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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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Mount Double. First partial surrender report for the period 24/11/2005 to 23/11/2007.
Exploration for possible buried economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineral deposit targets within the subject relinquished area of the south-central Gawler Ranges utilised existing regional gravity data to attempt to identify...-
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Conical Hill. First partial surrender report for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2008.
Work done for EL 3486 during the first two years of tenure comprised reviews of existing geological and geophysical information conducted independently by Minotaur Exploration and Toro Energy. EL 3486 was partly covered by a major government-funded...-
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Gibraltar Rocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/4/2001 to 24/11/2008.
Exploration of an area with poor basement outcrop located approximately 40 km north of Tarcoola, primarily sought possible fault or breccia-hosted mesothermal gold +/- base metal mineralisation in likely multiphase Mesoproterozoic felsic volcanic and...-
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Published: 14 Aug 1908
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Kimba Gap [South] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports [to the commencement of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 17/9/2003 to 16/9/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 50 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group (SAIOG) to explore for possible concealed economic...-
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Cockabidnie North. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2010.
A small (11 square km) area located approximately 40 km south of Kimba has been explored for possible economic uranium, gold or base metal deposits, including Menninnie Dam style lead-zinc-silver mineralisation, that may have formed in Archaean to...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1910
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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 16 - Cockabidnie Project airborne 25Hz TEMPEST electromagnetic geophysical survey. Project PT1-16 final report.
To help with exploration of the ~ 5 km long, NNE trending Kimban Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, to look for a large range of potentially economic basement-hosted polymetallic and other mineral occurrences including iron...-
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Published: 15 Oct 1912
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Gilles Downs (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report (prior to start of joint reporting status) for the period 8/7/2005 to 7/7/2006: and final report submitted at licence full surrender, for the succeeding period to 30/7/2015.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located on the plains extending to the west of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to explore for possible economic buried deposits of stratabound magnetite iron ore...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kimba Gap [North] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 60 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd(SAIOG), a subsidiary of WA-based Portman Iron Ore...-
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Lake Gilles - Uno [Range] area. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/2/2001 to 28/9/2010.
Exploration of an area abutting the northern side of Lake Gilles, and located in the vicinity of the major Uno Fault structure and the Gawler Ranges volcanic province, 70 km north-west of Whyalla, has sought to find economic epithermal/hydrothermal,...-
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Green Patch. Annual reports for the period 3/12/2001 to 30/5/2006, plus the last six years of tenure' combined annual reports/final report ('no work' letter only) to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/2/2015 to 31/8/2021.
An area centred on the hamlet of Green Patch, located ~10 km north-west of Port Lincoln, was taken up to appraise the iron ore potential of known near surface BIF magnetite mineralisation occurring at the Greenpatch (sic) prospect that had been...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1921
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pondooma. Annual and combined annual reports for the period 3/12/2002 to 2/12/2005.
Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, consisting of two separate sub-blocks that are centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, is located immediately west of the Middleback Range and 5 km west of Onesteel’s Iron Duke mine. This licence was granted to SA...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Karkarook. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/9/1998 to 16/9/2003.
Holocene lacustrine gypsum beds, believed to have formed around 6000 years ago by the evaporation of saline water in a series of shallow lakes and lagoons that had developed along the ancestral Driver River watercourse, were the objectives of early...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Annual reports for the period 5/10/1995 to 30/1/2007 [Index part 2 of 3].
After Helix Resources farmed into the Middleback Range in mid-1998, seeking to determine the iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation potential of that region, where no previous such exploration had occurred, it undertook systematic...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Dutton Bay. First annual report for the period 16/9/2005 to 15/9/2006.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middlecamp Hills. Annual reports for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2019.
Two small areas have been taken up in the Cleve Uplands district to explore structurally interesting portions of the Lower and Upper Middleback Jaspilite stratigraphic units for possible economic buried copper, gold, manganese and iron ore...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1918
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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 8 - Central Gawler Project area, Eurilla Dam, Uno, Peterlumbo and Mount Miccollo airborne magnetic/radiometric geophysical survey. Project PT1-08 final report.
Since late 2007, Trafford Resources has been exploring for possible buried economic IOCG or skarn style metallic mineral deposits within the four subject licences located in the southern Gawler Ranges, as part of the larger Wilcherry Hill Project...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1911
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Kielpa (part of the Cowell Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/12/2005 to 20/3/2014.
An area centred about 25 km west of Cleve has been explored for possible buried Athabasca Basin type unconformity - style uranium mineralisation, which it was thought might have formed in a fairly deep (> 200 m) geological setting where...-
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Published: 18 Jun 1914
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-37 - Eurilla JV Project, north-central Eyre Peninsula - Jungle Dam Palaeoproterozoic hydrothermal vein-hosted primary uranium mineral prospects. Drilling final report.
In 2007, Lincoln Minerals discovered greenfields uranium mineralisation near Jungle Dam on its EL 3690, located about 45 km north-east of Kimba on the northern Eyre Peninsula. EL 3690 straddles a NNW-trending splay of the Kalinjala Shear Zone (~1720...-
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Published: 15 Aug 1911
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Stony Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report (submitted prior to start of the project's joint reporting status), for the period 2/12/2004 to 1/12/2005.
A licence area covering the subdued hilly terrain lying a short distance to the west of the northern Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to explore for possible economic buried deposits of stratabound magnetite iron ore which...-
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