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The MIM-Peko Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project. Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender and their re-issue as a single replacement tenement, for the period 15/2/1983 to 20/10/1989.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, undertaken over areas to the south-east of Arcoona Homestead and in the vicinity of Woomera township, has comprised numerous reconnaissance and then detailed gravity, ground magnetic and CSAMT...-
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Woomera, Portulacca Ridge and Red Lake. Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 15/2/1983 to 7/11/1986.
The three licences now being surrendered were originally taken out by Seltrust in the mid-1970s to search for stratabound base metals and Olympic Dam type mineralisation. After Seltrust withdrew from the subsequently formed Stuart Shelf joint venture...-
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Coondambo. Second partial surrender report, for the period 7/6/2001 to 6/6/2009.
As part of a search for possible buried economic Olympic Dam type IOCG-U deposits in volcanic basement, or for stratiform Athabasca Basin type uranium occurrences in the overlying cover, farminee Marathon Resources carried out detailed calcrete...-
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Bopeechee. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2000 to 27/7/2008.
In on-ground exploration of an area on the Stuart Shelf located 18-46 km north-east of Olympic Dam, possible economic sedex - style, Mount Isa / Nifty type stratabound copper was targeted within Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks as part of multiple...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-02, Titan mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Titan prospect is located within Exploration Licence 3209, and lies 30 km north of the Olympic Dam mine. The prospect was first drilled by Western Mining Corp. in 1976 with diamond drillhole BD 1, and in 1981 with a second hole, BD 2. Both holes hit...-
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Lake Gairdner South (part of the West Roxby Project). Data release: annual reports for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2012.
An area centred approximately 60 km south-west of Woomera was taken up to explore its IOCG mineralisation potential, as a large regional gravity anomaly lying just east of Lake Gairdner was of interest in this regard. Work on the subject licence did...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty Lagoon [East]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2002.
An area of the Stuart Shelf located between Pernatty Lagoon and the Beda Arm of Lake Torrens, with its western boundary lying 15 km east of the historic Mount Gunson copper mining field, is being explored for possible economic basement-hosted IOCG...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : (for 10 exploration licences comprising) the Lake Torrens JV Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2007 to 31/12/2011.
A group of ten, mainly adjoining licence areas occupying the plains surrounding the northern end of Lake Torrens, are now being jointly explored for possible economic buried Olympic Dam style IOCG related mineralisation that may have formed in the...-
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Lake Gairdner North (part of the West Roxby Project). Data release: annual reports for the period 23/7/2007 to 22/7/2012.
An area centred approximately 55 km west-southwest of Woomera was taken up to explore its IOCG mineralisation potential. Early field work consisted of the acquisition of infill gravity coverage over an irregular outline regional gravity low anomaly...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Stuart Shelf. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence renewal / re-issue, for the period 17/6/1986 to 15/9/1996.
On 21/11/1986, Western Mining Corp. (WMC) signed a joint venture agreement with PNC Exploration (Australia) Pty Ltd [a subsidiary of the Power and Nuclear Fuels Corp. of Japan], whereby PNC can earn up to 25% equity in EL 1338 by funding exploration...-
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Pandurra. Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/6/2013 to 23/10/2014.
A small area centred ~50 km west of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible buried epigenetic and structurally controlled gold mineralisation in Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. The target was related to a 3.5 km long, >3 ppb Au...-
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Welbourn Hill. Second partial surrender report, for the period 15/1/2008 to 14/1/2016.
Approximately 66% of the former area of the subject licence has been surrendered in two separate portions together totalling 104 square km, due to perceived diminished prospectivity for possible buried Proterozoic IOCG-U deposits. During March 2015,...-
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Harcus Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/10/2004 to 13/10/2008.
During mineral exploration of an area located approximately 30 km west of Olympic Dam, an initial search for possible diamondiferous kimberlites entailed modern era reprocessing and image analysis of available post-1990 regional aeromagnetic data, to...-
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RB 2022/00012 Petrophysical characteristics of common stratigraphic units of the Gawler Craton.
Petrophysical properties of rocks are an underutilised data set that is rarely routinely collected. With the recent advances in geophysical modelling there is now an increasing need to collect petrophysical data as a vital link between geophysical...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2024
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Emmie Bluff IOCG Mineral System 3D Model (3D pdf version).
The eastern Gawler Craton hosts the giant Olympic Dam iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposit, as well as several other world class IOCG deposits (i.e. Prominent Hill and Carrapateena). The region is covered by a thick sequence of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pernatty [Station]. Annual reports for the period 29/11/2005 to 28/11/2009.
An area centred approximately 110 km north of Port Augusta, covering part of the Pernatty Ridge plateau on the south-western side of Lake Torrens, approximately 145 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine, was taken up to explore for possible economic...-
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Published: 24 May 2010
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Intercept Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/5/2003 to 14/7/2013. [Index Part 2 of 2].
In March 2010, once the terms of the joint venture agreement had been finalised, Argo passed its complete data sets to Xstrata, who immediately commenced a re-logging of Argo's drill cores besides conducting comprehensive unconstrained 3-D modelling...-
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Published: 15 Nov 2013
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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 2009
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Data release - as updated : Nicholson Hill and Welbourn Hill. Joint annual reports plus separate final reports to respective licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/1/2008 to 14/1/2017.
Possible buried Proterozoic IOCG-U deposits that may have formed in two small licence areas located ~50 to 65 km east of Marla were the targets of renewed exploration, based on a re-interpretation of existing regional geophysical data. It had been...-
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Published: 13 Feb 2017
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kingoonya. First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
An area centred ~120 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic metallic mineralisation that may have formed in >800 m deeply buried Proterozoic to Archaean volcanic and metamorphic basement rocks, or also within the...-
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Published: 10 Dec 2013
