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Harris Bluff (Uno Station). Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 7/9/1982 to July 1986.
Exploration undertaken over an area located 60 km west of Port Augusta targeted possible Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type massive Pb-Zn deposits within Early Proterozoic Hutchison Group banded iron formation metasediments, and also any Early...-
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RB 59/00139 Geological report no. 2 on the Koppio, jaspilite complex, Hundred Koppio, southern Eyre Peninsula, Cummins 1-mile map.
Drilling results confirm the general synclinal structure. The jaspilite complex appears to be too low grade, too deeply weathered and too narrow to be of immediate economic interest. The western flank and main synclinal axis need more exploration for...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 57/00009 Greenpatch jaspilite structure, Hd Lincoln.
The major structure is probably an overturned north plunging anticline, the nose possibly containing 450 000 tons per vertical foot and averaging 45.8% iron. Preliminary tests at Australian Mineral Development Laboratories suggest that the ore may be...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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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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Kartanya iron ore prospect, EL 2066, South Australia.
The Kartanya iron ore prospect is located in the central Eyre Peninsula region, approximately 100 km west of Cowell and about the same distance north of Port Lincoln. Haematite mineralisation was discovered in the area by Western Mining Corp. while...-
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Roopena and Iron Knob. Joint progress reports, joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/4/1992 to 23/2/2000.
Exploration for Mount Isa style, Fe-oxide associated Cu-Au mineralisation has targeted Whyalla Group metasediments and associated Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions within a 110 km long x 15 km wide, north - south aligned corridor situated west of...-
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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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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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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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Sheoak Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surreender, for the period 15/3/1983 to 14/3/1988.
TARGET: Stratiform lead-zinc-silver mineralisation of the Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type, associated with banded iron formations in Early Proterozoic metasediments. EXPLORATION: Data from the 1975 joint SADME / BMR Barna 1:100 000 scale...-
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Corrobinnie Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/2/1991 to 31/1/1993.
Base and precious metal exploration of the Palaeoproterozoic Hutchison Group in the Corrobinnie Hill area on central Eyre Peninsula has comprised ground magnetic, gravity, TEM and IP surveys, soil geochemistry, and RC drilling (12 holes, total 925 m)....-
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Strawberry Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 4/10/89 to 3/1/94.
Exploration in the Wanilla - Cummins area searching for economic accumulations of heavy minerals in Eocene sands comprised 2 phases of aircore drilling (167 holes, total 4049 m). A resulting drill intersection yielded a 0.72% heavy-mineral...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Middleback Range and Moonabie Hills. Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2007 to 30/1/2019, plus surrender reports to 9/7/2023.
Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1918
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Eureka Bluff, Mount Nott and Mount Ive (the Gawler Range Volcanics Project). Joint venture partners' progress reports and final reports, for the period 17/6/1983 to 16/6/1988.
TARGET: Diamonds in possible kimberlite intrusives; and (as JV objectives), possible exhalative lead-zinc-silver deposits of Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type, emplaced within the Early Proterozoic Hutchison Group, plus possible epithermal...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1988
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The Northern Eyre Peninsula JV Project. Data release made in lieu of submitting a licence final report at the full surrender of EL 5170 Kimba Gap: Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2013 to 9/2/2017.
During the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) 2013-2014 reporting year, exploration field work took place on two of the six project tenements. On EL 4884 Minbrie, a single 151 m deep vertical RC drillhole, BURC092, was completed in August 2013,...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1918
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Salt Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/2/1977 to 16/2/1978.
Possible base metal deposits in banded iron formations were the target of exploration in the vicinity of Salt Creek, 25 km north of Cowell on eastern Eyre Peninsula. A programme of geological mapping, rock chip geochemical sampling and the drilling...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1978