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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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RB 91/00015 Murray Basin Basement Transect Project. 1990 well completion reports.
During the period March to June 1990, 9 stratigraphic rotary mud/diamond cored holes with a total penetration of 3056 m, including 433.25 m of NQ or HQ cored diamond tails, were drilled by SADME in three cases and by its contractor Rockdril for the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 92/00028 Extent of gabbroic rocks in the southwestern Murray Basin basement.
Two major belts of anomalous gravity and magnetic intensity are distinguished at the SW margin of the Murray Basin. The main belt is about 420 km long and is arcuate in broad outline. In detail it appears to be controlled by three major linear...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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RB 92/00022 Petrology of basement rocks from the southwestern margin of the Murray Basin, South Australia.
Drilling and sampling of basement rocks underlying the south-western Murray Basin, newly performed by CSR Ltd and SADME, have revealed that a hitherto unknown igneous domain exists there. The most abundant rocks are altered and soda-enriched basaltic...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1992
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RB 95/00020 Coomandook bedrock drilling programme, 1994.
The Cambro-Ordovician basement underlying Murray Basin sediments in the Cooke Plains and Coomandook areas was sampled by a reverse circulation drilling programme as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative. Greenschist to low amphibolite...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1995
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Ki Ki (part of the Coonalpyn Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 17/1/2009.
To investigate the possible Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide mineralisation potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, the licensee and...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1909
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-32, Ki Ki intrusion mafic/ultramafic - hosted mineral prospects. Project final report.
To further investigate the Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, the licensee of EL 3295 sought PACE Initiative funding to complete two...-
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The Padthaway Project. Data release made at the full surrenders of four included licences: joint first annual report, for the period 16/6/1999 to 15/6/2000.
Exploration for possible economic metallic mineral products of hidden copper-gold deposit mineralising systems, which possibly were genetically related to fractionated, high crustal level emplaced Cambro-Ordovician intrusive rocks, is addressing an...-
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Interpretation of Murray Bridge - Narrung airborne geophysical surveys, South Australia.
As part of CRAE's programme for brown coal exploration in the Murray Basin in South Australia, airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys were undertaken in the vicinity of Lakes Albert and Alexandrina by contractors Geosearch and Geoex. Various...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1981
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Data release - as updated : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2012 to 24/6/2017.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where the current licensees and previous...-
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Blackford (WMC's Kingston Lignite Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting area-specific reports for this licence's third and fourth partial surrenders: progress reports and related technical reports for the period 23/2/1988 to 22/2/1990.
Ongoing coal exploration conducted by Western Mining Corp. in the upper South-East region has targeted commercial-grade lignite occurrences within the Tertiary upper Dilwyn Formation, which may have formed in geological settings similar to that of the...-
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Woorloo Hill (part of the Padthaway Ridge Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/1/1989 to 8/7/1989.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed in the area extending between Padthaway, Bordertown and Lameroo. EXPLORATION: A sedimentological review of the subsurface distribution of the Pliocene sand sequence,...-
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Bordertown. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
A wide-ranging geochemical exploration programme has continued, testing soils of the region for mercury emissions from possible stratiform base metal sulphide orebodies that may exist in the Cambrian volcanic/metasedimentary basement, by performing...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1971
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Kingston (South-East). Progress reports [until the commencement of WMC's Kingston Coal Project multi-licence joint reporting, approved from 1/5/1980] for the period 21/8/1979 to 20/2/1980.
Continuing reconnaissance and evaluation of potentially economic Tertiary or Jurassic age coal seams, both known to be present in the Naracoorte and Kingston areas, has consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 92 open rotary holes...-
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Padthaway - Black Range area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/5/1979 to 28/3/1980.
Exploration for possible economic lignite and coal that may occur within Tertiary sediments of the western Murray Basin covering the crest of the Padthaway Ridge, consisted of drilling 14 rotary mud vertical holes, 4 being partially diamond cored,...-
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Published: 12 May 1980
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Coonalpyn. First partial surrender report, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2009.
For an area located in the southern Delamerian Fold Belt, and extending for ~50 km parallel to the Princes Highway north and north-west of Coonalpyn and Coomandook, a consultant's desktop interpretation of ASTER 2000, ASTER NTIR, DEM Raster and...-
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Coonalpyn. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2010.
An area located in the southern Delamerian Fold Belt, and extending for ~50 km parallel to the Princes Highway north and north-west of Coonalpyn and Coomandook, has been explored for possible economic basement-hosted uranium and base metal skarn...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/6/2007 to 24/6/2012.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend is being explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where previous explorers' drilling had...-
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Coonalpyn. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/1998.
Exploration for possible mesothermal Cu-Au mineralisation was undertaken over the Padthaway Ridge between Coonalpyn and Tintinara, in an area of promising northwest-trending aeromagnetic fabric. Reconnaissance calcrete and soil geochemical sampling...-
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