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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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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 - 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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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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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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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1978.
Stratabound, metasedimentary iron ore was the principal target of exploration undertaken by BHP over a large area surrounding the Moonabie Range that extends along strike and borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf. Base and precious metals...-
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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 [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middlecamp Hills. Annual reports for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2019.
Two small areas have been taken up in the Cleve Uplands district to explore structurally interesting portions of the Lower and Upper Middleback Jaspilite stratigraphic units for possible economic buried copper, gold, manganese and iron ore...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1918
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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] : 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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Verran. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint venture project joint reporting, for the period 29/1/2010 to 28/1/2014.
An area located in the Cowell Hills is being explored for possible economic buried iron ore deposits. The desired commodity is DSO (Direct Shipping Ore) haematite mineralisation similar to that of the Middleback Range iron deposits, where pods of...-
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Published: 23 May 1914
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Ironstone Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/9/2003 to 17/9/2015.
During the majority of its tenure term, very little field work was conducted on the subject ground. Initially, office studies of available geophysical and open file geological data were performed during 2005 to try to identify possible drilling...-
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Stony Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/1/1971 to 20/1/1972.
Investigation of some isolated coarse-grained jaspilite outcrops and likely intervening subcrop, in an area 12 miles west of Iron Baron near the Middleback Range, sought to identify a currently economic iron ore resource of more than 60 Mt existing...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1977.
A total of 3074 square km or ~86.25% of the originally granted area of EL 266 which borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf has recently been relinquished by BHP after one year of work, due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-29, Wilcherry Hill Magnetite Project, Hercules Proterozoic stratabound iron ore mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Iron ore mineralisation similar to that mined in the Middleback Range has been investigated at the Hercules prospect, located 90 km west-northwest of Whyalla, where a large, high intensity aeromagnetic anomaly and associated 12 km long outcrop of...-
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