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Andamooka, Stuart Creek, Arcoona, Lake Torrens, Todds Dam, Lake Arthur, Woodforde Hill and Murdie Island (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint first partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1986.
WMC's Stuart Shelf exploration activities from 1975 to 1985 have sought mainly Olympic Dam style mineralisation (copper - uranium - precious metals in haematitic breccia host rocks), with lesser emphasis directed at: possible distal analogues of the...-
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Jenner Hill, Pearson Hill and Sandy Point (the Stuart Shelf JV Project). Joint progress reports, plus later annual reports and final report to full surrender of remnant licence EL 1808, for the overall period 4/10/1989 to 24/10/1996.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style mineralisation, undertaken over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead on the Stuart Shelf, which includes WMC's formerly partly tested Emmie Bluff prospect, has comprised the acquisition of ground...-
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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 1 partnership no. DPY1-03, Marathon South mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
During exploration of Exploration Licence 3209 situated on the northern Stuart Shelf, gravity and magnetic modelling performed in early 2004 highlighted several anomaly source bodies, which immediately became of much interest as potential iron-oxide...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-13, evaluation of the Marathon South mineral occurrence. Project interim and final reports.
Following further detailed ground gravity surveying and data processing carried out to better understand the gravity response of relatively dense and weakly magnetic basement rocks at the Marathon South prospect, located within EL 3209 and lying...-
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Published: 10 May 1906
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Mount Gunson, Woocalla, Bernard Hill, Mount Moseley and Emmie Bluff (the Mount Gunson Project). Respective second to fourth partial surrender reports, for the overall period 15/7/1994 to 12/10/2004.
No work has been undertaken on the currently relinquished portions of ELs 3112, 2639, 3008 and 3022. However, as an attachment to the current EL 3112 relinquishment report, all technical data for Stuart Metals' recent diamond drillhole MGD24 (to...-
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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Glenside. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/12/2005 to 4/12/2010.
An area centred approximately 40 km south of the Andamooka Opal Field and 50 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine is being explored for possible buried economic Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill type IOCG-U mineralisation as well as for possible...-
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Published: 28 Jan 1911
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Carrapateena Arm, Hatch Hill, Beda Arm and Lake Torrens South (the OZ Minerals Carrapateena Project). Annual reports (separate and joint) for the period 8/1/2008 to 6/1/2016.
Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...-
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Woomera and Wirrappa. Annual reports and first joint annual report, plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/11/2018.
Two adjacent areas located immediately south and east of Woomera township were taken up to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence...-
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Published: 07 Jan 1919
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Andamooka Ranges, Island Dam and Stuart Shelf (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint third partial surrender report, for the period 16/1/1981 to 25/9/2018.
There is a long history of exploration on the subject three Stuart Shelf tenements, with first tenure originally taken up in 1981. A summary of significant exploration activities conducted on the three now relinquished ground portions is believed by...-
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Published: 22 Nov 1918
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Lake Torrens - Port Augusta and Point Paterson areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/11/1977 to 30/11/1979.
SALT MINING STUDY: Field tests on the feasibility of Lake Torrens salt production to supply raw material for the planned Redcliff Petrochemical Project were continued, with project planning technical data demonstrations given to visiting officials of...-
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Salt Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/9/1976 to 12/9/1978.
Possible buried stratabound copper mineralisation of Mount Gunson / Cattlegrid type was the target of exploration performed on an area of the Stuart Shelf located 60 km east of Woomera. After conducting detailed 1:12,000 and 1:16,000 scale geological...-
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Stuart Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1979 to 18/10/1982.
One vertical stratigraphic diamond drillhole [the 1a re-drill] was fully cored to 1450 m total depth over a regional gravity high in the western half of the licence which was thought to be prospective for Olympic Dam type polymetallic mineralisation...-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Ongoing appraisal work conducted by CSR at the company's newly discovered Cattlegrid copper deposit that lies at the top of the Pandurra Formation has included infill rotary percussion and diamond drilling (13 holes for 554 m, including 166 m cored),...-
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Portulacca Ridge. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/12/1975 to 23/3/1976.
After a geological reconnaissance conducted in the Lake Torrens area located some surface geochemical enrichments of phosphate within an attenuated basal section of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone at several different stratigraphic levels within that...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1976
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Billa Kalina Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/1977 to 14/2/1979.
Airborne and ground geophysical surveys were undertaken in the Billa Kalina area, prior to commencing to drill in a search for Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au mineralised haematitic breccias, in order to delineate and detail several broad magnetic anomalies...-
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Stuart Shelf Project. EL 1338 first [and Project second overall] partial surrender report, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1991.
TARGET: Possible buried base and precious metal deposits associated with aeromagnetic anomalies, and also with either coincident or unrelated gravity anomalies, lying within a relinquished sector of the large contiguous multi-licence area that Western...-
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Lake Hart. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/3/1977 to 3/2/1978.
Exploration for possible Precambrian sediment-hosted base metal deposits within an area lying just west and south of Lake Hart has comprised a photogeological study, geological mapping at 1:87,000 scale, a gravity survey along a single 30 km traverse,...-
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Bull 041 Geology and Mineral Resources of the Andamooka and Torrens Area
Regional geological mapping of the area was initiated in 1959 and was completed in 1964. All tracks in the area were traversed and detailed mapping confined to critical localities and to areas where this was considered desirable. Geological boundaries...-
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RB 61/00102 Geology and mineral resources of the Andamooka-Torrens area (19/10/1965).
The area embraced by the Andamooka and Torrens 4-mile geological sheets is defined by long 136° 30- long 138° 00 and lat 30° 00- lat 32° 00 and comprises an extensive partially dissected plateau west of Lake Torrens, the Lake Torrens sunkland and part...-
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Published: 19 Oct 1965
