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Swan Reach. Combined first progress/final report to licence surrender for the period 31/3/1969 to 30/9/1969.
Low-level mercury anomalism, possibly originating from blind base metal sulphide orebodies lying within the Cambrian basement concealed under ~ 300 m thickness ofextensive porous sediment cover in an area on the south-western fringe of the Murray...-
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Published: 11 Nov 1969
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Meribah, Halidon, Mantung, Karoonda and Woolpunda (parts of the Murray Basin HMS Project). Individual licence first or second partial surrender reports, describing relevant subsets of exploration work performed between 29/9/1997 and 5/9/2018.
Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...-
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Ngarkat - Bordertown and Bordertown - Naracoorte areas. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 30/11/2001 to 29/11/2002.
Heavy mineral marine placer deposits formed within the Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand of the Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in areas lying immediately north and south of Bordertown. Aircore drilling (86 holes, total 1903 m) was carried...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1903
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Ashville. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2004.
Exploration for gypsum that may have formed in Holocene salt lakes of the Ashville area, 30 km south of Tailem Bend, comprised field inspections and the completion of 14 push tube coreholes up to 1.67 m deep for a total penetration of 13.02 m. High...-
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 15/7/1999.
Exploratory drilling to search for heavy mineral sands, performed over an area extending to 160 km north and north-west of Renmark, has targeted marginal marine placer deposits of detrital rutile, ilmenite and zircon in potential Loxton - Parilla Sand...-
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Naracoorte. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 21/9/1999.
21 shallow auger holes totalling 128 m were drilled along 4 traverses which cross the Naracoorte Range between Penola and Naracoorte. Traces of heavy minerals were detected below 8 m depth within the area of a large radiometric anomaly, but further...-
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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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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale, northern Murray Basin, South Australia (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint third partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/12/2001.
Within the now relinquished licence portions, parts of six traverses of reverse circulation aircore drilling (involving 68 vertical open holes, total 1918.5 m) tested 60 km strike length of interpreted heavy mineral sand - bearing marine beach facies...-
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Meningie. Partial relinquishment report for the period 20/12/2001 to 19/12/2003.
Interpretation of aerial photographs and ground reconnaissance in an area 10 km south-west of Meningie failed to identify any salt lakes likely to contain gypsum. The relinquished western part of EL 2877 constitutes land about to be sterilized for...-
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The Padthaway Project. Data release made at the full surrenders of four included licences: joint first annual report, for the period 16/6/1999 to 15/6/2000.
Exploration for possible economic metallic mineral products of hidden copper-gold deposit mineralising systems, which possibly were genetically related to fractionated, high crustal level emplaced Cambro-Ordovician intrusive rocks, is addressing an...-
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Kingston (South-East). First partial surrender report, for the period 19/12/2000 to 18/12/2003.
Interpretation of aerial photographs revealed a paralic salt lake adjacent to the Coorong National Park near Kingston (South-East), in an area of land that was about to be sterilised for allowing ongoing mineral exploration, due to the provisions of...-
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Kingston (South-East). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 19/12/2000 to 12/6/2006.
Three salt lakes that extend in chain-like fashion along the inner Coorong - Lacepede Bay shoreline, over a distance of 24 km to the north of Kingston (SE) township, have been investigated for possible economic evaporitic mineral deposits that may...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1906
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South Australia. Miscellaneous, non-tenement related SADM and BMR - authored technical reports for the period 1940 to 1969.
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Black Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/2003 to 25/8/2008.
Inco Resources ('Inco') has been exploring the outcropping portion of the Ordovician Black Hill Intrusive Complex for possible Voisey's Bay style nickel, copper and platinum group element (PGE) mineralisation. This work commenced on 30/9/2004, when it...-
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Alice Park. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/4/2013 to 16/7/2014.
An area centred ~10 km north of Bordertown, abutting the SA/Vic. state border, has been explored for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the southern Murray Basin as beach strandings within Loxton-Parilla Sand...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1914
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Cronje Dam and Oak Bank Outstation (the Cronje Dam Sedimentary Uranium Project). Annual and joint annual reports, plus final report at remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 1/11/2014.
An area comprised of three separate sub-blocks generally located ~60 km south of Manna Hill and ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for Tertiary sedimentary uranium which may have formed in buried north to south trending palaeochannels...-
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Kangaroo Flat. Information status at licence full surrender, for the period 8/5/2013 to 16/7/2014: no work performed.
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Woolpunda (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/11/2000 to 3/7/2017.
An area located immediately south of the Sturt Highway that connects between Swan Reach and Loxton, in the vicinity of the Woolpunda Irrigation Area, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have...-
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