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Kanmantoo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 15/12/1984.
Exploration conducted in the Mount Pleasant - Tungkillo area included stream, soil and rock chip sampling, an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, ground magnetic, gravity, IP and EM surveys, and drilling. These activities provided further...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1985
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RB 37/00149 Appraisal of Torrens barite mine, Hundred of Onkaparinga.
In February 1951, South Australian Barytes Limited became interested in this mine, held under claim by Reginald John Alfred Larsson and requested an inspection by Department of Mines officers. This request was repeated, and endorsed by Larsson in...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1954
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RB 60/00071 (Report on the) Ukaparinga (Unaparinga) copper mine, Williamstown.
Copper carbonates are sporadically distributed throughout steeply dipping mica schist in a zone up to about 70 ft. wide. The host rocks have been regarded as overturned metamorphosed Burra Group (Torrensian) beds resting on the Aldgate Sandstone...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1965
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RB 82/00056 Interpretation of regional geophysical data in the Olary region, South Australia.
Gravity and detailed aeromagnetic data, as summarised in the Metallic Exploration Index Series for CURNAMONA and OLARY, are interpreted. Other detailed geophysical and geological work is incorporated. The interpretation aims to define the areal...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1986
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo (the Olary Creek Project). Annual reports for the period 15/11/2005 to 7/2/2019.
An area centred ~50 km south west of Cockburn is being explored for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed in buried Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, as well as for any secondary uranium mineralisation that may...-
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Manunda, Tiverton Outstation, Iron Peak and Pualco Range (the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, later the Mawson Iron Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2016.
Three adjoining licence areas in the Baratta Trough within the northern Nackara Arc have been taken up to explore for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic metasedimentary semi-stratabound iron ore. Central EL 4267 covers ~3 km strike length of the...-
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Mount Charles. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/12/1991 to 26/10/1992.
Possible economic epithermal/hydrothermal uranium and base metal deposits, hosted by Early to Middle Proterozoic meta-igneous and metasedimentary basement rocks partly concealed by Mesozoic and Cainozoic cover in the north-eastern Peake and Denison...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1992
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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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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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Mount Grieg. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/12/1979 to 5/6/1981.
Exploration for possible economic syngenetic/stratiform or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metals and gold hosted by Early Cambrian and older Adelaidean rocks in the Angepena area initially comprised the conduct of reconnaissance 1:50,000 scale...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1981
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RB 70/00078 Report of a detailed gravity survey of Iron Blow prospect in SML 360, Beltana 1-mile sheet area - Carpentaria Exploration Co. Pty Ltd.
A detailed gravity survey over the Iron Blow prospect has revealed areas of low gravity and faults associated with the old mine. The mass deficiency in this area is 71,500 tons, probably representing porous leached material, which may extend to at...-
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Published: 04 Jun 1970
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Crystal Brook, Port Broughton, Port Pirie, Mundoora and Winninnowie (the Moonta North Project). Annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 19/10/2000 to 1/8/2008.
Buried basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style is the target of exploration across a number of scattered Exploration Licences trending from Port Broughton in the south to...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1908
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Douglas Creek (part of the Peake and Denison IOCG Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/9/2000 to 30/4/2010.
Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd (Rio Tinto) took up the subject tenement at Douglas Creek, located ~ 20 km east of the central Peake and Denison Ranges, to explore the Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic metamorphic basement rock sequence that it...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Oratan [Rock]. Annual reports for the period 6/2/2006 to 1/5/2013.
A small licence area located ~50 km south-east of Yunta was taken up to explore basement for possible economic buried IOCG type and gold-only mineralisation, as well as for possible stratiform Broken Hill type lead-zinc-silver occurrences and for...-
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Published: 20 May 1913
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The Flinders Ranges Project, Jamestown Group of tenements. Data release at partial surrender of subsequent licences: base metal exploration farminee's combined annual reports for the period 1/1/2007 to 9/11/2010.
Copper Range is exploring a number of the Jamestown Project mineral tenements for base and precious metals under the terms of a joint venture agreement that it made with licensee Flinders Diamonds on 19/3/2007, whereby the latter retains all rights to...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1911
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Gladstone. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/6/2009 to 22/6/2012.
An area located 34 km east of Port Pirie was applied for by Copper Range to cover historic iron occurrences and some identified magnetic anomalies considered to have similar characteristics to the promising haematite-rich Hicks Quarry target on the...-
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Published: 19 Jul 1912
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Yednalue. Data release made in lieu of making a first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 24/9/2001 to 12/2/2012.
A small area centred approximately 70 km north of Orroroo is being explored for possible buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform or stratabound epithermal/hydrothermal copper and gold deposits, and for placer gold or magnetite deposits, as well as...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1912
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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Truro. First annual report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/9/1996 to 30/3/1999.
Following earlier identification by PIRSA of mineralised gossans located at the stratigraphic contact between the Cambrian Karinya Shale and Backstairs Passage Formation, exploration comprising rock chip, soil and stream sediment geochemical sampling,...-
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Published: 27 Jul 1998
