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Northern Spencer Gulf area. First partial relinquishment report for the period 23/9/2002 to 22/9/2003.
Iron-oxide copper-gold mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style was the target of exploration in an area extending southwards and eastwards from Port Augusta. A review of historic exploration data plus an evaluation of new and...-
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Published: 11 Nov 2003
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pernatty [Station]. Annual reports for the period 29/11/2005 to 28/11/2009.
An area centred approximately 110 km north of Port Augusta, covering part of the Pernatty Ridge plateau on the south-western side of Lake Torrens, approximately 145 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine, was taken up to explore for possible economic...-
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Published: 24 May 2010
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Intercept Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/5/2003 to 14/7/2013. [Index Part 2 of 2].
In March 2010, once the terms of the joint venture agreement had been finalised, Argo passed its complete data sets to Xstrata, who immediately commenced a re-logging of Argo's drill cores besides conducting comprehensive unconstrained 3-D modelling...-
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Published: 15 Nov 2013
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Intercept Hill. Annual and final surrender reports for the period 23/1/2001 to 22/1/2003.
The Intercept Hill area, located between the mining centres of Olympic Dam and Mount Gunson, and geographically coincident with the trans-continental G2 gravity corridor, was considered to have potential for Olympic Dam style deposits in...-
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Published: 09 Sep 2003
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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 2007
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Burt Lagoon, Kallioota, Emu Lookout, Mount Norwest and Hookina (the BHPB Lake Torrens Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 27/6/2012 to 10/3/2015.
After BHP Billiton (BHPB) gained ownership of two of the subject exploration licences, and later was granted another three in its own right, the licence group as a whole (now called the Lake Torrens Project) continued to be explored primarily for...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2015
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 18/10/2008 to 24/3/2018.
During licence Year 15 (2008-2009), activities at Mount Gunson comprised: - pegging of three Mineral Claims at the MG 14 deposit in December 2008; - acquiring part of a larger project-wide ground gravity survey during April-May 2009 (510 stations...-
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Published: 22 Aug 2018
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Roxby Downs (part of the Roxby South Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/6/2012 to 7/6/2017.
A small licence area centred approximately 40 km south-southwest of Olympic Dam, and lying close to known buried IOCG-U mineralisation previously discovered by WMC in altered basement rocks at its Wirrda Well, Acropolis and Horse Well prospects, has...-
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Published: 11 Jul 2017
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Arcoona. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/5/2019 to 20/5/2021.
An area located immediately south-east of Pimba has been explored for possible shallowly buried IOCG mineralisation, with a focus on the iron ore potential of magnetite/haematite breccias associated with this mineralisation type. During the first...-
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Published: 13 Jul 2021
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Merna Mora. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2013.
A small licence area located on the Flinders Ranges piedmont plain south-east of Lake Torrens was taken up by Jim Allender to investigate the IOCG potential of a discrete regional gravity anomaly which he had identified from data in the public domain,...-
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Published: 20 Nov 2013
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Tregalana. Data release made in lieu of submitting a licence first partial surrender report: annual reports for the period 22/2/2001 to 21/2/2005.
Exploration of an area located 30 km south-west of Port Augusta initially sought possible Olympic Dam style iron oxide-hosted copper-gold deposits within concealed Mesoproterozoic basement, plus Mount Gunson style stratabound copper in the overlying...-
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Published: 30 Mar 2005
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Tregalana (part of the Spencer Project). Annual reports for the period 22/2/2005 to 12/9/2018.
A north-south elongated, narrow licence area centred ~30 km north of Whyalla and covering ground inland adjacent to the Lincoln Highway, has been taken up to explore for possible economic buried stratiform/stratabound, Mississippi Valley type...-
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Published: 18 Sep 2018
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West Woomera. Annual reports and progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2000 to 30/5/2005.
Copper-gold exploration undertaken over a small area within the Woomera Prohibited Area, 20 km west of Woomera township, was restricted to carrying out geophysical data interpretation and conceptual modelling for generating drill targets based around...-
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Published: 29 Nov 2004
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Whittata. Annual report for the period 4/2/2016 to 3/2/2019.
An area located on the southern Stuart Shelf to the west of and between the Carrapateena and Punt Hill deposits is being explored for possible buried economic IOCG mineralisation. The project is focused on the Olympic Domain or Olympic Copperbelt,...-
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Published: 11 Apr 2019
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curdimurka (part of the North-west Olympic Project). First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
A small and as yet undrilled area centred ~75 km north of Roxby Downs, where the buried top of pre-Adelaidean basement may lie at depths exceeding 2 km, is being explored for possible buried Olympic Dam style IOCG mineralisation even though the chance...-
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Published: 10 Dec 2013
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White Cliff (part of the Olympic Domain Project). Combined second annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/10/2007 to 21/10/2009.
In exploration directed primarily at finding possible economic IOCG type mineral deposits within buried Mesoproterozoic to Palaeoproterozoic basement in an area located 25 to 70 km north-west of Olympic Dam, the licensee targeted density anomalies...-
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Published: 08 Mar 2010
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Griffin Well. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 17/3/2009.
An area within the north-western Stuart Shelf which lies about 80 km west of Olympic Dam and 40 km south of Prominent Hill was explored for possible similar IOCG-U type economic mineral deposits by a new industry entrant uranium explorer, Uranium...-
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Published: 05 Jun 2009
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The Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Northern Tenement Group. First joint annual report, and final report to the respective expiry/full surrender of individual licences, for the period 1/2/2011 to 17/12/2013.
Three separate licence areas located within 50 km of Olympic Dam, and a fourth (Halifax Hill) located 150 km north-west of there, have been explored for possible economic buried IOCG-U mineralisation that may be hosted by Mesoproterozoic basement...-
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Published: 06 Feb 2015
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Mount Eba. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2008.
An area within the northern Stuart Shelf which extends from 15 to 65 km south of the Prominent Hill mine site has been explored for possible similar IOCG-U type economic mineral deposits by a new industry entrant uranium explorer, Uranium Exploration...-
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Published: 16 Jan 2009
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Wirraminna. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/3/2007 to 6/3/2011.
Exploration undertaken within the now relinquished portion of EL 3724 has consisted only of the acquisition of a detailed ground gravity survey during November 2007 over a gravity anomaly identified ~ 80 km west-northwest of Woomera (236 stations were...-
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Published: 29 Feb 2012
