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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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Mount Gunson. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/re-issue over a larger area, for the period 25/10/1979 to 20/12/1985.
As part of an ongoing search for extensions to the Cattlegrid orebody style of stratiform Cu-Fe-Mn mineralisation within its exploration licences on the Stuart Shelf, besides testing for any indications of Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au deposits in the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Oak Dam North-east. Annual reports for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
A relatively large but little-explored area of the central-eastern Stuart Shelf, which is almost wholly covered by scrubby sand dunes and swampy salt lakes, thereby making surface access very difficult despite it being located only ~30 km to 50 km km...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1911
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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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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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Uro Bluff [latterly with Cultana and Tregolana]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to the full surrender of EL 1003 Uro Bluff, for the period 13/3/1980 to 15/1/1985.
Exploration which aimed to test the base of the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation for economic sedimentary copper deposits has included 10 rotary drillholes (total 1731.8 m), notably with a successful intersection of 1 metre of chalcocite - bearing...-
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Pandurra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/9/1979 to 17/9/1981.
Continued exploration for stratabound base metals across an area of the southern Stuart Shelf, extending west and north-west of Port Augusta, has included an evaluation of the results of previous stratigraphic drilling on the prior-held EL 332, plus...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1981
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Pandurra. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1975.
Regional exploration for Mount Gunson type stratabound copper mineralisation over an area extending from Whyalla to near Lake Torrens comprised geological mapping, rock chip geochemical sampling, and the drilling of 157 rotary stratigraphic holes...-
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Mount Gunson district. Geological mapping data, 1971-1972.
A mapping programme was undertaken by the licensees to test the possibility of the near-mine area to Mount Gunson being a suitable host environment for stratiform copper mineralisation. The exploration hypothesis used was that such mineralisation...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1972
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Cultana [latterly with Uro Bluff, Tregolana and Sugarloaf Hill]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/6/1984.
In the search for Mount Gunson type sedimentary copper, 4 deep exploratory diamond drillholes (out of 22 totalling over 5000 m) intersected subeconomic mineralisation at the target base of the Sturtian Tapley Hill Formation (best value 3 m @ 1.55% Cu...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1984
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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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Mount Paisley. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1979.
Exploration for possible Olympic Dam type base metal sulphide deposits within the pre-Adelaidean basement underlying an area 100 km north-east of Kingoonya initially included making over 100 rock unit density and magnetic susceptibility measurements...-
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Jenner Hill. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/10/1989 to 3/10/1992.
Possible Mesoproterozoic stratabound unconformity - related copper mineralisation of Mount Gunson / Cattlegrid type, and, after 1980, pre-Pandurra Formation stratigraphic level, basement - hosted, Olympic Dam style iron oxide associated...-
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Rawlinson Hill, Mount Sabine, Snow Hill and Billa Kalina Homestead (Stuart Shelf / Arckaringa Basin). Joint progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 28/4/1987.
Over the report period Agip Australia completed the drilling and geophysical logging of 39 open rotary holes totalling 3845 m to investigate if economic coal seams occur within Permian sediments of the southern Arckaringa Basin. Although the Permian...-
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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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Summary report on the Pandurra copper prospect, SML 204, South Australia.
Near Pandurra Homestead on eastern Eyre Peninsula, dispersed secondary copper mineralisation occurs in faulted Upper Proterozoic sediments, along which some 30 shallow pits, probably dating back to the late 1800s, have been sunk. In an effort to...-
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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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Tregalana - Sugarloaf Hill area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/6/1976 to 20/6/1978.
Vertical percussion drilling (4 holes totalling 577 m) and diamond drilling (3 holes totalling 538.4 m) undertaken in the Tregalana and Sugarloaf Hill areas of the Stuart Shelf disclosed weak base metal mineralisation (0.05-0.65% Cu spread unevenly...-
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