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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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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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Koolcutta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/4/1997 to 29/4/2002.
Rock chip and calcrete sampling were the main methods of exploration for iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation in an area 60 km west of Port Augusta. Initial rock chip sampling returned no anomalous Au values, but gave best results of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Oak Dam North-east. Annual reports for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
A relatively large but little-explored area of the central-eastern Stuart Shelf, which is almost wholly covered by scrubby sand dunes and swampy salt lakes, thereby making surface access very difficult despite it being located only ~30 km to 50 km km...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1911
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Glenside. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/12/2005 to 4/12/2010.
An area centred approximately 40 km south of the Andamooka Opal Field and 50 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine is being explored for possible buried economic Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill type IOCG-U mineralisation as well as for possible...-
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Published: 28 Jan 1911
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Technical reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/5/1998 to 3/5/2003.
Stuart Metals took up EL 2516 covering ground in the Elizabeth Creek - Yeltacowie Homestead area primarily to explore it for stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles present in the Mount Gunson area. In addition, it was thought that the...-
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Dingo Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
An area of the southern Stuart Shelf, with untested potential for hosting possible stratiform base metal deposits within a probable concealed Early Proterozoic sedimentary basin embayment, was explored by BP as part of their regional mineral...-
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Bon Bon Homestead area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1979 to 29/3/1980.
Testing of the stratabound base metal potential of the basal Pandurra Formation section, in an area located 40 km north-east of Kingoonya, involved drilling down into the pre-Pandurra basement with 4 vertical percussion holes totalling 878 m. This...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1980
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Island Lagoon. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
Basal Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation - hosted stratiform copper was targeted primarily in this exploration programme, which consisted of reconnaissance deep percussion drilling (17 holes for a total advance of 4167 m) on the centres of...-
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Winjabbie. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2010.
The western half of EL 3432, which now lies within the continuously restricted access Red Zone of the Woomera Prohibited Area, has been relinquished at expiry of term, acting upon advice received from DMITRE. During its 5-year tenure period the...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucolo Creek (also called the Churchill Dam Project). Annual reports for the period 31/1/2006 to 14/11/2018.
EL 3511 Eucolo Creek, of 528 square km, is situated near the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton within the Olympic Dam Domain, approximately 90 km south-west of the Olympic Dam IOCG-U deposit (3.98 billion tonnes at 1.1% Cu, 0.4 kg/t U3O8 and 0.5 g/t...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1918
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Lake Gairdner North (part of the West Roxby Project). Data release: annual reports for the period 23/7/2007 to 22/7/2012.
An area centred approximately 55 km west-southwest of Woomera was taken up to explore its IOCG mineralisation potential. Early field work consisted of the acquisition of infill gravity coverage over an irregular outline regional gravity low anomaly...-
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Arcoona (part of the Torrens Project). First partial surrender report for the period 17/5/2002 to 16/5/2003.
Olympic Dam style iron oxide hosted copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in an area immediately south-east of Andamooka. Following geological and geophysical interpretations of available data, a soil sampling program and partial...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1903
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Mount Moseley. Annual and final reports for the period 24/12/96 to 23/12/98.
Exploration targets were gold and base metals in Adelaidean and basement rocks, 20 km southwest of Mount Gunson. Regional and infill calcrete sampling did not reveal any areas worthy of follow up, and geophysical interpretation indicated depths to...-
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Island Lagoon. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
Tapley Hill Formation - hosted, Zambian Copperbelt style stratabound copper was targeted in an exploration programme which consisted of ground magnetic surveying and stratigraphic percussion drilling and geophysical logging (10 holes for 2058 m total...-
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Island Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/12/1980 to 14/9/1982.
Exploration over the now surrendered ground, which had been successively incorporated within ELs 301, 513 and 769, was initially directed at a search for stratabound base metal deposits which might exist within the flat-lying Neoproterozoic and...-
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Hesso, Bookaloo, Arcoona and Lake Torrens South (the Torrens Project). Annual reports and final reports to project licences' respective sequential full surrender or expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2002 to 18/4/2006.
Olympic Dam or Moonta-Wallaroo style concealed iron-oxide copper-gold mineralisation hosted in Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic basement rocks of the Stuart Shelf, and Mount Gunson type younger Neoproterozoic sediment-hosted buried copper...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1906
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Middleback Range, SA. SMLs 204 and 205 1969 geochemical survey report.
Two separate orientation geochemical sampling programmes have been undertaken during 1969 over BHP's Special Mining Lease areas near Whyalla. In the Pandurra Station area, shallow residual soils over known mineralised Carpentarian bedrock were...-
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