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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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RB 82/00098 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigations progress report no. 4 - Upper Murray and northern region.
The drilling of a further 16 rotary holes, as part of continuing investigations by the E&WS Department into the effect of groundwater on River Murray salinity, has indicated that the northern and north-western limits of the Tertiary limestone...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 92/00013 Murray Basin Hydrological Investigation drilling programme - Coastal Plain. Progress report no. 9.
Nine rotary mud groundwater investigation holes were drilled by SADME on the Murraylands Coastal Plain between July and November 1989, to total depths of between 82 m and 204 m. Composite logs of these holes are presented herein, together with those...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1991
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-63, Mongolata area epithermal gold and base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
An observed trend between base metals anomalism in soils and previously identified magnetic and gravity anomalies within inferred Adelaidean basement metasediments present within the eastern part of Mongolata EL 3164 provided the impetus for the...-
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Braemar. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/5/1990 to 3/9/1991.
In a search for possible economic buried copper-gold mineralisation that might be associated with an inferred south-western extension of the major Anabama - Redan Fault Zone system, the licensee conducted reconnaissance minus 80 mesh stream sediment...-
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Swan Reach. Combined first progress/final report to licence surrender for the period 31/3/1969 to 30/9/1969.
Low-level mercury anomalism, possibly originating from blind base metal sulphide orebodies lying within the Cambrian basement concealed under ~ 300 m thickness ofextensive porous sediment cover in an area on the south-western fringe of the Murray...-
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Published: 11 Nov 1969
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Data release - as updated : Mongolata. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/2/2004 to 12/2/2009.
An area centred ~15 km east-northeast of Burra has been explored for possible economic buried porphyry style copper-gold deposits, initially by grant licensee Bonanza Gold Pty Ltd during the first year of tenure, and thereafter for the next three...-
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Coomandook, Kingston (South-East), Padthaway and The Coorong [East] (the Padthaway Project). Joint annual reports plus final reports to various licences' respective full surrenders, for the overall period 27/3/2014 to 26/3/2019.
A group of semi-contiguous licence areas in the Padthaway district, and one somewhat removed to the north-west, near Coomandook, have been explored for possible buried economic volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) style mineralisation that may have...-
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Published: 08 May 1919
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Data release - as updated : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2012 to 24/6/2017.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where the current licensees and previous...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mannum area. Annual technical reports for period ending 08/09/2018.
EL 5846 covers an area of 462 km2 and is located approximately 70km east of Adelaide. It is located within the Murray Basin, with a basement of poorly outcropping to deeply covered Neoproterozoic and Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments and...-
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Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek (formerly part of the Fleurieu JV Project, then part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/6/1992 to 18/10/2016.
Two slightly separated areas located in the west-central Kanmantoo Trough geological region have been explored for possible economic buried metalliferous deposits by successive licence owners over an almost 25 year - long tenure. The subject report...-
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Murray Basin. Final report, Project ADI RD02-289 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Hillgrove Resources Ltd (HGO) has identified a large number of geophysical targets through the south-east Cambro-Ordovician basement of South Australia prospective for Cu-Au mineralisation and covered by the Tertiary-Quaternary Murray Basin sediments....-
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Published: 12 Sep 1922
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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/1/1979 to 30/11/1984.
Adelaide Brighton Cement took up tenure of the Moorlands lignite deposit during September 1976 in order to conduct confirmatory drilling of the published coal resource, to prepare a mining study for Lobe 'E', and overall, to assess the coal's...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1984
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Report on geophysical surveys on the lignite deposits near Moorlands, South Australia.
5 geophysical methods were tested over a known deposit but were found to be not applicable for prospecting. Sulphur analysis of travertine yielded the best results for detecting subsurface lignite.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1939
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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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Ramco West. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/1983 to 10/2/1988.
In an area located west of Waikerie and adjacent to the River Murray, field examination of gypsum bed outcrops and the measuring of strata sections, plus shallow definition drilling (64 holes for a total penetration of 312 m) and backhoe trench...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1988
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Exploration Licence application, Milang area. Supporting data.
Heavy mineral - bearing sands found actively eroding adjacent to Pleistocene fossil dunes in the extreme south-western Murray Basin at Middleton were assessed for their exploration potential as a near-surface source of economic heavy minerals.-
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Published: 22 Mar 1989
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Milang. First partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
Within the now relinquished portion of the licence area, four gravity traverses totalling 34.4 line km and 11 rotary mud drillholes for 593.2 m were completed by CRA in a search for possible sedimentary roll-front type uranium deposits formed within...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1985
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Karoonda and Parrakie. Individual licence progress reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 13/6/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Aerial photo interpretation, regional sedimentological studies, preliminary...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1991
