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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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Coomandook, Kingston (South-East), Padthaway and The Coorong [East] (the Padthaway Project). Joint annual reports plus final reports to various licences' respective full surrenders, for the overall period 27/3/2014 to 26/3/2019.
A group of semi-contiguous licence areas in the Padthaway district, and one somewhat removed to the north-west, near Coomandook, have been explored for possible buried economic volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) style mineralisation that may have...-
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Published: 08 May 1919
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Woolpunda (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/11/2000 to 3/7/2017.
An area located immediately south of the Sturt Highway that connects between Swan Reach and Loxton, in the vicinity of the Woolpunda Irrigation Area, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have...-
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 14/10/1997 to 8/8/2017.
An area located in the northern SA Murray Mallee region, and centred ~ 35 km south-west of Loxton, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have formed in the sedimentary cover. In total, 513 square...-
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Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek (formerly part of the Fleurieu JV Project, then part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/6/1992 to 18/10/2016.
Two slightly separated areas located in the west-central Kanmantoo Trough geological region have been explored for possible economic buried metalliferous deposits by successive licence owners over an almost 25 year - long tenure. The subject report...-
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Meningie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration for possible Cambrian stratabound base metal sulphide deposits over an area in the vicinity of Meningie has targeted a number of N-S strike-elongated intense aeromagnetic and gravity anomalies presumed to originate in Kanmantoo Group...-
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Blackford. Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/11/1978 to 19/12/1987.
Shallow Tertiary coal deposits were the target in the area north of Kingston SE lying between Tilleys Swamp and Coola Coola Swamp. Within this area, 44 rotary mud vertical open exploratory holes totalling 3658 m were drilled and geophysically logged....-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnerships DPY9-43 - Brownlow and DPY9-47 - Bower. Drilling projects' joint interim and final reports.
Copper and gold mineralisation associated with felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous intrusive rocks which have intruded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments in the Nackara Arc region has been the target of exploratory drilling conducted with the...-
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Mannum area (including the Anna and Sedan coal deposits). Data release at licence expiry/renewal : coal exploration progress reports and data, plus Sedan coal deposit mine planning management progress reports, for the period 13/11/1978 to 20/8/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...-
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Padthaway - Black Range area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/5/1979 to 28/3/1980.
Exploration for possible economic lignite and coal that may occur within Tertiary sediments of the western Murray Basin covering the crest of the Padthaway Ridge, consisted of drilling 14 rotary mud vertical holes, 4 being partially diamond cored,...-
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Published: 12 May 1980
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RB 00609 Palaeontology of Murray Basin Oil Syndicate's Pinnaroo bore, Hundred of Pinnaroo, adjacent sections 59 and 67. Final report and summary.
From 1047 feet depth the borehole continued in silty sands and grits of the Knight Group, and at 1191 feet entered clay overlying quartz-mica schist bedrock, in which it continued to a total depth of 1280 feet. A summary of the Tertiary sequence...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1900
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RB 00506 Palaeontology of Australian Oil and Gas Corporation's Loxton oil bore 1, Hundred Bookpurnong, part section 6B. Progress report no. 5.
Three samples of diamond drill core from 1550, 1570 and 1590 feet depth were examined. All are Cretaceous sediments, the lowest at 1590 feet being a glauconitic shale of marine origin, with Cretaceous foraminifera. This is the first record of marine...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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Moorlands. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/9/2001 to 9/9/2006.
Possible buried economic volcanic-hosted base metal sulphide (VHMS) deposits and magmatic epithermal/hydrothermal gold veins which might be associated with Cambro-Ordovician island arc porphyritic intrusions were the targets of exploration conducted...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1909
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Assessment of the base metal mineral potential, EL 2487, Sedan, South Australia.
The magmatic province of the eastern Delamerian Orogen concealed beneath the Murray Basin in eastern South Australia, including under EL 2487, has potential for several styles of mineralisation, including: - Magmatic-associated Cu-Au (+/_Fe)...-
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Saunders Creek. Third partial surrender report, for the period 16/1/2007 to 15/1/2010.
An area located about 40 km north-east of Murray Bridge is being explored for possible economic stratabound sedex, skarn or sandstone-hosted type silver-lead-zinc-copper deposits. Red Metal have re-interpreted the magnetic data for the Kanmantoo...-
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Published: 24 May 1910
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Morgan and Waikerie (part of the Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project and later the Murray Basin Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 30/4/1998 to 24/9/2015.
In the last phase of exploration for possible buried economic heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the district extending between Waikerie, Blanchetown and parts of the north-western Murray Mallee, the only field work undertaken was...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1915
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Strathalbyn [not Hartley] (part of the Fleurieu Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 4/6/2007 to 3/6/2014.
Two portions of an area extending east and south-east of Strathalbyn, together totalling 50 square km or ~40% of the former area of EL 5078, have been relinquished to satisfy the terms of the Fleurieu Project Amalgamated Expenditure Agreement signed...-
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Mount Rough. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/12/1994 to 10/6/1998.
Ground magnetic survey and gravity survey traverses were conducted south-southwest of Tintinara over aeromagnetic features considered to be prospective for base and precious metals. 13 rotary mud/diamond drillholes (respective total penetration 1048...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1998
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Swan Reach and Morgan. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 22/11/1996 to 21/11/1997.
Possible gold, base metals and platinum group element targets lying within, or spatially associated with, Delamerian ultramafic intrusive rocks occurring over an area of the Kanmantoo Trough between Mannum and Morgan, were sought for by conducting...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports, plus individual licence final reports at their respective full surrender, for the period 19/12/1997 to 30/6/2018.
Previous investigations of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine littoral zone clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand (HM) placer accumulations have discovered numerous occurrences of economic to...-
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