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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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Spencer Gulf. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 11/2/83.
A 900 line km detailed aeromagnetic survey was carried out over the northern extremity of Spencer Gulf, in a search for possible Olympic Dam style mineralisation associated with a significant and complex magnetic high anomaly that is located almost...-
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Published: 15 Jun 1982
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Woomera, Emmie Bluff, Salt Creek, Portulacca Ridge and Red Lake. Progress reports for the period 21/8/1979 to June 1983.
Continuing exploration in the Woomera area has included the acquisition of a ground magnetic and gravity survey over the Buller Dam anomaly, which lies on the western flank of the Acropolis aeromagnetic anomaly, and this work confirmed that the former...-
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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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RB 59/00138 Lower boundary of the Adelaide system and older basement relationships in SA.
The stratigraphic problem of defining the lower boundary of the Adelaide System is discussed in relation to the geology of several critical areas in the Adelaide Geosyncline and adjacent shelf platform. The Precambrian stratigraphic succession and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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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 84/00016 Stuart Shelf drillhole data base.
Summarises Middle - Late Proterozoic stratigraphy from 256 holes and some details of basement indicating areal distribution and thickness of Adelaidean sequences and depths to basement. Computerized data is presented in both printed and plan (1:250000...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1984
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RB 77/00142 Preliminary report on stratigraphic drilling in EL 207 and adjacent areas, northern Yorke Peninsula.
Stratigraphic drilling in the Bute and Port Broughton region of northern Yorke Peninsula has outlined the nature and subsurface distribution of Adelaidean and pre-Adelaidean rocks. The Adelaidean sediments are relatively flat lying, moderately thin...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 79/00149 Magnetic and gravity interpretation on the Stuart Shelf.
The Stuart Shelf region is a stable platform of Carpentarian and older crystallisation basement which is overlain by flat-lying Adelaidean and Cambrian sediments. It extends eastward from the exposed crystalline Gawler Block area to the mobile...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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RB 96/00039 Report on a test TEM survey over a haematite orebody at Hawks Nest, SA.
A newly-discovered, small, non-outcropping haematite orebody has been outlined at Hawks Nest on the Stuart Shelf by MESA scout drilling. As a trial procedure a Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) survey was conducted over the known subcrop limits, the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1996
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RB 93/00035 Pre-Adelaidean basement to the Stuart Shelf, South Australia: drillhole database and preliminary geological interpretation.
The geology and mineralisation of the prospective northeast segment of the Gawler Craton is the focus of the Stuart Shelf Basement Project. Geological and technical data from selected open-file drillholes (those that intersected pre-Adelaidean...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1993
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Lake Torrens South and Harris Crossing area, north of Port Augusta (the Torrens South Project). Combined annual reports plus separate final reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/1/2006 to 30/1/2010.
Exploration for possible buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill type iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the south-eastern side of the Stuart Shelf, in the vicinity of the southern end of Lake Torrens, initially consisted of a review of...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1910
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Yeltacowie (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/8/2005 to 19/2/2010.
Two licence subareas located in the north-eastern Cariewerloo Basin were taken up to explore for possible economic Athabasca Basin style, unconformity - related uranium deposits of potentially high grade (>25% U), similar to the McArthur River...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1910
