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Lake Hart. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/9/1980 to 4/9/1982.
Airborne magnetic/radiometric surveys and follow-up gravity surveys carried out in a search for possible Olympic Dam type orebodies have indicated depths to magnetic basement in excess of 1000 m in the Lake Hart area of the Stuart Shelf. The...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1982
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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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Hawks Nest. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 29/12/1982.
An area 100 km north of Kingoonya which exhibits a strong regional gravity high and other, intersecting pronounced crustal geophysical features was acquired to search for an Olympic Dam type of base/precious metals deposit. Semi-detailed and detailed...-
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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/2/1978 to 2/1/1983.
Exploration undertaken on ground situated east of Pernatty Lagoon has included the acquisition of extensive ground magnetic and gravity surveys plus a small aerial magnetic and radiometric survey, and performing many specific gravity and magnetic...-
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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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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Ongoing exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, during this period comprised 3D geophysical modelling of possible source geometries for, and RC drilling (10 holes, total...-
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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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Jenner Hill, Pearson Hill and Sandy Point (the Stuart Shelf JV Project). Joint progress reports, plus later annual reports and final report to full surrender of remnant licence EL 1808, for the overall period 4/10/1989 to 24/10/1996.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style mineralisation, undertaken over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead on the Stuart Shelf, which includes WMC's formerly partly tested Emmie Bluff prospect, has comprised the acquisition of ground...-
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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RB 78/00109 Geophysical study of the Broughton area in Wallaroo and Blyth 1:100 000 sheet areas.
An interpretation of the results of detailed gravity surveys and of drilling data obtained from stratigraphic drillholes Tickera DDH 1 and 2 and Wokurna DDH 1 - 3 indicates that basement consisting of metamorphic rocks subcrops shallowly west of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 78/00154 Stuart Creek agate deposit.
Agate or banded chert nodules weather out of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone over an area of several square kilometres south of the Stuart Creek Opal field. In places the agate nodules are concentrated into extensive deflation lag gravels. Banding is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 84/00101 Compositions of some Adelaidean and Cambrian sedimentary rocks, South Australia.
56 whole rock major and trace element geochemical analyses of Adelaidean and Cambrian sedimentary rock drill core samples recovered from 6 diamond drillholes are presented. Many of the samples are carbonate - rich, and their lithologies include...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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RB 79/00006 Opal at the Stuart Creek, Charlie Swamp and Yarrawurta Cliff diggings. Report no. 12 on geological investigations and Calweld drilling of the Stuart Creek Precious Stones Field.
Small quantities of precious opal have been mined from sediments of the Early Cretaceous Marree Formation at Stuart Creek, 50 km north of Andamooka. These sediments appear to have been unaffected by the Early Tertiary deep weathering and bleaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00062;Amdel 01333 Heap leaching oxidized ore - Mount Gunson.
Copper extraction in percolation leaching was relatively slow because of the low porosity of the large rocks in the as-ripped ore. To obtain reasonable extraction rates, size reduction will be required. Agitation leaching of ground ore gave copper...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 80/00147 Roopena stratigraphic diamond drillholes 1 and 1A.
The SADM stratigraphic hole Roopena DDH1 was originally drilled near Roopena homestead in 1967 to TD 155.61 m, and was deepened to TD 249.59 m by SADME in 1978 (as DDH1a) to obtain relationships between the Roopena Volcanics and older units. At...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 81/00047 Woocalla ball clay deposit.
From 1920 - 1976, ball clay was mined at Magazine Hill for pottery and porcelainware. Production from 1931 - 1976 was 11 805 tonnes. The light grey plastic clay is composed of kaolin and illite with some quartz, white mica, iron oxides and gypsum. It...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 81/00029 Gawler Range Volcanics in diamond drillhole Myall Creek RC1.
The wholly cored SADME DDH Myall Creek RC1 was sited at the eastern extremity of the exposed Gawler Range Volcanics, and was completed [as a vertical hole] at 551.34 m total depth [the limit of drilling rig capability] on 26/10/1978, without reaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 97/00051 Poona copper mine, Moonta, South Australia - Investigation of alteration mineralogy using short-wave infrared analysis.
The Poona Copper Mine on northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, was worked from 1988-92 on an extension of the original Poona lode, a narrow, shear-hosted copper sulphide vein deposit in Moonta Porphyry of Mesoproterozoic age. The orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 98/00008 Geochemical studies of the regolith at the Mount Gunson copper deposits, Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
The principal objective of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) Shields Program and the Primary Industry and Resources of South Australia (PIRSA) Regolith Terranes Group in South Australia is to...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1998
