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Rudall. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 10/9/1971 to 9/9/1972.
In a search for possible economic primary or secondary uranium deposits in the Rudall area, five streambed mud samples and 2 springwater samples from the Driver River drainage basin were analysed for Central Pacific Minerals by the Australian Atomic...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1972
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Spencer Gulf. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 11/2/83.
A 900 line km detailed aeromagnetic survey was carried out over the northern extremity of Spencer Gulf, in a search for possible Olympic Dam style mineralisation associated with a significant and complex magnetic high anomaly that is located almost...-
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Published: 15 Jun 1982
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RB 36/00082 Wagon drilling programme, Katunga Hills, Middleback Range. Progress report.
Report presents results of reconnaissance wagon [rotary percussion] drilling of 24 vertical iron ore exploration boreholes carried out along four drill traverses laid out on the upland portions of the Katunga Hills, during a campaign progressed during...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1953
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RB 54/00073 Summary report on the investigation of the Warramboo aeromagnetic anomaly, central Eyre Peninsula.
As part of the SADM iron exploration programme in South Australia, geophysical and drilling investigations have been undertaken on the Warramboo Anomaly, the largest elongate asymmetrical aeromagnetic anomaly in the State outside of the Middleback...-
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Published: 15 Mar 1962
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RB 60/00025 Geological report no. 1 on Brennand anomaly, Hd Koppio, southern Eyre Peninsula, Cummins 1-mile sheet.
A potential iron ore deposit has been investigated in the upper horizon of jaspilite beds of the Hutchison Group, where a drag fold has caused a thickening of the jaspilite beds. Surface samples average 42.2% acid soluble iron. The deposit has a...-
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Published: 08 Feb 1965
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RB 60/00054 Geological report no. 1 on the Oolanta anomaly, Hd Stokes, southern Eyre Peninsula (Cummins and Tumby 1-mile sheets).
10 miles north-west of Tumby Bay, a syncline of jaspilite, with a shallow southerly plunge, could contain 8-13 million tons of magnetic iron ore per vertical 100 feet. Unweathered jaspilite with magnetite occurs. Assessment of the potential of the...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1965
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RB 98/00019 Spencer Regions strategic water management study.
The availability of adequate water supplies is crucial to future development, particularly in the arid areas of the State. Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), as part of the Spencer Regions Strategic Water Management Study, has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 89/00005 Tallaringa Block - Potential for subsurface resources.
Relatively little exploration has been carried out due to the areas remoteness and the cost of exploration and because younger basin sediments have masked craton rocks more prospective for minerals. Recent work by SADME, COMALCO and others, has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Toolgerie, Yalata and Black Hill (Fowler Project). Data release at project first partial surrender upon licences' renewal : combined annual reports for the period 30/6/2004 to 29/6/2009.
A group of project exploration licences covering the wholly buried Yalata Ultramafic Complex, which occupies an area of approximately 25 km x 75 km that lies partly within the Yalata Aboriginal Reserve to the north-west of Fowlers Bay, are being...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1909
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Wynbring [Siding]. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report upon licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 30/8/2004 to 29/8/2009.
An area located approximately 160 km north-northwest of Ceduna is being explored for possible economic nickel-copper-platinum group metal magmatic mineral deposits, which may have formed within Archaean to Proterozoic basement rocks in a geological...-
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Iron Baron (part of Roopena Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/9/2004 to 1/9/2008.
Exploration for possible buried iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the eastern side of the Middleback Range in the vicinity of Iron Knob, has consisted of a review of historical calcrete sampling data and the acquisition and processing...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1908
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Whyalla. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2003 to 11/6/2008.
Evaluation of the perceived Olympic Dam style copper-gold and Stuart Shelf type stratabound copper potential of, respectively, the Proterozoic basement and the Adelaidean cover rocks in an area lying immediately to the west of the Cultana Inlier was...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1908
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West Woomera. Annual reports and progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2000 to 30/5/2005.
Copper-gold exploration undertaken over a small area within the Woomera Prohibited Area, 20 km west of Woomera township, was restricted to carrying out geophysical data interpretation and conceptual modelling for generating drill targets based around...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1904
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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] : Tarcoola. Annual reports for the period 2/6/2008 to 29/7/2018.
During the first year of renewed EL 4167, in October and November 2008, Stellar Resources Ltd ("Stellar") completed a 5 hole, 1286.9 m RC and 2 hole, 157.1 m diamond cored inclined drilling programme at the Coolybring prospect which is located...-
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Published: 11 Sep 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Torrens area. Annual reports for the period 6/4/2009 to 17/8/2018.
During the 2009-2010 reporting period, work completed by Straits included: • participation in Native Title and Land Access activities and negotiations, which have constituted the majority of the work undertaken; and • Holding numerous meetings and...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-06 - Intercept Hill, Stuart Shelf, Mesoproterozoic IOCGU mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
EL 5372 Intercept Hill is centrally located in the world class Olympic Dam Iron Oxide Cu-Au-U Province, at the centre of a cluster of iron oxide copper occurrences including Emmie Bluff, Oak Dam and Winjabbie. The Intercept Hill area has available...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ooldea. Annual reports for the period 1/9/2010 to 19/9/2018.
Due to catastrophic flood damage to Cosmo’s financial investments, no field work was undertaken during the twenty-first year of tenure under renewed EL 4565. In December 2010, Cosmo submitted to PIRSA a Declaration of Environmental Factors for its...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : [south-western] Lake Torrens area. Annual reports for the period 13/10/2010 to 12/10/2012.
An area centred ~30 km north-east of Bookaloo, which is mostly located within the Lake Torrens National Park, is being explored primarily for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation of the type exemplified by major deposits occurring at...-
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Published: 05 Nov 1912
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Oolgelima Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/1/2017 to 29/1/2020.
An area consisting of two adjacent small sub-blocks located in the western Lake Cadibarrawirracanna drainage basin has been explored for possible buried economic magnesium- and sodium-sulphate salts and also for possible underlying basement-hosted...-
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Published: 29 Jan 1920
