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Pualco West. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/10/1973.
Reconnaissance and detailed bulk loam sampling undertaken to look for diamonds or kimberlite indicator minerals in the vicinity of the Pualco Anticline, plus spectrographic analyses of the derived heavy mineral concentrates for gold and base metals...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1973
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-63, Mongolata area epithermal gold and base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
An observed trend between base metals anomalism in soils and previously identified magnetic and gravity anomalies within inferred Adelaidean basement metasediments present within the eastern part of Mongolata EL 3164 provided the impetus for the...-
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Milang [Homestead]. First partial surrender report for the period 25/8/2005 to 24/8/2006.
Exploration for a range of mineral commodities over relinquished parts of a licence area situated 80 km north-east of Orroroo has mainly targeted the Cainozoic to Mesozoic cover rocks for possible sedimentary gold, uranium, mineral sands and...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1906
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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...-
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Published: 22 Apr 1909
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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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Carrieton East (part of the Orroroo North Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/11/1979 to 13/11/1981.
TARGET: Diamonds in the region north and east of Carrieton. EXPLORATION: Following some early positive results from limited reconnaissance sampling, numerous 20 kg stream sediment samples and several bulk loam samples were collected, processed and...-
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Nackara (part of the Nackara Project). Third partial surrender report, for the period 16/6/1999 to 10/12/2008.
Two sub-blocks comprising ~6.1% of a licence area located south and south-east of Nackara township have been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished potential for containing diamondiferous kimberlite intrusions. Work undertaken on these...-
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RB 2012/00006 A review of kimberlites and related rocks in South Australia.
There are currently around 200 primary kimberlitic rock occurrences known in South Australia, located within seven discrete kimberlite provinces. These provinces span a distance of 400 km across the state, from the western side of Eyre Peninsula in...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2012
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RB 2015/00008 Eurelia Kimberlite Province — new evidence for multi-phase intrusions.
During the period June 2008 to October 2011, the Geological Survey of South Australia was one of the sponsors for a Mineral and Energy Research Institute of Western Australia research project conducted using the zircon U-Th-Pb-He double dating...-
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Published: 01 May 2015
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Jubilee Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/3/1997 to 3/3/2001.
Regional calcrete geochemical sampling was carried out in the Mutooroo - Anabama area in a search for precious and base metals. Initial surface calcrete sampling at several prospects was followed by auger drill sampling to depths up to 2 m on an...-
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Published: 28 May 1901
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports, plus individual licence final reports at their respective full surrender, for the period 19/12/1997 to 30/6/2018.
Previous investigations of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine littoral zone clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand (HM) placer accumulations have discovered numerous occurrences of economic to...-
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The Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project. Joint and combined annual reports, for the period 19/12/1997 to 31/12/2010.
An assessment of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand accumulations has discovered numerous occurrences of economic to sub-economic amounts of heavy minerals...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1911
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Pandappa. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 16/11/1984 to 28/6/1985.
After the conduct of initial 1:100k scale geological mapping and rock chip grab sampling (21 samples), stream sediment sampling performed at 110 sites as part of a search for Telfer - style gold within rocks of the Umberatana Group was not...-
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Manunda. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 20/3/1985 to 20/6/1985.
1:100k scale geological mapping and reconnaissance stream sediment geochemical sampling of Umberatana and Burra Group bedrock exposures (220 samples), performed in a search for Telfer style stratabound gold, revealed only three anomalous gold assay...-
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Whyte Yarcowie. Progress reports for the period 12/5/1969 to 21/5/1971.
In the Terowie - Whyte Yarcowie district, and in other nearby areas to the east and south-east, ongoing reconnaissance/infill stream sediment and bulk sampling of highland areas, plus detailed grid-based loam sampling of alluvium on lower-lying arid...-
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Whyte Yarcowie. Progress and final reports for the period 21/5/1971 to 20/5/1972.
Intensive stream and loam sampling over a broad area north of Burra and east of Hiles Lagoon has located numerous kimberlite bodies occurring either as diatremes or dykes. No diamonds were found in bulk samples taken from these kimberlites, or from...-
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Published: 10 Jul 1972