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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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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] : 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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West Lake Torrens (part of the Murdie Project). Final report for geophysical, drilling and logistics program, Project ADI RD01-120 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
ADI funding was granted by DEM to Kelaray to conduct approved geophysical surveys and exploratory drilling and apply logistical support within its Murdie Project, for a combined expenditure of up to A$320,000. At the outset of the project, Kelaray...-
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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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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. DPY1-02, Titan mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Titan prospect is located within Exploration Licence 3209, and lies 30 km north of the Olympic Dam mine. The prospect was first drilled by Western Mining Corp. in 1976 with diamond drillhole BD 1, and in 1981 with a second hole, BD 2. Both holes hit...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-07 - Intercept Hill JV Project, central Stuart Shelf area - Oak Dam South Proterozoic basement IOCG mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Intercept Hill Project area is located in the central part of the Stuart Shelf. Gawler Craton basement rocks in the project area comprise leucocratic granite of the Hiltaba Suite, volcanic rocks of the Gawler Range Volcanics and metasediments of...-
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Andamooka [North-west] (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence conditional surrender and acreage tenure re-issue as part of an amalgamated licence, for the period 11/8/1979 to 15/1/1981.
Ongoing exploration by WMC of an area located in the Andamooka district, which surrounds the township and opalfield region at some little distance, and which, some 25 km to the west of the town includes the Roxby Downs prospect on which the giant...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Opalfields (the Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project) . Progress reports to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1981 to 16/6/1986. [ Index Part 1 of 3 ].
The continuation of copper-gold exploration across the Stuart Shelf region, as part of a newly indentured joint venture project involving Western Mining Corp. (WMC) and British Petroleum (BP), has remained based on the acquisition of detailed ground...-
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RB 2016/00014 Geology of the Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Special Edition Map Sheet.
The Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2016
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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
