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RB 97/00039 Lineament tectonic data, South Australia, with a focus on the Cooper Basin.
The lineament mapping methods used by E.S.T. (Tim) O'Driscoll, which were a crucial factor in the discovery of Olympic Dam, the world's largest known Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, and of several other lesser Australian metallic orebodies, have now been applied...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
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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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Honeymoon Uranium Project. Final report for approved seismic geophysical work programme, Project ADI RD01-100 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
Within two areas located north-west of Cockburn, Honeymoon Project licensee Boss Energy (Boss) is targeting possible sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation in primarily palaeochannel-hosted, redox-controlled type occurrences, similar to the...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1921
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Jadliaura and Wyambana. Final surrender report for the period 12/7/93 to 5/11/93.
Exploration for Olympic Dam style mineralisation in Proterozoic basement, which was thought likely to be associated with coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic highs in the south-western Lake Frome region, has comprised merely a review of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Arkaroola, Moolawatana and Mount Hopeless (the Frome Basin Project). Joint annual report for the period 1/1/2016 to 31/12/2018.
Exploration Licence 5017 Arkaroola, Exploration Licence 5118 Mt Yerila and Exploration Licence 5261 Petermorra cover a combined area of approximately 1831 square km within the northern Flinders Ranges and the Frome Basin. The area is being targeted...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1919
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Curnamona Seismic Survey (09AR01).
Tenement holder Geothermal Resources Ltd contracted Terrex Seismic Services to record the 2009 Curnamona Seismic Survey on its Geothermal Exploration Licences 181 and 210. The location of the survey area was east of the Flinders Ranges, over the...-
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RB 73/00313 Crustal Study Project. An account of the work circumstances surrounding the Mount Fitton South mine 'big bang' controlled underground blast of 25/10/1972
As part of the Trans-Australia Seismic [Refraction] Survey (TASS) conducted during 1972 by the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics of the Commonwealth of Australia (BMR), approximately 82 t of explosive was instantaneously detonated by...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : North Mulga. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/7/1997 to 23/9/2012.
Exploration for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation within a large portion of the north-western Frome Embayment located immediately east and north-east of the Beverley uranium deposit and covering the northern end of the...-
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Published: 05 Nov 1912
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RB 2019/00014 Old Boolcoomata region excursion notes, Curnamona Province, 20-22 July 2019
The excursion to the Old Boolcoomata region of the Olary Domain, Curnamona Province, in South Australia presents most of the stratigraphy of the late Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup and evidence for its complex deformation during the ~1600 Ma...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2019
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RB 2013/00019 Characteristics of porphyry Cu deposits and their potential as exploration targets in South Australia.
Porphyry Cu-(Au-Mo) deposits are typically large tonnage (>150 Mt) and low grade (<1% Cu) deposits which tend to occur in clusters, and the potential for discovering giant-sized such deposits makes them valuable exploration targets. Worldwide,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Multi-data source approach for estimating depth to basement, Curnamona Province, South Australia.
The Curnamona Province is an oval-shaped inlier of late Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic metasedimentary and meta-igneous rocks located in north-eastern South Australia and western New South Wales. The province is host to the world class Broken...-
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AusLAMP magnetotelluric survey - data subset [plus processing results for the PACE Copper - funded, Gawler Craton survey portion]. Data package.
The Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP) is a major new geophysical research program that is under way to map the electrical resistivity structure of the continental lithosphere, by utilising deep-sounding...-
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Published: 04 Apr 1918
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Curnamona Province sedimentary basins ['cover'] regional geology 3D Model (3D pdf version 1).
The Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Curnamona Province is largely overlain by sedimentary basins which contain any or combinations of Neoproterozoic, Cambrian, Mesozoic and Cenozoic sediments. These cover sequence sediments can introduce considerable...-
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Curnamona Province sedimentary basins ['cover'] regional geology 3D Model (GOCAD version 1).
The Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Curnamona Province is largely overlain by sedimentary basins which contain any or combinations of Neoproterozoic, Cambrian, Mesozoic and Cenozoic sediments. These cover sequence sediments can introduce considerable...-
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Mount Painter Inlier basement regional geology 3D Model (3D pdf version 1).
The Mount Painter and Mount Babbage Inliers, located in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges, consist predominantly of Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic metasediments and granites, and Neoproterozoic to Cambrian sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline....-
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Curnamona Province basement regional geology 3D Model (3D pdf version 1).
The Curnamona Province basement 3D Geological Model is a product of PIRSA's early 3D modelling trials conducted using 3D GeoModeller software. The work began with identifying the statigraphic units that were to be modelled. Due to the regional scale...-
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RB 2017/00020 Forward and inverse modelling of airborne electromagnetic data and 3D fault generation of regional gravity data.
Geophysical 1D/2.5D forward and inverse modelling was performed on the EM data from airborne electromagnetic (AEM) TEMPEST surveys conducted in the Cariewerloo, Tarcoola and Frome Embayment regions and from a VTEM survey flown in northern Eyre...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2017
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