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Watson Siding (South). Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 11/12/81 to 10/10/82.
In a search for possible concealed Olympic Dam type base metal deposits within an area located 80 km north-west of Yalata, the licensee investigated several previously identified contiguous magnetic and gravity anomalies by performing ground magnetic...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1982
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RB 98/00010 Regolith studies related to the Challenger gold deposit, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Challenger gold deposit - Volume 1: text, and Volume 2: appendices.
The Challenger gold deposit lies in the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, 750 km NW of Adelaide, and 140 km NW of Tarcoola. A 1.5 km traverse (the regolith line) was chosen for the study of geochemical dispersion and regolith stratigraphy...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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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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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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Coffin Bay (originally part of the Wanilla JV Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/2005 to 2/3/2010.
A tenement in the Coulta district of south-western Eyre Peninsula has lately been explored by International Metals, after its prior research had outlined seven areas there as being of prime interest in a search for Archaean greenstone units which...-
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Published: 20 May 1910
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-05 - Mount Sarah Project, Oodnadatta district, Proterozoic basement inferred epithermal/hydrothermal IOCG mineral prospect. Drilling final report.
A small licence area centred approximately 70 km north-northwest of Oodnadatta is being explored for possible economic buried IOCG type mineralisation that may have formed in the wholly concealed, almost unknown basement rocks there. Interest is...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1917
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Cowell nephrite deposit. Technical appraisal reports submitted during the period 1970 to 1988.
A consultant geologist's reports prepared in 1970 for by mining lease optionholder Murumba Minerals NL describe his detailed mapping of the then known jade (nephrite) deposits within the Cowell Jade Province. Two potentially mineable deposits were...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1980
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cocata and Warramboo (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1996 to 5/6/2001.
Two adjacent licence areas forming part of a contiguous set of project tenements in the central Eyre Peninsula region are being explored by Adelaide Resources (AR) primarily for gold and base metals, which it is thought may occur in buried deposits...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1901
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Arckaringa Basin, SA. 1984 diamond exploration report.
Evaluation of the diamond potential of the Arckaringa area, 50 km south-west of Oodnadatta, which is here considered to be a region both tectonically and geologically favourable for the past emplacement of kimberlitic intrusive bodies, has comprised...-
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Lonesome Dam and Lagoon Waterhole. Joint final report at licences' joint surrender, for the period 9/4/1986 to 12/3/1990.
TARGET: Olympic Dam style base and precious metal deposits; iron ore; kimberlitic diatremes. EXPLORATION: Two aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys, a semi-regional gravity survey, and a helimag survey of possible kimberlite targets, plus ground...-
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Published: 18 Apr 1990
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-25 - Wilcherry Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, Zealous prospect Mesoproterozoic epithermal calc-silicate skarn Sn-U-Pb-Cu-Ag mineral occurrence. Final report.
Arising out of exploratory drilling carried out by Ironclad Mining in 2012, which aimed to test the shallow subsurface haematite ore potential of an ironstone outcrop located in the central north of the Wilcherry Hill licence area, an unexpected...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-31 - Peterlumbo Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources (IVR) applied on 30/1/2015 to participate in the PACE Initiative Year 8 (2015) collaborative drilling grant program between industry and government being administered by DSD. The application for subsidy funds submitted by IVR...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (where licence is subject in part to the Moonta Porphyry Joint Venture). Annual reports for the period 24/12/1996 to 11/4/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
A 106 square km area, comprising two blocks which cover the main historic copper and gold - producing districts centred around the towns of Moonta and Kadina, is being explored afresh in an attempt to identify ore resources of quantity sufficient to...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-24 - Nankivel Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources Limited (IVR) is continuing to explore its contiguous tenement package in the Southern Gawler Ranges for economic precious and base metals, following its discovery of the Paris silver deposit in 2011. A prospective region called...-
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Published: 20 Jun 1917
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Brief petrology of bottomhole rock samples from Apollo no. 1 and Gemini no. 1 offshore wells, Great Australian Bight, and comparison with outcropping rocks from onshore Eyre Peninsula.
Two drill cuttings samples from 2842 and 2860 feet depth KB in Apollo 1 (economic basement) were examined for their heavy mineral composition as an aid to stratigraphic correlation with Precambrian sediments found in the adjacent onshore. The well...-
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Published: 23 Dec 1975
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RB 73/00120 Amethyst deposit on Eyre Peninsula, County of Buxton, Hundred of Kelly, section 24 - J.E. Grund.
Semi-precious amethystine quartz fills fractures and cavities in a discordant quartzite development which cuts Cleve Metamorphics of Lower Proterozoic age. The amethyst is purple in colour and ranges from light to dusky tones. Crystal form is poor due...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Billa Kalina, Welcome Creek, Millers Creek, Margaret Creek and Francis Swamp (the Billa Kalina G2 Diamond Project). Data release made at remaining licences' joint partial surrender: joint annual reports for the period 25/2/2006 to 29/8/2012.
As part of continuing diamond exploration on the subject five licences, more of the first pass sampling program was completed by Flinders Diamonds in August 2006 via aircore drilling of 47 vertical holes for an aggregate 1852 m aimed at penetrating to...-
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Published: 10 May 1912
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Sandstone [Outstation] (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project's Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/9/1994 to 13/10/2004.
An area located 140 km north-west of Tarcoola was taken up to explore for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite clays formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and associated playa lakes. This was a response to a discovery of palygorskite...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1904
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Trial Well. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 15/6/79 to 4/1/82.
TARGET: An assessment of the potential for uranium and lignite deposits within the Eocene Pidinga Formation, and separate investigations of coincident, possible Olympic Dam target type magnetic and gravity anomalies in the crystalline Precambrian...-
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Venus Bay. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/7/1994 to 26/1/1998.
Diamond and gold exploration undertaken on the two relinquished ground portions located north-west and east of Venus Bay on Eyre Peninsula, which total 530 square km in area, have comprised heavy mineral sampling, heavy mineral grain microprobing,...-
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