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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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RB 60/00025 Geological report no. 1 on Brennand anomaly, Hd Koppio, southern Eyre Peninsula, Cummins 1-mile sheet.
A potential iron ore deposit has been investigated in the upper horizon of jaspilite beds of the Hutchison Group, where a drag fold has caused a thickening of the jaspilite beds. Surface samples average 42.2% acid soluble iron. The deposit has a...-
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Published: 08 Feb 1965
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RB 60/00054 Geological report no. 1 on the Oolanta anomaly, Hd Stokes, southern Eyre Peninsula (Cummins and Tumby 1-mile sheets).
10 miles north-west of Tumby Bay, a syncline of jaspilite, with a shallow southerly plunge, could contain 8-13 million tons of magnetic iron ore per vertical 100 feet. Unweathered jaspilite with magnetite occurs. Assessment of the potential of the...-
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Published: 16 Mar 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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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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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] : 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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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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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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RB 62/00022 Geological and geophysical report, Ironmount mine area, Tumby 1-mile sheet.
Geological investigation of Pre-Cambrian jaspilites indicates that they are leached and are not likely to contain any jaspilite of ore grade. Geophysical work does not suggest any significant enrichment of ore downslope from the leached surface...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
