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Amdel service work report on uranium-lead [radiometric] dating of an outcrop sample [of the Boucaut Volcanics].
An absolute age of 677 Ma +/- 12 Ma was determined from analyses of six selected zircon grains separated from the subject volcanic rock sample, but the result is strongly affected by the need to impose large corrections to the data to compensate for...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1988
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission and Lake Tallacootra (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Minerals Project). Annual report, January 1990 to January 1991.
348 reconnaisance air-core drillholes were completed on the subject ELs between 5 July and 3 October 1990. The best heavy mineral sand intersections were found near Immarna (EL 1602), with some zones approaching ore-grade percentages. Unfortunately,...-
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RB 55/00006;Amdel 00126 Accessory minerals of South Australian granites.
The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1961
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RB 77/00051;Env 03054 Porphyry style copper/molybdenum mineralization at Anabama Hill and the Cronje Dam copper prospect.
For a project to determine the base metal potential of known copper-mineralised igneous rocks which outcrop in an area located approximately 59 km south-west of Olary, the South Australian Government has completed detailed mapping, geochemical...-
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Published: 17 May 1977
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RB 94/00022 Review of heavy mineral sand exploration in South Australia - Eucla Basin.
The Cainozoic Eucla Basin has been the focus of recent heavy mineral exploration due to the recognition of Tertiary coastal features including the Ooldea Range. Hypsometric and Landsat data, together with detailed work on the Tertiary stratigraphy of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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Mount Denison and Mount Charles (the Peake and Denison Project). Data release made upon the expiry/full surrender of subsequent licences : respective annual and joint annual reports for the period 1/6/1994 to 31/5/1999. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
[ Note - here is only Part 1 of an abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. The subject two areas covering the northern outcropping Peake and Denison Ranges basement inliers were taken up by Pancontinental Mining to test for possible...-
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Elliston. Combined fourth annual and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 25/4/2006.
An area situated immediately south-east of Elliston has been explored for diamonds, in conjunction with similar work being carried out by the joint venture on Flinders Island and on its adjoining Venus Bay, Colton and Polda mineral exploration...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-67, north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) Neogene shoreline heavy mineral sands prospects. Project final report.
Through the financial assistance of PIRSA's PACE Initiative, Iluka Resources was able to undertake exploratory drilling activities looking for heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the eastern Eucla Basin, as part of the Year 4 subsidy...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1907
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-01, north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands prospects. Project final report.
As a result of PACE Initiative - subsidised regional exploratory drilling for Tertiary heavy mineral sands carried out on the north-western Eyre Peninsula during February-April 2006, comprising 349 aircore drillholes put down along 19 traverses for a...-
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Published: 08 Jun 1906
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Parndana. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2008.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform/syngenetic base metal deposits and/or structurally controlled epithermal/hydrothermal gold and uranium occurrences within Lower Cambrian metasediments over the central section of Kangaroo Island included...-
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Published: 22 Apr 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Annual, joint annual and combined annual reports for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2009.
A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1909
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Aurora Tank. First annual report for the period 2/2/2010 to 1/2/2012, plus the next submitted licence-specific annual reports for the period 21/3/2013 to 1/2/2016.
No field work was done on the subject licence during its first year, while land access permissions were being organised with the required authorities. The licence area is located approximately 100 km south-west of Coober Pedy and lies within the...-
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Giddi Giddina Creek, Leonard Rise, Mabel Creek and Cotton Bush (the Coober Pedy IOCG Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 01/5/2013 to 12/1/2017.
Two separate grouped licence areas located to the north and the south-southwest of Coober Pedy have been explored for possible large buried economic basement-hosted IOCG deposits that would be of interest to new SA mineral explorer Vale (the...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1916
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Geochronological synthesis of southern Australia - Part 1 The Curnamona Province, and Part 2 The Gawler Craton (SADME Data Package.).
The review reports in this data package present a synthesis of geochronological information for southern Australia, i.e. South Australia and geologically associated areas in New South Wales and Victoria. The data given represent the outcomes of much...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1997
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.
Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty [Station] and Yeltacowie (the Punt Hill IOCG Project). Joint annual reports for the period 29/11/2009 to 6/1/2012.
Two adjoining licence areas located in the country east of Pernatty Lagoon that lies between 80 and 180 km north of Port Augusta are being explored by Monax Mining Limited (Monax) for economic Proterozoic basement-hosted Iron-Oxide associated...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Prospect Hill. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2018.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation at three known separate occurrences in the Prospect Hill area, lying 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, has focussed on the untested zone immediately below the known...-
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
