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Yalarna. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/9/1980 to 3/9/1982.
In a search for East Alligator River - type metamorphic uranium deposits, a review of previous geophysical data plus the conduct of ground and airborne radiometric surveys disclosed a number of anomalies in an area on central Eyre Peninsula extending...-
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RB 55/00006;Amdel 00126 Accessory minerals of South Australian granites.
The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1961
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-44, eastern Eyre Peninsula, Glensea & Franklin gravity targets representing inferred Proterozoic mesothermal/metamorphic basement uranium prospects. Final report.
PACE Initiative Year 5 funding for exploratory drilling was granted to Stellar Resources under its proposal DPY-5-44 for a project designed to test geophysical targets within EL 3978 which were interpreted / inferred to represent alaskite units...-
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Myola. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/11/1996 to 29/7/2003.
Palaeoproterozoic gold, copper and base metal occurrences were the targets of exploration in an area surrounding the Iron Baron mine that, in a tectonic sense, incorporates parts of the Cleve, Middleback and Moonta Subdomains. Regional calcrete...-
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Kooralla. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1983 to 3/1/1984.
A single diamond drillhole (TD 362 m) put in to test the Kooralla Magnetic Ridge encountered granite and an augen gneiss/amphibolite schist sequence that is possibly part of the Lincoln Complex. Minor pyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite were present...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1984
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Bull 033 The Geology and Iron Ore Resources of the Middleback Range Area
This report deals comprehensively with the physiography, prospect geology, and ore genesis, and includes an assessment of the iron ore reserves and other mineral resources of an area which has been almost the sole source of the iron ore used in...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1978.
Stratabound, metasedimentary iron ore was the principal target of exploration undertaken by BHP over a large area surrounding the Moonabie Range that extends along strike and borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf. Base and precious metals...-
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Cowell. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/5/1978 to 22/4/1980.
The exploration targets in an area extending along the Spencer Gulf coastal plain between Cowell and Whyalla were sandstone type roll-front uranium deposits, developed in possible Eocene palaeochannels that may have drained the Cleve Uplands and...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1980
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Moonabie. Second partial surrender report, for the period 1/5/2006 to 13/3/2016.
The southern two sub-blocks of a tenement area bordering the south-eastern Gawler Ranges, which is considered prospective for finding buried hypogene IOCG mineralisation and possible stratiform and metamorphic base metals in a peri-volcanic basement...-
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Minnipa area. Surrender report for the period 12/8/94 to 22/6/95.
Reconnaissance for commercially viable granite dimension stone, over an area located north-east of Minnipa, indicated that the outcrops had a marked variability in deleterious properties, particularly fracturing. Direct core sampling of the granite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1995
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Cowell, Sheoak Hill, North Munyaroo and Miltalie (the Cowell Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 26/5/1997 to 25/5/2000.
Calcrete and stream sediment sampling plus a TEISA programme infill aeromagnetic survey were carried out over an area extending for 10-40 km to the north-west and north of Cowell. Anomalous Cu in calcrete was recorded in the vicinity of the Charleston...-
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Charleston (north of Cowell, eastern Eyre Peninsula). Annual and final report for the period 11/1/2001 to 10/7/2002.
EL 2789 covered the Charleston Granite, a large inferred Hiltaba Suite granitoid located at the southern termination of the Middleback Range, 60 km southwest of Whyalla. The area was considered prospective for shear - hosted gold mineralisation...-
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Ironstone Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1997 to 10/8/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey and surficial calcrete, soil and MMI sampling targeted Challenger/Tunkillia-type gold and Olympic Dam style copper-gold, associated respectively with a number of shear zones and with the Charleston Granite,...-
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Lake Gilles. First partial surrender report, for the period 16/4/1993 to 15/3/1995.
Following the acquisition and interpretation of semi-detailed airborne magnetic data, ground inspections carried out on magnetic targets 50 km east of Kimba found them to be related to jaspilite formations. No base metal or gold anomalies were...-
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Investigation of a copper occurrence in the Moonabie Range, SML 205, SA.
An investigation of historic shallow workings on secondary copper mineralisation associated with a narrow fracture zone in the Moonabie Porphyry comprised 1:1000 scale surface mapping, geochemical sampling, petrographic studies and an IP survey. Minor...-
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Summary report on ground scintillometer surveys, SMLs 204 and 205.
Ground scintillometer work carried out by BHP over its SMLs in the Middleback Range area has been shown not to be an effective reconnaissance tool for finding uranium anomalies, but it does have demonstrated value for identifying sources of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Midgee (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2019.
An area of the northern Cowell Hills was taken up to explore for possible economic basement-hosted copper-gold mineralisation of epigenetic style, analogous to that found at the Ernest Henry deposit, which may be associated with magnetic anomalies and...-
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Published: 08 May 2019
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RB 2015/00003 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2013–2015.
The PACE Geochronology program fosters collaboration on projects of geological and metallogenic significance with focus on dating rocks and minerals from samples suggested by companies through a competitive proposal-based selection process. Successful...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
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Data release - as updated : Moonabie (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/2006 to 13/3/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are centred approximately 60 km WSW of Whyalla is being explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation plus precious and base metals, in a structurally complex epithermal and...-
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Published: 29 Apr 2017
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Moonabie. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/5/2006 to 13/3/2014.
Parts of an area bordering the south-eastern Gawler Ranges, which is considered prospective for finding buried hypogene IOCG mineralisation and possible stratiform and metamorphic base metals in a peri-volcanic basement environment, have recently been...-
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Published: 03 Apr 2014
