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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ardrossan, Minlaton and Ardrossan coast areas (the Pine Point Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/8/2008 to 1/8/2014.
Rex Mineral’s ('Rex') primary objective in the Pine Point Project area is to determine the potential for economic basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation such as that found at Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Ernest Henry and...-
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Weetulta (part of the Alford Project). Information status at licence surrender, for the period 12/8/2015 to 12/1/2017: no work performed.
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ardrossan, Minlaton and Ardrossan coast areas (the Pine Point Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/4/2002 to 1/8/2018.
During the 2014-2015 joint reporting year for the three Pine Point Project licences, as a consequence of the extensive and detailed mine planning feasibility work then being undertaken at Hillside, Rex did not undertake any exploration. A Mining Lease...-
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RB 2020/00015 Reconnaissance zircon U-Pb geochronology of the southeastern Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia.
The eastern Gawler Craton is the location of the Olympic Cu-Au Province, a world-class metallogenic province known for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena (Skirrow et al., 2007;...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2020
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Minlaton, Ardrossan and Ardrossan Coastal Area (the Moonta South Project). Annual and combined annual reports to licences' renewal, for the period 19/4/2002 to 1/8/2008.
Two exploration licences covering most of Yorke Peninsula south of Maitland were taken up by Avoca Resources to allow it to determine the region's potential for having economic basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation...-
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RB 2016/00009 Geological field excursion guide — IOCGs – where it all began: the Moonta-Wallaroo region of the eastern Gawler Craton.
INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE Northern Yorke Peninsula (NYP) is within the southern portion of the Olympic Domain of the eastern Gawler Craton, which is arguably the world’s most fertile IOCG belt. That such a belt existed was only realised when Western...-
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Published: 01 May 2016
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RB 2013/00014 IOCG-style mineralisation in the central eastern Gawler Craton, SA; characterisation of alteration, geochemical associations and exploration vectors.
While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2013
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-44, Alford Shear Zone. Hiltaba Event - related IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
An area of 477 square km, situated to the west of Bute and north of Wallaroo and Kadina, is being explored by Argonaut Resources and Hillgrove Resources for economic base and precious metal deposits of Moonta-Wallaroo, Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill...-
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Eastern-central Gawler Craton : Archaean to Middle Mesoproterozoic solid geology.
This data package comprises all of the GIS-related technical elements of a preliminary basement solid geology interpretation, which has been undertaken by DSD for the purpose of updating a fundamental mineral exploration-guiding dataset applicable to...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bosworth (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/7/1998 to 5/4/2009.
An area covering parts of west-central Lake Torrens and Andamooka Island was taken up by Pima Mining because it was considered a strategic acreage acquisition, since it adjoins the southern boundary of the company's EL 2528 Andamooka already issued to...-
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Published: 06 May 2009
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-18 - Phoenix Copper Limited Yorke Peninsula Project. Drilling project final report.
Phoenix Copper is exploring tenements which cover an area of approximately 802 square km on the west coast of the Yorke Peninsula, the company's prime objective being to discover an economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCGU) deposit...-
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Published: 13 Nov 2012
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The Lake Torrens Project; plus the Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2010.
Licensee Copper Range originally took up a group of three tenements located in central South Australia covering areas within and west of Lake Torrens, with the intent, much reinforced following the Carrapateena deposit discovery made in 2005, of...-
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Published: 04 Mar 2011
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Whiting. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/2/2010 to 14/2/2014.
A number of small, disjoint parcels of available exploration ground in the Moonta-Wallaroo district were taken up by Minotaur early in 2010 to assess their basement IOCG mineralisation potential. A preliminary review done by Minotaur of historic...-
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Published: 21 Mar 2014
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Punt Hill Project. 3D data package.
South Australia’s Olympic Cu-Au Province hosts some of the world’s great iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) deposits, such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena. The same causative thermal event resulted in variants of this deposit class being...-
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RB 2015/00003 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2013–2015.
The PACE Geochronology program fosters collaboration on projects of geological and metallogenic significance with focus on dating rocks and minerals from samples suggested by companies through a competitive proposal-based selection process. Successful...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
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RB 2018/00010 Characterising and mapping alteration in the Punt Hill region - a data integration project.
South Australia’s Olympic Cu-Au Province hosts some of the world’s great iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) deposits, such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena. The same causative thermal event resulted in variants of this deposit class being...-
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Published: 01 May 2018
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Data release - as updated : Maitland (the Yorke Peninsula Copper Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/8/2008 to 24/8/2017.
An area of the western Yorke Peninsula, comprising three separate sub-blocks, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG-U deposits similar to those at Hillside (located 25 km to the east of sub-block 'B'), Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill...-
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Published: 18 Oct 2017
