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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-50, Mount Hope Project area stratigraphic drilling on potential Archaean VHMS mineral prospects. Project final report.
The PACE Initiative Year 4 subsidised auger drilling programme undertaken on the Mount Hope (EL 3355) / Brimpton Lake (EL 3561) mineral exploration tenements was a trial to test the application of a new low cost drilling technique to exploring under...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-44, Wilgerup (southern Gawler Craton) haematitic iron ore prospect. Project final report.
Centrex Metals commenced reverse circulation exploration and resource definition drilling at the Wilgerup iron ore deposit on 6/9/2006, which was partly funded by the PACE Initiative as a Year 3 approved project, with funds allocated for 1000 m of RC...-
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Published: 20 Apr 1907
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Uley. Annual reports for the period 16/9/2005 to 12/10/2018.
A licence area located 20 km west-southwest of Port Lincoln, which covers the historically worked Uley graphite deposit and environs, was taken up to try to delineate sufficient mineral resources and, eventually, ore reserves of graphite in the Mining...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1919
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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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Cummins. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 10/1/1997 to 16/3/1999.
Thick and often unconsolidated cover sequences of Bridgewater, Uley and Wanilla Formations prevented systematic regolith sampling of much of the area between Wanilla and Peachna, 40 km north-west of Port Lincoln, while no coherent base metal anomalies...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Caralue and Kimba (the Ellemby Project, prior to inclusion as part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/11/2007 to 5/11/2010.
Two adjacent areas which are respectively centred near and to the south-west of Kimba are being explored for buried basement-hosted gold and nickel mineralisation, and, following establishment of a joint venture, for possible IOCG type deposits and...-
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Brimpton Lake. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2005 to 8/8/2018.
An area of the southern Gawler Craton, which is located on Eyre Peninsula east of Elliston, is continuing to be explored for possible economic buried Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock-hosted primary base and precious metal deposits of inferred...-
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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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Data release - as updated : Nantuma. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/12/2011 to 20/12/2021.
An area located ~12 km south-west of Warramboo on central Eyre Peninsula has been explored for possible buried economic Archaean stratabound iron ore, as well as for other, basement-hosted polymetallic mineral occurrences. During the first licence...-
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Published: 28 Dec 1921
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cocata and Warramboo (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1996 to 5/6/2001.
Two adjacent licence areas forming part of a contiguous set of project tenements in the central Eyre Peninsula region are being explored by Adelaide Resources (AR) primarily for gold and base metals, which it is thought may occur in buried deposits...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1901
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Wilcherry Hill. Drilling at the Weednanna Au-Fe deposit, an exploration model for gold deposits formed in the southern Gawler Craton. Collaborative drilling and research final report, Project ADI RD02-265 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Between 8 August and 6 October 2021, six inclined, rotary mud precollared diamond cored holes (21WDDH001 to 006) totalling 1560.6 m were drilled at the Weednanna gold and iron deposit located ~40 km north of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula, as part...-
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Tooligie Hill (latterly part of the Southern Eyre Peninsula JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/1999 to 18/4/2017.
For the period from 1/1/2013 until the date of licence full surrender, the following additional activities were undertaken: - 1/1/2013 to 31/1/2013 – magnetite ore characterisation analyses, and interpretation of 2012 ground gravity survey data,...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines discretion]: the Eyre Peninsula Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/12/2013 to 28/12/2018.
During the 2014 project reporting year, licensee Adelaide Resources undertook a research and development phase surface-based biogeochemical and field portable X ray fluorescence (FPXRF) spectrometric sampling programme over its Baggy Green gold...-
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Published: 22 Apr 1919
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Coulta. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 23/2/1978 to 22/3/1979.
Exploration for possible economic vein-style primary uranium deposits hosted within basement rocks in a licence area located 55 km west-northwest of Port Lincoln has consisted of detailed (1:10,000 scale) geological mapping over a 650 square km area,...-
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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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ComRev 016 Iron Ore opportunities in South Australia 2014 (historical reference only)
A 2016 summary of iron ore opportunities within South Australia. Each mine, deposit or prospect has detailed resource information and a snap-shot of the associated companies at that time.-
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ComRev 015 The South Australian Resources Sector 2016 (historical reference only)
Gold: Gold mineralisation is widespread in South Australia and occurs in most geological provinces Copper: Many of the deposits in South Australia’s copper provinces are covered by a sequence of younger rocks that have effectively hidden many large...-
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ComRev 011 Uranium in South Australia 2016 (historical reference only)
Australia has a substantial allocation of the world’s uranium resources, especially defined under the lower risk RAR (Reasonably Assured Resources) metric. Australia hosts 29% of the world’s uranium resources (RAR and inferred) recoverable at...-
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