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Landsat thematic mapper study of the Yardea Dacite, Gawler Range Volcanics, YARDEA 1:250 000 scale map sheet.
The South Australian Department of Mines and Energy (SADME) commissioned the South Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (SACRS) to undertake a digital analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data in an attempt to locate prospective areas for...-
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RB 78/00041 Naracoorte planning study engineering geology investigations - B. Turner and Associates.
Naracoorte Corporation area straddles two northwesterly trending dune ridges and their corresponding flats. Cemented limestones of the Bridgewater Formation and Gambier Limestone, occasionally mantled by windblown sands, form the two ridges; younger...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00047 Port Lincoln planning study, engineering geology investigation.
The area surrounding Port Lincoln can be divided into three main physiographic regions, the aeolianite plain, the coastal plain, and the highlands. Soil types range from shallow, well-drained terra rossa overlying the aeolianite, to imperfectly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 90/00013 Offshore sand prospects for metropolitan beach replenishment interpreted from shallow seismic profiles.
Shallow penetration, high resolution seismic profiling, with simultaneous sea floor coring found large areas of sea floor to be barren of unconsolidated Holocene sediment, or to be unsuitable for beach replenishment. Four prospects are identified...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1990
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola. Annual reports for the period 5/12/2008 to 3/12/2015.
During the 2008-2009 licence year, most of the new work done consisted of appraisal rotary mud drilling at Four Mile East (112 holes for 24,460 m) and Four Mile West (113 holes for 19,120 m), with the addition of one NQ diamond cored hole (AKC093) for...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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Weekeroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/10/1970 to 30/9/1971.
A detailed examination of mineralised rock sequences within the metamorphosed Precambrian basement and Adelaidean cover rocks of the Weekeroo area, and recording of their relationship to successive deformational events and resulting rock structures,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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Wilkinson. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2002.
Possible potash and halite resources in evaporite - rich sediment sequences of the Tallaringa Trough, lying at depths that might be suitable for solution mining, were the initial targets of exploration in the Wilkinson Lakes area. Following a...-
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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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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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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 Alberga. Progress reports for the period 21/4/86 to 20/4/87.
Native sulphur associated with salt domes was the target near Mount Todmorden. No field work was undertaken.-
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Published: 13 Jan 1988
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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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Todmorden. Progress reports for the period 21/4/1986 to 20/11/1987.
TARGET: Native sulphur associated with possible salt dome structures, the locations of which were interpreted from past petroleum exploration seismic reflection surveys. EXPLORATION: A detailed gravity survey, and 2 rotary/core drillholes totalling...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1988
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Lake Torrens. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 28/8/1975 to 22/8/1977.
SALT PROJECT. Market research was carried out on utilizing salt from Lake Torrens and Point Paterson for the production of soda ash or caustic soda in SA, or for salt export. The Dow Chemical Co. has confirmed its continuing interest in Lake Torrens...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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Northern Saint Vincent Basin, Port Wakefield and Lake Bumbunga areas. Coal deposit appraisal reports, plus pre-mining economic feasibility studies, for the period 4/10/78 to 28/7/90.
TARGET: Coal in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary open hole and core drilling of over 700 holes, including large diameter core and bulk sampling at the Lochiel and Bowmans trial pits. RESULTS: The Lochiel and Bowmans coal resources...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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Final drilling report - CRAE boreholes 83KD1 and 83KD1A.
The intersection of massive halite in the ?Lower Palaeozoic sequence in Occidental Petroleum's Mercury 1 wildcat oil exploration well drilled in the offshore Polda Basin generated interest in the Tuckey area onshore for potash associated with similar...-
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1974 seismic survey, Everard, final report.
AIM:The 1974 Everard Seismic Survey consisted of a detailed grid of 103 km over the Munyarai prospect, and a regional tie line of 54 km with outcrops at the rim of the Officer Basin, to investigate the possibility of a prospective Ordovician sequence...-
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Data release : Mount Sarah, Alamilda Hill and Todmorden (the Mount Sarah Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to the successive expiry/full surrender of ELs 6129 and 5634, for the overall period 23/6/2015 to 22/6/2020.
Three adjacent areas located in dissected hilly country 70-90 km to the north-west of Oodnadatta were successsively taken up under licence to cover a significant, 8 mGal regional gravity anomaly which could have potential for IOCG type basement-hosted...-
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Published: 24 Jun 1920
