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The MIM-Peko Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project. Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender and their re-issue as a single replacement tenement, for the period 15/2/1983 to 20/10/1989.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, undertaken over areas to the south-east of Arcoona Homestead and in the vicinity of Woomera township, has comprised numerous reconnaissance and then detailed gravity, ground magnetic and CSAMT...-
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Andamooka, Stuart Creek, Arcoona, Lake Torrens, Todds Dam, Lake Arthur, Woodforde Hill and Murdie Island (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint first partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1986.
WMC's Stuart Shelf exploration activities from 1975 to 1985 have sought mainly Olympic Dam style mineralisation (copper - uranium - precious metals in haematitic breccia host rocks), with lesser emphasis directed at: possible distal analogues of the...-
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Lake Torrens South and Harris Crossing area, north of Port Augusta (the Torrens South Project). Combined annual reports plus separate final reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/1/2006 to 30/1/2010.
Exploration for possible buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill type iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the south-eastern side of the Stuart Shelf, in the vicinity of the southern end of Lake Torrens, initially consisted of a review of...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1910
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-14, Pernatty Lagoon area (eastern Gawler Craton) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
PACE proposal DPY3-14 aimed to discover a new iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralised magmatic centre, similar to the Olympic Dam setting, within the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton. The Pernatty Lagoon project is located less than...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1906
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-47, Myall Creek Neoproterozoic stratabound base metal (copper) mineral prospect. Project final report.
The known Myall Creek stratabound copper occurrence located ~23 km north of Whyalla, which was discovered in 1975 by Australian Selection, consists of low-grade (0.3 to 2.2% Cu) Zambian Copperbelt or Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphides extending...-
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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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Data release - as updated : Sunset Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/11/2008 to 13/4/2017.
An area taken up to comprise the middle member of a block of three tenements located in the Myall Creek region ~ 30 km west-southwest of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried stratabound copper sulphide mineralisation as well as...-
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Published: 23 May 1917
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Data release : Yeltacowie, Pernatty [Station] and Whittata (the Punt Hill IOCG Project). Joint annual reports, plus final report to expiry of EL 5774 Punt Hill, for the period 7/1/2012 to 6/1/2017.
During the eighth, 2012-2013 year of tenure of the Pernatty EL area, now being explored in concert with two other adjoining Punt Hill IOCG Project licences, Monax reviewed its past drillhole data, undertook further processing of the project's amassed...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1917
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South Gap. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/7/2017 to 23/7/2021.
A small area situated just north of the Beda Arm of Lake Torrens, and ~20 km north-northeast of the Carrapateena deposit, has been explored for possible buried high grade IOCG mineralisation that may be present in Proterozoic basement rocks. It was...-
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Published: 23 Aug 1921
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty Lagoon [East]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/6/2002 to 26/6/2007.
An area lying along the eastern side of Pernatty Lagoon is being explored primarily for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation of possible Olympic Dam type, that may be hosted by poorly known Proterozoic or older basement rocks which...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1907
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Lake Torrens - Port Augusta and Point Paterson areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/11/1977 to 30/11/1979.
SALT MINING STUDY: Field tests on the feasibility of Lake Torrens salt production to supply raw material for the planned Redcliff Petrochemical Project were continued, with project planning technical data demonstrations given to visiting officials of...-
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Pernatty Ridge. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1989 to 12/12/1991.
Possible stratabound, Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphide within the basal sediments of the early Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation was the target of exploration in the Pernatty Ridge area. Aberfoyle's work has comprised a review of existing...-
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CSR Mount Gunson Project : logs of exploratory/stratigraphic drillholes, Elizabeth Creek and Canegrass Dam areas.
Includes geological logs for the following drillholes: Mount Gunson to Canegrass Dam area: 3-14-1P to 3-14-46P (Mount Gunson Mines, 1972). Canegrass Dam area: 3-14-19P to 3-14-41P (Pacminex, Feb 1972); TOC1 - TOC4 (Pacminex, Nov 1976); SP1 -...-
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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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Kallioota. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2010.
A north-northwest trending basement high or horst-like structure mapped in the subsurface at Yadlamalka, located about 50 km north of Port Augusta, which was indicated by magnetic and gravity data to lie at a depth of about 200 m to 600 m close to the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1910
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Yarley. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/8/2009 to 18/8/2012.
A small area located on the southern Lake Torrens Plains immediately west of the ABC Range was taken up to allow evaluation of its potential for having buried economic sedimentary coal and/or uranium mineralisation occurrences. There are no...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1912
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South Tent Hill and North Tent Hill. Joint annual reports submitted until licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2010.
Two adjoining licence areas located immediately west and north-west of Port Augusta, which cover the southern end of the Cariewerloo Basin and extend north-westwards for 60 km, are being explored for possible economic unconformity-style uranium...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1910
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Yeltacowie, Hesso, Charlinga, Bowen Hill and Kangaroo Bluff (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 16/8/2005 to 14/2/2014.
Uranium One Australia (U1A) acquired the Stuart Shelf Project tenements in 2005 with the aim of exploring for uranium mineralisation that has unconformity - related genetic features broadly analogous to those of deposits of the Athabasca Basin in...-
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Published: 28 May 1914
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty Lagoon [East]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2002.
An area of the Stuart Shelf located between Pernatty Lagoon and the Beda Arm of Lake Torrens, with its western boundary lying 15 km east of the historic Mount Gunson copper mining field, is being explored for possible economic basement-hosted IOCG...-
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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
