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Mount Mitchell. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Exploration was undertaken for lode and alluvial tin mineralisation which might exist within ground adjacent to the abandoned Mount Mitchell tin mine, and also for reef gold in altered granite and dolerites outcropping adjacent to the numerous small...-
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Lake Hart. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/9/1980 to 4/9/1982.
Airborne magnetic/radiometric surveys and follow-up gravity surveys carried out in a search for possible Olympic Dam type orebodies have indicated depths to magnetic basement in excess of 1000 m in the Lake Hart area of the Stuart Shelf. The...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1982
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/6/1980 to 3/7/1996.
Aeromagnetic, ground magnetic and EM surveys, with follow-up rock chip, stream sediment and soil sampling, RAB drilling (688 holes, total 17,553 m) and RC drilling (12 holes, total 1149 m), have defined an extensive zone of anomalous base metal...-
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Published: 15 May 1996
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Harris Bluff (Uno Station). Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 7/9/1982 to July 1986.
Exploration undertaken over an area located 60 km west of Port Augusta targeted possible Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type massive Pb-Zn deposits within Early Proterozoic Hutchison Group banded iron formation metasediments, and also any Early...-
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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Ongoing exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, during this period comprised 3D geophysical modelling of possible source geometries for, and RC drilling (10 holes, total...-
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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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Jenner Hill, Pearson Hill and Sandy Point (the Stuart Shelf JV Project). Joint progress reports, plus later annual reports and final report to full surrender of remnant licence EL 1808, for the overall period 4/10/1989 to 24/10/1996.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style mineralisation, undertaken over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead on the Stuart Shelf, which includes WMC's formerly partly tested Emmie Bluff prospect, has comprised the acquisition of ground...-
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Cooyerdoo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/re-issue as part of another licence, for the period 14/9/1981 to 13/3/1983.
Following the signing of an eighteen month exploration joint venture agreement with Stockdale, farminee Mobil Energy Minerals undertook continuation of the uranium search over the anomalous ground lying east and south-east of Lake Gilles, besides...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1983
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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RB 60/00002 Report of ANU Symposium (attended on 2/12/1964) on isotopic age determinations with reference to correlation of Precambrian rocks.
The Australian Precambrian stratigraphy is discussed with the aid of rock correlation data obtained from the Bureau of Mineral Resources and radiogenic isotopic age determinations made by the Department of Geophysics, Australian National University....-
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Published: 04 Jan 1965
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RB 79/00128 Potential sealing aggregate sites for the Stuart Highway.
Aggregate for sealing the Stuart Highway will be required to be sourced from three main areas (localities a-c below) in addition to the existing quarry at Woocalla. Within these areas eleven potential sites have been nominated, from which three or...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 81/00029 Gawler Range Volcanics in diamond drillhole Myall Creek RC1.
The wholly cored SADME DDH Myall Creek RC1 was sited at the eastern extremity of the exposed Gawler Range Volcanics, and was completed [as a vertical hole] at 551.34 m total depth [the limit of drilling rig capability] on 26/10/1978, without reaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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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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RB 92/00037 Review of mineral exploration, KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map area.
This report was prepared as a summary of all open file mineral exploration data from the KINGOONYA 1:250000 mapsheet area that are held in the SADME records management Envelope system. The aim of the holdings review was to describe past exploration,...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1991
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RB 97/00057 Gawler Craton excursion guide - September 21-26, 1997.
This 5-day field excursion was mounted by the GSSA to inform government and industry participants about significant newly identified geological features within the central Gawler Craton which are the subjects of ongoing study. The itinerary chosen...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1997
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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 96/00024 Gawler Ranges drilling report 1994.
The Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics - Hiltaba Granite Suite - related Olympic Dam style Cu-U-Au mineralisation, and Menninnie Dam replacement style Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation, have served to raise the prospectivity of rocks in and underlying the...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1996
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Lake Everard. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2009.
A planned reconnaissance soil geochemical sampling survey in an area to the east of Lake Everard was not carried out due to the need to obtain an access agreement from local native title claimants and after making a negative re-assessment of the...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1909
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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
