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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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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 80/00036 Redcliff gravity survey.
Survey between Nectar Brook reservoir and Redcliff Point over the proposed Redcliff petrochemical plant indicates that a narrow valley, filled with up to 200 metres of low density sediments, occurs beneath the western portion of the site. Subsidence...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1980
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RB 83/00101 Geology, geophysics and stratigraphic drilling at Depot Creek, southern Flinders Ranges.
Depot Creek is one of few localities with sedimentary contact between the Burra and Callanna Groups. The Depot Creek 1 drillhole [TD 874.35 m] provided subsurface control for making an interpretation of the structure of the eastern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Lake Torrens South. Data release : combined second annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/1/2006 to 1/7/2009.
A planned detailed ground gravity survey across the licence area on southern Lake Torrens (780 readings to be taken at 500 m x 500 m station spacing) did not eventuate due to delays in preparing and gaining stakeholder approval for a satisfactory...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
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Lyndhurst. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 31/3/2008 to 30/3/2009.
An area located 30 km west of Lyndhurst was taken up to explore for possible hydrothermal / metasomatic copper deposits, including haematite-rich IOCG type deposits, associated with Neoproterozoic or younger diapiric intrusions emplaced into folded...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bosworth (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/7/1998 to 5/4/2009.
An area covering parts of west-central Lake Torrens and Andamooka Island was taken up by Pima Mining because it was considered a strategic acreage acquisition, since it adjoins the southern boundary of the company's EL 2528 Andamooka already issued to...-
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Published: 06 May 1909
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Torrens area. Annual reports for the period 6/4/2009 to 17/8/2018.
During the 2009-2010 reporting period, work completed by Straits included: • participation in Native Title and Land Access activities and negotiations, which have constituted the majority of the work undertaken; and • Holding numerous meetings and...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-09 - Margaret Dam, southern margin, Peake and Denison Inliers, kimberlite diamond prospect. Drilling project final report.
Monax Alliance's Margaret Dam Project is located on their EL 5347 Francis Creek, which is centred approximately 40 km south of William Creek in northern South Australia. The initial project work done for licence operator Monax Mining by geophysical...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : [south-western] Lake Torrens area. Annual reports for the period 13/10/2010 to 12/10/2012.
An area centred ~30 km north-east of Bookaloo, which is mostly located within the Lake Torrens National Park, is being explored primarily for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation of the type exemplified by major deposits occurring at...-
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Published: 05 Nov 1912
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Bute. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/12/1998 to 16/3/2006.
Sustained recent attempts to locate economic Moonta - style copper mineralisation in Proterozoic basement in the vicinity of Bute township have been based on the presence there of a large regional aeromagnetic high, and on a past drilling discovery by...-
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Francis Swamp. Combined first and second annual reports/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2013 to 8/10/2015.
An area believed to cover the concealed southern margin of the Peake and Denison Domain of the Northern Gawler Craton was taken up by the Monax-Antofagasta copper exploration consortium to explore for possible buried economic iron-oxide associated...-
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Published: 24 Nov 1915
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Data release - as updated : Crystal Brook and Port Pirie (the Wandearah Project). Joint annual reports to licences' respective full surrenders, for the period 2/8/2008 to 26/4/2018.
Buried basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style is the target of ongoing exploration on the two adjacent subject tenements. In addition, the current holder considers that...-
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Published: 29 May 1918
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The Hummocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/2009 to 17/8/2017.
EL 4278 was Southern Uranium's first mineral exploration foray into the northern Yorke Peninsula. The subject tenement was pegged in January 2009 in order to secure ground surrounding the northern reaches of the Pine Point Fault. This particular...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curdimurka. Annual reports for the period 4/9/2014 to 3/9/2018.
An area centred near Lake Phibbs, ~70 km west of Marree, which also abuts the southern edge of Lake Eyre South, is being explored for possible economic buried Olympic Dam type IOCG-U mineralisation that might exist within covered basement in a poorly...-
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Published: 03 Sep 1918
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Minlaton. First partial surrender report for the period 9/4/1984 to 8/4/1985.
For the now relinquished portion of the licence area, a detailed literature search, interpretation of recently acquired third-party seismic reflection profiles, and examination of available magnetic and gravity data for anomalies did not provide any...-
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Ruby Hill Project : Douglas Creek prospect drilling program. Final report, Project ADI RD02-288 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Copper Search Australia Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Copper Search Limited) was granted co-funding from the Department of Energy and Mining in July 2021 to a subsidy total of up to $228,000, to assist it with high risk exploration of remote parts of the...-
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Interpretation of geophysical data from EL 923 area.
5 prospective areas delineated from qualitative appraisal of available geophysical data, include basement base metal targets, Cambrian carbonate areas and 1 Tertiary palaeochannel target for uranium.-
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White Cliffs Dam. Relinquishment report.
Target was Olympic Dam type mineralization. Reconnaissance gravity was conducted, at 500 metres intervals 2 km apart, but no anomalies were found.-
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