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Lake Dey Dey, Lake Maurice, Ooldea Range, Waldana, Lake Maurice West, Leemurra, Punthanna, Yadina and Lake Maurice East. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 15/11/1982.
The exploration concept was based on searching for secondary uranium mineralisation that might be derived from the Musgrave Block basement rocks and that could have become precipitated within calcrete horizons from ponded uraniferous surface drainage...-
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RB 78/00118;Amdel 01236 Behaviour of potassium during weathering of potash-rich granite rocks at Mount Painter.
Electron microprobe analysis was carried out on 3 brecciated samples to establish whether feldspar grains have identifiable overgrowths and if these are consistent with the feldspar having grown in low temperature, low pressure conditions.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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Boorthanna 001 Well completion report.
Boorthanna 1 was drilled as a combined mineral/petroleum exploration hole and stratigraphic test in the southern section of the Boorthanna Trough, 29 km west of William Creek township, to: (1) penetrate the Devonian section in the search of potash...-
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Data release - as updated : World's End. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/2009 to 2/3/2016.
An area centred about 30 km south-east of Burra has been explored for possible buried economic Burra style copper mineralisation and for Mongolata Goldfield type alluvial and reef gold. The host metasedimentary unit to the Monster mine, the...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1916
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Camel Lake. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2023.
An area located ~ 70 km north-east of Ooldea Siding and 50 km east of Maralinga is being explored for the industrial mineral kaolin, and more particularly its crystallographic form halloysite, which typically occurs as microtubules or nanotubes which...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1923
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Narrina. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded metasedimentary area centred ~50 km east-northeast of Blinman, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has...-
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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 25 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~1280 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1971
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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 7 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~110 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1971
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RB 64/00022 Amdel 00519 Recovery of potassium from bitterns. (DEPARTMENTAL USE ONLY)
Background Seawater is potentially a vast and readily accessible reserve of potassium for fertilizer production. Potassium is not at present recovered from seawater commercially, since potash can be produced easily and cheaply from the extensive...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1966
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Yalymboo, Dingo Hill and Black Oak Hill (the Cariewerloo Project). Joint annual reports and separate final reports to licence's respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 20/6/2009.
Possible Mesoproterozoic unconformity-related uranium deposits within the Cariewerloo Basin, involving an inferred structural preparation component whereby basic intrusive members of the Gairdner Dyke Swarm cut across this unconformity in a manner...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1909
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Data release - as updated : Playford. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 18/6/2015.
A largely sand dune and salt lake - covered area of the north-central Stuart Shelf, centred about 65 km north-west of the Olympic Dam mine, is being explored for possible economic buried IOCGU mineralisation that may be hosted by Mesoproterozoic...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Winjabbie. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2010.
An almost wholly sand dune - covered area of the west-central Stuart Shelf, centred about 15 km north-northeast of Woomera township, is being explored for possible economic buried IOCGU mineralisation that may be hosted by Mesoproterozoic basement...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1910
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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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RB 2013/00014 IOCG-style mineralisation in the central eastern Gawler Craton, SA; characterisation of alteration, geochemical associations and exploration vectors.
While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2013
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Heartbreak Bore (part of Afmeco's Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/1/1982.
Portions of regional airborne radiometric and magnetic surveys, plus a small part of the HW-IV seismic refraction traverse, and 20 line km of gravity and ground magnetic surveys, were undertaken by joint venture operator Afmeco as part of its Project...-
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Hermitage Creek. Progress and annual reports for the period 22/7/1995 to 23/11/2000.
An area prospective for major metalliferous mineralisation at depth was identified at the intersection of the G2 and G7 structural corridors, 8 km south-west of Rhynie. Its potential was enhanced by coincident gravity, magnetic, radiometric and...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1901
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Fred Swamp. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 20/5/1993 to 11/7/1997.
Airborne magnetic / radiometric and EM surveys conducted west of Woomera did not reveal any promising diamondiferous kimberlite targets, and stream sediment and soil sampling carried out over a resultant uranium / potassium anomaly revealed no...-
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Detection of potash minerals in drilling operations.
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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Pernatty Lagoon. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Exploration conducted by CSR Ltd for possible economic stratiform base metal deposits in the western part of EL 81 addressed several targets, including Cattle Grid type disconformity - related copper mineralisation, Sweet Nell / MG14 type...-
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