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Port Pirie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/4/1977 to 19/4/1979.
Concerted exploration for possible stratiform Mount Gunson type or epithermal Olympic Dam type base metal deposits, on the south-eastern edge of the Stuart Shelf near Port Pirie, was begun by North Broken Hill Ltd in response to the public release by...-
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Bute. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 30/6/1982.
In the latter stages of its search for possible economic base and precious metal deposits in the Bute area, North Broken Hill targeted the concealed pre-Adelaidean basement rocks for Mount Gunson or ?Olympic Dam type hydrothermal ores, and for Mount...-
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Sketching Pile, northern Lake Torrens area (east of Andamooka). First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 2/7/1998 to 1/6/1999.
Interpretation of SAEI regional aeromagnetic survey data acquired over the northern part of the Torrens Hinge Zone has identified two large magnetic anomalies. These lie respectively at the intersections of major north-east and north-west trending...-
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Port Broughton - Lochiel and Port Pirie areas. Partial relinquishment reports for the period 19/4/2002 to 18/4/2003.
Iron-oxide copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, was the target of exploration in an area located east of Port Broughton and south of Port Pirie on upper...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1903
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Port Pirie district (part of the G2 [Lineament] Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/3/1996 to 28/3/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey to infill recent SAEI regional survey coverage was carried out within the G2 structural corridor, south-east of Port Pirie. Six bullseye magnetic highs, consistent with kimberlite emplacement, and one having...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1997
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Bunyeroo Well. Annual reports for the period 17/10/97 to 16/10/2000.
MMI soil sampling and a gravity survey were carried out over a circular magnetic anomaly adjacent to the Torrens Hinge Zone, 70 km north of Hawker. Two RC holes were drilled to 314 and 433 m in the zone of highest residual gravity, but were abandoned...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1900
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Bute. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/11/1977 to 27/2/1979.
Stratigraphic deep drilling carried out by the South Australian Government since 1968 in the Bute - Port Broughton region of northern Yorke Peninsula (in total 21 diamond drillholes and 16 rotary drillholes) has outlined the nature and subsurface...-
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Ediacara Range. Partial surrender report for the period ending January 1998.
Relinquished portions of the EL were considered to have low potential for economically viable Mississippi Valley-type lead mineralisation similar to that occurring at the Ediacara Mineral Field, a conclusion based on the outcome of literature...-
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Crystal Brook area (part of G2 [Lineament] Project). Annual and final reports for the period 29/3/1996 to 28/3/2000.
An aeromagnetic / radiometric survey was carried out within the G2 structural corridor, south-east of Port Pirie, as part of a search for possible Moonta, Olympic Dam or Ernest Henry type gold - copper mineralisation, and for any diamond-bearing...-
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Mount Michael. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/9/1997 to 6/9/1999.
Interpretation of magnetic and gravity data, together with calcrete and MMI sampling, were carried out adjacent to a southerly extension of the Ediacara Fault, 25 km north-west of Parachilna. Low order Pb-Zn-Ag anomalism was located, coincident with...-
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Published: 10 Nov 1999
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Minlaton. Progress reports to licence full surrender/replacement, for the period 29/4/1974 to 15/1/1975.
Exploration for possible economic Mississippi Valley - type base metal deposits in the Minlaton region of Yorke Peninsula has to date consisted only of the acquisition of part of a low-level airborne magnetic survey by contractor Geometrics during...-
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Stuart Creek (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Combined first to fourth partial surrenders report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/1/2003 to 1/7/2008.
Limited RAB drilling (in 5 of 8 vertical holes for a total penetration of 611 m) across a DeepLeach II regolith zinc anomaly that straddles the licence boundary of adjoining ELs 3123 and 3140 failed to encounter any mineralisation or elevated downhole...-
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Sundown Creek. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/10/1977 to 2/10/1979.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated north and north-west of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the mineral potential of a large, low amplitude...-
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Published: 26 May 1980
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Mount Michael. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/11/1977 to 27/11/1979.
As part of a regional search for possible economic sodium carbonate (trona) evaporite mineralisation formed within buried Miocene lacustrine sediments in an area located east of Lake Torrens, ground magnetic and gravity surveys were run along four...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1979
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PACE Copper Gawler Craton Airborne Survey, Region 3B, data package.
During the period 4 March to 22 June 2017, most of the TORRENS 1:250k map sheet area was flown under contract to the SA Government and Geoscience Australia as part of the PACE Copper Gawler Craton Airborne Survey. The intent of this survey overall [it...-
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RB 2018/00038 Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 3B, Torrens – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models
This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2018
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Cultana basement regional geology 3D Model.
The Cultana basement 3D Geological Model covers a region which includes the Roopena, and western half of the Cultana, 1:100,000 mapsheet areas. The subsurface geology that has been modelled comprises a succession of deformed Palaeoproterozoic...-
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PACE Copper Gawler Craton Airborne Survey, Region 3A, data package.
During the period 23 February to 14 June 2017, most of the ANDAMOOKA 1:250k map sheet area was flown under contract to the SA Government and Geoscience Australia as part of the PACE Copper Gawler Craton Airborne Survey. The intent of this survey...-
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2. Joint first annual / final report at licences' cancellation, for the period 31/3/2008 to 30/3/2009.
No field work. Exploration for possible buried haematite-rich, iron oxide - associated copper-gold(-uranium) mineralisation or related alteration zones in the basement under adjoining areas covering the east-central Lake Torrens region has comprised...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1909
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-43 - Torrens Hinge Zone - Yadlamalka Horst Adelaidean sediment-hosted copper and Palaeoproterozoic basement IOCG mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
In February 2008, Lincoln Minerals Ltd was awarded a grant of $100,000 in Round 5, Theme 2 of PIRSA's PACE Initiative to conduct drill tests for the possible presence of sediment-hosted copper mineralisation in Adelaidean successions, as well as for...-
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Published: 30 Jun 1909
