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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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Bendigo Station (the Fairview Joint Venture). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/11/1992 to 8/11/1995.
As part of continued exploration over a 48% reduced licence area from prior EL 1416 (see Env 8585 for relinquishment report), 36 exploratory inclined RC drillholes (total penetration 3404 m) evaluated nine high-priority aeromagnetic targets, with some...-
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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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RB 60/00040 Geology of the MARREE 1:250 000 map area.
The MARREE mapsheet area lies in arid country about 400 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia. It includes the town of Marree, on the Alice Springs railway line, and part of the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks. The area is covered mainly by flat...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1965
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RB 84/00007 Sand and clay resources of the Maslin Beach-Pedlar Creek area.
Evaluates economic potential of all stratigraphic units and recommends modification of Extractive Industry Zone. Contains 115 million tonnes of construction sand predominantly in North Maslin Sand Member and widespread weathered bedrock brick shale....-
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Published: 30 Sep 1985
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RB 79/00024 Adelaidean sedimentation. The Adelaide Geosyncline and Stuart Shelf.
In southern South Australia, the meridional Torrens Hinge Zone, at approximately longitude 138º, separates the cratonic Stuart Shelf with its undeformed, relatively thin sedimentary cover in the west, from the folded Adelaide Geosyncline to the east....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 88/00051 Pre-Mesozoic geology of the Curdimurka region.
Pre-Mesozoic rocks are best exposed in the Willouran Ranges SW of Marree, but inliers occur as far west as Stuart Creek. These approximate the junction of the Stuart Shelf (to the west) with the Torrens Hinge Zone, which extends east to the Norwest...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1988
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RB 88/00096 Proterozoic Ediacara fauna and Cambrian archaeocyatha of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
This paper describes the type fossil occurrences, their present-day geological setting and, as deduced from properties of the host sediments, their interpreted palaeogeographic locations and palaeoenvironmental depositional facies which probably...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1988
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RB 88/00019 Stratigraphic and tectonic overview of the Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia.
The Adelaide Geosyncline contains an extremely thick folded Late Proterozoic to Middle Cambrian sequence deposited initially in rifted troughs and later in broad zones of regional subsidence. Age constraints on deposition are based on dating of rare...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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Porter Hill. Annual reports for the period 26/8/1998 to 26/5/2000 (the commencement of the Lake Torrens Project joint reporting period) : part of a data release made on 31/12/2006 upon a subsequent partial surrender.
Following the detection in late 1997, by reconnaissance mobile metal ion partial leach analytical methods, of anomalous base and precious metal concentrations in the soil above several low amplitude magnetic anomalies on Tasman Resources' EL 2340, the...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1999
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Beltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 18/12/1967 to 17/12/1969.
An evaluation of the base metal potential of the greater Beltana 'diapiric' complex was undertaken by MIM via field mapping, soil geochemical surveys and limited shallow rotary percussion drilling at historic surface workings on small showings of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Grainger (part of the Mount Grainger JV Project). Annual reports for the period 25/10/1996 to 24/10/2000.
Exploration over a structurally complex part of the Nackara Arc region centred ~30 km north-east of Peterborough has sought economic Telfer-type gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been intruded during...-
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Hawker. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2012 to 8/10/2014.
A large area surrounding Hawker township and elongated along strike by ~25 km to both the north and south has been explored for buried sediment-hosted stratabound base metal mineralisation. During the first licence year, after a field reconnaissance...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1915
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Wirrealpa. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 26/2/1988.
Economic deposits of Mississippi Valley type stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation within in Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration undertaken on and near the Wirrealpa Diapir. A preliminary field reconnaissance had shown that surface...-
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Mount Stuart. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1987.
Epithermal, fault-related gold and base metals in calcareous Adelaidean metasediments (cf. the Beltana and Aroona zinc-lead deposits), and sedex style base metals of Mount Isa - McArthur River type, or stratiform base metals in black shale units, were...-
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Beltana mine area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/9/1982 to 8/12/1987.
Renewed exploration by E-Z of the area surrounding the Beltana zinc mine has investigated the possibility for finding deep, unweathered Cambrian or Proterozoic carbonate-hosted zinc-lead sulphide mineralisation. It was considered that this target had...-
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Paratoo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/3/1988 to 30/2/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic, open-pit mineable stratiform low grade gold and copper deposits within Adelaidean units of the Nackara Arc, in an area lying west of and including Yunta. EXPLORATION: A detailed geological field reconnaissance, review of...-
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Published: 19 May 1990
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Stuart Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1979 to 18/10/1982.
One vertical stratigraphic diamond drillhole [the 1a re-drill] was fully cored to 1450 m total depth over a regional gravity high in the western half of the licence which was thought to be prospective for Olympic Dam type polymetallic mineralisation...-
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Mount Allen. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over the same area, for the period 10/12/1973 to 9/12/1975.
Brownfields exploration is being undertaken in the Mount Allen Syncline area north of Kapunda, seeking extensions to apparently stratabound copper mineralisation which occurs in the historic Kapunda mine locality. Initially, 1:25,000 scale geological...-
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Furlough Dam. Progress reports for the period 28/7/80 to 27/4/81.
Results of the deep stratigraphic / mineral exploratory well MU-2 drilled near Mulyungarie Homestead, east of Lake Frome and adjacent to the SA/NSW State border, are presented, besides the interpretation of a gravity survey conducted earlier in the...-
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Published: 17 Nov 1981
