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RB 94/00009 Soils, stratigraphy and engineering geology of near surface materials of the Adelaide Plains.
Metropolitan Adelaide is founded on a wide variety of soils that overlie sediments and rocks. Some of the soils and sediments react to seasonal and human-induced changes in water content with marked changes in volume. The black earths and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1996
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RB 89/00076 Mount Barker Golf Club water well testing.
Competing groundwater use is a problem in the vicinity of the Mount Barker Golf Club grounds, which has been recognized by the parties involved and government since late 1985. A well monitoring network for both water level and salinity was set up and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1989
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Prince Alfred mine. First annual report to licence full surrender and re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 26/10/1996 to 9/4/1998.
Assays of tailings heaps at the Prince Alfred Mine, located 40 km north-east of Carrieton, returned 1-1.5% Cu. Up to 12.7 % Cu was recorded from rock sampling, and elevated Au and anomalous Cu were recorded in calcrete samples. Four areas of...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1997
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Data release - as updated : Wilmington. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 15/4/2009 to 8/3/2018.
An area located within the western Adelaide Fold Belt adjacent to the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton, and centred approximately 20 km south-east of Port Augusta, has been explored for possible economic buried copper mineralisation associated with...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1918
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Mount Gunson and Mount Moseley (part of the Mount Gunson JV Project). Partial surrender reports, for the overall tenure period 15/7/1994 to 25/5/2021.
No exploration work has been undertaken on either of the recently relinquished portions of the two subject licences. Within the JV project tenements, exploration targets being addressed are: (1) possible economic buried IOCG (iron oxide-associated...-
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Published: 17 Oct 1918
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Parachilna, Hookina, Burt Lagoon and Kootaberra (part of the Wilkatana Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/11/2015 to 18/1/2018.
Following the completion of desktop studies of previous exploration data, and the conduct of a site visit to the Wilkatana Project area, it was decided that the metalliferous mineral prospectivity of basinal sediments underlying the four subject...-
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Published: 23 Jan 1918
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South Gap. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/7/2017 to 23/7/2021.
A small area situated just north of the Beda Arm of Lake Torrens, and ~20 km north-northeast of the Carrapateena deposit, has been explored for possible buried high grade IOCG mineralisation that may be present in Proterozoic basement rocks. It was...-
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Published: 23 Aug 1921
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Data release - as updated : Woordlemmie. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 22/6/2011 to 22/11/2019.
An area situated a short distance to the east and south-east of CSR's historic Mount Gunson open cut copper workings, covering ground adjacent to the south-western and southern margins of Pernatty Lagoon, has been explored for possible buried economic...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 3 of 4 ].
During the eighth year of tenure, work done on EL 2639 included: - the conduct of infill ground gravity and CSAMT surveys; - geophysical modelling and interpretation of the new survey data; - geological interpretation and refinement of drilling...-
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Yudnapinna [West]. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/2020 to 21/9/2021.
Two contiguous exploration licences, ELs 6522 and 6523, were secured in the Yudnapinna district to apply new concepts and techniques aimed at revitalising the rate of copper-gold mineral deposit discovery in South Australia. The licences’ area lay...-
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Published: 03 Nov 1921
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Yudnapinna [East]. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/2020 to 21/9/2021.
Two contiguous exploration licences, ELs 6522 and 6523, were secured in the Yudnapinna district to apply new concepts and techniques aimed at revitalising the rate of copper-gold mineral deposit discovery in South Australia. The licences’ area lay...-
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Published: 03 Nov 1921
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Aerial [INPUT] EM survey data interpretation and follow-up drilling results, Winnie Pinnie area, Stuart Shelf, for the period April 1976 to May 1979.
The results of 1185 line km of aerial EM surveying carried out in the vicinity of Winnie Pinnie Dam, 85 km north-west of Port Augusta, using the Barringer INPUT system, have been interpreted as a possible means of identifying prospective Adelaidean...-
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Manna Hill [not 'Mannahill']. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/10/1987 to 15/1/1990.
TARGET: Possible concealed, saddle-reef type lode developments of inferred Telfer-style gold deposits at the Manna Hill Goldfield. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance inspection of old mine workings, rock chip sampling (79), and shallow RAB bedrock drilling...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North Roxby and Acropolis South. Joint annual reports, plus EL 3762 fifth annual report to licence sale, for the period 4/5/2009 to 3/5/2012.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of buried, Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-U style mineralisation is being conducted over two separate multiple-block licence areas in the Olympic Dam district, EL 3761 (North Roxby) and EL 3762...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnerships DPY9-43 - Brownlow and DPY9-47 - Bower. Drilling projects' joint interim and final reports.
Copper and gold mineralisation associated with felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous intrusive rocks which have intruded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments in the Nackara Arc region has been the target of exploratory drilling conducted with the...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-21 - Yerelina Gladstone Mining Field sediment-hosted and structurally controlled hydrothermal/replacement style stratabound base metal prospects. Final report.
High-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralisation formed within the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation (THF) was historically mined 100 years ago at Yerelina in the northern Flinders Ranges. Despite the existence of numerous poorly documented small-scale...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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RB 2010/00019 Hardrock extractive minerals for metropolitan Adelaide - strategic review. [Summary version]
The purpose of the project is to provide essential data on the hardrock extractive (construction material) resources supplying the Adelaide metropolitan area, in order to be able to: - Critically examine current hardrock supplies and resources and how...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2010
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Copley. First partial surrender report, for the period 8/4/2009 to 7/4/2012.
Two portions of an exploration licence covering ground surrounding the Mountain-of-Light copper mine, respectively 4 km north-east and south-east of Copley, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential for discovering economic...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1912
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Cone (subsequently part of the Burra North Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 6/3/2007 to 5/3/2009.
An area of 300 square km located immediately north and north-east of Burra was taken up because it is considered to be prospective for gold and copper mineralisation related to Cambro-Ordovician sediments and late-stage felsic and mafic intrusives,...-
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