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RB 60/00063 Geological reconnaissance of the coastal areas of southern Eyre Peninsula for molybdenite and scheelite.
Rocks in the Flinders and Hutchinson groups are exposed sporadically around the coast of Eyre Peninsula. Reported occurrences of molybdenite and scheelite in these rock types were investigated. No significant rare metal minerals were found in the...-
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Published: 23 Mar 1965
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RB 78/00019 Petrological descriptions of 60 rocks from the Middle Camp, Narridy Creek and Plug Range areas, eastern Eyre Peninsula.
Describes rocks from 3 areas formerly mapped as Flinders Group. Granites in each area are distinctively different, but metasediments are similar.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 94/00024 Graphite in South Australia - A review of production, use and geology.
South Australian graphite is reviewed in the light of published information on world deposits. A high quality coarse flake product has been mined at Uley on southern Eyre Peninsula. Geophysical investigations of deposits near Kimba are warranted, to...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1994
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RB 93/00037 Review of exploration for kaolin in the Kimba area, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
During 1969-72, kaolinised bedrock south of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula was investigated by Pechiney and CSR Ltd as a potential source of alumina. Exploration drilling of 102 holes outlined 4 broad areas of kaolinisation at Kelly Tank,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1993
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Lipson Cove - Tumby Bay area. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/9/2004 to 1/9/2008.
Geological mapping of an historically worked lamellar talc occurrence in the Tumby Bay area showed that snow white, finely flaky talc is present over a 2 km strike length within two beds of isoclinally folded schistose dolomitic limestone, but is of...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-40 - western Middleback Range region - Stony Hill area Archaean to Proterozoic stratabound iron ore mineral prospects. Project final report.
Banded iron formation (BIF) rock outcrops and an associated 15 km long aeromagnetic anomaly located about 20 km west of Iron Baron were chosen by Centrex Metals as high quality targets deserving of exploration for economic iron mineralisation...-
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Published: 28 Nov 1908
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Verran and Fair View (the Corunna Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/2005 to 28/4/2009.
A search for possible economic North/South Alligator Rivers or McArthur River (NT) style epicratonic, unconformity - related sedimentary uranium deposits was conducted across two licences taken up over areas located west and south of Cleve on central...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Uley. Annual reports for the period 16/9/2005 to 12/10/2018.
A licence area located 20 km west-southwest of Port Lincoln, which covers the historically worked Uley graphite deposit and environs, was taken up to try to delineate sufficient mineral resources and, eventually, ore reserves of graphite in the Mining...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1919
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to 18/5/1970.
Exploration for possible economic hypogene base metal sulphide deposits associated with poorly exposed iron-rich linear outcrops, overlying faulted Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic basement which is obscured by extensive Cainozoic sedimentary cover rocks...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1970
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Carappee Hill. First, second and third partial surrender report, for the period 1/2/2016 to 31/01/2021.
Two separate blocks together comprising 164 square km or ~10% of the former area of EL 5877 have been relinquished. No work was done on them. The ground had been taken up primarily to explore for possible economic graphite mineralisation which could...-
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Mikkira (south-west of Port Lincoln). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/3/1981 to 27/10/1987.
Exploration for graphite primarily, and secondarily for BIF-associated massive base metal sulphides, in the area surrounding the historic Uley graphite mine situated 15 km west south-west of Port Lincoln, initially comprised an airborne reconnaissance...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1987
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Lake Gilles area. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report upon licence renewal : progress reports for the period 26/10/1989 to 10/2/2001.
Menninnie Dam - style Pb-Zn mineralisation in areas north and east of Lake Gilles was the initial target of exploration. A ground magnetic survey conducted along five lines was followed by shallow auger drilling (302 holes, total 1099 m) plus lag,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Gum Flat. Annual reports submitted prior to the commencement of joint reporting on the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 27/9/2005 to 26/9/2008.
An area lying immediately west of Port Lincoln and extending for ~10 km inland is being explored for buried occurrences of multiple metallic mineral commodities that may have been deposited within faulted, folded and metamorphosed Archaean basement...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1907
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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Cockabidnie North (part of the Cockabidnie JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/2010 to 22/8/2015.
The subject very small licence area, located approximately 25 km north-west of Cleve, and which lies within the northern part of the NNE trending Kimban Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, has been explored, in concert with...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Malbrom. First annual report submitted until the commencement of joint venture project joint reporting, for the period 5/4/2013 to 4/4/2014.
A licence composed of four separate small sub-blocks which generally lie ~90 to 120 km north-northeast of Port Lincoln is being explored primarily for extensions to known graphite-bearing horizons which may exist to the north and south of the...-
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Published: 29 May 1914
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Rudall. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2012 to 23/5/2017.
A small area centred ~ 19 km west-northwest of Cleve was taken up primarily to explore for possible economic buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal...-
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Mount Messenger (lately part of the Central Eyre Peninsula Graphite Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/3/2014 to 13/11/2018.
An area centred ~30 km north-west of Cowell has been explored for possible buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal penetrating...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lipson Cove. Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 28/9/2014.
An area in the Cowell Hills centred ~20 km north of Tumby Bay on eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up primarily to explore and evaluate known talc and graphite occurrences, but the grant licensee's initial review of previous exploration data revealed...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1914
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Cockabidnie. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/5/2016 to 24/5/2018.
The central portion of EL 5791 covering 77 square km or half of the originally granted licence area has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for economic graphite, cobalt or zinc mineralisation. No field work was done on...-
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Published: 19 Jul 1918
