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Andamooka, Stuart Creek, Arcoona, Lake Torrens, Todds Dam, Lake Arthur, Woodforde Hill and Murdie Island (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint first partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1986.
WMC's Stuart Shelf exploration activities from 1975 to 1985 have sought mainly Olympic Dam style mineralisation (copper - uranium - precious metals in haematitic breccia host rocks), with lesser emphasis directed at: possible distal analogues of the...-
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RB 80/00006 Re-assessment of the age of the Beda Volcanics on the Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
Geochronological analyses of samples of the Willochra Subgroup and the Tapley Hill Formation, which unconformably overlie the Beda Volcanics, give ages of 724±40 Ma and 750±53 Ma respectively, thereby indicating that the original age determination of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-14, Pernatty Lagoon area (eastern Gawler Craton) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
PACE proposal DPY3-14 aimed to discover a new iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralised magmatic centre, similar to the Olympic Dam setting, within the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton. The Pernatty Lagoon project is located less than...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1906
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-47, Myall Creek Neoproterozoic stratabound base metal (copper) mineral prospect. Project final report.
The known Myall Creek stratabound copper occurrence located ~23 km north of Whyalla, which was discovered in 1975 by Australian Selection, consists of low-grade (0.3 to 2.2% Cu) Zambian Copperbelt or Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphides extending...-
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Data release - as updated : Sunset Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/11/2008 to 13/4/2017.
An area taken up to comprise the middle member of a block of three tenements located in the Myall Creek region ~ 30 km west-southwest of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried stratabound copper sulphide mineralisation as well as...-
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Published: 23 May 1917
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Data release : Yeltacowie, Pernatty [Station] and Whittata (the Punt Hill IOCG Project). Joint annual reports, plus final report to expiry of EL 5774 Punt Hill, for the period 7/1/2012 to 6/1/2017.
During the eighth, 2012-2013 year of tenure of the Pernatty EL area, now being explored in concert with two other adjoining Punt Hill IOCG Project licences, Monax reviewed its past drillhole data, undertook further processing of the project's amassed...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty Lagoon [East]. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/6/2002 to 26/6/2007.
An area lying along the eastern side of Pernatty Lagoon is being explored primarily for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation of possible Olympic Dam type, that may be hosted by poorly known Proterozoic or older basement rocks which...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1907
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Uro Bluff [latterly with Cultana and Tregolana]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to the full surrender of EL 1003 Uro Bluff, for the period 13/3/1980 to 15/1/1985.
Exploration which aimed to test the base of the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation for economic sedimentary copper deposits has included 10 rotary drillholes (total 1731.8 m), notably with a successful intersection of 1 metre of chalcocite - bearing...-
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Pandurra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1977 to 6/6/1979.
In a continuing search for possible shallow Mount Gunson type stratiform copper deposits within Adelaidean strata of the southern Stuart Shelf, detailed investigations conducted near Pandurra Homestead have included geological mapping, rock chip...-
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Sugarloaf Hill - Tregolana areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 30/6/1980 to 29/6/1981.
In a search for possible economic stratiform copper deposits which might have formed at the base of the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation, 4 vertical rotary mud/diamond drillholes totalling 939.5 m were put down in the vicinity of Tregolana and...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1984
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Pernatty Ridge. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1989 to 12/12/1991.
Possible stratabound, Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphide within the basal sediments of the early Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation was the target of exploration in the Pernatty Ridge area. Aberfoyle's work has comprised a review of existing...-
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CSR Mount Gunson Project : logs of exploratory/stratigraphic drillholes, Elizabeth Creek and Canegrass Dam areas.
Includes geological logs for the following drillholes: Mount Gunson to Canegrass Dam area: 3-14-1P to 3-14-46P (Mount Gunson Mines, 1972). Canegrass Dam area: 3-14-19P to 3-14-41P (Pacminex, Feb 1972); TOC1 - TOC4 (Pacminex, Nov 1976); SP1 -...-
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Charlinga. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/8/1977 to 4/8/1979.
During ongoing exploration for Mount Gunson style economic base metal mineralisation buried on the south-central Stuart Shelf, new work completed by CSR has included the drilling of 59 rotary percussion holes totalling 3782 m in the Winnie Pinnie,...-
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Port Augusta. Progress reports and annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/3/1982 to 29/10/1986.
The principal target of ongoing exploration in the southern Lake Torrens region was a possible buried, large, high-grade base and precious metal deposit lying within the pre- Pandurra Formation basement. After completing the drilling of DDH YAD1 at...-
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1977 to 6/6/1979.
Stratiform copper deposits, hosted within the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation, and possible diamondiferous kimberlite bodies were targeted in this exploration programme. Low value base metal intersections made from drilling (2 diamond holes,...-
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Tregalana - Sugarloaf Hill area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/6/1976 to 20/6/1978.
Vertical percussion drilling (4 holes totalling 577 m) and diamond drilling (3 holes totalling 538.4 m) undertaken in the Tregalana and Sugarloaf Hill areas of the Stuart Shelf disclosed weak base metal mineralisation (0.05-0.65% Cu spread unevenly...-
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Kallioota. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2010.
A north-northwest trending basement high or horst-like structure mapped in the subsurface at Yadlamalka, located about 50 km north of Port Augusta, which was indicated by magnetic and gravity data to lie at a depth of about 200 m to 600 m close to the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1910
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Yarley. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/8/2009 to 18/8/2012.
A small area located on the southern Lake Torrens Plains immediately west of the ABC Range was taken up to allow evaluation of its potential for having buried economic sedimentary coal and/or uranium mineralisation occurrences. There are no...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1912
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North Tent Hill (part of the Tent Hill Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2011 to 17/1/2013.
No work undertaken. Licence retained for two years as part of regional project acreage which was subject to unsuccessful farm-out negotiations.-
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Published: 14 Mar 1913