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Hanns Hill. Progress reports for the period 19/1/81 to 6/12/82.
Follow up to stream sediment sampling near Oodnadatta in the Mount Dutton area suggests that anomalous nickel, chromium and cobalt values are associated with ironstone, and anomalous niobium with geodes. No kimberlites were discovered.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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Data release - as updated : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2008 to 11/11/2018.
Reedy Lagoon Corp. (RLC) has continued to look for minerals other than diamond, operating as the manager of exploration work for base metals (mainly copper) and uranium that was undertaken by the Edward Creek Base Metal Joint Venture (“ECBMJV”) during...-
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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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Mount Carulina and Trapeze Hill (the Oodnadatta Project). Joint annual reports plus succeeding single licence annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/3/1995 to 12/10/2009. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
[ Note - here is Part 1 of the abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. As an adjunct to its widespread search for possible diamondiferous kimberlite diatremes on its Abminga Project acreage situated nearby to the north-west, Caldera...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1910
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Arckaringa Basin, SA. 1984 diamond exploration report.
Evaluation of the diamond potential of the Arckaringa area, 50 km south-west of Oodnadatta, which is here considered to be a region both tectonically and geologically favourable for the past emplacement of kimberlitic intrusive bodies, has comprised...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kalkaroo (part of the Mundi Mundi Plains JV Project). Annual report for the period 2/6/2015 to 1/6/2017.
During 2015-2016, Iluka Resources was the only joint venturer to the Junction Dam licence to conduct a work programme, which still continued to address the potential for finding economic buried Broken Hill type stratiform lead-zinc-silver...-
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Published: 20 Jun 1917
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RB 2021/00011 Models, geology and exploration of heavy mineral deposits in South Australia.
This study draws together diverse aspects of South Australia’s heavy minerals (HM) resources geoscience to provide an overall context for evaluating their occurrence, economic significance and origins. Two main objectives are addressed by the subject...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2021
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Billa Kalina, Welcome Creek, Millers Creek, Margaret Creek and Francis Swamp (the Billa Kalina G2 Diamond Project). Data release made at remaining licences' joint partial surrender: joint annual reports for the period 25/2/2006 to 29/8/2012.
As part of continuing diamond exploration on the subject five licences, more of the first pass sampling program was completed by Flinders Diamonds in August 2006 via aircore drilling of 47 vertical holes for an aggregate 1852 m aimed at penetrating to...-
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Published: 10 May 1912
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Lake Frome South and Lake Frome North (the Wertaloona Project). Joint annual reports to licences' surrender, for the period 8/11/2010 to 3/9/2013.
The southern half of Lake Frome salina, centred about 80 km south-southeast of the Beverley uranium mine, has been explored for possible commercial quantities of dissolved lithium and uranium. Interest in the former commodity was engaged by the...-
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Published: 11 Oct 1913
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Porter Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2010.
Exploration for possible economic IOCGU mineralisation formed within buried Mesoproterozoic basement, and for sandstone hosted or roll front style uranium deposits formed within Mesozoic to Cainozoic sediments, which was carried out over an area...-
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Published: 27 Sep 1910
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Mount Freeling and Wooltana [Station] areas. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/6/2010 to 27/6/2015.
An area of the central far northern Flinders Ranges consisting of two separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic iron ore / manganese mineralisation which could be present within the unconformable contact between Mesozoic and...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1915
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and annual reports for the period 7/12/1987 to 22/9/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Diamond exploration undertaken within the southern of two adjoining licence areas taken up along part of the western flank of the Peake and Denison Ranges, that is centred ~100 km south-east of Oodnadatta, was aimed at discovering the source(s) of...-
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Oolgelima Creek. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
Three separate small areas on the eastern edge of the Stuart Range, that are located 30 to 45 km north and north-east of Coober Pedy, have been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1914
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Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
An area centred over Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, which is located ~70 km east-northeast of Coober Pedy, has been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large sedimentary evaporite occurrences of...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1914
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RB 2003/00021 Musgrave Province - Geological summary and exploration history.
The Musgrave Province is largely incorporated within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands and includes cratonic crystalline middle Proterozoic basement rocks of the Musgrave Province proper, as well as mantling younger sedimentary rock successions...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2003
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RB 2013/00011 Geology of the Tieyon 1:100 000 map sheet (5645).
The Tieyon 1:100 000 mapsheet area is located on the South Australia – Northern Territory border in the central Far North of South Australia. It covers rock units of the Mesoproterozoic Musgrave Province, the Mesozoic Eromanga Basin and the Neogene...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2013
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Krystal (part of Edward Creek Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 14/2/2002 to 13/2/2005.
Diamond exploration carried out within an area lying to the south-southwest of the Peake and Denison Ranges has aimed to find potential kimberlite sources for nine diamonds, previously recovered by De Beers from surface bulk samples, that were...-
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Ooloo mine area. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 24/1/2006 to 23/1/2009.
An area located about 110 km east-southeast of Marree was taken up initially to explore for possible economic silver and base metal mineralisation, but the scope of the search was later broadened to include assessing the prospectivity for primary and...-
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Published: 19 Mar 1909
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Palaeodrainage and Cenozoic coastal barriers of South Australia (2nd edition).
Since the first edition of this map was released in May 2007, the collection by the Department's Geological Survey of much new geoscientific data and interpretations arising from South Australian regional surveys and exploration activities has...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1912
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Mount Treloar. Annual and final reports for the period 23/5/94 to 22/10/96.
A review of the potential of 13 interpreted SAEI aeromagnetic targets, located adjacent to the NT border west-northwest of Abminga Homestead, concluded that all were of too low a priority to investigate further.-
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