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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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Mutooroo [Station]. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 11/9/1989 to 6/9/1994.
Exploration for possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits within Tertiary sediments on the northern margin of the Murray Basin comprised aircore drilling (28 holes, total 744 m) in the Mutooroo station area, 50 km south-east of Olary. The...-
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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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RB 86/00054 Petrography of a differentiated basic intrusion known as the Black Hill Norite.
15 specimens from the outcrop indicate that the layering and preferred orientation are due to magma flow and that the intrusion is probably not tilted through 90 degrees. The level exposed by erosion is probably close to the original roof of the...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1986
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RB 91/00015 Murray Basin Basement Transect Project. 1990 well completion reports.
During the period March to June 1990, 9 stratigraphic rotary mud/diamond cored holes with a total penetration of 3056 m, including 433.25 m of NQ or HQ cored diamond tails, were drilled by SADME in three cases and by its contractor Rockdril for the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 91/00074 Potential field survey of the Stonefield anomaly and a geophysical appraisal of the Sandleton 1:50 000 map sheet area.
Areas of high mineral potential within Adelaidean basement lying beneath deep Recent and Tertiary Murray Basin cover, have been interpreted in the poorly known Sandleton 1:50 000 map area. The interpretation has outlined the magnetic fabric, variously...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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RB 89/00040 New occurrence of mafic igneous rocks beneath the northern Murray Basin.
SADME Nanyah 1 (hole synonym M154), a Murray Basin hydrogeological observation bore, was extended beneath the sedimentary cover to reach basement in order to investigate the source of a prominent aeromagnetic anomaly. A 3-metre bottomhole core of...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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RB 95/00020 Coomandook bedrock drilling programme, 1994.
The Cambro-Ordovician basement underlying Murray Basin sediments in the Cooke Plains and Coomandook areas was sampled by a reverse circulation drilling programme as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative. Greenschist to low amphibolite...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1995
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Coonalpyn (part of the Coonalpyn Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/10/2006 to 15/10/2008.
To investigate the possible Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide mineralisation potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, as well as exploring for base metal mineralisation...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1908
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-63, Mongolata area epithermal gold and base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
An observed trend between base metals anomalism in soils and previously identified magnetic and gravity anomalies within inferred Adelaidean basement metasediments present within the eastern part of Mongolata EL 3164 provided the impetus for the...-
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Ki Ki (part of the Coonalpyn Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 17/1/2009.
To investigate the possible Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide mineralisation potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, the licensee and...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1909
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-32, Ki Ki intrusion mafic/ultramafic - hosted mineral prospects. Project final report.
To further investigate the Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, the licensee of EL 3295 sought PACE Initiative funding to complete two...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo (the Olary Creek Project). Annual reports for the period 15/11/2005 to 7/2/2019.
An area centred ~50 km south west of Cockburn is being explored for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed in buried Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, as well as for any secondary uranium mineralisation that may...-
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Lilydale, SA. Progress report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
An airborne scintillometer reconnaissance with ground-based follow-up, a geochemical study of groundwater, and open-hole rotary mud drilling (10 vertical holes, total 3205 feet) plus downhole wireline geophysical logging failed to locate significant...-
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Thistlebeds Homestead (part of the Padthaway Project). Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 3/11/2000.
Five vertical aircore holes totalling 143 m tested a magnetic anomaly lying 30 km east of Burra, in an area thought to be prospective for alteration of buried Adelaidean sediments by high level, fractionated acid intrusives. Maximum assay values of...-
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The Padthaway Project. Data release made at the full surrenders of four included licences: joint first annual report, for the period 16/6/1999 to 15/6/2000.
Exploration for possible economic metallic mineral products of hidden copper-gold deposit mineralising systems, which possibly were genetically related to fractionated, high crustal level emplaced Cambro-Ordovician intrusive rocks, is addressing an...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Black Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/2003 to 25/8/2008.
Inco Resources ('Inco') has been exploring the outcropping portion of the Ordovician Black Hill Intrusive Complex for possible Voisey's Bay style nickel, copper and platinum group element (PGE) mineralisation. This work commenced on 30/9/2004, when it...-
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