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Annual report on exploration activities, Mount Neill and Mount Fitton areas, EL 871, 1982.
A reassessment of Marathon Petroleum's 1979 regional stream sediment sampling programme led to the decision to resample a number of areas within EL 871. The Mt Neill and Mt Fitton areas were chosen, as a result of possible similarities with the...-
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Progress report on exploration within [Brindana] Schist Belt Areas 3 - 10, Mount Painter and Mount Babbage Blocks, South Australia.
Marathon Petroleum's exploration investigations of EL 871 during 1982 were aimed at a detailed follow-up of prospective horizons and geochemical targets located in 1981. Rock chip assaying of selected lithologies, in particular quartz-garnet/gahnite...-
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Keyneton. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/6/1972 to 16/6/1973.
During the current licence term Aquitaine conducted ongoing evaluation of its recent placer scheelite mineral discovery near Keyneton, south-east of the Barossa Ranges. Additional field reconnaissance, rock chip sampling and petrological study, much...-
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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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RB 59/00146 Molybdenum and tungsten in the southeastern portion of Spilsby Island (Sir Joseph Banks Group) 10/12/1964.
Investigations have shown that in the Sir Joseph Banks Group, molybdenite and scheelite are confined to the southern tip of Spilsby Island. The minerals occur in thin irregular veins, in masses of quartz, and as disseminations scattered through...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1964
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Weekeroo North. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/8/1968 to 31/7/1970.
Exploration carried out by MIM to look for possible economic primary or secondary uranium deposits related to the Weekeroo Inlier of Palaeoproterozoic rocks has consisted of an airborne radiometric survey (750 line miles flown along E-W lines spaced...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1970
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Prospect Hill. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2018.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation at three known separate occurrences in the Prospect Hill area, lying 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, has focussed on the untested zone immediately below the known...-
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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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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-25 - Pidinga and Fig Tree Corner, western Gawler Craton, orogenic gold prospects. Drilling project final report.
An area centred ~70 km north-east of Yalata and lying ~30 km to the east of the Jacinth and Ambrosia heavy mineral deposits is being explored by Doray Minerals Limited under a joint venture agreement it has made with grant licensee Iluka Resources...-
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Angaston. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/12/1981 to 10/12/1984.
As part of a base metal exploration programme looking for possible stratabound or exhalative/hydrothermal deposits in Cambrian metasediments, which was undertaken approximately 75 km north-east of Adelaide, stream sediment sampling along the base of...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Kalabity - Old Boolcoomata area [= Olary 'A' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
As part of exploration for economic metallic mineral deposits within an area of partly outcropping Precambrian calcsilicate rocks present on Kalabity Station, a field reconnaissance of all known mineralised areas was carried out initially. The...-
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Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/7/1979 to 9/3/1981.
Continuing stream sediment sampling and soil sampling conducted across the entire EL has confirmed some weakly anomalous lead, zinc and copper results (e.g. to 340 ppm Pb in Fernandez Creek), but more detailed infill and repeat sampling in many cases...-
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Published: 13 Feb 1981
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RB 00075 South Australian geological surveys, NE districts. blue mineral investigation, Broken Hill district and South Australian reconnaissance.
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 66/00061 Spilsby island molybdenite-scheelite deposits diamond drilling operations.
On the south-eastern extremity of Spilsby Island, there are concentrations of molybdenite and scheelite that occur either in an open vein system or as disseminations, and also in pods, usually associated with quartz. The most important host rock is an...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1968
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RB 70/00189 Stream sediment sampling and mineral concentrate sampling portion of Mount Painter Block. Copley and Umberatana.
Stream sediment and heavy mineral concentrate samples from an area of Lower Proterozoic basement rocks were investigated for indications of copper, tin, molybdenum, bismuth and tungsten mineralisation. No significant results were obtained.-
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Published: 17 Dec 1970
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RB 70/00188 Investigation of the Commonwealth mine, Mount Painter Province, Copley Umberatana.
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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Sir Joseph Banks [Island Group]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/8/1965 to 31/7/1966.
As soon as the SA Government restored public access to the subject ground within Spencer Gulf that it had temporarily reserved from the provisions of the State's Mining Act, Kennecott Explorations (Kennecott) took up SML 85 there to evaluate an...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1966
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Kingston [South-East]. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 18/6/1970 to 15/12/1970.
Outcropping small exposures of granitic rocks, found in nine isolated locations within and lying just to the east of the subject licence, were examined for their potential to host possible economic occurrences of molybdenum and tungsten mineralisation...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1970
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Spilsby Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/6/1970 to 17/6/1971.
SML 434 was taken out to enable making a re-assessment of the economic potential of exposed molybdenite-scheelite mineralisation first identified along the southern shores of Spilsby Island during 1963. There, outcropping equigranular Lower...-
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Spilsby Island. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/8/1966 to 28/6/1967.
South-westwards inclined diamond drillhole No. 11 was put in to 400 feet total hole depth by licensee Kennecott during the subject reporting period, to investigate the postulated buried inland extension of a continuously mineralised sheet-like body of...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1967
