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Malbooma. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/9/1987 to 13/3/1990.
TARGET: Gold in Lower Proterozoic rocks of the Tarcoola Formation and part of the Mulgathing Complex, possibly as a metamorphosed equivalent of the high grade gold orebodies of The Granites (Tanami Desert, NT). EXPLORATION: Interpretation of aerial...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2013 to 30/6/2018.
During the sixth year of the project, base metals exploration was focussed on the Mars-Aurora Tank, Wirrida and Bundi prospects using ground gravity and IP survey methods. Some trial magnetotelluric and audio-frequency magnetotelluric survey profiles...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1918
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Engenina Creek - Mount Brady and Balta Baltana Creek areas, south-east of Coober Pedy. Progress reports and final annual report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/4/1981 to 23/6/1993.
{ELs 822, 1145, 1494 programme}: TARGET: Roxby Downs and Tennant Creek - style copper, gold, and uranium, plus diamonds in kimberlite diatremes and metamorphic and hydrothermal breccia - related iron ore, in the Engenina Creek area, 60 km south-east...-
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Published: 24 Jul 1993
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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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ComRev 016 Iron Ore opportunities in South Australia 2014 (historical reference only)
A 2016 summary of iron ore opportunities within South Australia. Each mine, deposit or prospect has detailed resource information and a snap-shot of the associated companies at that time.-
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ComRev 015 The South Australian Resources Sector 2016 (historical reference only)
Gold: Gold mineralisation is widespread in South Australia and occurs in most geological provinces Copper: Many of the deposits in South Australia’s copper provinces are covered by a sequence of younger rocks that have effectively hidden many large...-
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ComRev 011 Uranium in South Australia 2016 (historical reference only)
Australia has a substantial allocation of the world’s uranium resources, especially defined under the lower risk RAR (Reasonably Assured Resources) metric. Australia hosts 29% of the world’s uranium resources (RAR and inferred) recoverable at...-
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ComRev 009 Gold in South Australia 2016 (historical reference only)
Gold mineralisation is widespread and occurs in most geological provinces of South Australia. Gold in South Australia is obtained from two types of primary deposits - quartz veins (reefs or lodges) and deposits worked mainly for base metals from which...-
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ComRev 010 Copper in South Australia 2016 (historical reference only)
South Australia’s copper deposits are held within three significant regions, Gawler Craton, Curnamona Province and the Adelaide Geosyncline, which host 3 producing mines, 4 developing projects and over 40 copper prospects. Many of the deposits in...-
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ComRev 012 Iron Ore in South Australia 2016 (historical reference only)
South Australia is the birthplace of the Australian iron ore industry. There are existing operational mines in the Middleback Ranges. There are a further two mines approved and twenty developing projects across the State with identified resources of...-
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RB 2018/00018 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration data - Woomera Prohibited Area within the Gawler Craton. 2nd edition.
The Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) is a military testing range covering 122,188 square km of the land surface of central South Australia. Underlying it are highly economic minerals - prospective rocks of the Gawler Craton, a major province of the...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2018
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 4 partnership no. DPY4-07, Mirikata mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Mirikata EL 3537 joint venture partners, Newcrest Operations Ltd and PlatSearch NL, have completed a planned four hole drilling campaign over three separate magnetic and/or gravity anomalies located 30-40 km west-southwest of Prominent Hill on...-
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Gina Outstation. Information status at licence expiry, for the period 26/3/2008 to 25/3/2009 : no work performed.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 25 Mar 1909
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Lyons [Siding] [formerly called Rounsevell Hill]. Third partial surrender report, for the period 25/10/2002 to 2/12/2008.
As part of a regional search for possible economic IOCG type mineralisation in an area of covered Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions north-west of Tarcoola, EL 3994 (formerly EL 3040) was covered by a regional gravity survey in September-October 2005,...-
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Tallaringa South area. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 10/9/2007 to 20/6/2014.
An area centred ~120 km WSW of Coober Pedy has been explored for possible buried economic sandstone-hosted secondary uranium deposits which might have formed within eastwards-draining tributaries of the Tertiary Garford Palaeochannel. This...-
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Published: 21 Jul 1914
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Garford. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/11/2008 to 20/6/2014.
An area centred ~160 km southwest of Coober Pedy, that is located on and immediately south of the Karari Fault, a major crustal structure which has controlled deposition at the southern limit of the Permian to Tertiary sediment-filled Tallaringa...-
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Published: 21 Jul 1914
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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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Woorong. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/2/2007 to 19/2/2010.
Exploration of an area located approximately 90 km south-west of Coober Pedy was directed primarily at finding possible economic sedimentary uranium mineralisation within the subcropping Tertiary Garford Palaeochannel strata, as well as addressing the...-
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Published: 22 Apr 1910
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Lake Tallacootra area (Watson Joint Venture Project). Data release at licence expiry/full surrender: annual reports & partial surrender reports submitted until the start of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 23/3/2005 to 22/3/2008.
An area situated on the eastern margin of the Nullarbor Plain has been explored for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits that may have formed in Tertiary strata underlying the Nullarbor Limestone. The target porous sediments are those...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Bulgunnia. Annual reports for the period 3/6/1996 to 2/6/1998.
Exploration for possible Challenger - type primary gold deposits formed within buried Archaean basement rocks in a multi-block licence area located roughly mid-way between Tarcoola and Coober Pedy is being conducted under a joint venture agreement...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1998
