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Uro Bluff. First partial surrender report, for the period 19/4/1982 to 18/4/1984.
A block comprising 727 square km or ~44.5% of EL 1003, being most of its northern portion, has now been relinquished due to its perceived diminished prospectivity for sedimentary copper mineralisation or diamonds. 11 percussion holes which were...-
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Commodore. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 21/10/1986.
Multicommodity exploration undertaken in the Commodore - Parachilna area of the west-central Flinders Ranges, just outside of the western boundary of the newly proclaimed national park and the included Heysen Range, has comprised limited gravel...-
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Geological, geophysical and gravity observations in the South Australian portion of the Great Artesian Basin and the Pirie-Torrens Basin.
Pronounced relation between magnetic intensity and Bouguer anomaly values. In Iron Knob - Wilkatana area, near Nilpena and near Parachilna, get steep magnetic gradients and generally high Bouguer anomaly values. Between Wilkatana and Brachina get low...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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Warrioota Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated south of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the Viburnum Trend (Mississippi Valley) - type mineral potential of...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1980
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Andamooka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/3/1970 to 25/3/1971.
Exploration for supergene Cu-Pb-Zn mineralisation within the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone, 12 miles north-east of Andamooka, comprised broad scale surface geochemical sampling (302 samples), detailed mapping of the resulting prospects, bulldozer...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1971
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Yarley. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/8/2009 to 18/8/2012.
A small area located on the southern Lake Torrens Plains immediately west of the ABC Range was taken up to allow evaluation of its potential for having buried economic sedimentary coal and/or uranium mineralisation occurrences. There are no...-
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Published: 02 Sep 1912
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Merna Mora. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2013.
A small licence area located on the Flinders Ranges piedmont plain south-east of Lake Torrens was taken up by Jim Allender to investigate the IOCG potential of a discrete regional gravity anomaly which he had identified from data in the public domain,...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1913
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Lake Torrens Station and Hawker West (the Torrens Project). Joint annual reports, plus separate final reports to licences' respective full surrender, for the period 30/4/2003 to 1/6/2010.
Olympic Dam style copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in two adjoining areas which lie about 100 km north-northeast of Port Augusta and 55 km west of Hawker, on alluvial plains adjacent to south-eastern Lake Torrens. All of the...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1910
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2, Lake Torrens South and Lake Torrens North (the Lake Torrens Brine Potash Project). First joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 16/6/2016.
Much of the eastern side of the very large, 5,745 square km saline playa Lake Torrens, which occupies one of the most arid parts of Australia, was taken under licence by a Northern Territory - based company with the intent of systematically sampling...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1916
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Lake Torrens East - Nilpena Creek area. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/11/2009 to 3/11/2014.
An area bordering the central eastern side of Lake Torrens was taken up to cover a large amplitude, deeply sourced twin peak magnetic anomaly with poorly defined coincident elevated gravity features, which it was thought could have potential for...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1915
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Mount Michael. Partial surrender report for the period 7/9/1997 to 6/9/1998.
Part of a poorly defined, Neoproterozoic-Cambrian major rift margin separating the Adelaide Geosyncline from the Stuart Shelf is being investigated by Minotaur using integrated geophysical and geochemical techniques to detect base metal anomalism. No...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1998
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Port Pirie district (part of the G2 [Lineament] Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/3/1996 to 28/3/2000.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey to infill recent SAEI regional survey coverage was carried out within the G2 structural corridor, south-east of Port Pirie. Six bullseye magnetic highs, consistent with kimberlite emplacement, and one having...-
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Published: 20 Mar 1997
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Bunyeroo Well. Annual reports for the period 17/10/97 to 16/10/2000.
MMI soil sampling and a gravity survey were carried out over a circular magnetic anomaly adjacent to the Torrens Hinge Zone, 70 km north of Hawker. Two RC holes were drilled to 314 and 433 m in the zone of highest residual gravity, but were abandoned...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1900
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Ediacara Range. Partial surrender report for the period ending January 1998.
Relinquished portions of the EL were considered to have low potential for economically viable Mississippi Valley-type lead mineralisation similar to that occurring at the Ediacara Mineral Field, a conclusion based on the outcome of literature...-
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Mount Michael. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/9/1997 to 6/9/1999.
Interpretation of magnetic and gravity data, together with calcrete and MMI sampling, were carried out adjacent to a southerly extension of the Ediacara Fault, 25 km north-west of Parachilna. Low order Pb-Zn-Ag anomalism was located, coincident with...-
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Published: 10 Nov 1999
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Mount Michael. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/11/1977 to 27/11/1979.
As part of a regional search for possible economic sodium carbonate (trona) evaporite mineralisation formed within buried Miocene lacustrine sediments in an area located east of Lake Torrens, ground magnetic and gravity surveys were run along four...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1979
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OEL 7. Licence quarterly progress reports for the period 1/2/1955 to 31/7/1955, Wilkatana area.
Detailed geological mapping of the Wilkatana and Augusta 1-mile mapsheet areas was completed by Geosurveys during the first quarter of 1955. This work revealed flat-lying sandstones and shales (of uncertain age - Cambrian or Ordovician?) overlying...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1955
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Woolly Dam. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/1/1978 to 8/1/1980.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated north and north-west of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the mineral potential of a large, low amplitude...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1980
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Aeromagnetic anomaly over Lake Torrens.
Pronounced anomaly in Lake Torrens, 4 miles from E shore, due W of Leigh Creek. 1,700 gammas with maximum gradient of 2,000 gamma/mile. Elongated N-S, as symmetrical (W side steeper). Anomaly is above normal Archaean but much less than those...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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Magnetic surveys, Pirie-Torrens Basin.
690 stations over 2,800 square miles. Plan 4 mile scale showing 100 gamma contours (arbitrary datum, no latitude correction). Results: (1) 400 gamma high W of Wilkatana bore site area (basement high of uncertain shape). (2) Irregular values E of Iron...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
