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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Ongoing exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, during this period comprised 3D geophysical modelling of possible source geometries for, and RC drilling (10 holes, total...-
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RB 78/00124 COOBER PEDY 1:250 000 sheet water well survey.
Survey of 115 water wells and data on 250 wells from SADME records. Most important aquifers occur in basement; some occur in Permian, and bores in Mesozoic and Cainozoic aquifers are mostly too saline for stock.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 91/00100 Sirotem survey for freshwater lenses, Penong, South Australia.
There is an acute shortage of potable water, for both human and stock consumption, west of Ceduna. Various schemes have been suggested to alleviate this situation, one of which is to find additional low salinity groundwater lenses like those which...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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RB 96/00012 Dryland salinity investigation, Toolillie Gully. Progress report no. 1 - Drilling programme.
Dryland salinisation is degrading land and water resources of Lower Eyre Peninsula. It decreases land production capabilities, water quality, and the general aesthetics of the environment. Interdepartmental investigations into the occurrence and...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1996
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RB 98/00019 Spencer Regions strategic water management study.
The availability of adequate water supplies is crucial to future development, particularly in the arid areas of the State. Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), as part of the Spencer Regions Strategic Water Management Study, has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 94/00020 Land salinisation assessment by transient electromagnetic methods, Tumby Bay, Eyre Peninsula.
As part of the Tumby Bay Combined Landcare Groups' National Landcare Program, the Mines and Energy Department (MESA) was commissioned to evaluate and investigate three separate salinised areas using transient electromagnetics (TEM). Seven TEM...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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RB 94/00021 Transient electromagnetic survey at Tumby Bay, South Australia.
A transient electromagnetic survey was done over several salina locations at Tumby Bay to assist in evaluating dryland salinity problems. The survey findings were useful in mapping subsurface saline groundwater and basement topography, and clearly...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1994
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-31 - Bute township area mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
The licensee, Peter Forwood, has been involved in mineral exploration at Bute for many years, initially with North Broken Hill Ltd in ELs 248, 420, 577 and 972, and has pursued the exploration of the area through many phases. Two important features...-
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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 Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-40 - western Middleback Range region - Stony Hill area Archaean to Proterozoic stratabound iron ore mineral prospects. Project final report.
Banded iron formation (BIF) rock outcrops and an associated 15 km long aeromagnetic anomaly located about 20 km west of Iron Baron were chosen by Centrex Metals as high quality targets deserving of exploration for economic iron mineralisation...-
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Published: 28 Nov 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Woocalla (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a reduced area, for the period 4/8/1995 to 3/8/2000.
Stuart Metals took up EL 2099 covering ground in the Wirrappa - Lake Blyth - Bookaloo Siding area primarily to explore it for stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles present in the Mount Gunson area. In addition, it was thought that the...-
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Unalla Hill, Moonaree and South Lake Gairdner (Lake Gairdner Project). Annual and final reports for the period 25/10/96 to 24/10/99.
Exploration targeted Olympic Dam style mineralisation associated with Hiltaba Suite intrusives and Gawler Range Volcanics at the southern end of Lake Gairdner, between Mount Ive and Moonaree. Sampling of poorly developed calcrete together with rock...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1998
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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. DPY1-13, Gemini mineral prospect. Project final report.
The Mount Woods South Joint Venture (Adelaide Resources Ltd and Perilya Ltd) successfully made application for a share of the SA Government's PACE Initiative funding in 2004 to test geophysical anomalies located on EL 2901 which were defined by...-
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Fig Tree Corner. Second partial surrender report, for the period 10/3/2005 to 4/4/2019.
Most of a sizeable licence area located on SA's Far West Coast, which formerly extended for 10 to 90 km inland from the vicinity of Bookabie, has now been partially relinquished owing to its perceived diminished prospectivity for Tertiary marine...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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Roger Corner. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/7/1982 to 27/1/1984.
An area on southern Yorke Peninsula, located 5-15 km north-west of Yorketown, was targeted for possible buried Moonta - type Cu(Mo,Au) mineralisation, on the basis of recently SADME-recognised dissolved trace heavy metal anomalism (Cu, Ag and Ba) in...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1984
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Lake Everard. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/4/1980 to 11/7/1983.
Intensive geophysical exploration work by Afmeco, over selected airborne magnetic and radiometric survey anomalies within the Proterozoic Glyde Hill Volcanic Complex, aimed to test for possible concealed Olympic Dam - type hydrothermal uranium or...-
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Salt Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/9/1976 to 12/9/1978.
Possible buried stratabound copper mineralisation of Mount Gunson / Cattlegrid type was the target of exploration performed on an area of the Stuart Shelf located 60 km east of Woomera. After conducting detailed 1:12,000 and 1:16,000 scale geological...-
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Olympic Dam operations. Environmental management programme annual report. 01/03/90 - 28/02/91.
Reports on monitoring of: - air and solid waste pollution; - drill pad rehabilitation; - meteorology, vegetation, flora, fauna and soil salinity; - mine ground water drainage; - artesian water drawdown at Wellfield A in the Great Artesian Basin;...-
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Roopena. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/6/1986 to 29/6/1988.
TARGET: Uranium in Proterozoic rocks in areas where these largely concealed by alluvial or weathered materials. EXPLORATION: RAB drilling during March-April 1987 (87 vertical open holes totalling 3583 m), investigation of radiometric anomalies...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
