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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hope. Annual reports for the period 12/4/2002 to 14/3/2019.
Exploration of an area located on western Eyre Peninsula between Sheringa and Mount Hope is continuing, with the intent of discovering economic buried base and precious metal deposits of volcanogenic sediment-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) style...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Gilles. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Eurilla JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 30/1/2007 to 29/1/2010.
A sparsely drill-tested area centred about 10 km west of Lake Gilles is being explored for a variety of buried, possibly economic basement-hosted polymetallic mineralisation occurrences, including deposits of Menninnie Dam style Pb-Zn-Ag (Cu-Au),...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1910
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Carappee Hill. Annual reports for the period 20/2/2010 to 19/2/2019.
The continuation during 2010 of exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic bedrock in a small area located 60 km west-northwest of Cowell has mainly consisted of the conduct of three shallow drilling campaigns and the examination and analysis of downhole...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1919
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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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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/209 : [petrographic] comparison of some Archaean and Proterozoic iron formations in SA. Progress reports 1 to 4, for the period December 1977 to July 1979.
A project to compare Gawler Craton iron formations of unknown age with those of known Archaean age (from geochronology) and with the Proterozoic, Lake Superior - type Middleback Range iron deposits has concentrated on characterising each formation by...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1979
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Bull 033 The Geology and Iron Ore Resources of the Middleback Range Area
This report deals comprehensively with the physiography, prospect geology, and ore genesis, and includes an assessment of the iron ore reserves and other mineral resources of an area which has been almost the sole source of the iron ore used in...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1978.
Stratabound, metasedimentary iron ore was the principal target of exploration undertaken by BHP over a large area surrounding the Moonabie Range that extends along strike and borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf. Base and precious metals...-
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RB 61/00117 Lower Proterozoic geology of the LINCOLN 4-mile sheet.
The Lower Proterozoic regionally metamorphosed rocks have been divided into three groups; the basal Flinders Metamorphics, predominantly gneisses, the Hutchison Metamorphics, which contain jaspilites and amphibolites, and the overlying Dutton...-
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Published: 26 Oct 1965
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kimba Gap [North] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 60 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd(SAIOG), a subsidiary of WA-based Portman Iron Ore...-
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Data release - as updated : Cockabidnie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2001 to 13/8/2015.
Early in 2001, Helix Resources Ltd entered into a joint venture agreement with Centrex Resources Limited to allow it to explore for precious and base metals on some of the tenements held by Centrex on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, including...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middlecamp Hills. Annual reports for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2019.
Two small areas have been taken up in the Cleve Uplands district to explore structurally interesting portions of the Lower and Upper Middleback Jaspilite stratigraphic units for possible economic buried copper, gold, manganese and iron ore...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kimba Gap, Ironstone Hut, Ironstone Hill, Stony Hill, Gilles Downs and Minbrie areas (the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/12/2005 to 31/1/2013.
Exploration for possible economic occurrences of magnetite and/or haematite iron ore formed in concealed Proterozoic basement to the west of the Middleback Range is being carried out by Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) joint venturer Centrex...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/6/1990 to 5/6/1995.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks that cover ~460 square km of Palaeoproterozoic BIF ironstone outcrops in the northern and southern parts of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up by The Broken Hill Pty...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Verran. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint venture project joint reporting, for the period 29/1/2010 to 28/1/2014.
An area located in the Cowell Hills is being explored for possible economic buried iron ore deposits. The desired commodity is DSO (Direct Shipping Ore) haematite mineralisation similar to that of the Middleback Range iron deposits, where pods of...-
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Published: 23 May 1914
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Ironstone Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/9/2003 to 17/9/2015.
During the majority of its tenure term, very little field work was conducted on the subject ground. Initially, office studies of available geophysical and open file geological data were performed during 2005 to try to identify possible drilling...-
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Data release - as updated : Moonabie (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/2006 to 13/3/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are centred approximately 60 km WSW of Whyalla is being explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation plus precious and base metals, in a structurally complex epithermal and...-
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Published: 29 Apr 1917
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Data release - as updated : Campoona (part of the Cockabidnie JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/2007 to 5/8/2016.
The subject licence area, comprising two sub-blocks centred approximately 20 km north-west of Kimba, and which lies within the middle part of the NNE trending Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, has been explored, in concert...-
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