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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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Wirrappa - Mount Gunson - Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 4/11/1971 to 3/11/1972.
Interest was centred on the Whyalla Sandstone - Pandurra Formation stratigraphic contact (the locus of the Gunyah Lake mineral occurrence), and on a quartzite unit developed adjacent to the Woocalla Dolomite Member (the locus of the House and Main...-
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Published: 08 Nov 1972
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Bopeechee. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2000 to 27/7/2008.
In on-ground exploration of an area on the Stuart Shelf located 18-46 km north-east of Olympic Dam, possible economic sedex - style, Mount Isa / Nifty type stratabound copper was targeted within Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks as part of multiple...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-47, Myall Creek Neoproterozoic stratabound base metal (copper) mineral prospect. Project final report.
The known Myall Creek stratabound copper occurrence located ~23 km north of Whyalla, which was discovered in 1975 by Australian Selection, consists of low-grade (0.3 to 2.2% Cu) Zambian Copperbelt or Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphides extending...-
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Andamooka Creek, Willaroo Dam, Island Dam and Stuart Shelf / Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports on activities undertaken by the Joint Venture consortium, for the period 11/10/1996 to 10/10/2009 [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
As a result of the BHP Billiton takeover of the Stuart Range Project, the mineral exploration strategy was changed. Formerly, WMC had been looking for economical targets of >500 Mt size containing on average more than 2.4% copper equivalent....-
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Mount Gunson Project. Orebody plans and sections.
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports [Year 1 subset] for the period 1/12/1966 to 30/11/1967.
Ongoing evaluation work undertaken by Austminex at the Mount Gunson copper deposit has included geological mapping, rock rippability testing by bulldozer, the conduct of IP surveys, a further campaign of infill and exploratory drilling (726 holes...-
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Data release - as updated : The Lake Torrens JV Project. Joint annual reports, plus final report at the joint full surrender of two of the three remaining project licences, for the period 1/1/2012 to 13/10/2018.
During the 2012 Project year, Tasman Resources Ltd (Tasman) carried out the following exploration activities: • obtaining from the Kokatha Native Title claimant group's representatives, after considerable effort, some restricted Aboriginal heritage...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Acropolis South and North Roxby. Joint annual reports for the period 26/4/2003 to 3/5/2009.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of buried, Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-U style mineralisation is being conducted over two separate multiple-block licence areas in the Olympic Dam district, EL 2931 (Acropolis South) and EL 2932...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Carrapateena Arm, Hatch Hill, Beda Arm and Lake Torrens South (the OZ Minerals Carrapateena Project). Annual reports (separate and joint) for the period 8/1/2008 to 6/1/2016.
Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...-
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Data release - as updated : Pound Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/12/2010 to 16/11/2017.
South Australia Ludi Mining Pty Ltd (“SALM”) acquired Exploration Licence 4619 in the vicinity of Coward Springs to explore it for large Mesoproterozoic copper/gold/uranium deposits analogous to Olympic Dam, which is located approximately 120 km to...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1917
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/3/1937 to 24/3/1939, plus related later documentation which was written until 26/6/1940.
An area of 2720 acres was taken up over 45 abandoned former mining leases bordering the western side of Pernatty Lagoon, near Mount Gunson, in order to evaluate and to possibly further develop the known copper occurrence there. A preliminary...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1940
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Intercept Hill. Annual reports for the period 20/2/2014 to 19/2/2019.
An area centred ~30 km north-east of Woomera is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG style epithermal-hydrothermal mineralisation. The intent is to drill up to eleven untested targets which are already described in previously reported work...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1919
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Acid leaching of oxidized copper ore from Mount Gunson, South Australia.
Three tested samples of oxidized copper ore contained malachite, chrysocolla and atacamite in siliceous gangue, with some calcite. A leach-precipitation-flotation test recovered 70% of the copper in a 21% copper concentrate, and this could probably...-
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Published: 19 Jul 1966
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Mount Gunson. Economics of mining and leaching low-grade ore.
Assay values from 20 holes indicate reserves of about 2,500,000 tonnes of 0.58% Cu beneath the ore zone planned for mining. There is a slight economic advantage in stockpiling and leaching this ore, but this would only be feasible if large quantities...-
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Direct leaching of concentrate. Summary of laboratory test work to 10/4/78.
Both ferric chloride and ferric sulphate are suitable leachants for unground concentrate (90% copper, 5-10% cobalt). Aspects of recovery of copper from solution and treatment of residues are also covered.-
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Review of project feasibility for a 1000 tonnes per day mine and mill, Mount Gunson copper project, South Australia.
The proposal to mine 4 orebodies of the Mount Gunson copper deposit is examined with respect to plant design, capital and operating costs and estimated ore reserves. A sequence for stripping waste, stock piling oxide ores and mining sulphide ores is...-
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Agitation leaching trials on copper ore.
8 different ores from the Mount Gunson area were tested. Leaching of oxide ores produces a fairly high acid consumption by gangue minerals.-
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Lake Torrens South, Beda Arm and Carrapateena Arm (latterly the Lake Torrens Joint Venture Project). Annual reports (singular and combined) to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 21/2/1996 to 7/1/2008.
Economic Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation has been the target of exploration carried out in three adjoining areas which together extend for about 55 to 170 km north of Port Augusta, covering southern Lake...-
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