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Mount Hill (part of the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 25/2/2008 to 27/8/2015.
A small part of the Lincoln Uplands on east-central Eyre Peninsula, which is centred ~20 km north-east of Cummins, has been explored for possible economic buried graphite and/or base metal mineralisation that may have formed in metamorphosed...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Verran. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/4/1997 to 3/4/2002.
Part of the Cleve Uplands centred 15 km west of Cleve has been taken under licence to explore its potential for buried economic copper-gold mineralisation to occur within Archaean or Proterozoic basement rocks. Other possible commodities of interest...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1902
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Verran. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint venture project joint reporting, for the period 29/1/2010 to 28/1/2014.
An area located in the Cowell Hills is being explored for possible economic buried iron ore deposits. The desired commodity is DSO (Direct Shipping Ore) haematite mineralisation similar to that of the Middleback Range iron deposits, where pods of...-
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Published: 23 May 1914
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Wanilla. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the multi-licence Southern Eyre Peninsula JV Project, for the period 28/10/2004 to 27/10/2006.
A narrow north-south aligned area centred approximately 25 km west-northwest of Port Lincoln, which is mainly covered by Quaternary ferricrete, has been taken up by Centrex Metals Ltd to explore for possible concealed economic deposits of iron ores...-
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Ironstone Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/9/2003 to 17/9/2015.
During the majority of its tenure term, very little field work was conducted on the subject ground. Initially, office studies of available geophysical and open file geological data were performed during 2005 to try to identify possible drilling...-
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Mount Shannan. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/2/2012 to 20/2/2016.
A very small area centred ~7.5 km north-northwest of Cleve has been explored for possible economic buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal penetrating...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1916
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Moonabie Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 19/2/1982.
Exploration in the Moonabie area, located 40 km south-west of Whyalla, was aimed at possible concealed epithermal or Alligator Rivers (NT) type stratabound uranium occurrences within the Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary/metavolcanic sequence....-
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Ironstone Hill. Combined first annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/3/1996 to 21/3/1997.
A possible southerly extension to the Iron Duke deposit was indicated by aeromagnetic and gravity data. However, one 150 m deep exploratory RC drillhole put down on the coinciding anomalies encountered quartz-magnetic BIF with no haematite enrichment.-
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Crossville. Annual and final report for the period 26/3/99 to 25/3/2000.
Regional calcrete, lag, rockchip and bulk cyanide leach drainage geochemistry were carried out over an area immediately to the east of Cleve. Gold in calcrete was recorded in two areas, which also returned elevated gold values in chip samples of vein...-
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Black Eagle Rock. Annual reports and progress reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 10/1/1997 to April 2001.
Four styles of mineralisation formed the basis for exploration in the Paney-Buckleboo area, namely, stratiform sedex (Broken Hill style), shear-hosted epigenetic gold and base metals (Tunkillia style), skarn-related gold and base metals (Menninnie Dam...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1901
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Eurilla Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1997 to 15/1/2001.
An area spanning the western margin of Lake Gilles, 50 km north-east of Kimba, was investigated for possible stratiform, shear-hosted, skarn-related and Olympic Dam - style mineralisation. Initial regional calcrete geochemical sampling returned...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1901
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Charleston (north of Cowell, eastern Eyre Peninsula). Annual and final report for the period 11/1/2001 to 10/7/2002.
EL 2789 covered the Charleston Granite, a large inferred Hiltaba Suite granitoid located at the southern termination of the Middleback Range, 60 km southwest of Whyalla. The area was considered prospective for shear - hosted gold mineralisation...-
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Ironstone Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1997 to 10/8/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey and surficial calcrete, soil and MMI sampling targeted Challenger/Tunkillia-type gold and Olympic Dam style copper-gold, associated respectively with a number of shear zones and with the Charleston Granite,...-
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Mount Ive Gate. Annual and final surrender reports for the period 21/2/2002 to June 2003.
Regional scale interpretation of available data highlighted the presence of a gravity anomaly at the intersection of magnetic lineaments in the Mt Ive Gate area, 60 km north of Kimba, in a region considered to be prospective for iron oxide related...-
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Rudall. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report : annual reports for the period 22/12/1995 to 22/1/2005; plus a (subsequently added) combined annual and final report to licence expiry/full surrender on 22/1/2006.
Exploration of three small licence subareas located near Cleve, Rudall and Verran has targeted possible Palaeoproterozoic stratiform or hydrothermal base and precious metal deposits hosted within Hutchison Group metasediments. Interpretation of 1979...-
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Kooralla. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2002 to 17/1/2005.
EL 2888 was applied for to cover prospective magnetic anomalies thought to be underlain by magnetite-rich banded iron formations (BIF), that exist close to Cowell on the eastern Eyre Peninsula. One geological interpretation of the magnetic anomalism...-
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Stony Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/1/1971 to 20/1/1972.
Investigation of some isolated coarse-grained jaspilite outcrops and likely intervening subcrop, in an area 12 miles west of Iron Baron near the Middleback Range, sought to identify a currently economic iron ore resource of more than 60 Mt existing...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1977.
A total of 3074 square km or ~86.25% of the originally granted area of EL 266 which borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf has recently been relinquished by BHP after one year of work, due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for...-
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Iron Chieftain. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 29/2/1980.
Dampier Mining Company took out EL 512 around Iron Chieftain to assess the significance of apparently stratabound low-grade gold values obtained from previous surface sampling and drilling within carbonate and sulphide - rich quartzites at the base of...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1980
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Geology of the Roopena and Uno 1:100 000 sheet areas, eastern Gawler Craton.
This report describes the results of a MESA consultant's second generation regional geological mapping and drillhole data interpretation work for the Roopena and Uno 1:100 000 sheets on PORT AUGUSTA, performed during 1993 and 1994 as part of the SAEI...-
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