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Woomera. First partial surrender report, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/1/2015.
An area located immediately south and east of Woomera township has been acquired to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence of the...-
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Woocalla. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/12/2005 to 18/12/2014.
Woocalla EL 3744/4725, comprising two small licence sub-blocks, is located near to but to the south and south-east of the historic Mount Gunson stratiform copper mining field. Licensee Gunson Resources has been in joint venture there with Noranda...-
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Published: 07 Jan 1915
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Murninnie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/4/2006 to 14/11/2013.
During August 2006, Australasia Gold acquired a 45% interest in the historic abandoned Murninnie copper mine (Private Mine 156) and a surrounding small exploration licence (EL 3542), which are located ~30 km south-southwest of Whyalla. In July 2007,...-
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Published: 13 Oct 1914
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Yalymboo. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/6/2010 to 19/6/2015.
A small area located east of Lake MacFarlane has been explored for possible economic Mount Gunson type sediment-hosted copper deposits, unconformity style uranium mineralisation and IOCG-U style volcanic breccia deposits. The only activities...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Minlaton, Ardrossan and Ardrossan Coastal Area (the Moonta South Project). Annual and combined annual reports to licences' renewal, for the period 19/4/2002 to 1/8/2008.
Two exploration licences covering most of Yorke Peninsula south of Maitland were taken up by Avoca Resources to allow it to determine the region's potential for having economic basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation...-
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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 1910
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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 1913
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (where licence is subject in part to the Moonta Porphyry Joint Venture). Annual reports for the period 24/12/1996 to 11/4/2008. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
When Phelps Dodge began managing exploration on EL 2885 in mid-2002, its focus was on defining structurally-controlled magnetic targets that had remained untested, but which could host significant sized deposits of Olympic Dam or Ernest Henry type...-
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West of Lake Eyre area. Annual reports and combined annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 13/11/2006 to 19/3/2013.
An area of Cretaceous and younger cover located close to the south-western margin of Lake Eyre North, where no previous drilling had occurred, was taken up to explore for possible buried IOCG deposits hosted by the underlying basement, and for...-
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Whittata. Information status at licence surrender, for the period 4/9/2012 to 27/8/2015: no work performed.
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Hedley Hill. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for the six Lake Torrens Project licences, for the period 26/5/1997 to 25/5/2000.
Exploration Licence 2340 “Hedley Hill” is located adjacent to the northeast extremity of Lake Torrens. During the 80’s and 90’s exploration of the Lake Torrens district has had the prime objective of the discovery of an "Olympic Dam" style deposit...-
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Published: 20 Jul 1900
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Andamooka North (later part of the Lake Torrens Project). Sole annual report submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for the six Lake Torrens Project licences, for the period 3/5/1999 to 25/5/2000.
Within a large area lying a short distance to the north and north-west of Andamooka, licensee Tasman Resources is targeting hydrothermal precious metal mineralisation that may have formed within the Neoproterozoic Wilpena Group, because the company's...-
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Published: 07 May 1900
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RB 2004/00001 Palaeochannel studies related to the Harris Greenstone Belt, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Architecture and evolution of the Kingoonya Palaeochannel system.
Exploring the earth resources in the Harris Greenstone Belt (HGB) region is complicated by a regolith cover produced by a long and complex history of landscape evolution. The present surface of the HGB indicates little of the complex palaeochannel...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2004
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RB 2015/00014 Chief Government Geologists' excursion, 2015.
This report contains the excursion guide for the field trip which was held as part of the Chief Government Geologists' Meeting convened in South Australia on 23rd and 24th March 2015. The focus of the field trip was to see rocks of the Gawler Range...-
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Published: 01 May 2015
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RB 2010/00018 Investigation into the use of radon and soil sampling in exploration at the Hillside copper-gold deposit, South Australia.
Copper and gold mineralisation is commonly associated with accessory uranium, and so radon generated from the uranium's decay may provide a tool that is useful in exploration for this style of deposit. As part of an investigation into applying radon...-
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Published: 01 May 2010
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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RB 2012/00012 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2011-2012.
This report presents the results of geochronology from projects completed during 2011 and 2012, which addressed rock samples collected from a number of different geological provinces within South Australia. The Musgrave Province in northern South...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2012
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RB 2013/00020 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration data - Woomera Prohibited Area within the Gawler Craton.
The Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) is a military testing range covering ~127,000 square km of the land surface of central South Australia. Underlying it are highly prospective rocks of the Gawler Craton, a major province of the earth's crust which...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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RB 2016/00009 Geological field excursion guide — IOCGs – where it all began: the Moonta-Wallaroo region of the eastern Gawler Craton.
INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE Northern Yorke Peninsula (NYP) is within the southern portion of the Olympic Domain of the eastern Gawler Craton, which is arguably the world’s most fertile IOCG belt. That such a belt existed was only realised when Western...-
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Published: 01 May 2016
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RB 2013/00014 IOCG-style mineralisation in the central eastern Gawler Craton, SA; characterisation of alteration, geochemical associations and exploration vectors.
While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2013
