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Cooyerdoo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/re-issue as part of another licence, for the period 14/9/1981 to 13/3/1983.
Following the signing of an eighteen month exploration joint venture agreement with Stockdale, farminee Mobil Energy Minerals undertook continuation of the uranium search over the anomalous ground lying east and south-east of Lake Gilles, besides...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1983
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RB 36/00082 Wagon drilling programme, Katunga Hills, Middleback Range. Progress report.
Report presents results of reconnaissance wagon [rotary percussion] drilling of 24 vertical iron ore exploration boreholes carried out along four drill traverses laid out on the upland portions of the Katunga Hills, during a campaign progressed during...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1953
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RB 37/00077 Petrology of the cores of bores no. 1 and 2, Middleback Ranges.
A representative selection of rock types obtained in the cores of the DDH1 and DDH2 iron ore exploration holes was made with a view to studying the mineralogy, the lithology and any microstructures of interest present in the formations intersected. A...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1954
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RB 60/00025 Geological report no. 1 on Brennand anomaly, Hd Koppio, southern Eyre Peninsula, Cummins 1-mile sheet.
A potential iron ore deposit has been investigated in the upper horizon of jaspilite beds of the Hutchison Group, where a drag fold has caused a thickening of the jaspilite beds. Surface samples average 42.2% acid soluble iron. The deposit has a...-
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Published: 08 Feb 1965
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RB 45/00046 Report no. 3 iron ore prospecting, Cooyerdoo, SSE area Iron Knob district.
At a cost of 0.9d. per ton, 27 percussion holes aggregating 2280 feet have disclosed 1 and a quarter million tons of limonite assaying possibly 50% Fe, 3% Mn, 9% Insolubles. Further ore occurs in the immediate vicinity and northerly in the Cooyerdoo...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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Koppio, Glengyle and Moreenia. Joint first annual plus final reports for the period 9/9/97 to 8/9/99.
Laterite, BCL drainage and soil geochemical sampling, plus the re-assaying of previous drillhole samples, were carried out in the Port Neill - Tooligie - Port Lincoln area of southern Eyre Peninsula. No significant gold or base metal anomalism was...-
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Lake Gilles area. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report upon licence renewal : progress reports for the period 26/10/1989 to 10/2/2001.
Menninnie Dam - style Pb-Zn mineralisation in areas north and east of Lake Gilles was the initial target of exploration. A ground magnetic survey conducted along five lines was followed by shallow auger drilling (302 holes, total 1099 m) plus lag,...-
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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] : 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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Waddikee. Annual reports for the period 24/5/2010 to 31/1/2018.
During licence Year 6, on renewed EL 4662, Monax and its JV earn-in partner OMM undertook auger soil geochemical sampling, ground magnetic and IP surveys, and exploratory drilling in their continuing search for economic iron ore and manganese...-
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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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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1993 to 14/3/1998.
A low-lying small area situated 40 km west of Whyalla has been explored primarily for economic gypsum occurrences within Recent surficial sediments, while latterly, a search for metallic minerals has also commenced, via a geological survey of basement...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kimba Gap [North] (part of the Middleback Range Iron Ore Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 9/10/2006.
A small exploration licence area centred approximately 60 km west-northwest of Whyalla, which is mainly covered by Quaternary sediments, has been taken up by the South Australian Iron Ore Group Pty Ltd(SAIOG), a subsidiary of WA-based Portman Iron Ore...-
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Data release - as updated : Minbrie. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/12/2001 to 30/5/2006.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kimba Gap, Ironstone Hut, Ironstone Hill, Stony Hill, Gilles Downs and Minbrie areas (the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/12/2005 to 31/1/2013.
Exploration for possible economic occurrences of magnetite and/or haematite iron ore formed in concealed Proterozoic basement to the west of the Middleback Range is being carried out by Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) joint venturer Centrex...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tooligie Hill. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting on Southern Eyre Peninsula JV Project, for the period 3/12/1999 to 10/3/2006.
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/6/1990 to 5/6/1995.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks that cover ~460 square km of Palaeoproterozoic BIF ironstone outcrops in the northern and southern parts of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up by The Broken Hill Pty...-
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Verran (part of the Kimba-Verran Joint Venture Project, and also part of the Eyre Peninsula Joint Venture Project). Annual and combined annual reports for the period 28/6/2002 to 11/7/2009.
No field work was conducted on the subject licence area, which comprises three sub-blocks, for all of Years 6-11 (period 2002-2008) on EL 2981. During Year 8 of the project (8th March to 28th December 2004), exploration activities were reported...-
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Cowell. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/7/1981 to 7/7/1982.
Appraisal of the southern Middleback Range to Cowell area for possible buried diamondiferous kimberlites and for economic extensions to stratiform iron ore deposits was undertaken. A limited drainage bulk sampling programme was unsuccessful in...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1982
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-27 - Cleve area Proterozoic unconformity-style uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
In May 2009 a total of 45 aircore blade or hammer holes (total penetration 1332 m) were drilled by Adelaide Resources along six northeast-southwest trending traverses laid out immediately south-west of Cleve, to test a conceptual unconformity - style...-
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