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Palmer. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1989 to 13/5/1990.
TARGET: Possible base and precious metals mineralisation in Cambrian metasediments and younger Delamerian igneous intrusive rocks of the Palmer area of the Kanmantoo Trough. EXPLORATION: BCL (bulk cyanide leach) and stream sediment geochemical...-
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Bull Creek. Second partial relinquishment report at licence surrender/re-issue, for the period 21/3/1980 to 19/3/1985.
In a search for possible economic near-surface gold or base metal occurrences within a now relinquished EL portion located near Bull Creek in the southern Adelaide Hills, a literature search, assaying of stored historic diamond drillhole core samples,...-
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Published: 02 Apr 1985
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Provenance study of the Kangaroo Island and Fleurieu Peninsula areas.
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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Mount Pleasant (part of the Kanmantoo Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/delayed renewal, for the period 31/8/1976 to 30/8/1978.
At the newly discovered Mount Torrens lead prospect, grid auger soil geochemical sampling, 1:5000 scale geological mapping, limited ground geophysical test surveying and the drilling of 23 percussion holes totalling 3388 m indicated the existence of...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1978
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Australia Plains [not 'Brownlow']. Annual reports from 22/2/2016 to full surrender 08/03/2023.
Exploration Licence 5744 covers 661 square km located ~120 km north-east of Adelaide, on the eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges. It forms a part of SeeSaw Resources' Brownlow Project. Basement outcrop within the tenement is limited to Adelaidean...-
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Published: 08 May 1923
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnerships DPY9-43 - Brownlow and DPY9-47 - Bower. Drilling projects' joint interim and final reports.
Copper and gold mineralisation associated with felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous intrusive rocks which have intruded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments in the Nackara Arc region has been the target of exploratory drilling conducted with the...-
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Cambrian black shales in the Karinya Syncline - stratigraphic distribution, sedimentology and kerogen composition.
The Heatherdale Shale and the stratigraphically younger Karinya Shale are transgressive units within the Lower Cambrian of the Karinya Syncline. Black muds of the Heatherdale Shale were deposited in an outer ramp setting of the Stansbury Basin under...-
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Strathalbyn - Hindmarsh Valley area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1978.
As part of a search for possible economic stratiform Cambrian base metal deposits within the southern Kanmantoo Trough, all previous SADME soil and stream sediment sampling data were reviewed by CRA, and notable geochemical anomalies were followed up,...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1978
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Starvation Creek, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/5/1978 to 18/5/1980.
A programme of rotary drilling on Kangaroo Island of 56 shallow exploratory holes for 191 m, conjointly carried out by Comalco on its ELs 396 and 408, was designed to test for possible economic bauxite and low iron bauxite claystone occurrences...-
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Sanderston. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 3/11/1978 to 2/5/1979.
In a renewed search for possible economic scheelite deposits in the Sanderston area, which is located ~15 km south-east of the Barossa Valley, the sites of some previously reported tungsten metal geochemical anomalies and minor detrital scheelite...-
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Mannum area (including the Anna and Sedan coal deposits). Data release at licence expiry/renewal : coal exploration progress reports and data, plus Sedan coal deposit mine planning management progress reports, for the period 13/11/1978 to 20/8/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...-
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Kanmantoo. Progress reports for the period 26/4/1972 to 25/4/1973.
Copper exploration in the vicinity of Kanmantoo has recently been recommenced in order to find out whether extensions to the known lode-bearing andalusite schist horizon, containing possible economic mineralisation, will fall within the alignment of...-
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Padthaway - Black Range area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/5/1979 to 28/3/1980.
Exploration for possible economic lignite and coal that may occur within Tertiary sediments of the western Murray Basin covering the crest of the Padthaway Ridge, consisted of drilling 14 rotary mud vertical holes, 4 being partially diamond cored,...-
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Published: 12 May 1980
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Callington stone deposit (under lease by the Readymix Group). Notice of Intent to extract material [road sealing aggregates] by quarrying.
The site of the Callington greywacke deposit, located 2 km south of Callington township, was leased from the landowners by the Readymix Group in 1972 when preliminary geological investigations indicated that it contained unusually massive bedrock that...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1978
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Brief summary of exploration work done at the Kitticoola mine, near Palmer, South Australia.
Past exploratory work done at the Kitticoola mine is discussed. Six diamond drillholes put down by SADME between 1935 and 1938 located sub-economic Cu-Au mineralisation in several projections of known lodes. Geophysical surveys by McPhar Geophysics...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1971
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Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1979.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform/volcanogenic base metal sulphide deposits hosted by the (elsewhere) pyrite - bearing Early Cambrian Bruckunga Formation, in the Vivonne Bay district on south-central Kangaroo Island, was hampered by the...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1979
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RI 057 Cambrian Sediment-hosted Exhalative Base Metal Mineralisation, Kanmantoo Trough, South Australia
A deformed and metamorphosed succession of sandstone, greywacke, siltstone and shale which accumulated in the Early Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough hosts a number of exhalative base and precious metal deposits. This sequence is apparently devoid of...-
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Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/7/1979 to 9/3/1981.
Continuing stream sediment sampling and soil sampling conducted across the entire EL has confirmed some weakly anomalous lead, zinc and copper results (e.g. to 340 ppm Pb in Fernandez Creek), but more detailed infill and repeat sampling in many cases...-
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Published: 13 Feb 1981
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Woodchester. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/1977 to 2/5/1978.
As part of a regional search for possible economic Mount Torrens - type stratiform base metal occurrences within the Kanmantoo Trough, the soil surrounding all outcropping pyritic Cambrian metasediment units within the licence area was geochemically...-
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Published: 17 Mar 1978
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RB 00769 Kitticoola mines appraisal. Mannum - Adelaide.
Kitticoola mine is situated within the outcrop of the Palmer Granite near the Palmer Fault. Copper bearing, sparingly auriferous sulphides occur in lodes following a conjugate fracture pattern. Early workings, dating from 1844, exploited enriched...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1972
