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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-28 - Cultana district, Eyre Peninsula, Extension Tank shear-hosted Mesoproterozoic IOCG-U or porphyry type Au and base metal prospect. Drilling final report.
An area centred approximately 50 km south-west of Port Augusta is being explored for buried economic occurrences of gold, base metals and uranium primary mineralisation which may be genetically associated with the past emplacement there of the Gawler...-
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Corunna North. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/10/2014 to 12/10/2019.
An area located on the south-eastern edge of the Gawler Ranges, extending northwards from near Corunna Station Homestead, has been explored for possible buried economic epithermal style base and precious metal mineralisation occurrences within the...-
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Published: 18 Nov 1919
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Six Mile Hill and Corraberra (part of the Six Mile Hill Project). Annual and joint annual reports plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 17/5/2010 to 16/5/2017.
An area centred ~40 km west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG and other significant metallic mineralisation, which could have formed in the vicinity of the inferred subsurface continuation of the northern Roopena...-
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Published: 23 May 1917
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Data release (in part made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report) : Uno Range (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports for the period 1/8/2011 to 31/7/2020.
A licence consisting of two separate sub-blocks located ~30 km west-northwest of Iron Knob is being explored for possible economic buried Paris type epithermal/hydrothermal gold and silver mineralisation, as well as for Menninnie Dam type...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1920
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Midgee. Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2017.
Portions of two of three separate sub-blocks formerly comprising EL 5426, totalling 34 square km in area or ~25% of the licence's former extent, have been relinquished because of their now perceived diminished prospectivity for finding significant...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1917
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Gilles Downs. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/2018 to 22/11/2019.
An area centred ~55 km west-northwest of Whyalla, extending between the northern shore of Lake Gilles and country to the west of Iron Baron, has been explored for possible buried economic epithermal style base and precious metal mineralisation...-
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Midgee. Fifth partial surrender report, for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2019.
Portions of the western sub-block of EL 5426, totalling 27 square km in area or 27% of the licence's former extent, have been relinquished because of their now perceived diminished prospectivity for finding significant occurrences of uranium...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Morgans (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports for the period 17/1/2012 to 16/1/2019.
An area of mainly covered bedrock consisting of two separate sub-blocks bordering the south-eastern Gawler Ranges, which is considered prospective for finding buried hypogene IOCG mineralisation and possible stratiform and metamorphic base metals in a...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1918
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Cultana. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/9/2012 to 12/9/2017.
An area centred ~50 km south-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried VHMS or porphyry style copper mineralisation and for primary uranium mineralisation hosted by basement rocks within this part of the southern portion of...-
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Published: 28 Nov 1917
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Pandurra. Annual reports to commencement of Pandurra JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 16/9/2005 to 23/2/2012.
An area comprising two separate sub-blocks centred approximately 40 km west of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible buried economic IOCG style epithermal/hydrothermal mineralisation that may have formed within Mesoproterozoic basement...-
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Published: 14 May 1912
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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RB 2008/00011 Definition of the Cultana Subsuite, Gawler Craton: a high level felsic Hiltaba Suite age intrusive with hydrothermal alteration and brecciation.
This paper provides a formal definition of the Cultana Subsuite, outlining the igneous petrology of the intrusion, its geochemical characteristics, and the nature of hydrothermal alteration and brecciation affecting the rocks. The Cultana Subsuite is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Data release - as updated : Cultana (latterly part of the Spencer Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/4/2006 to 12/9/2017.
An area located 30 km south of Port Augusta and covering more than 792 square km east of the main highway between Port Augusta and Whyalla, which falls entirely within part of the Cultana Army Training Area held by the Australian Commonwealth...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1917
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RB 2007/00015 Geochronology of the Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Geochronology enables us to determine the age of rocks and minerals. The variety of isotopic geochronological techniques give complementary information on, for example, the timing of igneous or metamorphic crystallisation, as is often the case for the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2007
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Cultana basement regional geology 3D Model.
The Cultana basement 3D Geological Model covers a region which includes the Roopena, and western half of the Cultana, 1:100,000 mapsheet areas. The subsurface geology that has been modelled comprises a succession of deformed Palaeoproterozoic...-
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Regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin (300 dpi & 600 dpi pdf formats).
This inaugural regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin provides a valuable regional overview of the main regolith types and their associated landforms, plus a general outline of the major areas of bedrock or regolith-dominated terrain, as...-
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Published: 14 Jul 2016
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RB 2016/00030 Mineral Systems Drilling Program in the southern Gawler Ranges, South Australia.
The Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) was a $3.5M cash and $4.11M in-kind collaborative drill program involving government, researchers, service providers and the minerals industry. The objective of the MSDP was to further the understanding of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2017
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RB 2015/00003 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2013–2015.
The PACE Geochronology program fosters collaboration on projects of geological and metallogenic significance with focus on dating rocks and minerals from samples suggested by companies through a competitive proposal-based selection process. Successful...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
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RB 2011/00003 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects [performed during] 2009-2010.
This report book presents the results of seven geochronology research projects completed during 2009 and 2010 as a new part of the ongoing PACE Initiative geoscientific data gathering activity underwritten by the South Australian Government. It has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2011
