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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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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 95/00020 Coomandook bedrock drilling programme, 1994.
The Cambro-Ordovician basement underlying Murray Basin sediments in the Cooke Plains and Coomandook areas was sampled by a reverse circulation drilling programme as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative. Greenschist to low amphibolite...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1995
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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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Coonalpyn (part of the Coonalpyn Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/10/2006 to 15/10/2008.
To investigate the possible Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide mineralisation potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, as well as exploring for base metal mineralisation...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1908
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Ki Ki (part of the Coonalpyn Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 17/1/2009.
To investigate the possible Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide mineralisation potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, the licensee and...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1909
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-32, Ki Ki intrusion mafic/ultramafic - hosted mineral prospects. Project final report.
To further investigate the Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, the licensee of EL 3295 sought PACE Initiative funding to complete two...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2012 to 28/8/2014.
During Year 7 of the project, Goldfields did no more field work, but undertook office-based analyses of bedrock geochemical and geological data obtained in its 2012 aircore drilling campaign. Image processing and interpretation of the Canegrass...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1915
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Coomandook, Kingston (South-East), Padthaway and The Coorong [East] (the Padthaway Project). Joint annual reports plus final reports to various licences' respective full surrenders, for the overall period 27/3/2014 to 26/3/2019.
A group of semi-contiguous licence areas in the Padthaway district, and one somewhat removed to the north-west, near Coomandook, have been explored for possible buried economic volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) style mineralisation that may have...-
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Published: 08 May 1919
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Data release - as updated : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2012 to 24/6/2017.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where the current licensees and previous...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mannum area. Annual technical reports for period ending 08/09/2018.
EL 5846 covers an area of 462 km2 and is located approximately 70km east of Adelaide. It is located within the Murray Basin, with a basement of poorly outcropping to deeply covered Neoproterozoic and Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments and...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Craigie Plains [not 'Eudunda']. Annual report from 22/2/2016 to full surrender 08/03/2023.
Exploration licence 5747 covers 955 square km located ~ 110 km north-east of Adelaide, on the eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges. It forms part of SeeSaw Resources “Bower Project” and forms a down-facing “horseshoe” shape that loops from Craigie...-
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Published: 08 May 1923
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Milang. First partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
Within the now relinquished portion of the licence area, four gravity traverses totalling 34.4 line km and 11 rotary mud drillholes for 593.2 m were completed by CRA in a search for possible sedimentary roll-front type uranium deposits formed within...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1985
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Bordertown. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/4/1969 to 31/3/1971.
A wide-ranging geochemical exploration programme has continued, testing soils of the region for mercury emissions from possible stratiform base metal sulphide orebodies that may exist in the Cambrian volcanic/metasedimentary basement, by performing...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1971
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Murray Basin basement data package.
During 1990, a drilling program investigated the Proterozoic-Palaeozoic basement to the Murray Basin. Targets were selected to provide data on magnetic domains identified on reprocessed regional aeromagnetic data. Several hydrological observation...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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Koomooloo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1977 to 1/9/1978.
EL 373 was taken up by Dampier Mining primarily to test the coal potential of part of the western Murray Basin, while a secondary objective was to assess the nature and base metal potential of the underlying basement, including that of a possible...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sherlock. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/6/2007 to 24/6/2012.
An area centred ~50 km south-east of Tailem Bend is being explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform and epithermal deposits of base metals that may have formed within Cambrian bedrock, close to where previous explorers' drilling had...-
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Morgan. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 12/4/2007 to 16/7/2014.
After its purchase of the subject EL 5069 on 8/7/2013, a single drilling campaign was undertaken by Iluka Resources during August-October 2013, when 11 RC aircore vertical open holes were drilled for a total penetration of 266.5 m. Ten of the holes...-
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Published: 09 Jul 1914
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Swan Reach and Morgan. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 22/11/1996 to 21/11/1997.
Possible gold, base metals and platinum group element targets lying within, or spatially associated with, Delamerian ultramafic intrusive rocks occurring over an area of the Kanmantoo Trough between Mannum and Morgan, were sought for by conducting...-
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