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Thermoluminescence studies of a uraniferous Tertiary palaeochannel, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. (Appendix 1 to progress report on EL 1214, Dunn Hill, for period ending 18/2/1986).
The research project's aims were : 1. to apply thermoluminescence (TL) methods to the uraniferous Narlaby Palaeochannel 2. to study the granite palaeochannel basement as a possible source of uranium. Artificial TL applied to 162 samples revealed...-
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Moonta - Wallaroo district, Gawler Block, South Australia. A review of the geology, ore deposits and untested potential of EL 544.
The aim of this consultant's economic geological review was to ascertain whether any now obvious but still untested targets remained in the Wallaroo - Moonta mining area after 20 years of intensive exploration. WEST DOORA - VULCAN: This line of...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1980
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill area (the Eaglehawk Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 22/6/2012 to 21/6/2017.
An area centred ~115 km south-west of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic buried precious and/or base metal mineralisation (including iron ore) that may exist in predominantly buried Archaean or younger Proterozoic basement rocks, as...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Port Augusta Project. Joint annual reports for the period 8/5/2013 to 7/5/2018 and subsequent expiry/full surrender reports to 6/10/2023.
Two small adjacent areas located 25 km north of Port Augusta, on the south-eastern Stuart Shelf close to the Torrens Hinge Zone, are being explored for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation which could have formed within inferred deep and...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1918
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Gina Outstation (part of the Commonwealth Hill Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/7/2013 to 3/4/2017.
No field work was performed on the subject licence during its last year of tenure. However, this Envelope contains all of the earlier (including that collected within the last 5 years) licence-specific soil calcrete geochemical, gravity survey and...-
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Published: 27 May 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Middleback Range and Moonabie Hills. Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2007 to 30/1/2019, plus surrender reports to 9/7/2023.
Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North-west Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports plus annual reports for the period 8/10/2013 to 7/10/2018. Plus partial/expiry/full surrender reports to 24/04/2024.
Ten licences distributed across a broad region of the north-eastern Gawler Craton, between Roxby Downs and Coober Pedy, are being explored for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation. Research and interpretation completed by the licensee...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Joint annual reports for the period 4/1/2009 to 3/1/2019.
During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1919
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Port Augusta. Progress reports and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/3/1982 to 29/10/1986.
The principal target of ongoing exploration in the southern Lake Torrens region was a possible buried, large, high-grade base and precious metal deposit lying within the pre- Pandurra Formation basement. After completing the drilling of DDH YAD1 at...-
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Kootaberra (part of the Port Augusta Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/2018 to 24/1/2022.
47 square km or ~13% of the former area of EL 6218 Kootaberra has been relinquished to comply with the Amalgamated Expenditure Arrangement mandatory area reduction conditions for FMG's Port Augusta Project. This licence lies outside of and to the...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1922
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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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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-24 - Nankivel Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources Limited (IVR) is continuing to explore its contiguous tenement package in the Southern Gawler Ranges for economic precious and base metals, following its discovery of the Paris silver deposit in 2011. A prospective region called...-
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Published: 20 Jun 1917
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Gemini 1. Test reports.
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Published: 06 Dec 1978
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/122 : Geochronology of the younger granites of the Gawler Block and its north-western margin. Progress reports 1-32 for the period 10/7/1969 to 2/3/1982.
A SADM project to attempt to determine the ages of the youngest granites of the Gawler Block, of its north-western margin, and of known subsurface granites in the Officer and Eucla Basins, was initiated with Amdel in July 1969. The project aims to...-
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SADM/Amdel Project AN 1/1/187 : Geochronology of the Gawler Range Volcanics. Progress reports 1 to 7, 1976 to 1979, and supporting research data.
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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EPP SA-15, offshore Polda Basin, South Australia. Progress, permit review, technical and surrender reports for the period 17/10/75 to 3/5/83.
During their 7 year tenure of EPP 15, which comprised an area of 200 offshore graticular blocks covering the portion of the Polda Basin underlying the continental shelf, the permit operator(s) carried out the following major exploratory work: (1)...-
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Mount Hope. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/9/1988 to 11/6/1992.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Mount Hope area on western Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: An airborne magnetic-radiometric survey (SADME / BMR / Stockdale 1988), heavy mineral sampling, follow-up ground magnetic surveying, and RAB drilling (91 holes totalling...-
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Cummins. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/11/1971 to 10/11/1972.
In order to appraise a potentially economic discovery of very pure, high reflectivity kaolin clay located near Kapinnie on southern Eyre Peninsula, a drilling programme is planned by Endeavour Oil which aims to outline around 33 million tons of kaolin...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1972
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RB 2021/00001 Precise zircon U-Pb geochronology of Hiltaba Suite granites, Point Riley, Yorke Peninsula.
This report provides a summary of high precision chemical abrasion - isotope dilution thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (CA-IDTIMS) U-Pb geochronology which has been performed on zircons from three samples taken from the eastern Gawler Craton. The...-
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Published: 01 May 2021
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RB 00826 Roger Corner seismic refraction survey.
The results of a 2300 m long seismic refraction profile run over coincident hydrochemical and aeromagnetic anomalies within EL 1018 are here interpreted as representing bedrock, of either buried Archaean metamorphic basement, or else a dense Cambrian...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
