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RB 88/00057 Torrens Hinge Zone Project - Bute region. Second and final report.
The Torrens Hinge Zone Project aimed to demonstrate the existence of prospective metalliferous rocks beneath the Cainozoic cover, to stimulate exploration and to investigate the transition between the Adelaidean sequences of the well-exposed Adelaide...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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RB 89/00076 Mount Barker Golf Club water well testing.
Competing groundwater use is a problem in the vicinity of the Mount Barker Golf Club grounds, which has been recognized by the parties involved and government since late 1985. A well monitoring network for both water level and salinity was set up and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1989
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RB 96/00027 Seismic hazard and microzonation of the Adelaide metropolitan area.
Since the 1989 Newcastle earthquake event, a number of studies on earthquakes have been carried out in South Australia. This report brings together most of these studies, focussing on the probability of ground shaking in Adelaide (hazard), and the...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1996
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RB 97/00039 Lineament tectonic data, South Australia, with a focus on the Cooper Basin.
The lineament mapping methods used by E.S.T. (Tim) O'Driscoll, which were a crucial factor in the discovery of Olympic Dam, the world's largest known Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, and of several other lesser Australian metallic orebodies, have now been applied...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-64, eastern Torrens Basin / Torrens Hinge Zone, Parachilna geothermal play 2-D reflection seismic survey. Project final report.
As part of Torrens Energy' pioneering hot rock geothermal resource exploration in the central part of the Torrens Hinge Zone, a two-dimensional reflection seismic survey traverse was acquired using low-impact Vibroseis signal source equipment in the...-
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Primrose Hill. First partial relinquishment report for the period 13/8/2007 to 12/8/2008.
In a search for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation within inferred Proterozoic basement, a new regional gravity survey incorporating the subject EL 3890 Primrose Hill and Minotaur's adjacent EL 3944 Sunny Creek was undertaken in July...-
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Primrose Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/8/2007 to 12/8/2009.
Exploration of an area located approximately 60 km north of William Creek, looking for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation within inferred concealed Proterozoic basement east of the Peake and Denison...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1909
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Leighton. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 21/8/2009.
Basal Umberatana Group glacial tillitic sedimentary sequences and upper Burra Group interglacial arenaceous sediments were explored for possible economic stratabound gold mineralisation in an area located about 10-40 km north-west of Burra. In the...-
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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Paratoo (was formerly part of the Grainger Project; recently made part of the Flinders Ranges JV Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/2005 to 9/11/2009.
Portions of a helicopter-borne detailed aerial magnetic survey, the third in a series of large regional magnetic surveys undertaken by Flinders Diamonds Ltd within the Flinders Ranges in recent years, were flown across the now relinquished parts of EL...-
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Mount Denison and Mount Charles (the Peake and Denison Project). Data release made upon the expiry/full surrender of subsequent licences : respective annual and joint annual reports for the period 1/6/1994 to 31/5/1999. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
[ Note - here is only Part 1 of an abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. The subject two areas covering the northern outcropping Peake and Denison Ranges basement inliers were taken up by Pancontinental Mining to test for possible...-
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Nelshaby. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2005.
Bedded deposits of magnesite known to exist within the southern Flinders Ranges, where they outcrop over a considerable strike distance extent in the country approximately 20 km east of Port Pirie, were identified by Magnesium Developments Limited...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-39, Torrens Hinge Zone / Stuart Shelf project area Mississippi Valley type (MVT) mineral prospects. Project final report.
The recent Geoscience Australia - run regional seismic traverse across the Stuart Shelf has revealed the architecture of the buried Neoproterozoic sediments there, and also that of the structures created during the Delamerian inversion. Dewatering of...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1907
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The Kapunda mine, 1842 - 1912.
The subject report, drawing on numerous contemporary accounts, sketches and photographs of the historic Kapunda copper mine, clearly demonstrates that despite this mine being much smaller and earlier than the better-known 'monster' Burra mine, its...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-03, Blue Rose mineral prospect Target 1 - porphyry style Cu-Au-Mo. Project final report.
Remodelling and re-interpretation of the geological and geophysical signatures of the Blue Rose prospect by the EL 2938 Joint Venture has indicated good potential for discovering a large porphyry copper-gold deposit at depth, beneath historical...-
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Published: 16 May 1906
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Mount Norwest. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 29/9/2004 to 15/4/2008.
A structurally complex area located 50-70 km south-west of Marree was taken up to explore for possible diamonds, this strategy being based on recognition of apparently favourable geological criteria for the presence of diamond-bearing kimberlites and...-
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Published: 26 Aug 1908
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The Neales River Project. Data release at licences' joint surrender on 1/12/2008: combined first annual report for the period 17/5/2007 to 16/5/2008.
As part of a regional search for possible economic buried Olympic Dam type IOCG-U deposits emplaced along the north-eastern margin of the Gawler Craton, adjacent to the Peake and Denison Inliers, Barrick Gold has acquired infill helicopter-borne...-
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Ben Lomond (part of Perilya's Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender for the period 2/3/2000 to 17/11/2007.
Due to the licensee's competing commitments from others of its tenements in the exploration project area, the planned evaluation of geochemical prospects and Landsat Fe-alteration anomalies detected in shelf margin, deep-water carbonate sedimentary...-
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Published: 22 Jan 1908
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Myrtle Springs, Farina, Witchelina and Mount Ogilvie (the NRG Leigh Creek Corridor Project). Joint final report at licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/8/2003 to 15/9/2007.
Exploration for possible economic brown coal occurrences within inferred concealed northern extensions to known coal-bearing Triassic intramontane basins in the Leigh Creek district has consisted of semi-detailed, 1 km x 500 m gravity surveys and...-
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Published: 03 Aug 1907
