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Report on the Shamrock uranium prospect.
Uranium mineralisation was first discovered at the old Shamrock Copper Mine during a systematic search of old mine dumps by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1955. Follow-up investigations located a small high-grade uranium lode (Valley...-
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(South-eastern) Lake Torrens area. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1994 to 13/10/2000.
Features interpreted from detailed low-level infill airborne coverage to a 1995 SAEI aeromagnetic survey, flown over a large area of disturbed, mainly Adelaidean sedimentary diapiric terrain located between Hawker and the south-eastern shore of Lake...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1900
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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/2/1978 to 2/1/1983.
Exploration undertaken on ground situated east of Pernatty Lagoon has included the acquisition of extensive ground magnetic and gravity surveys plus a small aerial magnetic and radiometric survey, and performing many specific gravity and magnetic...-
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Bendigo Station (the Fairview Joint Venture). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/11/1992 to 8/11/1995.
As part of continued exploration over a 48% reduced licence area from prior EL 1416 (see Env 8585 for relinquishment report), 36 exploratory inclined RC drillholes (total penetration 3404 m) evaluated nine high-priority aeromagnetic targets, with some...-
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Antro, Ameroo, Plumbago, Telechie Dam and Pimpena (the North Ltd Olary Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 12/7/1993 to 24/9/1996.
Exploration for Broken Hill style stratiform Zn-Pb-Ag and/or Roxby Downs - Cloncurry style discordant Cu-Au and Zn deposits, in the Bimbowrie - MacDonald Hill - Telechie Dam - Boolcoomata area, north-west of Olary, comprised ground magnetic and...-
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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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RB 58/00122 Report on investigation of aeromagnetic anomaly, sections 72A, 5924 Hundred of Onkaparinga, County Adelaide.
Geological mapping, on a scale of 1" represents 440 feet and sampling of Lower Marinoan and Upper Sturtian sediments was carried out as a result of anomalous aeromagnetic values occurring within the sections listed above. From surface investigations a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 93/00041 Burra - Nackara Arc bedrock drilling programme. Terowie area.
As part of the SAEI (South Australian Exploration Initiative), thirty reverse circulation drill holes totalling 1123 m (av 37.4 m) were drilled on the Terowie 1:50 000 mapsheet area to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below Quaternary cover,...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1993
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Lilydale. First annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 10/3/2004 to 6/7/2005.
Exploration for possible concealed porphyry style Cu-Au deposits of a kind similar to the nearby Blue Rose prospect surface skarn occurrence was undertaken over an area of the eastern Nackara Arc, 50 km south-east of Yunta. Work comprised inspection...-
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Published: 06 Jul 1905
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Milang [Homestead]. First partial surrender report for the period 25/8/2005 to 24/8/2006.
Exploration for a range of mineral commodities over relinquished parts of a licence area situated 80 km north-east of Orroroo has mainly targeted the Cainozoic to Mesozoic cover rocks for possible sedimentary gold, uranium, mineral sands and...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1906
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Giles Nob. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 7/7/1988.
Exploration for possible economic gold deposits in an area located approximately 25 km south of Olary addressed three principal objectives: . hydrothermally-sourced gold within quartz-albite-dolomite vein stockworks formed in phyllitic siltstones of...-
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Data release - as updated : Statton Hill (part of the Baratta Project). Annual reports, first partial surrender report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/10/2007 to 14/1/2016.
Copper and gold exploration has been conducted within an area centred about 80 km east of Hawker, which it was thought had potential for epigenetic vein style mineralisation within buried Adelaidean sandstone and shale strata, formed in a stratabound...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1916
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Data release - as updated : Goode Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/2002 to 28/8/2015.
Exploration of an area of Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks bordering, and in part intruded by, Ordovician plutons of the Anabama felsic intrusive complex, has targeted possible analogues to the Blue Rose copper-gold skarn mineralisation...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 30/7/2003 to 6/10/2009.
The subject EL 3112 ground represents the continuation of tenure by Gunson Resources, over the same area, from its former EL 2516 Yeltacowie (for which see the relevant licence reports previously released in Envs 9530 and 9715). This replacement...-
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The Mount Grainger JV Project with Rio Tinto, and the Nackara Arc JV Project with Range River Gold. Progress reports and combined annual reports to the cessation of these joint ventures, for the period 16/6/1999 to 31/1/2006.
The 5 tenements cover 3240km2 of pastoral grazing land centred approximately 45 km northeast of Peterborough within the Orroroo SI54-01 and Olary SI54-02 1:250 000 sheets, in north central South Australia. The Mt Grainger Project Area lies within the...-
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Thistlebeds Homestead (part of the Padthaway Project). Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 3/11/2000.
Five vertical aircore holes totalling 143 m tested a magnetic anomaly lying 30 km east of Burra, in an area thought to be prospective for alteration of buried Adelaidean sediments by high level, fractionated acid intrusives. Maximum assay values of...-
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Morialpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports and annual reports for the period 16/12/1995 to 8/8/2003.
Initial exploration for stratiform Cu-Au mineralisation hosted within Adelaidean sediments in the Morialpa area, 40 km north- west of Olary, comprised soil, stream sediment, rock chip and ironstone lag geochemical sampling, and 1:10,000 scale...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1903
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Weekeroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/10/1970 to 30/9/1971.
A detailed examination of mineralised rock sequences within the metamorphosed Precambrian basement and Adelaidean cover rocks of the Weekeroo area, and recording of their relationship to successive deformational events and resulting rock structures,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
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Cutana. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 1/8/1994 to 26/2/2002.
EL 2635, formerly EL 1976, straddled the Barrier Highway 25 km east of Olary. The licence covered ground initially taken up by MIM in late 1986, and all that company's work prior to mid 1994, with emphasis on investigating the Luxemburg - Premier...-
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