart Shelf which lies about 80 km west of Olympic Dam and 40 km south of Prominent Hill was explored for possible similar IOCG-U type economic mineral deposits by a new industry entrant uranium explorer, Uranium...-
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Published: 05 Jun 2009
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The Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Northern Tenement Group. First joint annual report, and final report to the respective expiry/full surrender of individual licences, for the period 1/2/2011 to 17/12/2013.
Three separate licence areas located within 50 km of Olympic Dam, and a fourth (Halifax Hill) located 150 km north-west of there, have been explored for possible economic buried IOCG-U mineralisation that may be hosted by Mesoproterozoic basement...-
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Published: 06 Feb 2015
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Mount Eba. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2008.
An area within the northern Stuart Shelf which extends from 15 to 65 km south of the Prominent Hill mine site has been explored for possible similar IOCG-U type economic mineral deposits by a new industry entrant uranium explorer, Uranium Exploration...-
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Published: 16 Jan 2009
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Wirraminna. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/3/2007 to 6/3/2011.
Exploration undertaken within the now relinquished portion of EL 3724 has consisted only of the acquisition of a detailed ground gravity survey during November 2007 over a gravity anomaly identified ~ 80 km west-northwest of Woomera (236 stations were...-
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Published: 29 Feb 2012
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Cariewerloo. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 23/7/2007 to 22/7/2009.
Exploration Licence 3852 'Cariewerloo', located approximately 60 km WNW of Port Augusta and covering 369 square km, was granted to Kensington Exploration Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Archer Exploration Ltd, on 23 July 2007. The ground was...-
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Published: 23 Jun 2009
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Mulga Well. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/1/2012 to 19/1/2016.
Exploration for possible economic sandstone-hosted copper-lead-zinc mineralisation, carried out over a small area centred ~40 km south-east of Kingoonya, consisted only of logistics-related field reconnaissance visits, the collection of ground...-
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Published: 15 Apr 2016
