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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulgunnia (part of the Gawler JV Project). Annual reports for the period 19/11/1997 to 1/1/2013.
Within an area of the Wilgena and Christie Domains centred 40 km north of Tarcoola, exploration is continuing for Archaean to Proterozoic basement-hosted epithermal, hydrothermal and metamorphic type gold and base metal occurrences. Here an 841 square...-
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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Paragon Bore. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/5/1980 to 3/2/1984.
Drilling of 1 rotary mud and 4 diamond holes (total 1447.2 m, including 602 m of rotary mud precollars) on the Mabel Creek gravity high, initially searching for Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au mineralisation, found that several large coincident gravity and...-
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Kalabity. Final report, Project ADI RD02-266 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
On 19th May 2021 Sinosteel SA secured ADI funding to carry out the comprehensive Curnamona Geochemical Sampling Program utilising the skills of the in-house geologist together with academic research collaboration to perform rigorous geochemical...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1922
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Commonwealth Hill Station - East (part of the Commonwealth Hill Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2017.
Five small portions of the subject licence, with a combined total area of 143 square km, have been surrendered due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for iron ore, gold, uranium and base metals. During the period of their tenure,...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Commonwealth Hill area (the Eaglehawk Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 22/6/2012 to 21/6/2017.
An area centred ~115 km south-west of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic buried precious and/or base metal mineralisation (including iron ore) that may exist in predominantly buried Archaean or younger Proterozoic basement rocks, as...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Middleback Range and Moonabie Hills. Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2007 to 30/1/2019, plus surrender reports to 9/7/2023.
Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1918
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RB 2018/00003 Summary and final report on pyrite, magnetite and hematite mineral geochemistry, South Australia (including samples from the Mineral Systems Drilling Program and the Emmie Bluff IOCG prospect).
Sulfide and oxide trace element geochemical analyses have been conducted on more than 290 core chip samples collected from stored drill cores of 39 drillholes located across South Australia, as part of a collaborative project being conducted between...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2018
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Gilles Downs (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report (prior to start of joint reporting status) for the period 8/7/2005 to 7/7/2006: and final report submitted at licence full surrender, for the succeeding period to 30/7/2015.
A licence area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located on the plains extending to the west of the Middleback Range on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to explore for possible economic buried deposits of stratabound magnetite iron ore...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 23/9/2002 to 6/11/2008.
A large licence area, comprising two separate blocks aligned along strike, which cover the northern Cowell Hills and the less elevated country stretching north-east of Lucky Bay, was taken up by Avoca Resources Ltd as part of a much wider search...-
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Ironstone Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 17/9/2003 to 17/9/2015.
During the majority of its tenure term, very little field work was conducted on the subject ground. Initially, office studies of available geophysical and open file geological data were performed during 2005 to try to identify possible drilling...-
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RB 2012/00014 Age of host rocks at the Chianti Cu-Au prospect, eastern Gawler Craton, from zircon U-Pb geochronology.
The primary aim of the U-Pb geochronology work reported herein was to constrain the age of granites that form the principal host unit to the minor mineralisation and extensive alteration present within the Chianti Cu-Au prospect located in the eastern...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2012
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Warramboo (the Central Eyre Project). Annual reports [but excluding four separately held joint annual reports] for the period 6/6/2001 to 8/2/2019.
During the sixth year of tenure of the Warramboo licence, now held by Adelaide Exploration Limited as renewed EL 2846 covering the same 1363 square km area as before, the only exploration-related activity which occurred was the acquisition during...-
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Published: 28 Mar 1918
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Darke Peake. Progress reports for the period 15/6/79 to 27/9/82.
In a search for possible buried Palaeoproterozoic unconformity - related sedimentary uranium deposits over an area east of the Darke Range, an ongoing programme of exploratory work has included geological mapping at 1:25,000 scale, analysis of 205...-
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Report on November 1969 wagon-drill programme, "Jagged Rocks" prospect, SA.
19 test vertical or inclined wagon drillholes totalling 1420 feet were put down at the site of a SADM prospector's 1954 discovery of davidite mineralisation, which occurs as part of two outcrops separated by a wide (1390 feet) expanse of alluvial...-
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Published: 22 Dec 1969
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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