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RB 97/00040 Western Prospects Seismic Survey application in the Coongie Lakes Control Zone. Assessment report and recommendations.
The high environmental values of the Coongie Lakes area are recognised through their inclusion in the Register of the National Estate, their inclusion as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, and wider acknowledgement that...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1997
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Mabel Creek. Annual and final progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/12/1999 to 2/12/2003.
As part of an exploration project targeting possible large-scale opal occurrences hidden at depth beneath marine shale outcrops in the Stuart Range 'Breakaway' country, the subject licence was taken up to cover certain ground lying adjacent to the...-
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Published: 25 Jun 1903
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Mount Willoughby. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 11/1/2001 to 10/1/2005.
Exploration for opal, carried out in an area of the Stuart Range located approximately 130 km north-northwest of Coober Pedy, has included a compilation of geological and opal occurrence data, photogeological interpretation of aerial photographs,...-
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Ely Hill and Ant Hill. Combined and separate annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 10/1/1997 to 17/12/2004.
The subject adjacent licence areas, located approximately 55 km north-northeast of Coober Pedy, were the first tenements taken out for regional opal exploration under the provisions of the newly proclaimed South Australian Opal Mining Act 1997. The...-
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Published: 17 Dec 1904
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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Oolgelima Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/1/2017 to 29/1/2020.
An area consisting of two adjacent small sub-blocks located in the western Lake Cadibarrawirracanna drainage basin has been explored for possible buried economic magnesium- and sodium-sulphate salts and also for possible underlying basement-hosted...-
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Published: 29 Jan 1920
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Mount Willoughby and Bloods Creek / Vaughan Hill, Mount Algoochinna, Mount Alice and Mount Randolph (the Alberga Diamond Project). Final report on surrendered ELs 2500 and 2502, plus partial surrender report for ELs 2495, 2496, 2498 and 2501.
Diamond exploration in a region north to north-west of Oodnadatta comprised heavy mineral and geochemical sampling over magnetic anomalies selected from aeromagnetic surveys and further defined by ground magnetometry. Certain of this ground was...-
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Mount Britton. Annual and final reports for the period 19/10/97 to 18/10/99.
Limited percussion drilling (2 holes, total 446 m) of inferred dipolar aeromagnetic anomalies in the vicinity of Ross Creek, 140 km north-east of Marla, and subsequent mineralogical examination of heavy mineral concentrates obtained from the drilled...-
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Data release - as updated : England Hill, Arckaringa and Copper Hill (the Arckaringa Coal Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2005 to 6/6/2019.
Under a new strategic focus, three licence areas covering three Early Permian buried coal deposits located at Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie in the northern part of the Arckaringa Basin, ~120 km north of Coober Pedy, have been evaluated both for...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1919
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Coober Pedy. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/11/2016 to 31/10/2019.
A large area situated on the north-eastern side of the Stuart Range, comprising three separate sub-blocks that taken together are centred ~20 km north of Coober Pedy township, has been explored for possible economic near-surface accumulations of the...-
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Coober Pedy. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/11/2016 to 31/10/2018.
An area located immediately east and north-east of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic near-surface accumulations of the evaporite industrial mineral epsomite. Historic drilling and costeaning in this area performed by CRA Exploration...-
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Mount Carulina and Trapeze Hill (the Oodnadatta Project). Joint annual reports plus succeeding single licence annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/3/1995 to 12/10/2009. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
[ Note - here is Part 1 of the abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. As an adjunct to its widespread search for possible diamondiferous kimberlite diatremes on its Abminga Project acreage situated nearby to the north-west, Caldera...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1910
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Welbourn Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/4/1991 to 10/4/1993.
Exploration for possible buried Olympic Dam (Cu-Au-U) style mineralisation, undertaken in the Welbourn Hill area by Newmont Australia Limited through its subsidiary Newcrest Mining, initially comprised the acquisition of ground magnetic, gravity and...-
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PEL 24, Arckaringa Basin. Quarterly progress and technical reports for the period 30/11/83 to 29/11/87.
PEL 24 covering an area of 21,778 square km straddling the southern margins of the Arckaringa and Officer Basins, 100 km south of Coober Pedy, was granted to CRA Exploration Pty Ltd for five years from 30/11/83. That company, in its first foray into...-
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Mount Clarence (part of the Coober Pedy Project). Joint annual reports, annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 23/8/2010 to 10/12/2015.
An area centred ~40 km north-west of Coober Pedy, and lying in the northern part of the Gawler Craton near the centre of the Mabel Creek Ridge crustal element and to the north of the east-trending Karari Fault Zone, has been explored for possible...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1915
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Strangways [Springs]. Annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/1/2011 to 6/1/2013.
An area extending along the Marree - William Creek - Oodnadatta Track, some distance to the west of Lake Eyre South and centred 140 km north of Olympic Dam, has been explored for possible economic buried Mesozoic sandstone-hosted (Kazakhstan style)...-
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RB 2003/00021 Musgrave Province - Geological summary and exploration history.
The Musgrave Province is largely incorporated within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands and includes cratonic crystalline middle Proterozoic basement rocks of the Musgrave Province proper, as well as mantling younger sedimentary rock successions...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2003
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The Alberga Diamond Project. Joint progress and annual reports to licences' joint surrender, for the period 19/3/1998 to 16/6/2000.
Kimberlite-seeking loam sampling and soil geochemistry, undertaken in the vicinity of 28 selected magnetic targets distributed within eight separate licence areas extending from 150 km west-northwest of to 120 km north of Oodnadatta, only yielded a...-
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Curnamona (part of the Siccus JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 4/8/1997 to 7/11/2001.
Sedimentary uranium orebodies within Tertiary palaeochannels were the target of exploration in the area of the Siccus River, south of Lake Frome. Extensive research into available open file past exploration data allowed the identification of both...-
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Bingelly (part of the Bingelly JV Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 30/3/1998 to 5/7/2001.
Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels was the target of exploration in an area 90 km east of Lake Frome, adjacent to the NSW border. Work included research and compilation of open file drilling data, compilation of structural contour maps,...-
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