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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 [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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hill - Tod River area. Annual reports [to the commencement of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 13/3/2002 to 12/3/2005.
An area which has had little exploration for iron ore done previously was taken up by Centrex Metals Ltd to cover potentially magnetite-rich Early Proterozoic banded iron formation (BIF) strata outcrops and subcrop located within the Lincoln Uplands...-
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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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Gilles Downs (part of the West Middleback Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 8/7/2005 to 7/7/2008.
Three small areas totalling 150 square km have been relinquished from the western extremities of the two sub-blocks forming the subject licence. The only work conducted on this ground was the acquisition for the licensee during February 2007 of parts...-
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Published: 20 May 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Tumby Bay. Annual reports [to the 24/11/2006 commencement of the Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 18/1/2002 to 17/1/2007.
Exploration Licence 2887 Tumby Bay was taken out to cover prospective magnetite rich Banded Iron Formations (BIF) close to the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula. Potential was seen for a magnetite concentrate export operation taking advantage of...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1907
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Lake Gilles (latterly part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, plus the final report, for the respective periods 13/2/2007 to 31/5/2010 and 1/6/2014 to 31/5/2015.
A licence area originally comprising three separate sub-blocks located along the northern and southern sides of the Lake Gilles Conservation Park has been explored by grant licensee Lincoln Minerals Ltd (LML) and its joint venture partner IronClad...-
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Published: 19 Jun 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cummins. Annual reports for the period 13/2/2007 to 12/2/2009.
A licence comprising three sub-blocks centred ~15 km north-east of Cummins and 70 km north-northwest of Port Lincoln is being explored for a wide range of metallic minerals that may exist as economic deposits in buried basement rocks. The ground has...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1909
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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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Moseley Nobs (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 23/3/2017 to 22/3/2019.
The easternmost and westernmost thirds (portions totalling ~52%) of the former area of EL 5931, located approximately 30 km north of Kimba, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished prospectivity for economic buried occurrences of...-
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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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Moseley Nobs and Uno [West] (part of the Wilcherry Project). Second partial surrenders' respectively combined report, for the overall period 1/11/2014 to 7/4/2021.
14 square km or 35% of the former area of EL 5931, and 3 square km or ~5.2% of the former area of EL 6379, have recently been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for buried base and precious metal mineralisation. Work...-
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Published: 17 May 1921
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Mount Miccollo (part of the Wilcherry Project). Second and third partial surrender report, for the period 10/6/2011 to 27/5/2021.
An area centred ~100 km west of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now relinquished...-
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Uno (part of the Wilcherry Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 29/7/2009 to 24/1/2020.
An area centred ~105 km west-southwest of Port Augusta is being explored for possible economic buried, basement-hosted occurrences of epithermal/hydrothermal/metamorphic gold, silver, iron, uranium, and base metals mineralisation. On the now...-
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Data release - as updated : Gum Flat, Wanilla, Cummins, Tarlinga and Yeelanna (the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project). Joint annual reports submitted until the joint full surrender of remaining project licences, for the period 1/7/2010 to 18/01/2022.
During 2010-2011, the third year of the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, owner Lincoln Minerals' exploration activities included: - Planning, site preparation and supervision of an RC and aircore drilling program; - Surveying and vegetation clearing for...-
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Published: 09 Jan 1920
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Uno [West] and Eurilla Dam (part of the Wilcherry Hill Project). Third and first partial surrenders' respectively combined report, for the overall period 10/10/2002 to 7/4/2022.
17 square km or ~65% of the former area of EL 5931, and 14 square km or ~12% of the former area of EL 6072, have recently been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for buried base and precious metal mineralisation. Work...-
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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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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
