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RB 87/00061 Calca granite deposits - Discovery, geology and production. Calca quarry section - EML 4469, section 46, Hundred Rounsevell. Calca South - EML 5068, section 48, Hundred Wrenfordsley.
Middle Proterozoic red granite is quarried near Calca, 35 km SE of Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. It is ideally suited as dimension and monumental stone, being fresh, uniform in texture and colour, and comparatively free of defects. It is...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 89/00084 Geology of St Peter and Goat Islands (Nuyts Archipelago) and Cape Beaufort.
Outcrops of Proterozoic rocks consist of a complex suite of comagmatic intrusives which exhibit a variable degree of deformation and are correlated with the Early Proterozoic Lincoln Complex. On southern Saint Peter Island, felsic volcanics,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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RB 97/00028 Reconnaissance granite sampling of the Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Reconnaissance sampling of Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, to identify all potentially quarryable granite varieties, was carried out by MESA during 1996/97. A total of 157 outcrops were inspected and 99 samples...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 89/00070 Gawler Ranges Excursion, October 7th-9th, 1989.
Summarises the chemical classification and macroscopic visual attributes of basement igneous rocks seen in outcrop within the regional geological settings of northern Eyre Peninsula and the Gawler Ranges.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1989
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RB 96/00016 Review of mineral exploration - CHILDARA region.
Mineral exploration on CHILDARA 1:250 000 geological map sheet was reviewed from SADME open file Envelopes, to complement an overview of regional prospectivity supported via the recent acquisition of high quality aeromagnetic data and a compilation by...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Carnding. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal : progress reports and annual reports for the period 29/9/1994 to 16/1/2005.
Renewed brownfields gold exploration in an area situated 20-40 km north and west of the Tarcoola Goldfield, previously held in part by the licensee as EL 1848, was prompted by the May 1995 success of the Samantha/Resolute/Dominion corporate joint...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1905
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-45, Old Well and New Well shear-associated gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Yarlbrinda and Yerda Shear Zones of the central Gawler Craton, partly present within EL 3107 in the Tarcoola-Glenloth-Lake Harris region, were the target for a number of mineral exploratory drillholes put down there by by licence farminee Minotaur...-
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Data release - as updated : Lake Gilles (part of the East Eyre [Peninsula] Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/12/2005 to 28/11/2016.
Exploration aimed primarily for economic buried Menninnie Dam - style base and precious metals mineralisation hosted by Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary basement has been conducted on a licence located in the Lake Gilles district. The subject area...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wild Horse Plain. Annual reports for the period 8/7/2005 to 23/2/2019, plus partial surrender reports to 23/2/2021.
An upland area located approximately 100 km south-west of Whyalla on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, and with its eastern boundary running parallel to the coast at a distance of 15 km from Cowell and Franklin Harbour, is being explored for uranium,...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1921
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Christie. Annual technical reports for the period 25/10/96 to 24/10/98.
Reconnaissance calcrete sampling over aeromagnetic features was carried out in interdunal corridors 110 km south-west of Tarcoola. Although sampling was restricted by excessive depths to the calcrete horizon, weakly anomalous gold and copper were...-
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Published: 18 Jan 1999
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/7/1998 to 1/7/2001.
An area located 45 km west of Whyalla, which is underlain by Palaeoproterozoic and Archaean sediments, metasediments and intrusives, was inferred to have potential to host gold and base metal mineralisation. Interpretation of Landsat images and...-
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Cocunda and Calca (Poochera Kaolin Project). Progress reports, annual reports, and final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 12/5/1986 to 28/3/2002.
Kaolin, derived mainly from deep weathering of Hiltaba Suite granites, was the principal target of exploration in the area south and south-west from Poochera, near Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. Following a review made of historic drillhole...-
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Ceduna. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1996 to 17/7/2000.
Joint venture exploration over an area extending for 40, 35 and 50 km respectively west, north and east of Ceduna targeted Archaean and Proterozoic Yarlbrinda - style Au and Ernest Henry / Olympic Dam style Cu-Au associated with shear zones and...-
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Lake Gilles (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 22/12/2005 to 13/9/2016.
Approximately one-third of the southernmost sub-block 'D' of the subject EL 5109 has been relinquished to comply with expenditure commitments made for the East Eyre Peninsula Project. Activities within the now relinquished area have consisted of...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana (part of the Mullaquana, later called Samphire, Uranium Project). Annual reports for the period 20/11/2009 to 19/11/2018.
During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1918
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Midgee. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2014.
A small area centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla and ~37 km north-northeast of Cowell, which lay along the fault scarp at the edge of the western Spencer Gulf coastal plain, has been explored for both primary and secondary uranium deposits. Targets...-
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Published: 14 Jan 1915
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Moseley Nobs (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Third partial surrender report, for the period 5/7/2006 to 4/7/2015.
EL 4860 has been part of the Investigator Resources Ltd tenement holding since that company was spun-off from Southern Gold in 2007 (as Sunthe Uranium Ltd). The Eastern Eyre Peninsula project group of licences, which lie along and just beyond the...-
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Published: 08 Oct 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hall. Annual reports for the period 23/7/2013 to 22/7/2015.
An area extending inland between Baird Bay and Venus Bay, 50-80 km South-east of Streaky Bay, has been taken up to explore for significant buried occurrences kaolin associated with the deep Cenozoic weathering of Proterozoic granite, in order to...-
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Whichelby (part of the Poochera Kaolin Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2022.
The Great White Kaolin Project (previously the Poochera Kaolin Project), until recently, comprised four Exploration Licences operated by Andromeda Industrial Minerals Pty Ltd, namely, EL 6096 Whichelby, EL 6202 Mount Hall, EL 6426 Mount Cooper and EL...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1922
