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Blanchetown. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/2/2008 to 27/5/2009.
Two separate licence portions together totalling 270 square km or ~33.5% of the former area of EL 4052 have been partially relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential to contain shallow Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences. Licensee...-
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Murtho (part of the Murray Basin Project). Information status at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/11/2009 to 24/9/2015: no work performed.
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Hamley Bridge (North Adelaide Plains). Progress and relinquishment reports for the period 27/7/1981 to 26/4/1982.
In a search for possible economic heavy mineral - bearing buried Tertiary beach sand deposits, similar to the recent Golden Grove discovery made in Eocene fluviatile sediments of an adjacent sub-basin, 20 vertical percussion stratigraphic drillholes...-
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Pinnaroo, Mount Timothy and Dingo Range (the Pinnaroo Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1999.
An airborne magnetic survey acquired by the grant licensee over the Lameroo district during August 1997 generated a number of shallow-source anomalies which suggested that there was fair potential for discovering buried Tertiary palaeocoastal...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1999
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SADME/Amdel Project no. 1/1/271 - Petrology and geochemistry of the Burra copper mine. Progress reports for the period November 1981 to March 1982.
157 rock samples taken from the Samin Ltd open cut copper mine at Burra were investigated by Amdel to determine their metallic elemental content, and petrological and mineragraphic features that might be diagnostic of rock and mineral genesis. Host...-
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Published: 31 Mar 1982
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Mineral Resource Potential Map Series - Barossa.
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Published: 01 Jun 1915
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Tailem Bend - Bordertown - Mount Gambier area (South-Eastern Coastal Plains Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/7/1974 to 19/7/1975.
Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1975
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Mineral Resource Potential Map Series - Onkaparinga.
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Published: 01 Jun 1915
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Carrieton East (part of the Orroroo North Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 13/11/1979 to 11/11/1981.
A south-eastern sector of this licence in the Bendleby area, now considered to have no potential for buried diamonds or kimberlite following an interpretation of the results of reconnaissance and follow-up stream sediment bulk sampling for diamond...-
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Kangaroo Island. Progress reports to SML 23, SML 46 and SML 61 licences' expiry/renewal, for the periods 27/9/1956 to 26/9/1957 and 1/12/1962 to 11/5/1964.
TARGET: Heavy minerals in beach sands and dunes. EXPLORATION: Hand auger drilling, heavy mineral analysis and mineralogy. RESULTS: A number of zircon, rutile and kyanite - bearing sand lenses were identified within the beach facies, but they are...-
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Published: 11 Mar 1964
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Report on November 1969 wagon-drill programme, "Jagged Rocks" prospect, SA.
19 test vertical or inclined wagon drillholes totalling 1420 feet were put down at the site of a SADM prospector's 1954 discovery of davidite mineralisation, which occurs as part of two outcrops separated by a wide (1390 feet) expanse of alluvial...-
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Published: 22 Dec 1969
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Rutile deposits, Morrison Beach area, Kangaroo Island.
The heavy mineral placer deposits at Morrison Beach occur on four separate beach levels, as determined from scout boring along a number of traverses. Bulk sampling and heavy mineral analyses were used to calculate the quantities of rutile and of...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1956
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Preliminary report on rutile bearing sands, Morrison Beach, Kangaroo Island.
Mineral sands containing approximately 25% rutile in the heavy fraction were assessed for their geological extent and economic potential. The heavy mineral strandings occur over varying widths of up to 60 feet throughout the total length of Morrison...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1956
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Northern Kangaroo Island. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/12/1967 to 30/11/1968.
Laboratory beneficiation feasibility tests have been conducted on a 250 lb bulk sample of known heavy mineral - bearing beach sands which were taken from nearshore dunes located along the northern coastline of Kangaroo Island at Nepean Bay. It was...-
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Published: 28 Oct 1968
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Yudnamutana Project: regional geology of the Jubilee Fault Zone [with appendices of geochemical and mineralogical data], May-November 1972.
A structurally deformed area in the southwestern corner of SML 704, having many copper carbonate showings and small historic workings known as the Yudnamutana Mining Field, has been mapped at a semi-detailed scale. The area is transected by the...-
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South Australian Beach Sands Project. Final report for the period 25/8/1975 to 11/11/1975.
Three, or possibly four, raised beach ridge deposits were located along the coastline of the western Eyre Peninsula region during a reconnaissance survey of potential fossil strandline and foredune trapsites looking for economic heavy mineral sand...-
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RB 2025/00001 Titanium: Critical mineral potential of South Australia.
Critical minerals are a collection of metal and non-metal commodities considered essential for economic and industrial development, and for which there are significant concerns around future supply due to resource scarcity or geopolitical factors. The...-
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Published: 05 Feb 2025
