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Roopena Station. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 26/6/1985.
Exploration of an area situated between Whyalla, Iron Knob and The Bluff overlooking Myall Creek, 20 km south-west of Port Augusta, aimed to test for Olympic Dam - type Cu-U-Au mineralisation associated with products of igneous activity located in and...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1985
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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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RB 92/00039 Kingoonya bedrock drilling 1991.
36 reverse circulation drillholes totalling 1448 m (average depth 40.2 m) were drilled to determine the bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary cover, in selected locations on the KINGOONYA 1:250,000 mapsheet area that had been recommended...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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RB 89/00041 Re-assessment of 1000-1200 Ma ages from the Musgrave Block to the Willyama Inliers.
Ages between 1000 and 1200 Ma have been recorded from diverse rock types at 10 scattered localities outside the Musgrave Block and Ammaroodinna Inlier. All are K-Ar and Rb-Sr mineral concentrates or whole rock ages, except 1 U-Pb age on detrital...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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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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Yeltacowie (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/8/2005 to 19/2/2010.
Two licence subareas located in the north-eastern Cariewerloo Basin were taken up to explore for possible economic Athabasca Basin style, unconformity - related uranium deposits of potentially high grade (>25% U), similar to the McArthur River...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1910
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South Vivian [Homestead]. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2007 to 11/6/2009.
An area located on the northern Stuart Shelf between Olympic Dam and Prominent Hill, approx. 50 km south-southwest of the latter, has been explored for possible Olympic Dam type iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits and for Canadian...-
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Published: 17 Oct 1909
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Nuckulla Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/7/2004 to 11/7/2009.
As part of a search for possible Tunkillia type structurally-controlled buried gold deposits within an area located approximately 120 km north-east of Ceduna, licensee Southern Gold targeted geochemical and geophysical anomalies that had previously...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1909
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Wirrida. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 24/4/2008 to 23/4/2009.
No field work - a review of previous exploration and an interpretation of geophysical datasets downgraded the prospectivity of the licence area, located 55 km south of Coober Pedy, for finding non- to weakly magnetic IOCG(-U) mineralisation within...-
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Roxby Hill. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 6/2/2006 to 13/11/2008.
In a search for possible economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation buried under deep cover to the south-west of the Olympic Dam deposit, a semi-detailed gravity survey consisting of 302 stations was read at 800 m intervals on 1.6 km...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1909
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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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Mount Eba. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2008.
An area within the northern Stuart Shelf which extends from 15 to 65 km south of the Prominent Hill mine site has been explored for possible similar IOCG-U type economic mineral deposits by a new industry entrant uranium explorer, Uranium Exploration...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1909
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Mount Paisley (part of the Mount Woods Project). Fourth partial surrender report for the period 23/3/2000 to 8/8/2009.
Exploration Licence 3387 (Mt Paisley) is located about 110 km north-west of Woomera, 110 km west-northwest of Olympic Dam, and 45 km south-east of Prominent Hill. The EL lies within the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), and most of the tenement covers...-
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Bookabie. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/2013 to 7/10/2016.
An area centred ~85 km west-northwest of Ceduna has ben explored for possible buried Ni±Cu±Co±Cr±PGE mineralisation of either Thomson Nickel Belt or Nova-Bollinger deposit styles, that may be associated with ultramafic–mafic rocks at four prospects...-
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Published: 07 Nov 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 30/7/2003 to 6/10/2009.
The subject EL 3112 ground represents the continuation of tenure by Gunson Resources, over the same area, from its former EL 2516 Yeltacowie (for which see the relevant licence reports previously released in Envs 9530 and 9715). This replacement...-
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The Lake Torrens Project; plus the Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2010.
Licensee Copper Range originally took up a group of three tenements located in central South Australia covering areas within and west of Lake Torrens, with the intent, much reinforced following the Carrapateena deposit discovery made in 2005, of...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1911
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Heartbreak Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 27/9/1996 to May 1999.
Regional and infill calcrete sampling over two now relinquished licence sub-areas lying respectively 10 km north and 25 km south-east of Tarcoola identified minor, slightly elevated Au and Cu values in both areas. Follow-up rock chip sampling and...-
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Myola. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/11/1996 to 29/7/2003.
Palaeoproterozoic gold, copper and base metal occurrences were the targets of exploration in an area surrounding the Iron Baron mine that, in a tectonic sense, incorporates parts of the Cleve, Middleback and Moonta Subdomains. Regional calcrete...-
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Galaxy Tank. Annual reports for the period 22/11/96 to 21/11/98.
Regional and infill calcrete sampling conducted 70 km southwest of Coober Pedy defined a 1.5 ppb Au anomaly 2 km wide, over a northeasterly strike distance of 7 km. An investigative drilling program had been planned, prior to a management decision to...-
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Tarcoola. Data release made in lieu of a 25% first partial relinquishment at licence renewal: [Part 2 of 2] progress reports for the period 19/7/1984 to 6/12/1990. Part 1 of 2 also included.
Exploration of the Tarcoola Gold Field by Aberfoyle Resources began in mid-1984, following a partial relinquishment of other ground at licence renewal, when some promising gold assay values were detected from rock and mine dump sampling. Geological...-
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