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Roopena Station. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 26/6/1985.
Exploration of an area situated between Whyalla, Iron Knob and The Bluff overlooking Myall Creek, 20 km south-west of Port Augusta, aimed to test for Olympic Dam - type Cu-U-Au mineralisation associated with products of igneous activity located in and...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1985
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Roopena and Iron Knob. Joint progress reports, joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/4/1992 to 23/2/2000.
Exploration for Mount Isa style, Fe-oxide associated Cu-Au mineralisation has targeted Whyalla Group metasediments and associated Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions within a 110 km long x 15 km wide, north - south aligned corridor situated west of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Roopena area . Annual technical report for the period ending 11 December 2018.
EL 5898 is an area of 155 km2 located in the Roopena area of South Australia approximately 10 km northwest of Whyalla on 1:250,000 Map Sheet: Port Augusta (SH5304) and Whyalla (SH5308). Works within EL 5898 have targeted predominantly IOCG-style...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Old Wartaka. Annual reports for the period 8/5/2013 to 7/5/2019.
A small area located on the eastern side of the Roopena Fault Zone, proximal to the south-eastern margin of the Gawler Ranges, is being explored for possible buried epigenetic gold and silver mineralisation, or IOCG type base metal sulphide...-
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Published: 13 May 1919
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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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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1975 to 15/4/1977.
Stratiform copper sulphides, hosted within the basal Tapley Hill Formation, and extensions of known kimberlite bodies were targeted in this program. Reconnaissance and closer (down to 1 km x 1 km) spaced diamond and percussion drilling (28 and 83...-
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Moonabie Range. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/5/2007 to 10/5/2009.
Possible economic buried IOCG mineralisation thought to be associated with a regional gravity anomaly in the Moonabie area, located approximately 100 km south-west of Port Augusta, has been investigated by conducting gravity surveys during...-
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RB 2016/00027 The Gluepot Granite: CA-TIMS geochronology and constraints on the timing of deformation on northeastern Eyre Peninsula.
The Gluepot Granite is a heterogeneous granite comprising coarse-grained porphyritic granite and medium-grained equigranular granite, as well as late stage pegmatite and aplite phases. It occurs as a large pluton intruding the c. 1755 Ma Moonabie...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2017
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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Uno (synonym Aroha). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1978 to 5/3/1980.
Exploration for uranium in the vicinity of Lake Gilles targeted the Lower Proterozoic Cleve Metamorphics and the unconformably overlying sandstone, conglomerate and rhyolite units of Carpentarian age, searching initially for analogues to the deposits...-
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Aroha. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/5/1980 to 26/5/1982.
As part of Esso's continued exploration programme for buried Late Proterozoic stratiform uranium deposits in the Uno - Corunna area, detailed geochemical, petrological, thermoluminescence and lead isotope studies were performed on samples obtained by...-
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Mullaquana. First partial surrender report, for the period 8/12/1980 to 7/12/1981.
Exploration targets were economic deposits of oil shale and coal in Eocene sediments deposited on the downthrown parts of fault blocks, under the coastal plain between Whyalla and Cowell. Four rotary drillholes totalling 133.5 m tested the Cainozoic...-
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RB 2008/00011 Definition of the Cultana Subsuite, Gawler Craton: a high level felsic Hiltaba Suite age intrusive with hydrothermal alteration and brecciation.
This paper provides a formal definition of the Cultana Subsuite, outlining the igneous petrology of the intrusion, its geochemical characteristics, and the nature of hydrothermal alteration and brecciation affecting the rocks. The Cultana Subsuite is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Roopena West. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/10/1993 to 9/3/2000.
Infill aeromagnetic and ground gravity surveys undertaken approximately 50 km west of Port Augusta were followed by an IP survey and lag sampling. Anomalous Cu and Au values were returned, but only a minimal IP response was recorded. Regolith mapping...-
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Cultana. Porphyry copper mineralisation potential : [French] research progress reports for the period 9/4/1970 to 17/4/1971.
Exploration targeted copper porphyry style mineralisation in the Cultana Homestead area, and was concentrated at two locations where traces of copper mineralisation were found at the surface. At Old Point Lowly mine, malachite concretions were found...-
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RB 2007/00015 Geochronology of the Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Geochronology enables us to determine the age of rocks and minerals. The variety of isotopic geochronological techniques give complementary information on, for example, the timing of igneous or metamorphic crystallisation, as is often the case for the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2007
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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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Investigation of basic rocks east of Iron Knob, [in] SML 204.
Poorly described Lower Carpentarian basement ?basic igneous rocks, occurring over an area of approximately 65 square miles situated 3 to 8 miles east and north-east of Iron Knob, were investigated by BHP to establish their exact nature and to assess...-
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Investigation of a copper occurrence in the Moonabie Range, SML 205, SA.
An investigation of historic shallow workings on secondary copper mineralisation associated with a narrow fracture zone in the Moonabie Porphyry comprised 1:1000 scale surface mapping, geochemical sampling, petrographic studies and an IP survey. Minor...-
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Summary report on ground scintillometer surveys, SMLs 204 and 205.
Ground scintillometer work carried out by BHP over its SMLs in the Middleback Range area has been shown not to be an effective reconnaissance tool for finding uranium anomalies, but it does have demonstrated value for identifying sources of...-
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