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Stuart Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/5/1977 to 12/5/1979.
Stratiform base metal sulphide deposits and sedimentary uranium accumulations were targeted in the Stuart Creek area, which straddles the Torrens Fault on the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf. Two airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys totalling...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-31 - Bute township area mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
The licensee, Peter Forwood, has been involved in mineral exploration at Bute for many years, initially with North Broken Hill Ltd in ELs 248, 420, 577 and 972, and has pursued the exploration of the area through many phases. Two important features...-
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[ Report on drilling ] Evaluation of the East Lagoon orebody, Mount Gunson, South Australia.
This report presents the results of ore definition drilling derived from 60 percussion and diamond drill holes put down over the central and southern parts of the East Lagoon orebody, and gives the methodology for calculating currently mineable ore...-
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Mount Gunson ore controls as a basis for further exploration.
This report presents the geological setting and postulated ore controls for the Mount Gunson style of mineralisation, with an expansion on the inferred metal concentration mechanism and its quantitative feasibility. Recommendations for two optimal...-
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Published: 17 Aug 1971
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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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Aerial [INPUT] EM survey data interpretation and follow-up drilling results, Winnie Pinnie area, Stuart Shelf, for the period April 1976 to May 1979.
The results of 1185 line km of aerial EM surveying carried out in the vicinity of Winnie Pinnie Dam, 85 km north-west of Port Augusta, using the Barringer INPUT system, have been interpreted as a possible means of identifying prospective Adelaidean...-
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Mount Gunson district. Geological mapping data, 1971-1972.
A mapping programme was undertaken by the licensees to test the possibility of the near-mine area to Mount Gunson being a suitable host environment for stratiform copper mineralisation. The exploration hypothesis used was that such mineralisation...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1972
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Mount Gunson. Reports on trial seismic refraction surveys conducted in 1966 and 1972 to map possible ore-bearing horizons.
Reports describe the results of two attempts to use seismic refraction methods to map an unconformable subsurface interface between lithic sandstone and quartzite units within the Whyalla Sandstone. This palaeosurface is important as a locus for...-
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Mount Gunson copper deposit. Operator's reports about mine geology, mineralisation and ore genesis, for the period 1970-1983.
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Published: 25 Jul 1983
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Cattlegrid. Progress report, 1976.
Summary of geological knowledge to date, including mineralogy, paragenesis and ore handling problems.-
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Report on diamond drilling, February-March 1975, Gully area, Mount Gunson.
16 diamond drill holes tested the distribution and grade of copper mineralization occuring in the Woocalla shales. Drilling results suggest that no economically viable copper deposit exists in the Gully due to the low grade, high overburden and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1975 to 15/4/1977.
Stratiform copper sulphides, hosted within the basal Tapley Hill Formation, and extensions of known kimberlite bodies were targeted in this program. Reconnaissance and closer (down to 1 km x 1 km) spaced diamond and percussion drilling (28 and 83...-
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RB 69/00080 Report on seismic refraction investigations over SML 315 near Pernatty Lagoon - Stuarts Bluff Minerals Ltd.
Isolated seismic refraction probes over S.M.L. 315 east of. Pernatty Lagoon revealed refractor velocities often quite different from those obtained over the outcropping rock units near Woocalla siding. However two areas adjacent to a subsurface ridge...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 71/00161 Pernatty Lagoon barite deposit.
A deposit of barite, up to 20m wide and 350m long occurs in the Woocalla Dolomite Member at Pernatty Lagoon. The barite as indicated by grab samples, is associated with up to about 2.6 per cent strontium sulphate, 0.12 per cent iron oxide and 0.8 per...-
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Published: 04 Oct 1971
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucolo Creek (also called the Churchill Dam Project). Annual reports for the period 31/1/2006 to 14/11/2018.
EL 3511 Eucolo Creek, of 528 square km, is situated near the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton within the Olympic Dam Domain, approximately 90 km south-west of the Olympic Dam IOCG-U deposit (3.98 billion tonnes at 1.1% Cu, 0.4 kg/t U3O8 and 0.5 g/t...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1918
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Port Pirie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 30/6/1982.
Continuing exploration for possible buried Mount Gunson and Olympic Dam type copper deposits, or other stratabound base metal occurrences within shelfal facies of Adelaidean sediments or in the pre-Adelaidean Wandearah Formation Carpentarian age...-
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Port Pirie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/4/1977 to 19/4/1979.
Concerted exploration for possible stratiform Mount Gunson type or epithermal Olympic Dam type base metal deposits, on the south-eastern edge of the Stuart Shelf near Port Pirie, was begun by North Broken Hill Ltd in response to the public release by...-
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Report on the Mount Whyalla barite mine, Pandurra area, SA.
Report briefly discusses the mode of occurrence and inferred genesis of a previously worked small barite deposit, now located within EL 50, that is the subject of new interest by a private prospector seeking permission to peg a mineral claim.-
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Lake Dutton. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/10/1968 to 30/9/1970.
Possible economic stratiform base metal mineralisation formed within the Woocalla Dolomite Formation, which is shallowly buried over a wide area south-east of Lake Dutton, was targeted by ongoing work in an area located west and south-west of Pernatty...-
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Price. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 6/12/1978.
Continuation by Aquitaine of its regional appraisal of the mineral potential in the Cambrian carbonate sequence on northern Yorke Peninsula, has recently involved them in acquiring and interpreting ground gravity and magnetic surveys, completing a...-
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