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Specific date: 1980, 20/04/1980, 04/1980

Date range: 1980-2022, 04/1980-08/1990

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  • Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.

    Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...
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  • Mulyungarie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/5/1972 to 12/5/1973.

    Ongoing exploration for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits formed in Tertiary palaeochannels in the Yarramba area, 50 km north-west of Cockburn, has included further open hole rotary drilling and downhole geophysical logging (176 holes...
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  • Emu Hill. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/4/1991 to 21/4/1996.

    Diamond exploration undertaken north-west of Moolawatana included the acquisition of airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground magnetic surveys, plus soil, stream sediment, gravel, loam and rock chip sampling, and aircore/diamond drilling (25 holes,...
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  • RB 59/00136 Geological report on the West Burra copper mine.

    The West Burra copper deposit, which lies in hilly country 3.5 miles west-southwest of Burra, was discovered in January 1913 and worked as a single 40-acre mining claim until that claim was cancelled on 18/2/1919. Information about the mine has been...
      Document Published: 04 Dec 1964
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  • RB 78/00141 Golden Grove construction materials survey, Hd Yatala, Co. Adelaide.

    Major source of construction materials for metropolitan Adelaide, currently supplies 25% of natural construction sand, 60% of white plastic clay and 45% of brick shale. 2 brick works produce 63 million bricks annually. Total reserves of 85 million...
      Document Published: 01 Jan 1978
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  • RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.

    A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...
      Document Published: 01 Dec 1990
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  • PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-67, north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) Neogene shoreline heavy mineral sands prospects. Project final report.

    Through the financial assistance of PIRSA's PACE Initiative, Iluka Resources was able to undertake exploratory drilling activities looking for heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the eastern Eucla Basin, as part of the Year 4 subsidy...
      Document Published: 01 Nov 1907
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  • Colona North (formerly part of the Colona Joint Venture Project). First partial surrender report for the period 29/6/2004 to 18/10/2008.

    No heavy mineral sands exploration of the Tertiary sedimentary sequence was carried out on the now relinquished area, as the licensee considers it to have low prospectivity in comparison to others of its tenements held in the region south-east of...
      Document Published: 31 Jan 1909
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  • Parndana. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2008.

    Exploration for possible economic stratiform/syngenetic base metal deposits and/or structurally controlled epithermal/hydrothermal gold and uranium occurrences within Lower Cambrian metasediments over the central section of Kangaroo Island included...
      Document Published: 22 Apr 1909
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  • Mount Denison and Mount Charles (the Peake and Denison Project). Data release upon the expiry/full surrender of subsequent licences : respective annual and combined annual reports for the period 1/6/1994 to 31/5/1999. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].

    [ Note - here is only Part 2 of an abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. During the latter half of 1997, just before it transferred project management to BHP Minerals, Renison Gold Corp. carried out reconnaissance bedrock geochemical...
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  • Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 3 partnership no. DPY3-22, Barton West heavy mineral sand prospect. Project final report.

    Previous drilling in 2005, undertaken as part of another PACE project, DPY2-52, discovered significant occurrences of heavy mineral sands within an area of 15 km x 5 km in the southern part of EL 3092 (the Notrab prospect). These sands were...
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  • Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Progress and annual reports for the period 7/12/1987 to 22/9/2008. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].

    After licence management was returned to Reedy Lagoon for a third time, the licensee studied Cauldron Resources' 1996 aeromagnetic data and identified an additional three magnetic anomalies (EC23, 26 and 27) possessing possible kimberlite traits....
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  • Puntabie, Maltee, Mount Cooper and Pureba South [the north-western Eyre Peninsula (eastern Eucla Basin) heavy mineral sands exploration Tenement Group 3]. Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 28/4/2004 to 5/5/2016.

    Iluka Resources has been exploring the four subject areas, located east of the townships of Streaky Bay and Ceduna, since April 2004, as part of a continuing regional search for possible economic, zircon-rich Tertiary marine placer mineral sands...
      Document Published: 20 May 1916
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  • Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2015.

    A licence area in the Olary district comprising three separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences within partly concealed Neoproterozoic bedrock. The subject ground was taken up by Wentworth Metals...
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  • Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.

    Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...
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  • The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.

    Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...
      Document Published: 26 Nov 1912
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  • PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY8-30 - Eucla Basin Eocene and Pleistocene low-stand beach ridge marine heavy mineral placer prospects. Drilling project final report.

    The Nundroo Range and Bookabie Range are prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which are located ~200 km west of Ceduna and ~100 km south of the...
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  • PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-21 - Eyre Peninsula Project, Central Gawler Gold Province, Baggy Green North prospect biogeochemical anomaly. Drilling project final report.

    Early in 2016, Adelaide Resources submitted a proposal to DSD for a grant of PACE Initiative Year 9 collaborative drilling project subsidy funds to help it drill ~80 exploratory aircore or RC holes for a total of approximately 8000 m to further...
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  • Iron Peak. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/3/1986 to 11/3/1987.

    Stratabound gold in rocks of the Adelaidean metasedimentary sequence was the target of exploration undertaken on Manunda Station, about 45 km south-east of Yunta. No significant gold values were detected in a programme of stream sediment bulk...
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  • Para Wirra. Quarterly reports to licence expiry for the period 5/11/1984 to 1/3/1988.

    The licensee has performed mineralogical sampling, beneficiation testing, 1:1000 scale geological reconnaissance mapping and an economic evaluation of the Koraleigh micaceous haematite deposits located near Kersbrook, concentrating on establishing...
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