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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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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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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 - 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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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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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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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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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Middleback Range and Moonabie Hills. Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2007 to 30/1/2019, plus surrender reports to 9/7/2023.
Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...-
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Published: 29 Mar 2018
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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 2010
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Annual reports for the period 5/10/1995 to 30/1/2007 [Index part 3 of 3].
During the 2006-2007 licence reporting year (Year 16), on renewed EL 3516 Middleback Range, incoming new licensee OneSteel determined from a review of BHP Billiton's drilling database that some 3.1 Mt of JORC 'inferred' category iron ore (haematite)...-
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Published: 25 Jan 2008
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lipson Cove. Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 28/9/2014.
An area in the Cowell Hills centred ~20 km north of Tumby Bay on eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up primarily to explore and evaluate known talc and graphite occurrences, but the grant licensee's initial review of previous exploration data revealed...-
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Published: 12 Dec 2014
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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 2017
