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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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Iron Baron (part of Roopena Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/9/2004 to 1/9/2008.
Exploration for possible buried iron oxide-associated copper-gold deposits along the eastern side of the Middleback Range in the vicinity of Iron Knob, has consisted of a review of historical calcrete sampling data and the acquisition and processing...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1908
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Whyalla. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2003 to 11/6/2008.
Evaluation of the perceived Olympic Dam style copper-gold and Stuart Shelf type stratabound copper potential of, respectively, the Proterozoic basement and the Adelaidean cover rocks in an area lying immediately to the west of the Cultana Inlier was...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1908
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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-10, Parkinson Dam epithermal gold-silver mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
The Parkinson Dam prospect is located approximately 60 km west of Port Augusta, within Tasman Resources' current Exploration Licence 3307. The company's interest in this locality was kindled in late 2004 during its investigation of recent historical...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1906
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Roopena. Second partial surrender report, for the period 31/7/2000 to 26/10/2007.
Exploration of two now-relinquished licence sub-areas situated a short distance west of Port Augusta and Whyalla respectively, near the eastern edge of the Middleback Range, sought to find possible economic buried epithermal/hydrothermal gold deposits...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1908
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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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Data release - as updated : Lake Gilles (part of the East Eyre [Peninsula] Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/12/2005 to 28/11/2016.
Exploration aimed primarily for economic buried Menninnie Dam - style base and precious metals mineralisation hosted by Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary basement has been conducted on a licence located in the Lake Gilles district. The subject area...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1917
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Midgee (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2019.
An area of the northern Cowell Hills was taken up to explore for possible economic basement-hosted copper-gold mineralisation of epigenetic style, analogous to that found at the Ernest Henry deposit, which may be associated with magnetic anomalies and...-
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Published: 08 May 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Gum Flat. Annual reports submitted prior to the commencement of joint reporting on the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 27/9/2005 to 26/9/2008.
An area lying immediately west of Port Lincoln and extending for ~10 km inland is being explored for buried occurrences of multiple metallic mineral commodities that may have been deposited within faulted, folded and metamorphosed Archaean basement...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1907
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Tumby Bay. Annual reports [to the 24/11/2006 commencement of the Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 18/1/2002 to 17/1/2007.
Exploration Licence 2887 Tumby Bay was taken out to cover prospective magnetite rich Banded Iron Formations (BIF) close to the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula. Potential was seen for a magnetite concentrate export operation taking advantage of...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1907
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Midgee. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2014.
A small area centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla and ~37 km north-northeast of Cowell, which lay along the fault scarp at the edge of the western Spencer Gulf coastal plain, has been explored for both primary and secondary uranium deposits. Targets...-
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Published: 14 Jan 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wartaka, Iron Knob, Reid Lookout and Old Wartaka (the Parkinson Dam Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports for the period 17/2/2005 to 26/4/2019.
Four small, adjacent licences located on the south-eastern, shallow subcrop margin of the Gawler Ranges, which together make up an area centred about 25 km north-east of Lake Gilles and 60 km west of Port Augusta, are being explored for possible...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1918
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Corunna North. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/10/2014 to 12/10/2019.
An area located on the south-eastern edge of the Gawler Ranges, extending northwards from near Corunna Station Homestead, has been explored for possible buried economic epithermal style base and precious metal mineralisation occurrences within the...-
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Published: 18 Nov 1919
