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RB 92/00037 Review of mineral exploration, KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map area.
This report was prepared as a summary of all open file mineral exploration data from the KINGOONYA 1:250000 mapsheet area that are held in the SADME records management Envelope system. The aim of the holdings review was to describe past exploration,...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1991
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RB 97/00002 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Sequoia, Gina and Wirrida prospects.
As part of the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, MESA has explored several significant aeromagnetic anomalies to try to find a possible iron ore resource. The Sequoia, Wirrida and Gina magnetic anomalies were chosen as indicating...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well, Wirrida North, Nelson Bore and Ingomar (the Commonwealth Hill Joint Venture Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 6/10/1995 to 6/12/1998.
Exploration for Challenger - type primary gold deposits that may possibly have formed within buried Archaean basement rocks in the Commonwealth Hill area, which is the purpose of one of two joint venture agreements currently in force between Minotaur...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1999
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Gawler Project Central Tenement Block [Part]. Data release at licences' joint partial surrender: Southern Gold gold exploration JV - specific annual reports 6/2/2006 to 30/6/2009. [Index Part 2 of 2].
After the Southern Gold joint venture agreement was signed in February 2006, that company as JV operator performed a due diligence review of Dominion Mining's exploration data, did some orientation soil calcrete and biogeochemical sampling at Typhoon...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1910
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 2 partnership no. DPY2-52, Notrab mineral prospect, Barton West area. Project final report.
Dominion Gold Operations applied to PIRSA for PACE Initiative Year 2 funding in 2005 to assist with the drilling evaluation of the geology and mineral potential of a 6 km x 2 km, peak 86 ppb gold-in-calcrete geochemical anomaly at the Notrab prospect,...-
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Mulgathing and Jumbuck areas (part of the Gawler Project Central Tenement Block). Data release at licences' joint partial surrender: project joint venture - specific annual reports for the period 1/7/2009 to 22/9/2010.
As part of the ongoing Challenger Area Joint Venture with Southern Gold intended to complete brownfields exploration near the mine and to expedite greenfields exploration of the Christie Domain for Archaean metamorphic/hydrothermal gold, work carried...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1911
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Johns Outstation / Giffen Well. Annual reports for the period 8/10/2007 to 7/10/2018.
To date, land access restrictions imposed by the Commonwealth Department of Defence have prevented any field work from occurring on the subject tenement, taken up to cover the Giffen Well magnetite iron ore deposit and adjacent inferred prospective...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-20 - Golf Bore (part of the Jumbuck Project). Archaean basement, supergene zone, metamorphic/hydrothermal gold prospect. Drilling project final report.
The subject Golf Bore prospect and its currently subeconomic gold occurrence are located in the north-eastern corner of the Jumbuck Project mineral exploration tenement package, which incorporates ~8000 square km of ground – approximately 2500 square...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-22, Barton West heavy mineral sand prospect. Project final report.
Previous drilling in 2005, undertaken as part of another PACE project, DPY2-52, discovered significant occurrences of heavy mineral sands within an area of 15 km x 5 km in the southern part of EL 3092 (the Notrab prospect). These sands were...-
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Wildingi [Claypan] and Galaxy [Outstation]. Licence-specific annual reports, plus joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/11/1995 to 13/4/1999.
21 gold exploration targets with anomalous regolith Au > 10 ppb were generated by extensive regional and infill calcrete sampling of an area 80 km south-west of Coober Pedy. Aircore, RAB and RC drilling at four of these prospects (269 holes, total...-
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Tarcoola. Data release made in lieu of a 25% first partial relinquishment at licence renewal: [Part 2 of 2] progress reports for the period 19/7/1984 to 6/12/1990. Part 1 of 2 also included.
Exploration of the Tarcoola Gold Field by Aberfoyle Resources began in mid-1984, following a partial relinquishment of other ground at licence renewal, when some promising gold assay values were detected from rock and mine dump sampling. Geological...-
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Woomera Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/9/2008 to 15/6/2017. Includes information status for EL 6085 at licence expiry, for period 16/06/2017 to 01/01/2023: no work performed.
No field work was performed on the three subject licences during the period 2008-2010 inclusive. During 2010, Dominion Gold Operations undertook a desktop evaluation of the possible iron ore potential of the licences. During 2011, the licensee...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1923
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Wilkinson Lakes East. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 6/2/2015.
An area centred ~150 km west of Coober Pedy, that is located mostly north-west of and that also has a small part lying immediately south-east of the Karari Fault, a major crustal structure which has controlled deposition at the southern limit of the...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warrior (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/2/2005 to 16/2/2010.
Tasman Resources is exploring an area that is centred about 78 km north-west of Tarcoola for possible economic buried occurrences of sedimentary roll front style uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels and nickel mineralisation in Archaean -...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/4/2000 to 8/8/2010.
During the sixth licence year, on renewed EL 2717 covering the same area as previously, the licensee, now a wholly owned subsidiary of AuIron Energy Limited (formerly Meekatharra Minerals Limited), progressed its investigations of the geology of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Blowout, Campfire Bore, Mulgathing, Jumbuck, Mobella and Sandstone (the Gawler Project Central Tenements Area). Joint venture operators' separate joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2010 to 30/6/2017.
Work targeting Archaean to Proterozoic iron ore in BIF that was carried out by the Iron Road JV partners during 2010-2011 comprised studies of the geological setting and physical characteristics of magnetite iron mineralisation delineated by Stage I...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1918
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Indooroopilly, Muckanippie and Commonwealth Hill. Data release made in lieu of submitting a joint partial surrender report for ELs 5799, 6166 and 6348: all project licences' joint annual reports for the period 21/3/2015 to 30/6/2019.
An agglomeration of exploration licences which partly surrounds the Challenger gold deposit at distances of between 35 and 80 km is being explored for similar type economic lode gold mineralisation that may exist in buried Archaean bedrock relatively...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/7/2013 to 30/6/2018.
During the sixth year of the project, base metals exploration was focussed on the Mars-Aurora Tank, Wirrida and Bundi prospects using ground gravity and IP survey methods. Some trial magnetotelluric and audio-frequency magnetotelluric survey profiles...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Hawks Nest. Annual reports for the period 8/4/2009 to 14/4/2019.
During the 2009-2010 reporting year, as part of the strategy to significantly advance the future development of the Hawks Nest Iron Ore Project, Western Plains Resources (WPG) successfully concluded a series of complex joint venture negotiations with...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1918
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RB 2019/00025 Gold mineral systems and exploration strategies for [finding them within] the Gawler Craton, South Australia
Previous classification of gold deposits in the Gawler Craton grouped occurrences into either Archean orogenic deposits, or intrusion-related deposits associated with the Hiltaba Suite intrusive event (Central Gawler Gold Province). In this study, the...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2022