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Lake Greenly area [Mount Hope kaolin deposit]. Progress and final reports to licence renewal for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/9/1974.
Appraisal of a newly discovered large deposit of kaolin, found in the near surface regolith to Archaean basement on two farms situated 7 km south of Mount Hope on southern Eyre Peninsula, has consisted of further air/rotary drilling (35 holes, total...-
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Cocunda and Calca (Poochera Kaolin Project). Progress reports, annual reports, and final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 12/5/1986 to 28/3/2002.
Kaolin, derived mainly from deep weathering of Hiltaba Suite granites, was the principal target of exploration in the area south and south-west from Poochera, near Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. Following a review made of historic drillhole...-
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Mikkira (south-west of Port Lincoln). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/3/1981 to 27/10/1987.
Exploration for graphite primarily, and secondarily for BIF-associated massive base metal sulphides, in the area surrounding the historic Uley graphite mine situated 15 km west south-west of Port Lincoln, initially comprised an airborne reconnaissance...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1987
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Mount Hope. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 1/9/1988.
Pre-development feasibility studies of the Mount Hope kaolin deposit, located 75 km north-west from Port Lincoln, gave indications that the kaolin might extend beyond the boundaries of the nine Mineral Leases under which the deposit was held....-
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Published: 25 Jul 1988
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hall. Annual reports for the period 23/7/2013 to 22/7/2015.
An area extending inland between Baird Bay and Venus Bay, 50-80 km South-east of Streaky Bay, has been taken up to explore for significant buried occurrences kaolin associated with the deep Cenozoic weathering of Proterozoic granite, in order to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tootla. Annual reports for the period 6/6/2009 to 13/10/2015.
During the 2009-2010 reporting year, Great Southern Kaolin Pty Ltd (GSK)'s activities comprised: - commissioning the pilot plant at the fabrication site in Kingaroy, Qld, in May-June 2010, and processing about 2 t of kaolinised granite through it to...-
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Dunn Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/2/1985 to 18/5/1988.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in the Tertiary Narlaby Palaeochannel, 30 km east of Ceduna; and regolith kaolinite formed from weathered Proterozoic basement granite. EXPLORATION: A thermoluminescence study of sediments in the most prospective portion...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Poochera Industrial Minerals Project. Annual reportS, for the period 1/9/2015 to 31/8/2018.
Exploration activity on Exploration Licences 5016 (Whichelby), 5308 (Mount Hall), 5398 (Sceales), 5787 (Yanerbie) and 5814 (Tootla) is focused on gypsum and kaolin deposits. The tenements are grouped in the Poochera Project Amalgamated Expenditure...-
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Streaky Bay - Karcultaby. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/4/1983 to 4/6/1985.
Exploration for possible epithermal/hydrothermal base metal deposits formed within Proterozoic basement, in an area centred ~40 km east of Streaky Bay township, has comprised the acquisition of ground gravity (161 and 210 stations respectively read...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1985
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Mount Sturt clay deposit. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/10/1971 to 20/10/1972.
A large tonnage (~10-50 Mt), easily mined deposit of white kaolin found by the landowner on a property at Mount Sturt has been partly evaluated by auger drilling 44 shallow holes totalling 707 feet, to obtain samples for materials testing and to...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kottata Well, Eldale, Tootla and Broadacres (also part of the Yaninee Project). First annual report for EL 3135, plus subsequent joint annual reports, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2009.
An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....-
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RB 2009/00006 Alteration mapping - HyLogger workshop, course manual, ASEG 09.
HyLogging systems, and the PIMA and ASD field spectrometers (Terraspec, Labspec and Fieldspec), are a generation of analysis instruments which provide rapid and cost effective data on sample mineralogy and on mineral characteristics. Spectral...-
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Published: 26 Feb 2009
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Streaky Bay. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/7/1980 to 27/5/1982.
In an area located east-southeast of Streaky Bay township, the target mineral commodities were uranium, base metals, gold, tin, tungsten, tantalum and lignite; kaolinite was recognised as a secondary target later during the exploration programme. 25...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1982
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Tumby Bay. Progress and final reports for the period 20/11/1969 to 19/11/1971.
Exploration conducted primarily for base metals, over an area extending for 5-50 km north of Port Lincoln, has consisted of reconnaissance and detailed stream sediment surveys followed by soil and rock chip sampling, plus limited geological mapping....-
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2008 Uno [Range] area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by Mega Hindmarsh during April-May 2008 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Uno Range - Lake Gilles North area of SA on 16/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.7 m x 4.7 m,...-
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2008 Corunna area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by Mega Hindmarsh during April-May 2008 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Corunna - Pandurra - Myall Creek area of SA on 16/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.7 m x 4.7...-
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Calca [part of CML's Poochera Project]. First partial surrender report, for the period 12/7/1993 to 11/7/1997.
Exploration for kaolin, gold and base metals in the Colley Hill - Witera area, centred 40 km south-east of Streaky Bay, comprised aircore drilling (23 holes, total 379 m) and calcrete geochemical sampling on a regional 1 km x 1 km grid. Despite the...-
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Published: 08 Aug 1997
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Poondana Rock. Progress reports for the period 11/12/1974 to 10/6/1976.
Seven core holes were drilled for a total penetration of 90 m, to test the Mount Sturt kaolin occurrence. Composite drill core samples were analysed to determine the clay's suitability for paper coating.-
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Published: 04 Apr 1976
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Examination of kaolinitic clay samples.
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Published: 06 Feb 1970
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Poondana Rock. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/5/1973 to 22/11/1974.
Reports present drilling logs and laboratory testing analytical data for clay samples taken from the occurrences near Mount Sturt, aimed at finding material of commercial paper coating grade in economic quantities. No firm conclusions have been...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1974
