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Stuart Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/5/1977 to 12/5/1979.
Stratiform base metal sulphide deposits and sedimentary uranium accumulations were targeted in the Stuart Creek area, which straddles the Torrens Fault on the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf. Two airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys totalling...-
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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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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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Bute. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/12/1998 to 16/3/2006.
Sustained recent attempts to locate economic Moonta - style copper mineralisation in Proterozoic basement in the vicinity of Bute township have been based on the presence there of a large regional aeromagnetic high, and on a past drilling discovery by...-
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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 4 of 4 ].
During licence Year 12, following encouraging results made by its continuing exploratory drilling, Gunson Resources was able to negotiate a joint venture over the Mount Gunson Project tenements with Falconbridge Limited through its subsidiary Noranda...-
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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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Lake Torrens - Port Augusta and Point Paterson areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/11/1977 to 30/11/1979.
SALT MINING STUDY: Field tests on the feasibility of Lake Torrens salt production to supply raw material for the planned Redcliff Petrochemical Project were continued, with project planning technical data demonstrations given to visiting officials of...-
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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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Pandurra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/4/1975 to 6/4/1977.
Ongoing exploration for a possible Cattlegrid type stratabound copper deposit over an area south-west of Lake Torrens included aerial magnetic and EM surveys, drill testing of EM anomalies by 47 percussion holes totalling 2086 m, a regional magnetic...-
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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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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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Pernatty Lagoon - Woocalla - Mount Gunson area. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1963 to 25/8/1966.
TARGET: The area of abandoned shallow historic workings for secondary copper and manganese ore aligned along a sandstone - dolomitic limestone contact on the western edge of Pernatty Lagoon. EXPLORATION: A field inspection of the above workings,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yeltacowie (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 7/10/2009 to 6/10/2013.
New work undertaken on EL 4187 during the 2009-2010 licence year has included: • Ongoing documentation and interpretation of MGD 55 & 56 • Drilling of MGD57 to 1243 m at Emmie Bluff prospect • Down hole EM and IP logging of MGD57 •...-
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Report on geophysical surveys, MG14 area, Mount Gunson.
Follow up of an orientation INPUT survey anomaly with ground magnetic and IP surveys focussed attention on the MG14 area. This report describes the geophysical results and subsequent drill testing (DDH LY3), and their interpretation.-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1975 to 19/7/1977.
As part of continuing brownfields exploration for extensions to known stratiform base metal mineralisation in the area lying to the west of Pernatty Lagoon, much stratigraphic drilling (210 rotary percussion holes totalling 12,441 m, including 1167 m...-
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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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Beddome Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1977 to 22/3/1979.
An area centred approximately 90 km north-west of Woomera has been explored for possible economic copper mineralisation associated with geophysical anomalies thought to originate within Adelaidean metasedimentary bedrock. After considerable delays and...-
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RI 042 Base Metal Mineralization in the Pernatty Lagoon Region
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1975 to 15/4/1977.
Stratiform copper sulphides, hosted within the basal Tapley Hill Formation, and extensions of known kimberlite bodies were targeted in this program. Reconnaissance and closer (down to 1 km x 1 km) spaced diamond and percussion drilling (28 and 83...-
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RB 72/00189 Base metal mineralization in the Pernatty Lagoon region, South Australia.
Concentrations of copper occur in sandstone (Whyalla Sandstone Member) and dolomite (Woocalla Dolomite) which rest disconformably on an undulating surface of quartzite (Pandurra Formation) in the Mount Gunson area. Several attempts have been made to...-
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Published: 04 Oct 1972
