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RB 79/00114 Palaeodrainage systems in western South Australia. Their detection by Landsat imagery, stratigraphic significance and economic potential.
Two major palaeodrainage systems of Tertiary age, with watersheds of up to 35 000 square km and channel lengths of 200-250 km, have been recognised and delineated using LANDSAT imagery, during 1:250 000 scale geological mapping in western South...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-01, north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands prospects. Project final report.
As a result of PACE Initiative - subsidised regional exploratory drilling for Tertiary heavy mineral sands carried out on the north-western Eyre Peninsula during February-April 2006, comprising 349 aircore drillholes put down along 19 traverses for a...-
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Published: 08 Jun 1906
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-10, Watraba (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands prospect. Project final report.
This partly PACE-funded drilling project aimed to discover a heavy mineral sand deposit along the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin in the EL 3363 Watraba project area, located 40 kilometres north to north-west of Ceduna. Drilling tested an...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1906
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Annual, joint annual and combined annual reports for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2009.
A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1909
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Seven Mile Swamps (part of the Euria Project). Annual report and progress report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/5/1996 to 10/2/1998.
Calcrete sampling, mapping, and RAB and aircore drilling (211 holes, total 7334 m) were carried out 20 km north of Penong, in an area underlain by Hiltaba Suite granitoids, Archaean gneisses and a major associated shear zone. Although geochemical...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1997
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Yarrana Hill, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission, Lake Tallacootra, Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill, Mount Centre and Nalara. Quarterly and annual progress reports plus technical reports, for the period 25/7/1989 to 24/7/1992.
Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...-
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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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Sahara Prospect. Final report, Model Test and Core Scanning. Project ADI RD02-270 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises exploration conducted by Western Areas between May 2021 and October 2021, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/270-ED Sahara Prospect Model Test and Core Scanning. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide at Sahara in 2020,...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1922
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Thurlga Ramp (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project, Corrobinnie Uranium JV and Thurlga JV periods). Data release : final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/1/2013 to 3/5/2019.
During the report period, licensee Andromeda Metals did no on-ground exploration. During its agreed 3-year earn-in period, joint venturer Investigator Resources undertook the following work described herein: - acquisition of high resolution aerial...-
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Published: 19 Jul 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Joint annual reports for the period 4/1/2009 to 3/1/2019.
During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1919
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Kolballa. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1990 to 15/7/1992.
TARGET: (Stockdale) Diamonds in the Elliston region, related to possible kimberlite primary sources that may be associated with the deep-seated Polda Trough structural feature; (BHP) Mineral sands in Tertiary sediments. EXPLORATION: Stockdale...-
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Midgerie, Barton South, Immarna, Barton Siding, Mount Christie Siding, Lake Bring, Mulgathing, Wynbring (TARCOOLA and BARTON 1:250k mapsheets region). Joint progress reports and final reports, for the period 11/4/1981 to October 1990.
Stockdale's exploration for diamonds in the Barton region, at the start of the licence period, commenced with the evaluation of 136 potential kimberlite targets generated by the detailed in-house interpretation of data acquired from an extensive new...-
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RB 2021/00011 Models, geology and exploration of heavy mineral deposits in South Australia.
This study draws together diverse aspects of South Australia’s heavy minerals (HM) resources geoscience to provide an overall context for evaluating their occurrence, economic significance and origins. Two main objectives are addressed by the subject...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2021
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Eucla Basin Areas 2, 3 and 4. Joint annual reports and joint first partial surrender report, plus respective licence's final reports to full surrender, for the overall period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2013.
Three adjoining licence areas that were centred approximately 480 km north-west of Ceduna together occupied the northern section of the Ooldea Range over a stepped NW-SE trending outline having an average width of 25 km and a combined total length of...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1913
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Wynbring [Siding]. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/12/2009 to 16/12/2012.
A large, ~1300 square km licence area extending NE-SW and centred ~100 km west of Tarcoola and ~170 km NNW of Ceduna was taken up to explore part of the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin for possible economic buried Tertiary detrital heavy mineral...-
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Wildingi Claypan (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/10/2005 to 13/1/2015.
Two separate small areas located just north of Comet Outstation, that were originally taken up to explore for possible diamonds and Triassic-Jurassic kimberlite intrusions that could be associated with intensely faulted shallow basement, have also...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1914
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Data release - as updated : Ooldea. Annual reports, fourth partial surrender report, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/2003 to 1/4/2016.
A small licence area located 170 km north-northwest of Fowlers Bay in far western South Australia is being explored for possible large occurrences of high grade IOCG mineralisation that may be hosted by Proterozoic basement rocks, and for Tertiary...-
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Published: 21 May 1916
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Elliston. Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/6/2014 to 24/11/2014.
A large area centred ~100 km south-east of Streaky Bay was taken up to explore for possible buried Tertiary, palaeodrainage sediment-sourced, palaeomarine shoreface placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM). Diatreme believed that the coastline of...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1914
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RB 2006/00009 Regolith studies at the Boomerang Gold Prospect, Central Gawler Craton, South Australia
The Boomerang gold prospect is located 650 km north-west of Adelaide in undifferentiated Proterozoic rocks incorporated within Archaean Harris Greenstone Belt mafic lithologies of the Gawler Craton. The prospect was originally discovered using...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2006
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Elliston, western Eyre Peninsula. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/2/1996 to 23/12/1998.
Diamond, gold and platinum group element (PGE) exploration activities carried out within an area of known kimberlitic and lamproitic intrusive rocks east of Elliston comprised aircore drilling (23 holes, total 1188 metres), addressing 17 out of 36...-
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