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RB 84/00075 Review of phlogopite in kimberlitic rocks as a possible source of vermiculite in South Australia.
Vermiculite is an alteration product of phlogopite. Kimberlitic bodies of sufficient size and phlogopite content for possible exploitation have been discovered in South Australia during past exploration for diamonds and base metals. Sampling is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1984
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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...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 96/00012 Dryland salinity investigation, Toolillie Gully. Progress report no. 1 - Drilling programme.
Dryland salinisation is degrading land and water resources of Lower Eyre Peninsula. It decreases land production capabilities, water quality, and the general aesthetics of the environment. Interdepartmental investigations into the occurrence and...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1996
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RB 97/00028 Reconnaissance granite sampling of the Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Reconnaissance sampling of Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, to identify all potentially quarryable granite varieties, was carried out by MESA during 1996/97. A total of 157 outcrops were inspected and 99 samples...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 98/00019 Spencer Regions strategic water management study.
The availability of adequate water supplies is crucial to future development, particularly in the arid areas of the State. Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), as part of the Spencer Regions Strategic Water Management Study, has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 99/00027 Report on a water search program over the Yalata-Ooldea Road.
A Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) survey was used to prospect for groundwater at three locations on the road between Yalata and Ooldea, on the thesis that water would be available in either deeper overburden or fractured basement. Overburden targets...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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RB 97/00006 Groundwater and basement surface study of the northwest Gawler Craton, SA.
There are no known major water resources in the northwest Gawler Craton area. The groundwater that is used for stock occurs in Tertiary sediments and weathered basement overlying the Gawler Craton. A Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) survey which was...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1996
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Lake Everard. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2009.
A planned reconnaissance soil geochemical sampling survey in an area to the east of Lake Everard was not carried out due to the need to obtain an access agreement from local native title claimants and after making a negative re-assessment of the...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1909
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Toolgerie, Yalata and Black Hill (Fowler Project). Data release at project first partial surrender upon licences' renewal : combined annual reports for the period 30/6/2004 to 29/6/2009.
A group of project exploration licences covering the wholly buried Yalata Ultramafic Complex, which occupies an area of approximately 25 km x 75 km that lies partly within the Yalata Aboriginal Reserve to the north-west of Fowlers Bay, are being...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1909
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Hierns Well. Annual reports and partial surrender report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/9/2004 to 28/9/2009.
An area located 40 km south-west of Tarcoola was taken up to explore primarily for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation within the Tertiary cover sequence, and secondarily for epithermal/hydrothermal copper-gold deposits or for...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1909
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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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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well and Wirrida. Six-monthly progress, plus combined annual and final reports, to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/12/1993 to 18/7/2006.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of epithermal/hydrothermal gold, plus precious metals and base metals, which might have formed in poorly outcropping Archaean and Proterozoic basement, commenced with a detailed interpretation of SAEI imaged...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1906
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West Woomera. Annual reports and progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2000 to 30/5/2005.
Copper-gold exploration undertaken over a small area within the Woomera Prohibited Area, 20 km west of Woomera township, was restricted to carrying out geophysical data interpretation and conceptual modelling for generating drill targets based around...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1904
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-25, eastern Mabel Creek High: Big North-West Proterozoic epithermal / hydrothermal IOCG mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
In its successful application to PIRSA for a grant of PACE Initiative Year 4 drilling project funding, Alliance Craton Explorer announced that it had generated an extremely attractive geophysical target with potential for Mesoproterozoic basement -...-
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Published: 25 Nov 1907
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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 4 partnership no. DPY4-65, Chianti mineral prospect. Project completion dataset.
The subject set of reports describes the results of PACE Initiative Year 4 partly-subsidised drilling work conducted in the vicinity of the Chianti prospect, which lies approx. 20 km north of the old Mount Gunson mining camp. The aim of this work,...-
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Mount Harper. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/2/2004 to 15/2/2009.
Exploration for possible economic epithermal, shear-related Proterozoic gold deposits within two small areas of the Gawler Ranges situated close to the southern shoreline of Lake Gairdner has consisted only of a consultant's prospectivity review and...-
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Published: 25 Jun 1909
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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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Tallaringa and Mount Igy (the Tallaringa JV Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/1/2009 to 6/2/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project joint reporting year, the following activities occurred: - the conduct of an Aboriginal heritage work area clearance survey in the northern part of EL 3485 Tallaringa by the Antakarinja Land Management Council Native...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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