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Cleve Central area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 7/6/1979 to 11/10/1985.
Exploration for Broken Hill or Aggeneys type Proterozoic stratiform base metal massive sulphides within the Hutchison Group in the Mount Shannan area, north of Cleve, has included the acquisition, processing and interpretation of airborne magnetic,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Gilles. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Eurilla JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 30/1/2007 to 29/1/2010.
A sparsely drill-tested area centred about 10 km west of Lake Gilles is being explored for a variety of buried, possibly economic basement-hosted polymetallic mineralisation occurrences, including deposits of Menninnie Dam style Pb-Zn-Ag (Cu-Au),...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1910
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to 18/5/1970.
Exploration for possible economic hypogene base metal sulphide deposits associated with poorly exposed iron-rich linear outcrops, overlying faulted Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic basement which is obscured by extensive Cainozoic sedimentary cover rocks...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1970
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Mount Hill - Koppio and Green Patch areas (part of the Southern Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint second and first respectively partial surrender report, for the period 6/8/2007 to 9/2/2017.
Five exploration licences on southern Eyre Peninsula have been explored by Centrex Metals for possible buried economic magnetite mineralisation. Portions of the two subject ELs were recently relinquished due to their perceived diminished prospectivity...-
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Published: 20 Jul 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lipson Cove. Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 28/9/2014.
An area in the Cowell Hills centred ~20 km north of Tumby Bay on eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up primarily to explore and evaluate known talc and graphite occurrences, but the grant licensee's initial review of previous exploration data revealed...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1914
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Sheoak Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surreender, for the period 15/3/1983 to 14/3/1988.
TARGET: Stratiform lead-zinc-silver mineralisation of the Broken Hill or Aggeneys - Gamsberg type, associated with banded iron formations in Early Proterozoic metasediments. EXPLORATION: Data from the 1975 joint SADME / BMR Barna 1:100 000 scale...-
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Cootra. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 25/11/80 to 28/3/84.
Pioneer exploration for possible stratabound base metal deposits that have a facies relationship to metamorphic iron deposits, which was carried out in the Cootra area, located 20 km east south-east of Warramboo on central Eyre Peninsula, has...-
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Published: 09 Apr 1984
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Stony Hill (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula JV Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 2/12/2004 to 23/12/2016.
During the life of the subject licence, the focus of exploration was to determine the area's potential for DSO haematite iron ore, with a secondary consideration being magnetite and haematite BIF. After conducting geophysical surveys and exploratory...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Middleback Range and Moonabie Hills. Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2007 to 30/1/2019, plus surrender reports to 9/7/2023.
Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1918
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Miltalie (part of the Triple Hill Project). Combined first annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/1998.
Reconnaissance stream sediment sampling conducted over the two subareas of EL 2377 (56 & 87 samples respectively) indicated only low level gold and base metal anomalism. On-ground geological examination of prospective magnetic anomalies and...-
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Published: 27 Jun 1998
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pondooma. Annual and combined annual reports for the period 3/12/2002 to 2/12/2005.
Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, consisting of two separate sub-blocks that are centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, is located immediately west of the Middleback Range and 5 km west of Onesteel’s Iron Duke mine. This licence was granted to SA...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : [Coastal Magnetite Project] Iron ore prospects, eastern Eyre Peninsula. Project operator's report re. the prospects' 2002-2003 evaluation programme.
The key advantages of location and simple metallurgy of coastal Eyre Peninsula magnetite ores presented Portman Mining Ltd with an opportunity to enter a major under-explored and under-developed iron ore province and develop a new export business....-
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Data release - as updated : Kimba. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/11/2006 to 5/11/2018.
A large, 705 square km area surrounding Kimba township was taken up to explore for possible economic buried deposits of Mount Isa or Broken Hill style base metals (Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag), and Tanami style lode gold. The licence lay in the northern part of the...-
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Published: 09 Jan 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middleback Range. Annual reports for the period 5/10/1995 to 30/1/2007 [Index part 3 of 3].
During the 2006-2007 licence reporting year (Year 16), on renewed EL 3516 Middleback Range, incoming new licensee OneSteel determined from a review of BHP Billiton's drilling database that some 3.1 Mt of JORC 'inferred' category iron ore (haematite)...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1908
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Wanilla (originally part of the Wanilla JV Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licences' joint reporting for the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 13/2/2007 to 12/2/2010.
A large north-south orientated area centred ~45 km north-west of Port Lincoln was taken up to explore for possible buried Archaean komatiite-hosted nickel, volcanic hosted massive sulphides (base metals), orogenic lode gold, BIF-hosted iron ores and...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1910
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Verran (part of the Kimba-Verran Joint Venture Project, and also part of the Eyre Peninsula Joint Venture Project). Annual and combined annual reports for the period 28/6/2002 to 11/7/2009.
No field work was conducted on the subject licence area, which comprises three sub-blocks, for all of Years 6-11 (period 2002-2008) on EL 2981. During Year 8 of the project (8th March to 28th December 2004), exploration activities were reported...-
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Charleston (north of Cowell, eastern Eyre Peninsula). Annual and final report for the period 11/1/2001 to 10/7/2002.
EL 2789 covered the Charleston Granite, a large inferred Hiltaba Suite granitoid located at the southern termination of the Middleback Range, 60 km southwest of Whyalla. The area was considered prospective for shear - hosted gold mineralisation...-
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Strawberry Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/3/2000 to 1/3/2003.
Gold exploration conducted over an area extending for 100 km north-south, commencing from 15 km north-west of Port Lincoln and centred on Cummins township, has consisted only of a structural/stratigraphic interpretation of available aeromagnetic data,...-
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West of Lake Gilles. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/10/1970 to 31/9/1971.
Follow-up rotary/diamond drilling (in 2 holes totalling 603 feet) by a new explorer, which aimed to determine the magnetic source for an elongate, 4000 foot long and 400 gammas peak intensity ground magnetic anomaly mapped as occurring to the west of...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1971
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Pinerow. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/10/2004 to 9/11/2008.
To continue the assessment of the dimension stone and ornamental stone potential of granitic basement outcrops present on EL 2851, a 5-year Retention Lease, RL 116, was taken out on 7/2/2006 to cover 5.9 ha of the Middle Camp granite pluton. Several...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1909
