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Data release - as updated : Statton Hill (part of the Baratta Project). Annual reports, first partial surrender report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/10/2007 to 14/1/2016.
Copper and gold exploration has been conducted within an area centred about 80 km east of Hawker, which it was thought had potential for epigenetic vein style mineralisation within buried Adelaidean sandstone and shale strata, formed in a stratabound...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1916
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Data release - as updated : Goode Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/2002 to 28/8/2015.
Exploration of an area of Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks bordering, and in part intruded by, Ordovician plutons of the Anabama felsic intrusive complex, has targeted possible analogues to the Blue Rose copper-gold skarn mineralisation...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 30/7/2003 to 6/10/2009.
The subject EL 3112 ground represents the continuation of tenure by Gunson Resources, over the same area, from its former EL 2516 Yeltacowie (for which see the relevant licence reports previously released in Envs 9530 and 9715). This replacement...-
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The Mount Grainger JV Project with Rio Tinto, and the Nackara Arc JV Project with Range River Gold. Progress reports and combined annual reports to the cessation of these joint ventures, for the period 16/6/1999 to 31/1/2006.
The 5 tenements cover 3240km2 of pastoral grazing land centred approximately 45 km northeast of Peterborough within the Orroroo SI54-01 and Olary SI54-02 1:250 000 sheets, in north central South Australia. The Mt Grainger Project Area lies within the...-
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Arkaba Hill (part of the Torrens Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 9/7/2012 to 7/3/2017.
Two adjacent portions of the subject licence, which are centred ~13 km south-southwest of Wilpena Pound National Park, have been surrendered following a downgrading of their perceived prospectivity for possible economic buried sediment-hosted oxide...-
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Mount Craig (part of the Torrens Project). First partial surrender report, for the period from 20/2/2014 to 7/3/2017.
A small part of the subject licence, which lies ~25 km south of Wilpena Pound National Park, has been surrendered following a downgrading of its perceived prospectivity for possible economic buried sediment-hosted oxide and sulphide base metal...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Booborowie area. Annual technical report for period ending 08/08/2018.
Exploration Licence 5999 “Cartarpo” covers an area of 112 square km in the states mid-north between Hallett and Booborowie, northwest of the township of Burra. Historic mine workings “Cartarpo Mine” was worked for copper and cobalt between 1867-1872,...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1918
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North Well Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/1994 to 14/11/1999.
Exploration, initially for rare metal elements, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village and Umberatana Homestead. Work comprising petrography, rock chip sampling, stream...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1900
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Thistlebeds Homestead (part of the Padthaway Project). Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 3/11/2000.
Five vertical aircore holes totalling 143 m tested a magnetic anomaly lying 30 km east of Burra, in an area thought to be prospective for alteration of buried Adelaidean sediments by high level, fractionated acid intrusives. Maximum assay values of...-
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Callanna. First annual and final report for the period 17/5/2002 to 16/5/2003.
Gold and base metal mineralisation hosted by Neoproterozoic sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline were the targets of exploration in areas located immediately west and south of Marree. A review of available data and limited field reconnaissance and...-
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Morialpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports and annual reports for the period 16/12/1995 to 8/8/2003.
Initial exploration for stratiform Cu-Au mineralisation hosted within Adelaidean sediments in the Morialpa area, 40 km north- west of Olary, comprised soil, stream sediment, rock chip and ironstone lag geochemical sampling, and 1:10,000 scale...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1903
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Weekeroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/10/1970 to 30/9/1971.
A detailed examination of mineralised rock sequences within the metamorphosed Precambrian basement and Adelaidean cover rocks of the Weekeroo area, and recording of their relationship to successive deformational events and resulting rock structures,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
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Cutana. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/2/2002.
EL 2635, formerly EL 1976, straddled the Barrier Highway 25 km east of Olary. The licence covered ground initially taken up by MIM in late 1986, and all that company's work prior to mid 1994, with emphasis on investigating the Luxemburg - Premier...-
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Arkaroola. First annual and final report to licence surrender for the period 2/12/2002 to 2/2/2004.
An area of the northern Flinders Ranges abutting the northern boundary of the Gammon Ranges National Park, 85 km north-east of Leigh Creek, was taken up primarily to explore for possible economic tantalum mineral deposits. Following a literature...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1903
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Deep Well (part of Mount Grainger JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 16/6/1999 to 15/6/2004.
Exploration of a small area within the Nackara Arc region, lying 15-20 km north-west of the Mount Grainger Goldfield, has sought economic Telfer-type stratabound gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bonython Hill (part of the Border Project). Annual reports for the period 23/2/2007 to 18/5/2014.
During Year 7 of reporting, exploration work included two 1 km soil geochemical traverses, field inspection of Neogene palaeochannels and land access negotiations with landowners. Previous exploration in the region has recognised the correlation...-
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Data release - as updated : One Tree Hill (part of the Manna Hill Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/11/2007 to 4/11/2017.
Exploration for possible economic vein-style and structurally controlled gold with Adelaidean bedrock sediments in an area located between the towns of Yunta and Manna Hill was conducted using low cost remote sensing, geochemical and geophysical...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2012.
Twelve licence areas owned and operated by Gold Fields Australasia (GFA), comprising two subareas respectively located approximately 50 km east of Burra and 15 km south-east of the Benda Range, on the eastern edge of the Adelaide Fold Belt, are being...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1912
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Data release - as updated : Mongolata. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/2/2004 to 12/2/2009.
An area centred ~15 km east-northeast of Burra has been explored for possible economic buried porphyry style copper-gold deposits, initially by grant licensee Bonanza Gold Pty Ltd during the first year of tenure, and thereafter for the next three...-
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