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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-12, Chianti mineral prospect. Project final report.
The subject report describes the results of drilling two fully cored rotary holes totalling 1161.10 m at the Chianti prospect, an unusually-shaped residual gravity anomaly located in Gunson Resources' EL 3264, 20 km north-east of the Mount Gunson...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-14, Pernatty Lagoon area (eastern Gawler Craton) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
PACE proposal DPY3-14 aimed to discover a new iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralised magmatic centre, similar to the Olympic Dam setting, within the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton. The Pernatty Lagoon project is located less than...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1906
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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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Island Lagoon (part of the Island Lagoon Potash Project). Combined first annual / final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/2/2016 to 30/11/2016.
An area covering most of Island Lagoon, a large playa lake which is centred ~30 km south-west of Pimba township and the Stuart Highway, has been explored for possible economic deposits of potash in the form of potassium sulphate, that it was thought...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 4 of 4 ].
During licence Year 12, following encouraging results made by its continuing exploratory drilling, Gunson Resources was able to negotiate a joint venture over the Mount Gunson Project tenements with Falconbridge Limited through its subsidiary Noranda...-
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Lake Torrens - Port Augusta and Point Paterson areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/11/1977 to 30/11/1979.
SALT MINING STUDY: Field tests on the feasibility of Lake Torrens salt production to supply raw material for the planned Redcliff Petrochemical Project were continued, with project planning technical data demonstrations given to visiting officials of...-
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Cattlegrid copper mine. Mineragraphy of ore processing mill feed and product samples, as submitted for examination on a monthly basis over the period October 1974 to May 1983.
The included mineralogical reports and explanatory prior company correspondence give the results of, and rationale behind, a lengthy programme of mill product sampling and sample description for weekly to monthly process monitoring throughflow samples...-
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Published: 13 May 1983
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Jenner Hill. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/10/1989 to 3/10/1992.
Possible Mesoproterozoic stratabound unconformity - related copper mineralisation of Mount Gunson / Cattlegrid type, and, after 1980, pre-Pandurra Formation stratigraphic level, basement - hosted, Olympic Dam style iron oxide associated...-
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Possible extensions of the Magazine Hill clay deposit near Woocalla in South Australia.
Geological mapping indicates that the Magazine Hill clay deposit belongs not to the Tregolana Shale, but to a claystone unit at the base of the Whyalla Sandstone. Extensions of the deposit could occur beneath a small plateau of Whyalla Sandstone...-
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Published: 22 Dec 1973
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Port Augusta (including Delhi Petroleum's Lake Torrens Salt Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/1/1980 to 23/1/1982.
Field tests continued as part of the salt project, to confirm salt crystallization and purification data. Results indicate that brine production rates and quality and quantity of salt output are comparable with the results from previous tests....-
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RB 66/00027 Wirrappa white clay deposit, Wirrappa Siding, secn 156, north Out of Hundreds.
Results of detailed ceramic testing, including chemical and mineralogical analyses, of representative samples of clay are given. The clay is suitable for earthenware and stoneware products but not for high quality whiteware. Although reserves appear...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 71/00161 Pernatty Lagoon barite deposit.
A deposit of barite, up to 20m wide and 350m long occurs in the Woocalla Dolomite Member at Pernatty Lagoon. The barite as indicated by grab samples, is associated with up to about 2.6 per cent strontium sulphate, 0.12 per cent iron oxide and 0.8 per...-
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Published: 04 Oct 1971
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-07 - Intercept Hill JV Project, central Stuart Shelf area - Oak Dam South Proterozoic basement IOCG mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Intercept Hill Project area is located in the central part of the Stuart Shelf. Gawler Craton basement rocks in the project area comprise leucocratic granite of the Hiltaba Suite, volcanic rocks of the Gawler Range Volcanics and metasediments of...-
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Oak Dam (part of the Gawler Craton Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/2006 to 16/7/2011.
EL 3603, located on the Stuart Shelf approximately 50 km south of Olympic Dam, was taken under licence to explore for possible economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold-uranium (IOCG-U) deposits of Olympic Dam style that may have formed in...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1911
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Intercept Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/5/2003 to 14/7/2013. [Index Part 2 of 2].
In March 2010, once the terms of the joint venture agreement had been finalised, Argo passed its complete data sets to Xstrata, who immediately commenced a re-logging of Argo's drill cores besides conducting comprehensive unconstrained 3-D modelling...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1913
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White Cliff (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 24/7/2003 to 7/4/2016.
Only minimal work has been conducted on the small area comprising all of the now surrendered remaining part of EL 5366, which is centred 20 km north-northeast of Roxby Downs township. That work began with Tasman Resources' generation of a conceptual...-
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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RB 2009/00006 Alteration mapping - HyLogger workshop, course manual, ASEG 09.
HyLogging systems, and the PIMA and ASD field spectrometers (Terraspec, Labspec and Fieldspec), are a generation of analysis instruments which provide rapid and cost effective data on sample mineralogy and on mineral characteristics. Spectral...-
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Published: 26 Feb 2009
