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RB 38/00018 Report on radioactive occurrences ( in the ) Middleback Range.
Three occurrences of anomalous radioactivity detected by BHP within Palaeoproterozoic metasediments on the eastern side of the Iron Prince open pit iron mine were inspected at the company's request, to try to determine the source of radiation. The...-
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Published: 04 Aug 1954
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RB 59/00146 Molybdenum and tungsten in the southeastern portion of Spilsby Island (Sir Joseph Banks Group) 10/12/1964.
Investigations have shown that in the Sir Joseph Banks Group, molybdenite and scheelite are confined to the southern tip of Spilsby Island. The minerals occur in thin irregular veins, in masses of quartz, and as disseminations scattered through...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1964
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RB 60/00101 Reconnaissance for scheelite deposits in the Sir Joseph Banks Group of islands (undertaken during January and March 1964).
In the Sir Joseph Banks Group of southern Spencer Gulf offshore islands, outcropping Archaean arenaceous, arkosic and calcareous sedimentary rocks appear to have been folded and granitised prior to the deposition of the Adelaidean System sedimentary...-
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Published: 21 May 1965
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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-44, eastern Eyre Peninsula, Glensea & Franklin gravity targets representing inferred Proterozoic mesothermal/metamorphic basement uranium prospects. Final report.
PACE Initiative Year 5 funding for exploratory drilling was granted to Stellar Resources under its proposal DPY-5-44 for a project designed to test geophysical targets within EL 3978 which were interpreted / inferred to represent alaskite units...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-22, Lake Gilles - Corunna North area (north-western margin of Spencer Domain) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
Potential Carrapateena or Prominent Hill style IOCG targets represented by newly recognised gravity anomalies in the eastern Lake Gilles area were the reason for a PACE Initiative Year 4 drilling funds proposal submitted to PIRSA by InterMet...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-19, Murninnie mine area (north-eastern Spencer Domain) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Murninnie Cu-Bi-Au deposit and mine environs, located approximately 40 km south-west of Whyalla, have not been seriously explored in more than 50 years due to quarantining of the deposit under Private Mine title. The lode-style deposit is exposed...-
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Iron Baron. First partial surrender report for the period 2/9/2004 to 12/5/2006.
Exploration for possible buried iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the eastern side of the Middleback Range, in two now relinquished licence sub-areas in the vicinity of Iron Knob, has consisted of the acquisition and processing of part...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-28 - Cultana district, Eyre Peninsula, Extension Tank shear-hosted Mesoproterozoic IOCG-U or porphyry type Au and base metal prospect. Drilling final report.
An area centred approximately 50 km south-west of Port Augusta is being explored for buried economic occurrences of gold, base metals and uranium primary mineralisation which may be genetically associated with the past emplacement there of the Gawler...-
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Minlaton. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 9/7/1984 to 8/3/1985.
Exploration of an area extending both to the north and south of Minlaton was undertaken to look for Olympic Dam type mineralisation in a possible Middle to Late Proterozoic fault-bound graben. After inspecting regional geophysical data and performing...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1978.
Stratabound, metasedimentary iron ore was the principal target of exploration undertaken by BHP over a large area surrounding the Moonabie Range that extends along strike and borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf. Base and precious metals...-
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RB 66/00061 Spilsby island molybdenite-scheelite deposits diamond drilling operations.
On the south-eastern extremity of Spilsby Island, there are concentrations of molybdenite and scheelite that occur either in an open vein system or as disseminations, and also in pods, usually associated with quartz. The most important host rock is an...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1968
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Wartaka [Homestead] (part of the Parkinson Dam Project). Annual reports [to the commencement of project licences' combined reporting] and final report to licence surrender, for the period 20/6/2003 to 30/6/2012.
An area located approximately 50 km west of Port Augusta has been explored for economic epithermal gold and silver mineralisation following the discovery of such mineralisation a short distance to the north on the licensee's adjoining EL 3307 / 4475....-
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Lincoln Gap (part of the Eastern Eyre Peninsula Project). First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/9/2009 to 29/9/2011.
An area located approximately 20 km south-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic unconformity-hosted uranium at the base of the Pandurra Formation, for copper sulphides near the Beda Volcanics - Pandurra Formation contact, and...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Dutton Bay. First annual report for the period 16/9/2005 to 15/9/2006.
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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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Burrows Hill. Information status at licence surrender, for the period 22/4/2015 to 16/6/2016: no work performed.
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Pandurra. Combined first annual/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/6/2013 to 23/10/2014.
A small area centred ~50 km west of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible buried epigenetic and structurally controlled gold mineralisation in Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. The target was related to a 3.5 km long, >3 ppb Au...-
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Pandurra. Information status at licence surrender, for the period 29/5/2015 to 16/6/2016: no work performed.
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