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RB 91/00081 Eyre Peninsula. A brief review of mining and mineral potential.
Several commodities are currently mined on Eyre Peninsula including iron ore, dolomite, graphite, lime sand, gypsum, silica, granite, nephrite jade, talc and salt. Historically, copper, lead, silver and gold have also been mined and there are known...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1991
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Lipson Cove - Tumby Bay area. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/9/2004 to 1/9/2008.
Geological mapping of an historically worked lamellar talc occurrence in the Tumby Bay area showed that snow white, finely flaky talc is present over a 2 km strike length within two beds of isoclinally folded schistose dolomitic limestone, but is of...-
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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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Mount Olinthus. Annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1996.
Base metal mineralisation, indicated by newly discovered shafts at the historic Atkinson Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine, was the impetus for exploration in the upland area 20 km north-west from Cowell. Grab samples collected from shafts, stockpiles and dumps varied...-
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 24/9/2001 to 23/9/2005.
The buried Menninnie Dam zinc-lead(-silver-copper) deposit, located approximately 55 km north of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula, and sitting adjacent to the south-eastern margin of the Gawler Ranges, is being evaluated for its future commercial...-
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Cowell Jade Province: rock sample petrographic descriptions.
A collection of Amdel petrographic reports providing raw data for a petrogenetic study of Cowell area jade specimens and related host rocks carried out by SADME, aimed at determining geological controls on the distribution of high quality nephrite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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Stony Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 2/12/2004 to 23/12/2016.
During the life of the subject licence, the focus of exploration was to determine the area's potential for DSO haematite iron ore, with a secondary consideration being magnetite and haematite BIF. After conducting geophysical surveys and exploratory...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1917
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Stony Hill. Combined annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/3/2016 to 14/3/2017.
No new work was carried out on the subject Stony Hill licence area during its past year. The South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd (SAIOG) has held this tenement (successively under ELs 3287/4451/5617) since 2/12/2004, but has now surrendered it in...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1917
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Final Report - Unravelling the Stratigraphy of the Middleback Ranges ADI RD03-385 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 3, 2023].
In 2022 SIMEC Mining/Onesteel Manufacturing Pty Ltd successfully applied for up to $270,000 of funding through the South Australian Government’s Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) program. The company proposed to undertake RC and diamond drilling...-
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Cooyerdoo Station, Roopena Station and Middleback Range area. Joint progress reports and final report to subsequent licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/3/1983 to 22/11/1986.
Exploration for possible stratiform sediment-hosted lead-zinc in Lower Proterozoic metasediments of the Middleback Range area included the compilation of a lineament map from Landsat images and available aeromagnetic data, generating and interpreting...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1987
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Mount Olinthus. Progress reports plus interim final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/7/1978 to 7/11/1987.
TARGET: Unconformity related, vein-like and vein-type uranium in the Cleve Metamorphics, Katunga Dolomite and Mangalo Schist; lead-zinc sulphides of Broken Hill or Balmat-Edwards type in the Hutchison Group. EXPLORATION: Uranium exploration...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-24 - Nankivel Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources Limited (IVR) is continuing to explore its contiguous tenement package in the Southern Gawler Ranges for economic precious and base metals, following its discovery of the Paris silver deposit in 2011. A prospective region called...-
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Published: 20 Jun 1917
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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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Green Patch. Annual reports for the period 3/12/2001 to 30/5/2006, plus the last six years of tenure' combined annual reports/final report ('no work' letter only) to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/2/2015 to 31/8/2021.
An area centred on the hamlet of Green Patch, located ~10 km north-west of Port Lincoln, was taken up to appraise the iron ore potential of known near surface BIF magnetite mineralisation occurring at the Greenpatch (sic) prospect that had been...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1921
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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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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo (part of the Wilcherry Hill Joint Venture Project). Data release made at the third renewal / partial surrender of the latter licence: progress reports and annual reports for the period 14/2/1989 to 30/8/2003. [Index 1 of 2].
Two contiguous areas located south of the Gawler Ranges, between Buckleboo and Franklin Harbour, were taken up primarily to explore the Early Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence for possible Broken Hill type economic stratiform / hydrothermal base...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-30 - Trafford Resources Ltd, Wilcherry Hill Project, Oxy's Bore prospect magnetic anomaly IOCG target. Drilling project final report.
Trafford Resources Ltd ('Trafford'), the owner since March 2007 of the seven exploration licences comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project, has as its primary focus exploration of these tenements for economic precious and base metal deposits. The...-
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Geology of the Roopena and Uno 1:100 000 sheet areas, eastern Gawler Craton.
This report describes the results of a MESA consultant's second generation regional geological mapping and drillhole data interpretation work for the Roopena and Uno 1:100 000 sheets on PORT AUGUSTA, performed during 1993 and 1994 as part of the SAEI...-
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