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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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Porter Hill. Annual reports for the period 26/8/1998 to 26/5/2000 (the commencement of the Lake Torrens Project joint reporting period) : part of a data release made on 31/12/2006 upon a subsequent partial surrender.
Following the detection in late 1997, by reconnaissance mobile metal ion partial leach analytical methods, of anomalous base and precious metal concentrations in the soil above several low amplitude magnetic anomalies on Tasman Resources' EL 2340, the...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1999
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-07 - northern Gawler Craton - Welbourn Hill and Nicholson Hill magnetic/gravity anomalies IOCG-U mineral prospects. Project final report.
As part of a search for possible high crustal level, Olympic Dam - type IOCG deposits hosted by Mesoproterozoic basement rocks, Eromanga Uranium undertook deep diamond drill testing of two large, semi-coincident magnetic/gravity anomalies recognised...-
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Millers Creek. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 25/7/1989 to 29/7/1993.
Exploration for diamonds in the Millers Creek area, 150 km south-east of Coober Pedy, comprised an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey followed by ground magnetic surveys over aeromagnetic anomalies interpreted to represent potential kimberlites....-
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Published: 05 Sep 1993
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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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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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The Alberga Diamond Project. Joint progress and annual reports to licences' joint surrender, for the period 19/3/1998 to 16/6/2000.
Kimberlite-seeking loam sampling and soil geochemistry, undertaken in the vicinity of 28 selected magnetic targets distributed within eight separate licence areas extending from 150 km west-northwest of to 120 km north of Oodnadatta, only yielded a...-
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Ely Hill & Ant Hill. Joint first annual & final report for the period 10/1/1997 to 13/1/1998 (Ant Hill Project minerals search), plus joint first partial surrender report for the period 14/7/1997 to 8/12/1998 (Coober Pedy North Project opal exploration).
Two structurally controlled Cu-Au targets, plus a possible kimberlite pipe and a coal prospect, were interpreted in re-processed geophysical data derived from an area approximately 55 km north-northwest of Coober Pedy. The area was seen to contain...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1999
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Stuart Creek (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Combined first to fourth partial surrenders report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/1/2003 to 1/7/2008.
Limited RAB drilling (in 5 of 8 vertical holes for a total penetration of 611 m) across a DeepLeach II regolith zinc anomaly that straddles the licence boundary of adjoining ELs 3123 and 3140 failed to encounter any mineralisation or elevated downhole...-
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Regolith map of the greater Tarcoola area of the central Gawler [Craton] region.
With the dawning of renewed interest in one of South Australia’s historic gold provinces, driven by the newly acquired data from the Department’s highly successful Gawler Craton Airborne Survey (GCAS), the Geological Survey of South Australia has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2020
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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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Fred Swamp. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 20/5/1993 to 11/7/1997.
Airborne magnetic / radiometric and EM surveys conducted west of Woomera did not reveal any promising diamondiferous kimberlite targets, and stream sediment and soil sampling carried out over a resultant uranium / potassium anomaly revealed no...-
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Francis Swamp. Progress and final reports for the period 27/10/83 to 26/1/86.
Diamond exploration over an area 60 km west of Lake Eyre South included drainage heavy mineral sampling and a remote sensing study. Data from portion of a 1982 aeromagnetic survey by Aerodata-McPhar Pty Ltd for Stockdale, covering the southern...-
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Oolgelima Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/1/2017 to 29/1/2020.
An area consisting of two adjacent small sub-blocks located in the western Lake Cadibarrawirracanna drainage basin has been explored for possible buried economic magnesium- and sodium-sulphate salts and also for possible underlying basement-hosted...-
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Published: 29 Jan 2020
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Bopeechee and Cadnia Hill/Stuart Creek and Porter Hill (The Lake Torrens Project). Data release made at two licences' surrender/two latter licences' fifth partial relinquishment: annual reports and final reports for the period 9/4/1998 to 31/12/2006.
The reports comprising this data release package describe exploration for economic deposits of base and precious metals that have possibly formed within Neoproterozoic metasediments, the underlying Palaeoproterozoic basement, and in Cambrian carbonate...-
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Published: 29 Sep 2009
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RB 2010/00002 GOMA basement drilling program, northern Gawler Craton.
The GOMA basement drilling program was named after the Gawler-Officer-Musgrave-Amadeus deep seismic reflection survey line, that was completed in 2008 by Geoscience Australia (GA) as part of its Onshore Energy Security Program. Funding for the seismic...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2010
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-13, evaluation of the Marathon South mineral occurrence. Project interim and final reports.
Following further detailed ground gravity surveying and data processing carried out to better understand the gravity response of relatively dense and weakly magnetic basement rocks at the Marathon South prospect, located within EL 3209 and lying...-
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Published: 10 May 2006
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Hedley Hill. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting for the six Lake Torrens Project licences, for the period 26/5/1997 to 25/5/2000.
Exploration Licence 2340 “Hedley Hill” is located adjacent to the northeast extremity of Lake Torrens. During the 80’s and 90’s exploration of the Lake Torrens district has had the prime objective of the discovery of an "Olympic Dam" style deposit...-
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Published: 20 Jul 2000
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Oolgelima Creek. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
Three separate small areas on the eastern edge of the Stuart Range, that are located 30 to 45 km north and north-east of Coober Pedy, have been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large...-
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Published: 10 Oct 2014
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Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
An area centred over Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, which is located ~70 km east-northeast of Coober Pedy, has been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large sedimentary evaporite occurrences of...-
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Published: 10 Oct 2014
