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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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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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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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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hill - Tod River area. Annual reports [to the commencement of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 13/3/2002 to 12/3/2005.
An area which has had little exploration for iron ore done previously was taken up by Centrex Metals Ltd to cover potentially magnetite-rich Early Proterozoic banded iron formation (BIF) strata outcrops and subcrop located within the Lincoln Uplands...-
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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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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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Mount Messenger (lately part of the Central Eyre Peninsula Graphite Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/3/2014 to 13/11/2018.
An area centred ~30 km north-west of Cowell has been explored for possible buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal penetrating...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1918
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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 1914
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Gum Flat, Cummins, Strawberry Hill and Tarlinga (the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2008 to 30/6/2010.
An area of southern Eyre Peninsula consisting of two separate tenement subgroups located in the Port Lincoln west and Cummins districts respectively is being explored for possible economic shallowly buried stratabound occurrences of haematite and...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1910
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Cockabidnie. Annual reports for the period 25/5/2016 to 24/5/2019.
An area covering the northern end of the Campoona Syncline is being explored for possible economic buried graphite formed within Palaeoproterozic schistose rocks, which may exist as northern extensions to the Central Campoona graphite resource as well...-
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Published: 26 May 1918
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo. Joint second partial surrender report, for the period 14/2/1989 to 13/2/1992. Plus: Carpie Puntha and Waddikee. Joint final report to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 14/2/1989 to 24/6/1992.
TARGET: Possible commercial Menninnie Dam type stratabound or stratiform base metal deposits in the Cowell - Kimba - Buckleboo region. EXPLORATION: Field reconnaissance and rock chip geochemical sampling of prospective areas identified from...-
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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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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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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 1918
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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