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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/2/1978 to 2/1/1983.
Exploration undertaken on ground situated east of Pernatty Lagoon has included the acquisition of extensive ground magnetic and gravity surveys plus a small aerial magnetic and radiometric survey, and performing many specific gravity and magnetic...-
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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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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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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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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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Lake Torrens South and Harris Crossing area, north of Port Augusta (the Torrens South Project). Combined annual reports plus separate final reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/1/2006 to 30/1/2010.
Exploration for possible buried Carrapateena or Prominent Hill type iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the south-eastern side of the Stuart Shelf, in the vicinity of the southern end of Lake Torrens, initially consisted of a review of...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1910
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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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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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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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Pandurra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/9/1979 to 17/9/1981.
Continued exploration for stratabound base metals across an area of the southern Stuart Shelf, extending west and north-west of Port Augusta, has included an evaluation of the results of previous stratigraphic drilling on the prior-held EL 332, plus...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1981
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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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Cultana [latterly with Uro Bluff, Tregolana and Sugarloaf Hill]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/6/1984.
In the search for Mount Gunson type sedimentary copper, 4 deep exploratory diamond drillholes (out of 22 totalling over 5000 m) intersected subeconomic mineralisation at the target base of the Sturtian Tapley Hill Formation (best value 3 m @ 1.55% Cu...-
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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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Charlinga. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/10/1979 to 24/10/1981.
Ongoing exploration for possible Mount Gunson - type base metal occurrences has included percussion drilling on a metal ratio geochemical anomaly identified proximal to inferred buried Beda Volcanics at Charlinga (10 holes totalling 1218 m), plus the...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1981
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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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