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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Nonning (latterly part of Terramin's Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 30/3/2006 to 30/11/2012.
An area centred ~70 km north of Kimba, which also lies about 7 km north of the Menninnie Dam lead-zinc-silver deposit, was taken up to explore for possible buried economic volcanic epithermal/hydrothermal Mesoproterozoic Fe-rich Cu-Au mineralisation...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Kolendo [not "Taringa"] (part of the Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2013.
An area located adjacent to the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges, that includes some exposures of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV), and which at its southern boundary lies approximately 15 km north-east of the Menninnie Dam Pb-Zn-Ag...-
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Sheoak Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surreender, for the period 15/3/1983 to 14/3/1988.
TARGET: Stratiform lead-zinc-silver mineralisation of the Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type, associated with banded iron formations in Early Proterozoic metasediments. EXPLORATION: Data from the 1975 joint SADME / BMR Barna 1:100 000 scale...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kolendo, Taringa, Nonning, Wipipippee and Menninnie Dam (the Menninnie Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2013 to 31/12/2016.
The Menninnie JV Project area consists of five contiguous exploration licences, and is considered prospective for Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Au-Mo-U deposits associated with past epithermal, porphyry, IOCG and skarn - forming geological environments. It lies in a...-
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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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Cowell. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/5/1978 to 22/4/1980.
The exploration targets in an area extending along the Spencer Gulf coastal plain between Cowell and Whyalla were sandstone type roll-front uranium deposits, developed in possible Eocene palaeochannels that may have drained the Cleve Uplands and...-
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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pondooma. Annual and combined annual reports for the period 3/12/2002 to 2/12/2005.
Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, consisting of two separate sub-blocks that are centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, is located immediately west of the Middleback Range and 5 km west of Onesteel’s Iron Duke mine. This licence was granted to SA...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : [Coastal Magnetite Project] Iron ore prospects, eastern Eyre Peninsula. Project operator's report re. the prospects' 2002-2003 evaluation programme.
The key advantages of location and simple metallurgy of coastal Eyre Peninsula magnetite ores presented Portman Mining Ltd with an opportunity to enter a major under-explored and under-developed iron ore province and develop a new export business....-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kolendo (part of the Menninnie Zinc Project). Annual reports for the period 27/7/2009 to 26/7/2012.
An area located adjacent to the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges that includes some exposures of Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV), and which at its south-eastern corner lies approximately 12 km north-west of the Menninnie Dam Pb-Zn-Ag...-
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Moonabie Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 19/2/1982.
Exploration in the Moonabie area, located 40 km south-west of Whyalla, was aimed at possible concealed epithermal or Alligator Rivers (NT) type stratabound uranium occurrences within the Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary/metavolcanic sequence....-
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Charleston (north of Cowell, eastern Eyre Peninsula). Annual and final report for the period 11/1/2001 to 10/7/2002.
EL 2789 covered the Charleston Granite, a large inferred Hiltaba Suite granitoid located at the southern termination of the Middleback Range, 60 km southwest of Whyalla. The area was considered prospective for shear - hosted gold mineralisation...-
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Ironstone Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1997 to 10/8/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey and surficial calcrete, soil and MMI sampling targeted Challenger/Tunkillia-type gold and Olympic Dam style copper-gold, associated respectively with a number of shear zones and with the Charleston Granite,...-
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Kooralla. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2002 to 17/1/2005.
EL 2888 was applied for to cover prospective magnetic anomalies thought to be underlain by magnetite-rich banded iron formations (BIF), that exist close to Cowell on the eastern Eyre Peninsula. One geological interpretation of the magnetic anomalism...-
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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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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-17, Menninnie Dam area base metal and gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
During February-July 2005, a PACE Initiative collaborative drilling programme with PIRSA was prepared and undertaken by Terramin Australia at the Menninnie Dam prospect to investigate two objectives: · The B1 cerussite target identified by drilling...-
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Green Patch. Progress, annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/7/1991 to 1/3/1996.
Following a review of previous company exploration and image interpretation of SAEI and BMR aeromagnetic data, a 3166 line km airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, with follow-up ground magnetics and air core drilling (282 holes, 4559 m), was carried...-
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