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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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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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Woomera, Portulacca Ridge and Red Lake. Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 15/2/1983 to 7/11/1986.
The three licences now being surrendered were originally taken out by Seltrust in the mid-1970s to search for stratabound base metals and Olympic Dam type mineralisation. After Seltrust withdrew from the subsequently formed Stuart Shelf joint venture...-
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RB 44/00073 Seismic reflection survey, Wilkatana no. 1. Second interim report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 76/00159 Whyalla hospital proposed extension, foundation investigation.
A geological and geophysical investigation was carried out at a proposed site for hospital extensions to check foundation conditions. Interpreted depth to weathered bedrock ranged from 2 to 3 m along two seismic lines. The fill material above bedrock...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 81/00050 Geophysical interpretation of data from southern Lake Torrens - Stuart Shelf.
Model has been constructed from magnetic, gravity and seismic data from EL 370 (Aquitaine and Delhi), of a shallow horst of granitoid basement in the southeast of Yadlamalka 1:50 000 area, and, under the lake, a basin, up to 4 500 metres of dense...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 97/00039 Lineament tectonic data, South Australia, with a focus on the Cooper Basin.
The lineament mapping methods used by E.S.T. (Tim) O'Driscoll, which were a crucial factor in the discovery of Olympic Dam, the world's largest known Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, and of several other lesser Australian metallic orebodies, have now been applied...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
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The Lake Torrens Project; plus the Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2010.
Licensee Copper Range originally took up a group of three tenements located in central South Australia covering areas within and west of Lake Torrens, with the intent, much reinforced following the Carrapateena deposit discovery made in 2005, of...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1911
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Mount Gunson. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/re-issue over a larger area, for the period 25/10/1979 to 20/12/1985.
As part of an ongoing search for extensions to the Cattlegrid orebody style of stratiform Cu-Fe-Mn mineralisation within its exploration licences on the Stuart Shelf, besides testing for any indications of Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au deposits in the...-
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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Island Dam, Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports for the period 11/10/2009 to 30/6/2018.
Exploratory drilling carried out by BHP Billiton (BHPB) during the 2009-10 project reporting year took place at six prospects thought to have good IOCG mineralisation potential, based in part on earlier drilling results and also on refined target...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Carrapateena Arm, Hatch Hill, Beda Arm and Lake Torrens South (the OZ Minerals Carrapateena Project). Annual reports (separate and joint) for the period 8/1/2008 to 6/1/2016.
Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...-
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Data release - as updated : Woordlemmie. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 22/6/2011 to 22/11/2019.
An area situated a short distance to the east and south-east of CSR's historic Mount Gunson open cut copper workings, covering ground adjacent to the south-western and southern margins of Pernatty Lagoon, has been explored for possible buried economic...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Uro Bluff [latterly with Cultana and Tregolana]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to the full surrender of EL 1003 Uro Bluff, for the period 13/3/1980 to 15/1/1985.
Exploration which aimed to test the base of the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation for economic sedimentary copper deposits has included 10 rotary drillholes (total 1731.8 m), notably with a successful intersection of 1 metre of chalcocite - bearing...-
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Reconnaissance seismic refraction survey at Mount Gunson, SA, for Pacminex Pty Ltd.
Test survey to trace the lithic sandstone-quartzite interface showed the method was not sufficiently accurate.-
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A new approach to mapping basin architecture using airborne magnetotelluric survey data - the Copper Coast Project trial. Final report, Project ADI RD02-306 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
IGO Ltd’s (IGO) Copper Coast Project is located along the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton in South Australia, and covers Proterozoic rocks of the Stuart Shelf, Torrens Hinge Zone and Adelaide Rift Complex, which form part of the Adelaide...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1922
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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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[Results of a] Mini - Sosie seismic reflection survey, Myall Creek, 1980.
In a trial Mini-Sosie reflection seismic survey carried out over a 750 m section of exploration grid line near Myall Creek, where the method consisted of 6-fold profiling at 5 m trace spacing, the unconformity at the base of the Tapley Hill Formation...-
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Cultana [latterly with Uro Bluff, Tregolana and Sugarloaf Hill]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/6/1984.
In the search for Mount Gunson type sedimentary copper, 4 deep exploratory diamond drillholes (out of 22 totalling over 5000 m) intersected subeconomic mineralisation at the target base of the Sturtian Tapley Hill Formation (best value 3 m @ 1.55% Cu...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1984
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Mount Gunson. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/8/1977 to 4/8/1979.
In a search for possible economic repetitions of Cattlegrid and MG14 - style copper sulphide mineralisation, or for any buried analogues to Western Mining Corp.'s recently discovered copper deposits on Roxby Downs Station, ongoing exploratory work...-
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