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RB 90/00030 Duntroon geophysical study.
The Duntroon Basin is located in the centre of the Southern Rift System between the Bight and the Otway Basins, west and SW of Kangaroo Island. It is limited to the north by the Proterozoic Gawler Craton. The formation of the basin is related to the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-24, M1 oreshoot deep exploratory diamond drilling, Challenger mine area. Project final report.
Dominion Gold Operations applied for PACE Initiative Year 2 funding from PIRSA in 2005 to assist with the drilling of a deep diamond hole at its Challenger gold mine. The hole 'Wildcat 2' (05CDDH0072) aimed to test for the continuation of the M1 ore...-
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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. DPY1-11, Moseley Dam mineral prospect. Project final report.
As part of its programme of exploration for Neoproterozoic stratiform copper mineralisation in the Mount Gunson district, based on prior target generation through soil geochemical sampling and electrical geophysical surveying, Gunson Resources...-
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Copper Coast. Final report, Project ADI RD02-291 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
IGO Ltd’s (IGO) Copper Coast Project is located along the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton in South Australia and covers Proterozoic rocks of the Stuart Shelf, Torrens Hinge Zone and Adelaide Rift Complex, which form part of the Adelaide...-
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Published: 09 May 1922
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Cambrian source rock geochemistry, Stansbury Basin, part 1. Preliminary evaluation of Mount McDonnell Formation in coastal exposures on northern Kangaroo Island.
17 samples of Early Cambrian Mount McDonnell Formation shallow marine mudstone outcropping on the northern coastline of Kangaroo Island near Hummocky Point were analysed geochemically to determine their source rock richness and thermal maturity, and...-
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EPP SA-15, offshore Polda Basin, South Australia. Progress, permit review, technical and surrender reports for the period 17/10/75 to 3/5/83.
During their 7 year tenure of EPP 15, which comprised an area of 200 offshore graticular blocks covering the portion of the Polda Basin underlying the continental shelf, the permit operator(s) carried out the following major exploratory work: (1)...-
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Bull 002 The Possibilities of the Discovery of Petroleum on kangaroo Island and the Western Coast of Eyre's Peninsula.
The visit to Kangaroo Island extended over the period August 3rd to August 22nd, and that to Western Eyre's Peninsula over the period October 15th to October 20th, 1912. In both areas a rapid geological reconnaissance was made of the particular...-
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RB 00492 Report on a reconnaissance geological survey of the Proterozoic - Cambrian succession of Yorke Peninsula, with reference to oil exploration in the Cambrian system.
In order to better assess the oil prospects of the Cambrian rocks of Yorke Peninsula, the Fuel Section of the Geological Survey of South Australia undertook during 1956 a detailed investigation of the Proterozoic - Cambrian stratigraphic succession...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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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. DPY1-02, Titan mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
Titan prospect is located within Exploration Licence 3209, and lies 30 km north of the Olympic Dam mine. The prospect was first drilled by Western Mining Corp. in 1976 with diamond drillhole BD 1, and in 1981 with a second hole, BD 2. Both holes hit...-
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Yeltacowie, Hesso, Charlinga, Bowen Hill and Kangaroo Bluff (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 16/8/2005 to 14/2/2014.
Uranium One Australia (U1A) acquired the Stuart Shelf Project tenements in 2005 with the aim of exploring for uranium mineralisation that has unconformity - related genetic features broadly analogous to those of deposits of the Athabasca Basin in...-
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Published: 28 May 1914
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Kielpa (part of the Cowell Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/12/2005 to 20/3/2014.
An area centred about 25 km west of Cleve has been explored for possible buried Athabasca Basin type unconformity - style uranium mineralisation, which it was thought might have formed in a fairly deep (> 200 m) geological setting where...-
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Published: 18 Jun 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Moseley (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 10/10/2002 to 28/10/2018.
An area centred approximately 50 km south of Woomera, near the Oakden Hills, is being explored for three separate types of mineralisation: • stratiform copper mineralisation similar to that of the world-class Central African Copper Belt and White Pine...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1918
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Bute. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/11/1977 to 27/2/1979.
Stratigraphic deep drilling carried out by the South Australian Government since 1968 in the Bute - Port Broughton region of northern Yorke Peninsula (in total 21 diamond drillholes and 16 rotary drillholes) has outlined the nature and subsurface...-
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Amdel Ltd project - Fluid inclusion studies of South Australian ores, rocks and minerals. Progress reports nos 1 to 6 for the period 7/5/1976 to 3/4/1980.
In September 1975 the South Australian Department of Mines accepted a proposal from Amdel Ltd to purchase and set up some microthermometry apparatus, in order to commence fluid inclusion studies of selected rock types and minerals in South Australia....-
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Dingo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 20/8/1980.
As part of BP's regional base metal prospectivity evaluation of the southern Stuart Shelf, seeking areas with untested potential for hosting possible stratiform base metal deposits within a probable concealed Early Proterozoic sedimentary basin...-
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RB 2017/00025 Report on Mineral Systems Drilling Program drillhole MSDP04, Six Mile Hill area.
MSDP04 is one of four diamond drillholes drilled during 2015 in the Six Mile Hill area as part of the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP). The hole was drilled vertically to 843.9 m depth over the period 3/10/2015-21/10/2015, and intersected three...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
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HandBk 003 - A Guide to the Geology and Mineral Resources of South Australia. Ludbrook, N.H. 1980 South Australia. (reprinted version)
South Australia has had a very long geological history traceable back for over 2000 million years. It has areas of ancient basement rocks and of younger rocks representing most of the geological column, which are exposed at the surface or have been...-
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Report on the petroleum prospects of OEL 27, southern Eyre Peninsula.
Based on 2 day visit. Includes regional geology and more detailed review of Lincoln and Uley-Wanilla Basins. Theory of grabenning similar to Sprigg. Describes localities at which bitumen occurs and summarises arguments for and against a local origin....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/9/1974 to 7/7/1975.
Base metal exploration in an area lying immediately to the east of Pernatty Lagoon targeted stratiform deposits within Late Proterozoic metasediments, seeking shallowly-occurring favourable stratigraphic facies associations based on the Zambian...-
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RB 2017/00024 Report on Mineral Systems Drilling Program drillhole MSDP03, Six Mile Hill area.
MSDP03 is one of four diamond drillholes drilled during 2015 in the Six Mile Hill area as part of the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP). The hole was drilled vertically to 262.6 m depth over the period 25/9/2015-2/10/2015, and intersected two...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
