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Bopeechee. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2000 to 27/7/2008.
In on-ground exploration of an area on the Stuart Shelf located 18-46 km north-east of Olympic Dam, possible economic sedex - style, Mount Isa / Nifty type stratabound copper was targeted within Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks as part of multiple...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-39, Torrens Hinge Zone / Stuart Shelf project area Mississippi Valley type (MVT) mineral prospects. Project final report.
The recent Geoscience Australia - run regional seismic traverse across the Stuart Shelf has revealed the architecture of the buried Neoproterozoic sediments there, and also that of the structures created during the Delamerian inversion. Dewatering of...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1907
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Pernatty Quarry. Reports on site investigations for the period September 1986 - March 1989, re. Pernatty Crushing Contract no. 1 [let to McMahon Construction Pty Ltd].
Geoscientific information on quarry materials, copied from former Highways Department files. The subject quarry site was chosen in order to provide crushed rock products for the reconstruction of the Pimba - Wirrappa section of the Stuart Highway....-
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Published: 17 Mar 1989
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Parachilna, Hookina, Burt Lagoon and Kootaberra (part of the Wilkatana Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/11/2015 to 18/1/2018.
Following the completion of desktop studies of previous exploration data, and the conduct of a site visit to the Wilkatana Project area, it was decided that the metalliferous mineral prospectivity of basinal sediments underlying the four subject...-
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Published: 23 Jan 1918
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Mount Gunson. Reports on trial seismic refraction surveys conducted in 1966 and 1972 to map possible ore-bearing horizons.
Reports describe the results of two attempts to use seismic refraction methods to map an unconformable subsurface interface between lithic sandstone and quartzite units within the Whyalla Sandstone. This palaeosurface is important as a locus for...-
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Mount Gunson - MG14 deposit metallurgy. Research reports for the period October 1974 to August 1984.
In October 1975, Mount Gunson mine operator Pacminex determined that the composition of mineable copper sulphide ore potentially obtainable from the undeveloped MG14 area would very likely be more difficult to process than existing Cattlegrid mine...-
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Pernatty Ridge. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1989 to 12/12/1991.
Possible stratabound, Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphide within the basal sediments of the early Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation was the target of exploration in the Pernatty Ridge area. Aberfoyle's work has comprised a review of existing...-
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Portulacca Ridge. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/12/1975 to 23/3/1976.
After a geological reconnaissance conducted in the Lake Torrens area located some surface geochemical enrichments of phosphate within an attenuated basal section of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone at several different stratigraphic levels within that...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1976
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Tthe Stuart Range Joint Venture Project. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 21/4/1980 to 31/3/1981.
When Getty Oil took over management of the Stuart Range Project licences, it reviewed all of Newmont's drillhole data and undertook reclogging of the drill cores with the aim of correlating stratigraphy across the project area. Starting in October...-
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Lake Torrens Station and Hawker West (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports, plus separate final reports to licences' respective full surrender, for the period 30/4/2003 to 1/6/2010.
Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in two adjoining areas which lie about 100 km north-northeast of Port Augusta and 55 km west of Hawker, on alluvial plains adjacent to south-eastern Lake Torrens. All of the...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1910
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RB 2002/00024 Sequence analysis and petroleum potential in the Arrowie Basin, South Australia.
Cambrian sediments in the Arrowie Basin were deposited on a rifted continental margin. Four distinct depositional regimes, ranging from a western, tectonically stable shelf, through platform-ramp to eastern slope and trough-synclines, can be...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2003
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RB 2009/00022 Stuart Shelf geochemical project.
The Carrapateena mineral discovery was the outcome of a PACE Initiative drilling project co-funded by RMG Services Pty Ltd and the Government of South Australia. Two holes were drilled, the second of which (CAR002) encountered a major body of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2009
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Ediacara Range. Partial surrender report for the period ending January 1998.
Relinquished portions of the EL were considered to have low potential for economically viable Mississippi Valley-type lead mineralisation similar to that occurring at the Ediacara Mineral Field, a conclusion based on the outcome of literature...-
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Ediacara Range. Progress and final reports on evaluation of phosphate prospects, for the period June to November 1975.
Exploration for possible commercial accumulations of sedimentary shallow marine phosphorite ore in the Ediacara 'Sub-basin', 26 km west of Beltana, has consisted of a search within the Early Cambrian strata for any sites or layers of phosphate...-
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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/1/1976 to 11/1/1978.
The exploration target for stratabound base metals in the Red Lake area, which lies just to the east of Pernatty Lagoon and abuts the Arcoona Plateau, was the top of Pandurra Formation erosional surface. Percussion (17 holes totalling 2619 m) and...-
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Price. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 6/12/1978.
Continuation by Aquitaine of its regional appraisal of the mineral potential in the Cambrian carbonate sequence on northern Yorke Peninsula, has recently involved them in acquiring and interpreting ground gravity and magnetic surveys, completing a...-
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Island Lagoon [South]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 2/4/1970 to 1/4/1971.
In a search for possible Mount Gunson - type copper mineralisation thought to have been formed within Adelaidean dolomitic metasediments in the southern Island Lagoon shore area, a field reconnaissance was carried out to look for postulated vectors to...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1971
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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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Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/12/1970 to 16/9/1971.
Possible economic buried, fault-controlled, supergene stratabound type or replacement style base metal deposits formed within Cambrian carbonate rocks were the target of exploration carried out over the Lake Torrens area. A 1200 line mile airborne...-
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