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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-31 - Bute township area mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
The licensee, Peter Forwood, has been involved in mineral exploration at Bute for many years, initially with North Broken Hill Ltd in ELs 248, 420, 577 and 972, and has pursued the exploration of the area through many phases. Two important features...-
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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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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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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Torrens (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 30/1/1976 to 29/1/1978.
Exploration undertaken by Western Mining Corp. in a search for possible economic Mount Gunson - type stratiform copper mineralisation that could have formed within a sequence of buried Adelaidean metasediments of the eastern Stuart Shelf which in part...-
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Woocalla (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Fourth partial surrender report for the period 4/8/1995 to 29/10/2009.
As part of a project examining the sequence of Adelaidean cover rocks that surrounds the Pernatty Culmination on the southern Stuart Shelf for possible economic stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles known to be present in the Mount...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucolo Creek (also called the Churchill Dam Project). Annual reports for the period 31/1/2006 to 14/11/2018.
EL 3511 Eucolo Creek, of 528 square km, is situated near the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton within the Olympic Dam Domain, approximately 90 km south-west of the Olympic Dam IOCG-U deposit (3.98 billion tonnes at 1.1% Cu, 0.4 kg/t U3O8 and 0.5 g/t...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1918
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Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Third partial surrender report, for the period 16/6/1994 to 22/9/2010.
No work has been undertaken recently on the currently relinquished portion of EL 4460. However, previously this piece of ground, located between Lake Dutton and the southern end of Pernatty Lagoon, has formed part of three successive licences held...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/1975 to 2/3/1976.
Exploration for possible economic buried Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au mineralisation, undertaken over an area located 15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, comprised preliminary airphoto interpretation and surface geological mapping, outcrop sample...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1976
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Pernatty Lagoon. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Exploration conducted by CSR Ltd for possible economic stratiform base metal deposits in the western part of EL 81 addressed several targets, including Cattle Grid type disconformity - related copper mineralisation, Sweet Nell / MG14 type...-
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Lake Macfarlane - Lake Finniss area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/7/1967 to 31/12/1967.
Consultants were engaged by the licensee to conduct an extensive geological and geochemical investigation of a 2700 square mile area surrounding the Mount Gunson copper deposit, and to perform an interpretation of available regional aeromagnetic data....-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/9/1974 to 7/7/1975.
Base metal exploration in an area lying immediately to the east of Pernatty Lagoon targeted stratiform deposits within Late Proterozoic metasediments, seeking shallowly-occurring favourable stratigraphic facies associations based on the Zambian...-
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Pernatty Lagoon. First partial surrender report, for the period 20/7/1975 to 19/7/1976.
1:25,000 scale geological mapping and scout stratigraphic drilling (9 vertical rotary holes for a total penetration of 758.5 m) have outlined the general distribution of Adelaidean rocks in the Lake Macfarlane and Island Lagoon areas. Perhaps the most...-
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