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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 60/00082 Coober Pedy Opalfield.
Mapping of the Coober Pedy Opalfield has shown that opal occurrence, although erratic, is not entirely unpredictable. Several groups of workings are present in an area of about 150 square miles. The host rock is a distinctive pink and white...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1965
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Kyancutta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/2014 to expiry 15/4/2018.
An area extending for 26 km to the south and south-east of Wudinna was taken up by Minotaur to evaluate the economic potential of known but poorly defined occurrences of the industrial minerals gypsum and alunite that are associated with Recent salt...-
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North Well Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/1994 to 14/11/1999.
Exploration, initially for rare metal elements, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village and Umberatana Homestead. Work comprising petrography, rock chip sampling, stream...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1900
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Streaky Bay Lakes. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal on 18/2/1999: progress reports for the period 19/2/1993 to 18/2/1995.
At the subject licence's Year 6 expiry/renewal on 18/2/1999, a partial relinquishment of 190 square km or ~49.35% of the former area of EL 2489 was effected, in the form of two separate ground portions covering its northern and southern ends. To...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1900
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yanerbie. Annual reports for the period 7/3/2011 to 6/3/2015.
A small area centred ~6 km south of Streaky Bay is being explored for economic-sized gypsum deposits similar to those occurring at Lake Purdilla, located ~10 km to the south. No work was done during licence Year 1. During the second year of tenure,...-
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Published: 09 Jul 1915
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Lake MacDonnell. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/1968 to 5/5/1970.
An exploratory drilling programme (23 vertical rotary/NX diamond core holes for a total penetration of 487 feet 10 inches) was carried out during May-June 1969 on the surface of Lake MacDonnell, which covers an area of approximately 4.5 square miles....-
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Published: 26 Feb 1970
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Poochera Industrial Minerals Project. Annual reportS, for the period 1/9/2015 to 31/8/2018.
Exploration activity on Exploration Licences 5016 (Whichelby), 5308 (Mount Hall), 5398 (Sceales), 5787 (Yanerbie) and 5814 (Tootla) is focused on gypsum and kaolin deposits. The tenements are grouped in the Poochera Project Amalgamated Expenditure...-
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Gluepot Homestead area, Waikerie district. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/5/1984 to 21/11/1984.
A total of 6 test pits and 4 hand auger holes were constructed to extend and delineate the known reserves of seed gypsum at Parcoola, located approximately 40 km north-northeast of Waikerie, and to explore for possible further reserves of higher grade...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1985
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Karkarook. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/9/1998 to 16/9/2003.
Holocene lacustrine gypsum beds, believed to have formed around 6000 years ago by the evaporation of saline water in a series of shallow lakes and lagoons that had developed along the ancestral Driver River watercourse, were the objectives of early...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sceale Bay. Annual reports for the period 17/11/2008 to 16/11/2015.
A review of past SADM and company technical reports concerning surficial gypsum deposits delineated near Sceale Bay showed that the gypsum resource is substantial, with a historical total proven resource of 50 Mt of gypsum at an average grade of...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tooligie Hill. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting on Southern Eyre Peninsula JV Project, for the period 3/12/1999 to 10/3/2006.
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Yaninee. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/2014 to 15/1/2016.
An area extending for 40 km to the west and south of Wudinna was taken up by Minotaur to evaluate the economic potential of known but poorly defined occurrences of the industrial minerals gypsum and alunite. The company's office-based compilation and...-
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2, Lake Torrens South and Lake Torrens North (the Lake Torrens Brine Potash Project). First joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 16/6/2016.
Much of the eastern side of the very large, 5,745 square km saline playa Lake Torrens, which occupies one of the most arid parts of Australia, was taken under licence by a Northern Territory - based company with the intent of systematically sampling...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Meningie, Ashville and Warnes (the Meningie South Gypsum Project). Licence-specific annual reports and project joint annual reports, for the period January 1995 to 12/11/2018.
This set of reports describes the resource discovery, process of appraisal, selective extraction and product sales history relating to a group of small Holocene surficial gysum deposits located in the brackish to saline swampy hinterland extending...-
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Published: 12 Jan 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Streaky Bay Lakes. Annual reports and technical reports for the period 19/2/1993 to 18/2/2000.
[Note: No formal annual reports were submitted to SADM for the 1993-1994 and 1994-1995 reporting years. Work done on the licence at this time is described by three consultants' reports which are held separately in Env 9502.] Exploration for economic...-
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RB 26/00095 Gypsum deposits - Hundred of Tickera.
96 bores were sunk at the Gypsum Deposits, Tickera district to determine reserves. The bores continued to the base of the gypsum formation, which was underlain in each case by sloppy dark sand and clay. The total reserves of gypsum is 52,000 tons...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1951
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RB 2016/00029 Gypsum resources of South Australia.
This report was compiled as a draft document in 1997 by Senior Geologist Jeff Valentine, a former officer working in the then Mineral Resources Branch, Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, and thereafter was put aside and disregarded by...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2018
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Hincks. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/10/1999 to 30/9/2004.
Exploration for gypsum on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, 70 km west of Cowell, resulted in the establishment of mining operations at Terra Leen. Other potential gypsum sources were identified. No exploration for metals was undertaken.-
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Published: 30 Sep 1904
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Mount McCallum [formerly Wertaloona]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 28/7/1975 to 27/7/1977.
In the search for possible economic sedimentary uranium lately centred on buried Tertiary palaeochannels in the vicinity of Munyallina Creek, where earlier good drilling indications of roll-front uranium mineralisation had been detected, licence...-
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Published: 11 Oct 1977
