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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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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 91/00066 Major South Australian gold deposits. Summaries.
This report summarizes information on 10 South Australian mineral deposits with individual aggregate gold resources and/or historic production of 1 tonne or more. By far the largest is the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, with a measured and indicated...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1991
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Parakylia. First annual report for the period 8/10/2012 to 7/10/2013.
An area centred ~20 km west-northwest of the Olympic Dam copper-gold-uranium mine is being explored for possible economic, similar IOCG type mineralisation that may have formed in buried Mesoproterozoic basement, but underlying much thicker cover than...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1913
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Playford South-East. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2014 to 24/7/2016.
An area centred ~130 km north of Woomera, and which lies ~45 km north-west of the Olympic Dam mine, is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG-U type mineralisation. No field work was conducted during the first licence year. Instead,...-
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Published: 08 Sep 1916
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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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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-02, evaluation of the Vulcan IOCGU mineralised system. Project final report.
Tasman Resources has discovered a new potential iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCGU) ore deposit at the Vulcan prospect, located 30 km north-northeast of Olympic Dam. The prospectivity of the Mesoproterozoic basement rocks in this...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1910
