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RB 95/00030 SAEI Triassic Coal Exploration Program. Exploration Licence Application ELA 228/93, Hawker - Quorn area, South Australia.
The results of a data review by MESA in 1992 to assess the prospectivity of the northern Flinders Ranges for concealed Triassic coal highlighted four main areas as having the best potential for a discovery. Following exploration for coal by MESA/ETSA...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1996
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Data release - as updated : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2008 to 11/11/2018.
Reedy Lagoon Corp. (RLC) has continued to look for minerals other than diamond, operating as the manager of exploration work for base metals (mainly copper) and uranium that was undertaken by the Edward Creek Base Metal Joint Venture (“ECBMJV”) during...-
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Data release - as updated : Mount Grainger (part of the Flinders Ranges Diamond Project and the Nackara Arc Gold Project). Combined annual reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2008 to 5/2/2017.
An area centred ~40 km east of Peterborough in the vicinity of Mount Grainger Goldfield has continued to be explored for possible small diamondiferous kimberlite bodies and for buried economic stratabound, structurally controlled and disseminated...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1916
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Pine Creek Kimberlite [Field] : indicator mineral study.
A study of the Pine Creek kimberlite field was undertaken as a 2001-2002 TEISA "New Initiatives" Project aimed at increasing the potential for new mineral discoveries in South Australia. The study focused on a number of important facets of diamond...-
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Mount Carulina and Trapeze Hill (the Oodnadatta Project). Joint annual reports plus succeeding single licence annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/3/1995 to 12/10/2009. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
[ Note - here is Part 1 of the abstract relating to 2 separately indexed parts ]. As an adjunct to its widespread search for possible diamondiferous kimberlite diatremes on its Abminga Project acreage situated nearby to the north-west, Caldera...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1910
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Cronje Dam. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 29/11/1984.
Continuing exploration for possible hydrothermal or epithermal base metal and precious metal deposits, within an area centred 60 km south-west of Olary, at the outset targeted some previously identified geochemical anomalies, principally via shallow...-
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Mount Playfair. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 28/3/90 to 24/5/91.
TARGET: Possible diamonds and diapir-associated copper mineralisation in an area extending south and west from Lyndhurst. EXPLORATION: Drainage geochemical and gravel sampling, ground magnetic and IP surveys, and percussion and shallow RAB drilling of...-
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Published: 04 Jun 1991
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Terowie. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/8/1990 to 13/2/1992.
TARGET: Evaluation of the diamond-bearing potential of known lamprophyre intrusive bodies in the Terowie area. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance loam and drainage indicator mineral bulk sampling and geochemical sampling, petrographic and mineralogical...-
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The Adelaide Hills Project (now including the former Fleurieu Project tenements). Annual reports for the period 1/10/2013 to 30/11/2018 plus expiry/full surrender reports to 7/10/2023.
During the twelfth, 2013-2014 project year, work on the now combined licence holdings of the Terramin Group focussed on prospect evaluation done at Bird-in-Hand (environmental and hydrological studies), Wheal Barton and Golden Slope, plus the ongoing...-
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The Murray Basin Project. Joint progress reports and joint final report to remnant licences' full surrender, for the period 7/10/1980 to 6/12/1984.
Thirteen contiguous exploration licences located along the western margin of the Tertiary Murray Basin were taken up by CRA to search for economic buried brown coal / lignite deposits of the type already known from small discoveries that had been made...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Wirrabara. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 5/9/78 to 4/9/80.
EL 417 Wirrabara was secured by CRA to investigate previously untested aeromagnetic, induced polarisation and resistivity anomalies in the Wirrabara - Charlton area, and a reported kimberlite at Bangor. Work has consisted of: - 3 line km of IP...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1980
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1975 to 15/4/1977.
Stratiform copper sulphides, hosted within the basal Tapley Hill Formation, and extensions of known kimberlite bodies were targeted in this program. Reconnaissance and closer (down to 1 km x 1 km) spaced diamond and percussion drilling (28 and 83...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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The Adelaide Hills Project. Data release made at the partial surrenders / full surrender of subsequent licences: annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 27/6/2000 to 15/5/2005.
A diamond exploration project area comprising nine mineral exploration licences located in the central Mount Lofty Ranges was taken up by new public company Flinders Diamonds (FDL) to search for possible commercial accumulations of diamonds, thought...-
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RB 2015/00008 Eurelia Kimberlite Province — new evidence for multi-phase intrusions.
During the period June 2008 to October 2011, the Geological Survey of South Australia was one of the sponsors for a Mineral and Energy Research Institute of Western Australia research project conducted using the zircon U-Th-Pb-He double dating...-
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Published: 01 May 2015
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Lyndhurst. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/1/1981.
70 line km of gravity traverses were undertaken over potential shallow Triassic coal basins preserved by downwarping in the Lyndhurst area, prior to rotary mud and air drilling of gravity lows (15 holes, total 1,112.85 m, including 7.35 m of coring,...-
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Willochra (part of the Radford Creek Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/6/1994 to 8/1/2001.
Investigations conducted 30 km north-east of Quorn were directed at locating possible Mississippi Valley - style base metal mineralisation, and at following up previous reports of discovered microdiamonds and kimberlite indicator minerals. Initial...-
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Bopeechee and Cadnia Hill/Stuart Creek and Porter Hill (The Lake Torrens Project). Data release made at two licences' surrender/two latter licences' fifth partial relinquishment: annual reports and final reports for the period 9/4/1998 to 31/12/2006.
The reports comprising this data release package describe exploration for economic deposits of base and precious metals that have possibly formed within Neoproterozoic metasediments, the underlying Palaeoproterozoic basement, and in Cambrian carbonate...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
