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RB 59/00146 Molybdenum and tungsten in the southeastern portion of Spilsby Island (Sir Joseph Banks Group) 10/12/1964.
Investigations have shown that in the Sir Joseph Banks Group, molybdenite and scheelite are confined to the southern tip of Spilsby Island. The minerals occur in thin irregular veins, in masses of quartz, and as disseminations scattered through...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1964
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RB 60/00101 Reconnaissance for scheelite deposits in the Sir Joseph Banks Group of islands (undertaken during January and March 1964).
In the Sir Joseph Banks Group of southern Spencer Gulf offshore islands, outcropping Archaean arenaceous, arkosic and calcareous sedimentary rocks appear to have been folded and granitised prior to the deposition of the Adelaidean System sedimentary...-
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Published: 21 May 1965
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-44, eastern Eyre Peninsula, Glensea & Franklin gravity targets representing inferred Proterozoic mesothermal/metamorphic basement uranium prospects. Final report.
PACE Initiative Year 5 funding for exploratory drilling was granted to Stellar Resources under its proposal DPY-5-44 for a project designed to test geophysical targets within EL 3978 which were interpreted / inferred to represent alaskite units...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-22, Lake Gilles - Corunna North area (north-western margin of Spencer Domain) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
Potential Carrapateena or Prominent Hill style IOCG targets represented by newly recognised gravity anomalies in the eastern Lake Gilles area were the reason for a PACE Initiative Year 4 drilling funds proposal submitted to PIRSA by InterMet...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-19, Murninnie mine area (north-eastern Spencer Domain) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Murninnie Cu-Bi-Au deposit and mine environs, located approximately 40 km south-west of Whyalla, have not been seriously explored in more than 50 years due to quarantining of the deposit under Private Mine title. The lode-style deposit is exposed...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-28 - Cultana district, Eyre Peninsula, Extension Tank shear-hosted Mesoproterozoic IOCG-U or porphyry type Au and base metal prospect. Drilling final report.
An area centred approximately 50 km south-west of Port Augusta is being explored for buried economic occurrences of gold, base metals and uranium primary mineralisation which may be genetically associated with the past emplacement there of the Gawler...-
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RB 66/00061 Spilsby island molybdenite-scheelite deposits diamond drilling operations.
On the south-eastern extremity of Spilsby Island, there are concentrations of molybdenite and scheelite that occur either in an open vein system or as disseminations, and also in pods, usually associated with quartz. The most important host rock is an...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1968
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RB 26/00035 Report no. 26 to 35. Geological inspection of Port Lincoln. Drilling for proposed harbour improvements.
Inspection of the Port Lincoln proposed Harbour Improvements Area was carried out. The proposed scheme includes reclamation of a considerable area of foreshore, and provision of additional berths for large overseas vessels. The First Stage of subsea...-
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Published: 24 Oct 1949
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RB 00377 Port Lincoln [district] uranium exploration - report on completion of diamond drilling at the Hospital prospect.
The programme of uranium exploration described in this report commence on 18/5/1954, following the discovery of three separate occurrences of uraniferous gneiss near Port Lincoln township by local resident Mr J. Gibson. The largest of these outcrops,...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1900
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-36, Dingo Hill (Cariewerloo Basin) Palaeozoic / Mesoproterozoic unconformity - related uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
The Dingo Hill prospect lies within the eastern Gawler Craton, approximately 90 km west of Port Augusta. EL 3579 licensee Hindmarsh Resources is exploring for possible economic secondary stratiform uranium mineralisation associated with regional...-
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Economic assessment of molybdenite and scheelite mineralisation, Spilsby Island, SA.
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Published: 16 Jan 1967
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RB 2020/00007 Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 7, Spencer – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models.
This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2020
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RB 2017/00025 Report on Mineral Systems Drilling Program drillhole MSDP04, Six Mile Hill area.
MSDP04 is one of four diamond drillholes drilled during 2015 in the Six Mile Hill area as part of the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP). The hole was drilled vertically to 843.9 m depth over the period 3/10/2015-21/10/2015, and intersected three...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
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Cultana basement regional geology 3D Model.
The Cultana basement 3D Geological Model covers a region which includes the Roopena, and western half of the Cultana, 1:100,000 mapsheet areas. The subsurface geology that has been modelled comprises a succession of deformed Palaeoproterozoic...-
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Spilsby Island. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1966 to 28/6/1967.
South-westwards inclined diamond drillhole No. 11 was put in to 400 feet total hole depth by licensee Kennecott during the subject reporting period, to investigate the postulated buried inland extension of a continuously mineralised sheet-like body of...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1967
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Roopena. Second partial surrender report, for the period 31/7/2000 to 26/10/2007.
Exploration of two now-relinquished licence sub-areas situated a short distance west of Port Augusta and Whyalla respectively, near the eastern edge of the Middleback Range, sought to find possible economic buried epithermal/hydrothermal gold deposits...-
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Published: 29 Oct 2008
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Six Mile Hill and Corraberra (part of the Six Mile Hill Project). Annual and joint annual reports plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 17/5/2010 to 16/5/2017.
An area centred ~40 km west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG and other significant metallic mineralisation, which could have formed in the vicinity of the inferred subsurface continuation of the northern Roopena...-
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Published: 23 May 2017
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Middleback Range and Moonabie Hills. Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2007 to 30/1/2019, plus surrender reports to 9/7/2023.
Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...-
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Published: 29 Mar 2018
