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Woomera, Portulacca Ridge and Red Lake. Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 15/2/1983 to 7/11/1986.
The three licences now being surrendered were originally taken out by Seltrust in the mid-1970s to search for stratabound base metals and Olympic Dam type mineralisation. After Seltrust withdrew from the subsequently formed Stuart Shelf joint venture...-
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RB 78/00152 Murnaroo 1. Well completion report.
During September-December 1976, Murnaroo 1 was drilled by the SA Department of Mines to TD 627.5 m near Observatory Hill in the central southern part of the Officer Basin, to investigate the local subsurface stratigraphy and economic potential, and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1979
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Wynbring [Siding]. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report upon licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 30/8/2004 to 29/8/2009.
An area located approximately 160 km north-northwest of Ceduna is being explored for possible economic nickel-copper-platinum group metal magmatic mineral deposits, which may have formed within Archaean to Proterozoic basement rocks in a geological...-
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Margaret Creek (part of the G2 Lineament Project). First and second partial relinquishments' combined report, for the period 13/10/2000 to 12/10/2004.
Diamond exploration undertaken within the relinquished portions of EL 2759, which are located immediately south of William Creek and near the Oodnadatta Track, was focussed on the margin of the Gawler Craton where it is cut by the NNW-trending G2...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Davies (part of the Central Giles / Wingellina Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 24/9/2009 to 23/9/2018.
Field work performed on the subject tenement during licence Year 8 included the conduct of Aboriginal heritage clearance surveys by the APY Traditional Owners to grant access for geological mapping and the acquisition of a trial seismic survey, as...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1918
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Claude Hills. Annual reports for the period 31/5/2006 to 19/6/2017.
An area comprising three adjacent but separate sub-blocks in the Mount Davies district of the central Musgrave Ranges within South Australia was taken up afresh by the Metals X Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary Austral Nickel Pty Ltd, because...-
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Published: 15 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Island Dam, Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports for the period 11/10/2009 to 30/6/2018.
Exploratory drilling carried out by BHP Billiton (BHPB) during the 2009-10 project reporting year took place at six prospects thought to have good IOCG mineralisation potential, based in part on earlier drilling results and also on refined target...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1918
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Comet Outstation, Gina Outstation, Commonwealth Hill Station - Central and East, and Aurora Tank areas (the Commonwealth Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 15/12/2008 to 30/6/2013.
A group of contiguous exploration licences centred ~100 km south-west of Coober Pedy are being explored principally for epithermal and Challenger-style gold mineralisation hosted by covered Archaean basement rocks, as well as for any economic base...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1913
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Nundroo (latterly part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/9/2014 to 15/9/2019.
An area comprising two separate blocks located ~20 km west and ~45 km north of Fowlers Bay has been explored for possible buried Pleistocene reworked heavy mineral sands (HM) marine placer mineralisation that may have become concentrated within the...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1919
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Data release - as updated : Woordlemmie. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 22/6/2011 to 22/11/2019.
An area situated a short distance to the east and south-east of CSR's historic Mount Gunson open cut copper workings, covering ground adjacent to the south-western and southern margins of Pernatty Lagoon, has been explored for possible buried economic...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-42 - Mount Woods Project area, Gawler Craton: assessing the potential for ISGC style mineralisation within the Mount Woods Inlier. Drilling final report
Historically, exploration undertaken for finding Iron Oxide - associated Copper-Gold (IOCG) mineralisation on the eastern Gawler Craton, over the long period since the discovery of the Olympic Dam deposit in July 1975, has targeted positive gravity...-
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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 1 of 2 ].
[ Note - here is Part 1 of the abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. As an adjunct to its widespread search for possible diamondiferous kimberlite diatremes on its Abminga Project acreage situated nearby to the north-west, Caldera...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1910
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Western Gawler Project. Final report, Magneto Telluric, Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. Project ADI RD02-296 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises geophysical studies conducted by Western Areas between October 2021 and October 2022, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/296-GP Magneto Telluric (MT), Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu...-
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Published: 06 May 1923
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Minlaton. First partial surrender report for the period 9/4/1984 to 8/4/1985.
For the now relinquished portion of the licence area, a detailed literature search, interpretation of recently acquired third-party seismic reflection profiles, and examination of available magnetic and gravity data for anomalies did not provide any...-
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Fig Tree Corner, Ooldea South, Barton, Colona North, Ooldea Range and Pidinga (the Eucla Basin HMS Project tenement Group One). Joint annual reports for the period 1/3/2011 to 31/12/2015.
During the 2011-2012 joint reporting year, Iluka undertook drilling on ELs 3638, 3742 and 4544 with three aims: to extend the Typhoon HM deposit resource, to follow-up results of brownfields drilling at the Sonoran prospect, and to do further infill...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1916
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Roger Corner. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/7/1982 to 27/1/1984.
An area on southern Yorke Peninsula, located 5-15 km north-west of Yorketown, was targeted for possible buried Moonta - type Cu(Mo,Au) mineralisation, on the basis of recently SADME-recognised dissolved trace heavy metal anomalism (Cu, Ag and Ba) in...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1984
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Melton Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/1989 to 17/7/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic alluvial gold occurrences hidden beneath a broad floodplain formed north of the Waukaringa Goldfield. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of two seismic refraction profiles to try to map bedrock depth, which could not be interpreted,...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1990
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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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Stuart Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1979 to 18/10/1982.
One vertical stratigraphic diamond drillhole [the 1a re-drill] was fully cored to 1450 m total depth over a regional gravity high in the western half of the licence which was thought to be prospective for Olympic Dam type polymetallic mineralisation...-
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