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RB 61/00024 Amphibolite deposit, Tumby Bay district. First report - Highways and Local Government Department.
Mapping of amphibolite outcrop and float indicates that there is in excess of 100,000 cu. Yards of material possibly suitable for screenings. Gravels and clays may obscure material which would substantially increase these reserves. Two diamond...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cockabidnie. Annual reports for the period 25/5/2016 to 24/5/2019.
An area covering the northern end of the Campoona Syncline is being explored for possible economic buried graphite formed within Palaeoproterozic schistose rocks, which may exist as northern extensions to the Central Campoona graphite resource as well...-
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Published: 26 May 1918
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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] : Verran and Malbrom (the Verran Project, then the Arno Graphite Project). Joint annual reports plus annual report, for the period 29/1/2014 to 28/1/2019.
Two licence areas together covering the hinterland to Arno Bay and Port Gibbon on eastern Eyre Peninsula, and extending as far north-westwards as Rudall, are being explored for economic buried graphite deposits that may have formed in deformed high...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-31 - Peterlumbo Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources (IVR) applied on 30/1/2015 to participate in the PACE Initiative Year 8 (2015) collaborative drilling grant program between industry and government being administered by DSD. The application for subsidy funds submitted by IVR...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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RB 61/00032 Dolomite deposit, secn 66 Hd Yadnarie - Highways Department.
A dolomite deposit situated in section 66, Hundred of Yadnarie, near the township of Cleve, was mapped to asses reserves. Two diamond drillholes (D.D. 1 and D.D. 2 drilled to a depth of 160 and 199.5 feet respectively) were drilled to procure samples...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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Port Lincoln - Kimba area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/11/1967 to 31/10/1969.
The possible areal extent and potential in-ground resources of secondary kaolin developed from deep lateritic weathering of Early Proterozoic basement rocks on central-eastern Eyre Peninsula were investigated by the licensee, with a view to obtaining...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Karkarook. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/9/1998 to 16/9/2003.
Holocene lacustrine gypsum beds, believed to have formed around 6000 years ago by the evaporation of saline water in a series of shallow lakes and lagoons that had developed along the ancestral Driver River watercourse, were the objectives of early...-
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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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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 1 of 2].
Aquila Resources took up ownership of the much previously-explored ground comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project with the intent of exploring for the first time the iron oxide - associated copper-gold & uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation potential of...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Annual reports for the period 5/10/1995 to 30/1/2007 [Index part 3 of 3].
During the 2006-2007 licence reporting year (Year 16), on renewed EL 3516 Middleback Range, incoming new licensee OneSteel determined from a review of BHP Billiton's drilling database that some 3.1 Mt of JORC 'inferred' category iron ore (haematite)...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1908
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RB 2017/00011 A Mesoproterozoic advanced argillic alteration system: 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology from Nankivel Hill, Gawler Craton.
The Nankivel Dam prospect, located in north-western Eyre Peninsula, contains alunite, pyrophyllite, dickite, topaz and diaspore alteration of its rocks that is thought to be consistent with mineral assemblages found in advanced-argillic alteration...-
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Published: 01 May 2017
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RB 2000/00033 Mineral potential of the proposed Gawler Ranges National Park.
In late 1999, the South Australian Government approved the purchase of 1000 square km of land in, and adjacent to, the Gawler Ranges, for the creation of the Gawler Ranges National Park. This land has significant mineral potential, and has been...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
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RB 2013/00014 IOCG-style mineralisation in the central eastern Gawler Craton, SA; characterisation of alteration, geochemical associations and exploration vectors.
While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2013
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Sheoak Hill. Annual reports, partial surrender report and final report to licence surrender, for the period 9/7/1997 to 8/7/2002.
An area centred 60 km north-west of Cowell was considered prospective for iron mineralisation within banded iron formations of the Middleback Subgroup, and for skarn - type gold and base metals associated with Hutchison Group metasediments. Following...-
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Emmie Bluff IOCG Mineral System 3D Model (GOCAD version).
The eastern Gawler Craton hosts the giant Olympic Dam iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposit, as well as several other world class IOCG deposits (i.e. Prominent Hill and Carrapateena). The region is covered by a thick sequence of...-
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Emmie Bluff IOCG Mineral System 3D Model (3D pdf version).
The eastern Gawler Craton hosts the giant Olympic Dam iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposit, as well as several other world class IOCG deposits (i.e. Prominent Hill and Carrapateena). The region is covered by a thick sequence of...-
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