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Lake Phillipson area. Progress and technical reports for the periods 23/11/1978 to 22/11/1980, and 12/2/1981 to 11/5/1982. [forms Part 2 of a SADME - compiled Lake Phillipson coal deposit data package released in December 1994].
The licensee's 1981 coal search programme at Lake Phillipson had the following objectives: - delineation of the total extent of the coal measures; - resolution of seam stratigraphy and correlation of seams between the Main and West Areas; -...-
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RB 84/00001 Review of exploration activity in the Arckaringa Basin region 1858-1983. Volume 1 - Report.
State Government and exploration company data are compiled into a review of the geology and resource potential of the region. Attention is directed to the relative lack of basic lithological, petrophysical and biostratigraphic data, despite the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1984
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RB 91/00041 Geology of the KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map sheet area.
Extensive field geological mapping, augmented by petrological and geochemical studies, reinterpretation of company drilling and water-bore logs and a nine-hole drilling programme has detailed the geology of the KINGOONYA area. The stratigraphy spans...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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RB 93/00010 Explanatory Notes for the WARRINA 1:250 000 geological map.
The oldest rocks on WARRINA outcrop in the Peake and Denison Inliers, which comprise the Davenport and Denison Ranges and small inliers to the east. Basement in this area consists of Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic rocks which were intruded by...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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Data release - as updated : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2008 to 11/11/2018.
Reedy Lagoon Corp. (RLC) has continued to look for minerals other than diamond, operating as the manager of exploration work for base metals (mainly copper) and uranium that was undertaken by the Edward Creek Base Metal Joint Venture (“ECBMJV”) during...-
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ELs 4678 - 4689 (the Oodnadatta Project). Joint annual reports, plus final reports at licences' individual or joint full surrenders, for the period 22/2/2011 to 9/9/2014.
The Oodnadatta Project consisted originally of twelve exploration licenses covering 7125 square km in far northern South Australia, this mainly being ground situated to the south and south-east of Oodnadatta. Uranium Equities Limited (UEQ) believed...-
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Published: 28 Oct 1914
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Data release - as updated : England Hill, Arckaringa and Copper Hill (the Arckaringa Coal Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2005 to 6/6/2019.
Under a new strategic focus, three licence areas covering three Early Permian buried coal deposits located at Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie in the northern part of the Arckaringa Basin, ~120 km north of Coober Pedy, have been evaluated both for...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1919
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Cootanoorina Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 6/4/2010 to 5/4/2015.
No work took place on the subject licence area, located ~ 60 km south of Oodnadatta on the western side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, during its first four years of tenure. It had been taken up originally to explore for possible undercover roll...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/4/2000 to 8/8/2010.
During the sixth licence year, on renewed EL 2717 covering the same area as previously, the licensee, now a wholly owned subsidiary of AuIron Energy Limited (formerly Meekatharra Minerals Limited), progressed its investigations of the geology of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Nilpinna Springs. [Farminee's diamond exploration] Progress report for the period 13/7/1986 to 12/1/1987.
TARGET: Diamondiferous kimberlites in the Boorthanna Trough region (near Nilpinna Springs). EXPLORATION: A literature review, the reprocessing and re-interpretation of data from BHP's 1983 Peake Creek Aerial Magnetic Survey flown by Aerodata /...-
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Noorina Dam, Birthday Hill, Codna Hill and Cadaree Hill. [Diamond exploration - sole risk and joint venture] Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/1983 to 29/5/1990.
TARGET: Possible diamonds and source diamondiferous kimberlites in the Boorthanna Trough region. EXPLORATION: Present-day drainage heavy mineral sampling for kimberlitic indicators, follow-up barrage sampling for diamonds, an aerial magnetic survey...-
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Arckaringa Basin, SA. 1984 diamond exploration report.
Evaluation of the diamond potential of the Arckaringa area, 50 km south-west of Oodnadatta, which is here considered to be a region both tectonically and geologically favourable for the past emplacement of kimberlitic intrusive bodies, has comprised...-
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Welbourn Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/4/1991 to 10/4/1993.
Exploration for possible buried Olympic Dam (Cu-Au-U) style mineralisation, undertaken in the Welbourn Hill area by Newmont Australia Limited through its subsidiary Newcrest Mining, initially comprised the acquisition of ground magnetic, gravity and...-
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Rawlinson Hill, Mount Sabine, Snow Hill and Billa Kalina Homestead (Stuart Shelf / Arckaringa Basin). Joint progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 28/4/1987.
Over the report period Agip Australia completed the drilling and geophysical logging of 39 open rotary holes totalling 3845 m to investigate if economic coal seams occur within Permian sediments of the southern Arckaringa Basin. Although the Permian...-
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1982 seismic survey, Christmas Creek, final report.
AIM:The 1982 Christmas Creek Seismic Survey was designed to cover a wide area of the sparsely explored western farmout blocks of PELs 5 and 6, where Eromanga Basin sediments thin and overly sub-basins of variously aged prospective sediments. Primary...-
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Warrina. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/7/1977 to 12/7/1978.
Possible Jurassic, Algebuckina Formation - hosted sedimentary uranium, and economic Permian coal within the Mount Toondina Formation, were both targeted by exploration within an area located approximately 100 km south-east of Oodnadatta. A 104 line...-
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Cadaree Hill and Codna Hill (information for the Boorthanna diamond exploration Joint Venture partners' activities only). Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/7/1981 to 24/4/1990.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Boorthanna Trough. EXPLORATION: A reconnaissance airborne magnetic, radiometric and VLF-EM survey (flown by Aerodata in 1982), a follow-up aeromagnetic survey (flown by Aerodata in 1989), photogeological studies and drainage...-
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Bulgunnia. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 10/8/1981.
The base metal and uranium potential of a concealed Proterozoic basement high near Bulgunnia Homestead was evaluated using geological and hydrogeochemical reconnaissance and regional geophysical interpretation approaches. Seismic, ground magnetic and...-
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ExpNotes WINTINNA: Explanatory Notes WINTINNA
A new generation, first edition WINTINNA 1:250 000 scale geological map and explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's geological mapping program undertaken in the...-
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Phar Lap Outstation. First partial surrender report for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2010.
An area located at the south-eastern end of the Lake Phillipson Trough in the Arckaringa Basin has been taken up primarily to investigate potential palaeochannels containing lignites or pyritic sands of both Permian and Mesozoic age, which it is...-
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Published: 13 Dec 1910