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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal [part] : progress reports for the period 28/4/1989 to 27/4/1992. [Index Part 1 of 3].
Exploration for gold in the eastern Adelaide Hills, in an area of Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments stretching from Kanmantoo in the south to Mount Rhine in the north, was undertaken initially by licence farminee East West Minerals utilising regional...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1992
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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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Dudley East areas 1 and 2 (the Dudley Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/8/2018 to 2/8/2020, plus respective licence's final reports to 2/8/2020 and 27/10/2021 upon their successive full surrender.
Two very small areas bordering the coastline of the Dudley Peninsula on the eastern end of Kangaroo Island have been explored for possible economic, felsic igneous intrusive late-stage pegmatitic vein - hosted, lithium, tantalum, tin, REE and kaolin...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1921
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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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Kanmantoo. Final report on drill testing of a deep magnetotelluric (MT) conductive zone having inferred monzonite related Cu-Au mineral potential, Project ADI RD02-281 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Hillgrove Resources Limited (Hillgrove) was granted ADI Round 2 programme subsidy funds to allow it to undertake diamond drill testing of a combined MT - gravity - magnetic anomaly located near its Kanmantoo mine, which it has termed the Stella...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1922
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Tanunda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1989 to 26/7/1990.
Possible epithermal/hydrothermal and shear-related vein style gold, and Proterozoic and Cambrian metasedimentary-hosted industrial minerals, were the targets of reconnaissance exploration over a licence taken up in the Barossa region. 1:2000 scale...-
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The Adelaide Hills Project. Data release made at the partial surrenders / full surrender of subsequent licences: annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 27/6/2000 to 15/5/2005.
A diamond exploration project area comprising nine mineral exploration licences located in the central Mount Lofty Ranges was taken up by new public company Flinders Diamonds (FDL) to search for possible commercial accumulations of diamonds, thought...-
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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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RB 2014/00001 Geology of the dimension stone quarries at Black Hill, South Australia.
Black Hill, located 85 km to the east of Adelaide, is an important source of black "granite". The gabbro and norite exposed on the hill over an area of 4 km by 3 km represent the outcropping top of a much larger Cambro - Ordovician gabbroic intrusion....-
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Published: 01 Apr 2014
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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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The Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project. Joint and combined annual reports, for the period 19/12/1997 to 31/12/2010.
An assessment of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand accumulations has discovered numerous occurrences of economic to sub-economic amounts of heavy minerals...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1911
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Birdwood - Mount Pleasant - Tungkillo district. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/4/1984 to 8/4/1985.
To establish the geochemical fingerprint for proven metallic mineralisation that is known to be associated with the Bremer Fault breccia zone, 8 rock chip and gossan samples were taken for analysis from good exposures of this zone found in a road...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1984
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Talisker prospect. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 21/4/1969 to 20/4/1970.
IP and resistivity surveys, 1:200 scale geological mapping, and soil and rock chip sampling were carried out over exploration grids covering bleached metasedimentary outcrops that might indicate possible buried lode extensions in the vicinity of the...-
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Kanappa. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/12/1964 to 31/5/1965.
Reconnaissance stream sediment sampling (4000 samples taken over 5 square miles) and follow-up traverse soil sampling (350 samples) have been completed in the vicinity of the historic Kanappa copper mine, 7 miles north-east of Springton, to look for...-
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Wheal Ellen mine area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/1998 to 24/6/2003.
Extensions to Cu-Pb-Co-Ag - rich lodes that were formerly exploited at the historic Wheal Ellen mine, located 40 km south-east of Adelaide, were the targets of recently renewed exploration for gold and base metals. Following the conduct of extensive...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1903
