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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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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 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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Lake Torrens - Port Augusta and Point Paterson areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/11/1977 to 30/11/1979.
SALT MINING STUDY: Field tests on the feasibility of Lake Torrens salt production to supply raw material for the planned Redcliff Petrochemical Project were continued, with project planning technical data demonstrations given to visiting officials of...-
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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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Port Augusta (including Delhi Petroleum's Lake Torrens Salt Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/1/1980 to 23/1/1982.
Field tests continued as part of the salt project, to confirm salt crystallization and purification data. Results indicate that brine production rates and quality and quantity of salt output are comparable with the results from previous tests....-
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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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RB 2016/00014 Geology of the Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Special Edition Map Sheet.
The Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2016
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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Beddome Dams. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 28/7/1980 to 3/8/1983.
Ground magnetic and regional infill and detailed gravity surveys, plus Maxi-Probe ground EM soundings, were carried out on two grids laid out near Beddome Hill, which lies 35 km west of Roxby Downs Homestead, to investigate a 4-6 mGal regional gravity...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1983
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Myall Creek. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 14/5/1998 to 30/3/2000.
Exploration for Olympic Dam type Cu-Au in the Myall Creek area, located 15-50 km north of Whyalla, comprised surface geological mapping and orientation calcrete geochemical sampling, together with the re-logging, petrographic examination and...-
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Pernatty Lagoon [East]. First partial surrender report, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2001.
No work performed. Relinquished portions of the licence were considered to have low potential for economically viable Olympic Dam and Tunkillia style copper mineralisation, a conclusion based on the outcome of literature research, reconnaisance field...-
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RB 2018/00038 Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 3B, Torrens – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models
This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2018
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Cultana, South Australia. Sheet 6432, International Index. 1:100 000 Geological Series digital map.
Cultana is located on parts of the north-eastern Eyre Peninsula, northern Spencer Gulf and south-western Flinders Ranges, and is underlain by rocks of the Mesoarchaean-Mesoproterozoic Gawler Craton, the Neoproterozoic Adelaide Geosyncline, Torrens...-
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Published: 29 Apr 2014
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-43 - Torrens Hinge Zone - Yadlamalka Horst Adelaidean sediment-hosted copper and Palaeoproterozoic basement IOCG mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
In February 2008, Lincoln Minerals Ltd was awarded a grant of $100,000 in Round 5, Theme 2 of PIRSA's PACE Initiative to conduct drill tests for the possible presence of sediment-hosted copper mineralisation in Adelaidean successions, as well as for...-
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Published: 30 Jun 2009
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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
