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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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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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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 4 partnership no. DPY4-65, Chianti mineral prospect. Project completion dataset.
The subject set of reports describes the results of PACE Initiative Year 4 partly-subsidised drilling work conducted in the vicinity of the Chianti prospect, which lies approx. 20 km north of the old Mount Gunson mining camp. The aim of this work,...-
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Lake Torrens South. Data release : combined second annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/1/2006 to 1/7/2009.
A planned detailed ground gravity survey across the licence area on southern Lake Torrens (780 readings to be taken at 500 m x 500 m station spacing) did not eventuate due to delays in preparing and gaining stakeholder approval for a satisfactory...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
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Andamooka Creek, Willaroo Dam, Island Dam and Stuart Shelf / Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports on activities undertaken by the Joint Venture consortium, for the period 11/10/1996 to 10/10/2009 [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
As a result of the BHP Billiton takeover of the Stuart Range Project, the mineral exploration strategy was changed. Formerly, WMC had been looking for economical targets of >500 Mt size containing on average more than 2.4% copper equivalent....-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Island Dam, Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports for the period 11/10/2009 to 30/6/2018.
Exploratory drilling carried out by BHP Billiton (BHPB) during the 2009-10 project reporting year took place at six prospects thought to have good IOCG mineralisation potential, based in part on earlier drilling results and also on refined target...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka. First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
An area centred ~50 km north of the Olympic Dam copper-gold-uranium mine is being explored for possible economic metallic mineralisation that may have formed in buried Archaean to Mesoproterozoic basement rocks that are estimated to lie at depths of...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1913
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Mount Gunson and Mount Moseley (part of the Mount Gunson JV Project). Partial surrender reports, for the overall tenure period 15/7/1994 to 25/5/2021.
No exploration work has been undertaken on either of the recently relinquished portions of the two subject licences. Within the JV project tenements, exploration targets being addressed are: (1) possible economic buried IOCG (iron oxide-associated...-
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Published: 17 Oct 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 4 of 4 ].
During licence Year 12, following encouraging results made by its continuing exploratory drilling, Gunson Resources was able to negotiate a joint venture over the Mount Gunson Project tenements with Falconbridge Limited through its subsidiary Noranda...-
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Andamooka Creek, Willaroo Dam, Island Dam and Stuart Shelf / Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports on activities undertaken by the Joint Venture consortium for the period 11/10/1996 to 10/10/2009 [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
The four Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project exploration licences collectively cover approximately 2668 square km of semi-arid pastoral land surrounding the Olympic Dam mine and extending east and south-eastwards as far as Lake Torrens [the Olympic Dam...-
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Pernatty. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/3/2018 to 19/3/23.
The Pernatty Project is located approximately 20 km SSE of the IOCG deposit at Carrapateena, within Exploration Licence 6137. The area was initially targeted by Tasman Resources Ltd due to available geophysical data, the possibility of reasonable...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1923
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White Cliff (part of the Olympic Domain Project). Combined second annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/10/2007 to 21/10/2009.
In exploration directed primarily at finding possible economic IOCG type mineral deposits within buried Mesoproterozoic to Palaeoproterozoic basement in an area located 25 to 70 km north-west of Olympic Dam, the licensee targeted density anomalies...-
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Published: 08 Mar 1910
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Lake Torrens and Lake Torrens South. Annual and final reports to licences' respective surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 30/11/2009.
Exploration for possible economic buried IOCG-U type mineral deposits within areas covering the southern third of Lake Torrens has consisted only of office-based prospectivity studies and the planning of a detailed ground gravity survey aimed at...-
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Published: 07 Jul 1910
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Oak Dam (part of the Gawler Craton Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/2006 to 16/7/2011.
EL 3603, located on the Stuart Shelf approximately 50 km south of Olympic Dam, was taken under licence to explore for possible economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCG-U) deposits of Olympic Dam style that may have formed in...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1911
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Yeltacowie, Hesso, Charlinga, Bowen Hill and Kangaroo Bluff (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 16/8/2005 to 14/2/2014.
Uranium One Australia (U1A) acquired the Stuart Shelf Project tenements in 2005 with the aim of exploring for uranium mineralisation that has unconformity - related genetic features broadly analogous to those of deposits of the Athabasca Basin in...-
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Published: 28 May 1914
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Intercept Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/5/2003 to 14/7/2013. [Index Part 1 of 2].
An area on the Stuart Shelf which is centred ~45 km north-northwest of Mount Gunson and 70 km south-east of Olympic Dam was taken up to explore primarily for possible economic buried Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted copper-gold deposits, perhaps of...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1913
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Stuart Shelf. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence renewal / re-issue, for the period 17/6/1986 to 15/9/1996.
On 21/11/1986, Western Mining Corp. (WMC) signed a joint venture agreement with PNC Exploration (Australia) Pty Ltd [a subsidiary of the Power and Nuclear Fuels Corp. of Japan], whereby PNC can earn up to 25% equity in EL 1338 by funding exploration...-
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Intercept Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/5/2003 to 14/7/2013. [Index Part 2 of 2].
In March 2010, once the terms of the joint venture agreement had been finalised, Argo passed its complete data sets to Xstrata, who immediately commenced a re-logging of Argo's drill cores besides conducting comprehensive unconstrained 3-D modelling...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1913
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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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Torrens and Woomera. Data release at licences' combined first partial relinquishment : joint first annual report for the period 26/5/1997 to 12/6/1998.
A review of existing geophysical data was carried out over an area west of and extending for 90 km south of Woomera. Further aerial magnetic surveys are seen as necessary to define areas of thin Pandurra Formation and younger cover, and to locate...-
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