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Lipson Cove - Tumby Bay area. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/9/2004 to 1/9/2008.
Geological mapping of an historically worked lamellar talc occurrence in the Tumby Bay area showed that snow white, finely flaky talc is present over a 2 km strike length within two beds of isoclinally folded schistose dolomitic limestone, but is of...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-40 - western Middleback Range region - Stony Hill area Archaean to Proterozoic stratabound iron ore mineral prospects. Project final report.
Banded iron formation (BIF) rock outcrops and an associated 15 km long aeromagnetic anomaly located about 20 km west of Iron Baron were chosen by Centrex Metals as high quality targets deserving of exploration for economic iron mineralisation...-
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Published: 28 Nov 1908
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wild Horse Plain. Annual reports for the period 8/7/2005 to 23/2/2019, plus partial surrender reports to 23/2/2021.
An upland area located approximately 100 km south-west of Whyalla on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, and with its eastern boundary running parallel to the coast at a distance of 15 km from Cowell and Franklin Harbour, is being explored for uranium,...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1921
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Mikkira (south-west of Port Lincoln). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/3/1981 to 27/10/1987.
Exploration for graphite primarily, and secondarily for BIF-associated massive base metal sulphides, in the area surrounding the historic Uley graphite mine situated 15 km west south-west of Port Lincoln, initially comprised an airborne reconnaissance...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1987
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Mount Olinthus. Annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1996.
Base metal mineralisation, indicated by newly discovered shafts at the historic Atkinson Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine, was the impetus for exploration in the upland area 20 km north-west from Cowell. Grab samples collected from shafts, stockpiles and dumps varied...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Carappee Hill. Annual reports for the period 20/2/2010 to 19/2/2019.
The continuation during 2010 of exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic bedrock in a small area located 60 km west-northwest of Cowell has mainly consisted of the conduct of three shallow drilling campaigns and the examination and analysis of downhole...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana (part of the Mullaquana, later called Samphire, Uranium Project). Annual reports for the period 20/11/2009 to 19/11/2018.
During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Uley graphite deposit. Proposed open cut mine and ore processing plant. Mining study reports submitted during 1988.
Formal mining proposal documents submitted to PIRSA for approval as part of the process of re-opening the Uley graphite mine to sustain a planned 10 years duration open pit mining operation.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-21 - Eyre Peninsula Project, Central Gawler Gold Province, Baggy Green North prospect biogeochemical anomaly. Drilling project final report.
Early in 2016, Adelaide Resources submitted a proposal to DSD for a grant of PACE Initiative Year 9 collaborative drilling project subsidy funds to help it drill ~80 exploratory aircore or RC holes for a total of approximately 8000 m to further...-
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Data release - as updated : Gum Flat, Wanilla, Cummins, Tarlinga and Yeelanna (the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project). Joint annual reports submitted until the joint full surrender of remaining project licences, for the period 1/7/2010 to 18/01/2022.
During 2010-2011, the third year of the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, owner Lincoln Minerals' exploration activities included: - Planning, site preparation and supervision of an RC and aircore drilling program; - Surveying and vegetation clearing for...-
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Published: 09 Jan 1920
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-12 - Corunna Station, north-eastern Eyre Peninsula, structurally controlled Mesoproterozoic epithermal Ag-Au and base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Musgrave Minerals Ltd (MGV) is the holder of the subject EL 5497 Corunna North, located in the southern Gawler Ranges approximately 65 km west of Port Augusta and 10 km north of Iron Knob, where it is exploring for economic base and precious metal...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kolendo, Taringa, Nonning, Wipipippee and Menninnie Dam (the Menninnie Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2013 to 31/12/2016.
The Menninnie JV Project area consists of five contiguous exploration licences, and is considered prospective for Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Au-Mo-U deposits associated with past epithermal, porphyry, IOCG and skarn - forming geological environments. It lies in a...-
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Mount Olinthus. Progress reports plus interim final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/7/1978 to 7/11/1987.
TARGET: Unconformity related, vein-like and vein-type uranium in the Cleve Metamorphics, Katunga Dolomite and Mangalo Schist; lead-zinc sulphides of Broken Hill or Balmat-Edwards type in the Hutchison Group. EXPLORATION: Uranium exploration...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-11, Thurlga Ramp, northern edge of Cleve Domain, volcanic epithermal / hydrothermal replacement type precious metal prospects. Drilling final report.
A licence area, which lies adjacent on the west to Investigator Resources' Peterlumbo Hill EL 5368 containing the Paris silver deposit (where there is a currently inferred resource of 42 Moz @ 139 ppm Ag), is being explored under a joint venture with...-
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Franklin Harbour. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/2/1972 to 25/2/1973.
As part of an ongoing regional search of the eastern Eyre Peninsula for possible economic stratiform base and precious metal deposits, soil sampling and SP and IP surveys were carried out over previously identified, separate linear lead and zinc...-
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Yalanda East (part of the Eyre Peninsula JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 22/10/2009 to 7/5/2014.
A small licence area composed of three separate sub-blocks, which is centred approximately 80 km south-west of Whyalla, has been explored for possible economic buried base metal and/or gold and/or uranium mineralisation that may have formed in...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1914
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Green Patch. Annual reports for the period 3/12/2001 to 30/5/2006, plus the last six years of tenure' combined annual reports/final report ('no work' letter only) to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/2/2015 to 31/8/2021.
An area centred on the hamlet of Green Patch, located ~10 km north-west of Port Lincoln, was taken up to appraise the iron ore potential of known near surface BIF magnetite mineralisation occurring at the Greenpatch (sic) prospect that had been...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1921
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The Southern Eyre Peninsula JV Project. Joint annual reports for the reporting period 1/7/2006 to 31/1/2017, plus licence-specific final reports submitted at their later full surrenders.
During the first year of the project (2006-2007), no work was undertaken on ELs 3731, 3421 or 3611. On EL 3317 Wilgerup, at the Wilgerup North Pod, Centrex undertook 2 phases of RC drilling totalling 135 holes for 12,829 m to provide information to...-
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Published: 09 Apr 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middlecamp Hills. Annual reports for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2019.
Two small areas have been taken up in the Cleve Uplands district to explore structurally interesting portions of the Lower and Upper Middleback Jaspilite stratigraphic units for possible economic buried copper, gold, manganese and iron ore...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1918
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-37 - Eurilla JV Project, north-central Eyre Peninsula - Jungle Dam Palaeoproterozoic hydrothermal vein-hosted primary uranium mineral prospects. Drilling final report.
In 2007, Lincoln Minerals discovered greenfields uranium mineralisation near Jungle Dam on its EL 3690, located about 45 km north-east of Kimba on the northern Eyre Peninsula. EL 3690 straddles a NNW-trending splay of the Kalinjala Shear Zone (~1720...-
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Published: 15 Aug 1911
