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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-50, Mount Hope Project area stratigraphic drilling on potential Archaean VHMS mineral prospects. Project final report.
The PACE Initiative Year 4 subsidised auger drilling programme undertaken on the Mount Hope (EL 3355) / Brimpton Lake (EL 3561) mineral exploration tenements was a trial to test the application of a new low cost drilling technique to exploring under...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lock. Annual and combined annual reports for the period 22/4/2010 to 21/4/2014.
An exploration licence comprising three separate sub-blocks has been taken up with the primary goal of assessing the potential for additional coal resources to occur in proximity to the Lock coal deposit. During licence Year 1, the licensee sourced...-
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Published: 22 Mar 1913
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Mount Wedge. Reports for the period from 26/8/88 to 25/2/89.
TARGET: Heavy mineral sands in the Mount Wedge region of Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: Sampling of water bore cuttings and reverse circulation drilling (10 holes totalling 257 metres). RESULTS: Minor concentrations of titanium and zirconium were...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Venus Bay. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/1/1991 to 9/7/1992.
TARGET: Diamonds in 3 areas, one west of Lock, another east of Elliston, and the third surrounding Venus Bay. EXPLORATION: Heavy mineral sampling, airborne magnetic and multichannel radiometric surveys, ground magnetic surveys, and selected anomaly...-
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Lock. Progress and final reports for the period 20/8/79 to 14/9/84.
A large coalfield exists in the Polda Basin, west of Lock, on central Eyre Peninsula. One Jurassic coal deposit in the Polda Formation and 2 discrete Tertiary deposits have been recognized, containing reserves of over 300 million tonnes of Jurassic...-
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Published: 26 Sep 1984
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Final drilling report - CRAE boreholes 83KD1 and 83KD1A.
The intersection of massive halite in the ?Lower Palaeozoic sequence in Occidental Petroleum's Mercury 1 wildcat oil exploration well drilled in the offshore Polda Basin generated interest in the Tuckey area onshore for potash associated with similar...-
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Lock area. First partial surrender report for the period 22/4/2010 to 21/4/2011.
A mineral exploration licence consisting of three separate subareas (A, B & C) was granted on 22/4/2010 to Energy Exploration for an initial period of 12 months, during which time the company's primary goal was to assess the potential for finding...-
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Published: 10 Aug 1911
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Mount Hope, Moorlands and Brimpton Lake (the Mount Hope Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2005 to 4/6/2010.
Monax Mining has been exploring the subsurface geology of three licences in the Mount Hope region of south-western Eyre Peninsula, seeking possible economic komatiite - hosted nickel deposits and also any felsic volcanic sediment - hosted massive...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1910
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Palynology of 29 samples from the Polda Basin, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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McLachlan, Tuckey, Sheringa and Lock. Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/1980 to 17/4/1985.
In mid-1980, CRA Exploration took out four mineral tenements in the Polda Basin area of western Eyre Peninsula to explore for Tertiary and Jurassic lignites and also for possible Permian sub-bituminous coal. Interest in this area had been generated by...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1985
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Combined report on the full surrender of Sheringa EL 688 and partial surrenders for McLachlan EL 670 and Tuckey EL 687, Polda Basin, South Australia, 17th May 1982.
Relinquishment of parts of the licenses held in the Lock, Tuckey and Tooligie area was made following drilling (31 holes totalling 2 960 metres) to investigate lignite occurrence in the Polda Basin. Possible reserves of Jurassic and Eocene coals in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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Wedge Hill (Mount Wedge Project). Annual and final reports for the period 26/5/1997 to 25/5/1999.
Groundwater sampling, aeromagnetic interpretation, shallow auger sampling and isotope studies were carried out over an area 30 km northeast of Elliston. Heavy mineral concentrates from composite auger samples contained zircon, galena and sphalerite,...-
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Wombat Flat. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/2/1980 to July 1982.
The subject area, which covered the western onshore portion of the Polda Trough, was initially acquired to explore buried probable Carpentarian sediments for base metals and uranium, but a subsequent review of available information suggested that...-
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Lock. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/2/1973 to 7/4/1974.
TARGET: Possible sedimentary uranium deposits in the Jurassic Polda Formation and Tertiary Poelpena Formation. EXPLORATION: To reconnoitre contemporary soil radiometry in the area, the near-surface sediments penetrated by 135 auger holes (all drilled...-
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