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Mount Willoughby, Marla, Nicholson Hill, Hope, Manya, Emu, Moorefield, Lake Meramangye, Dingo Claypan and Alinya (Officer Basin). Progress, technical and partial relinquishment reports for the period 20/8/1980 to 19/8/1985.
TRONA EXPLORATION: Of the 9 rotary/diamond holes drilled, only the first, Meramangye 1, intersected a unit equivalent to the Observatory Hill Beds, which was the target horizon for trona. Drillholes Manya nos 2-6 and Marla 7 intersected Cambrian red...-
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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Mount Carulina and Trapeze Hill (the Oodnadatta Project). Joint annual reports plus succeeding single licence annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/3/1995 to 12/10/2009. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
[ Note - here is Part 2 of the abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. A new joint venture with Barrick Gold, pertaining to the renewed (as EL 3424) tenement, was signed on 8/2/2007, after which that company as operator undertook a 749...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1910
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-07 - northern Gawler Craton - Welbourn Hill and Nicholson Hill magnetic/gravity anomalies IOCG-U mineral prospects. Project final report.
As part of a search for possible high crustal level, Olympic Dam - type IOCG deposits hosted by Mesoproterozoic basement rocks, Eromanga Uranium undertook deep diamond drill testing of two large, semi-coincident magnetic/gravity anomalies recognised...-
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Data release - as updated : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2008 to 11/11/2018.
Reedy Lagoon Corp. (RLC) has continued to look for minerals other than diamond, operating as the manager of exploration work for base metals (mainly copper) and uranium that was undertaken by the Edward Creek Base Metal Joint Venture (“ECBMJV”) during...-
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ELs 4653 - 4661 (the Marla Project). Joint annual reports, plus final reports at licences' individual or joint full surrenders, for the period 25/1/2011 to 9/9/2014.
Nine licence areas occupying a 70 km x 30 km region overlying a west-northwest trending structural corridor situated along the northern margin of the Gawler Craton, have been explored for possible buried large-scale deposits of iron oxide - associated...-
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Published: 23 Oct 1914
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports for the period 7/12/1987 to 22/9/2008. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
After licence management was returned to Reedy Lagoon for a third time, the licensee studied Cauldron Resources' 1996 aeromagnetic data and identified an additional three magnetic anomalies (EC23, 26 and 27) possessing possible kimberlite traits....-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kalkaroo (part of the Mundi Mundi Plains JV Project). Annual reports for the period 21/4/2005 to 20/4/2010.
An area of shallowly covered Curnamona Province metalliferous basement rocks abutting the South Australia / New South Wales border, approximately 80 km north-east of Olary, is believed to be prospective for Broken Hill and McArthur River style...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1910
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Balta Baltana Creek. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 15/2/1983 to 15/4/1988; jointly reported with: Engenina Creek. First partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/4/1981 to 25/5/1988.
TARGET: Buried possible Olympic Dam - type mineralization, and massive iron ore mineralization, in the Balta Baltana Creek area; possible diamond-bearing kimberlite rocks on Engenina. EXPLORATION: Aeromagnetic surveys were flown with follow-up ground...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1988
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Peake and Denison Ranges. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/2/1969 to 4/5/1971.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey was flown over the licence in 1969. Three anomalies located near Peake Homestead Ruins and the Coppertop mine gave disappointing ground survey uranium responses from traverses made with a hand-held...-
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Ethelmere. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 27/8/1979 to 13/3/1988.
TARGET: Uranium in the Frome Embayment; Olympic Dam - type deposits in Proterozoic basement. EXPLORATION: Uranium exploration consisted of a resistivity survey. Base metal exploration consisted of geophysical surveys and diamond drilling (3 vertical...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1988
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Engenina Creek. Second partial surrender report, for the period 6/4/1981 to 23/6/1990.
TARGET: Kimberlitic diatremes; Olympic Dam / Tennant Creek style deposits; stratiform base metal deposits; iron ore; Cretaceous sediment - hosted uranium deposits. EXPLORATION: Regional : aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys, geological mapping,...-
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Published: 14 Aug 1990
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Nilpinna Homestead area (part of the Australian Diamond Exploration joint venture). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 22/2/1987.
Diamond exploration undertaken in the Peake and Denison Ranges included the acquisition and processing of aerial magnetic, radiometric and heliborne magnetic and VLF-EM surveys, with follow-up ground magnetic and Sirotem surveys, plus extensive...-
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Lyons, Mount Christie, Barton, Immarna and Immarna South. Final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/6/1983 to 2/6/1988.
TARGET: Possible diamonds in the Barton region. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an aerial magnetic-radiometric-VLF EM survey (line spacing: 300 m; altitude: 70 m) led to field investigations of 142 potential kimberlite targets generated from this survey...-
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West Lake Eyre. First progress report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/1/1980 to 13/6/1980.
Dampier Mining's main objective in taking out this licence was to test a large magnetic complex, situated east of the Peake and Denison Ranges and west of Lake Eyre, for possible economic buried base and precious metal deposits. Grid-based ground...-
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Bon Bon Homestead area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1979 to 29/3/1980.
Testing of the stratabound base metal potential of the basal Pandurra Formation section, in an area located 40 km north-east of Kingoonya, involved drilling down into the pre-Pandurra basement with 4 vertical percussion holes totalling 878 m. This...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1980
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Furlough Dam. Progress reports for the period 28/7/80 to 27/4/81.
Results of the deep stratigraphic / mineral exploratory well MU-2 drilled near Mulyungarie Homestead, east of Lake Frome and adjacent to the SA/NSW State border, are presented, besides the interpretation of a gravity survey conducted earlier in the...-
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Published: 17 Nov 1981
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Bulgunnia. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 10/8/1981.
The base metal and uranium potential of a concealed Proterozoic basement high near Bulgunnia Homestead was evaluated using geological and hydrogeochemical reconnaissance and regional geophysical interpretation approaches. Seismic, ground magnetic and...-
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Billa Kalina, Welcome Creek, Millers Creek, Margaret Creek and Francis Swamp (the Billa Kalina G2 Diamond Project). Data release made at remaining licences' joint partial surrender: joint annual reports for the period 25/2/2006 to 29/8/2012.
As part of continuing diamond exploration on the subject five licences, more of the first pass sampling program was completed by Flinders Diamonds in August 2006 via aircore drilling of 47 vertical holes for an aggregate 1852 m aimed at penetrating to...-
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Published: 10 May 1912