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RB 54/00055 Summary report on the investigation of the Razorback Ridge deposit (Braemar Iron Formation).
Sturtian glacial sediments south of Yunta contain haematitic and magnetitic siltstones (banded iron formation) and haematitic and magnetitic tillites formed by chemical deposition of magnetite euhedra in a finer grained haematite groundmass. Both...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1962
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RB 84/00028 Petrography of 25 specimens from Mount Grainger Goldfield.
Specimens from the Mt Grainger Goldfield include quartzites, sandstones in which kaolinite is believed to represent earlier feldspar, siltstones, shales, diamictites of probable glaciogene origin, granitoids and andesites. Low to moderate temperature...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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Mount Grainger (Oodla Wirra). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/1970 to 7/10/1971.
Extensive literature and geological and geochemical field investigations of historic mines and prospects at the Mount Grainger and Oodla Wirra Goldfields have failed to disclose any remaining economic gold occurrences. The sparse native gold occurs...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1971
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Goddard, Mount Deception, Parachilna, Yandina Hill and Ben Lomond (the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports for the period 14/10/1999 to 27/4/2018.
A group of jointly reported tenements in the northern Flinders Ranges region is being explored for economic base metal mineralisation that might have formed within Late Proterozoic to Middle Cambrian continental rift margin sediments, probably with...-
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Published: 25 Jun 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Braemar. Annual reports plus third partial surrender report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/12/2007 to 9/12/2018.
The subject EL 3998 Braemar, in its eastern part, covers a 20 km long, high amplitude aeromagnetic anomaly located within the northern part of the Adelaide Fold Belt, that overlies a large antiformal fold in the Adelaidean metasedimentary cover which...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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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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Outalpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
55 square km or ~25.6% of the former area of EL 5584 has been relinquished.-
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Published: 20 Mar 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Outalpa. Annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2018.
An area consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are spread out ~25 km north of Manna Hill and from 10 to 20 km to the north and north-west of Olary is being explored for possible economic gold as basement shear and vein hosted style deposits, as...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1919
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Mutooroo (latterly part of the Border JV Project). Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1997 to 18/4/2017.
Four separate large portions of a long-held licence area abutting the SA/NSW state border in the vicinity of Mutooroo have been relinquished as part of statutory requirements. The following summary prepared by Minotaur Exploration describes work done...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Devonborough Downs and Olary (the Olary Project). Joint annual reports for the period 21/1/2012 to 20/1/2014.
Two adjacent licences together covering a large area located to the south of the Barrier Highway between Olary and Manna Hill are being explored for possible large tonnage, mainly buried low grade magnetite deposits that could have formed within the...-
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Paratoo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/3/1988 to 30/2/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic, open-pit mineable stratiform low grade gold and copper deposits within Adelaidean units of the Nackara Arc, in an area lying west of and including Yunta. EXPLORATION: A detailed geological field reconnaissance, review of...-
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Published: 19 May 1990
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/7/2008 to 18/7/2018.
During Year 12 of the Olary JV Project (2008-2009), field work was undertaken only on EL 3849 Outalpa to make up for the earlier underspending on that licence relative to commitments. In early 2009, a ground radioactivity survey was acquired using a...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1918
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Victor. Annual reports for the period 30/7/2012 to 29/7/2018.
A large area of the south-eastern Flinders Ranges piedmont plains lying ~50 km north-west of Manna Hill, and centred on Mount Victor, is being explored for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic stratabound iron ore of low grade but probable high...-
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ComRev 008 Iron Ore in South Australia 2000
The iron-rich rocks of South Australia have been classified into six deposit types - residual, chemical sedimentary iron formations, Fe-skarn and, of lesser significance, hydrothermal, clastic and magmatic. Production has been overwhelmingly from...-
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ComRev 016 Iron Ore opportunities in South Australia 2014 (historical reference only)
A 2016 summary of iron ore opportunities within South Australia. Each mine, deposit or prospect has detailed resource information and a snap-shot of the associated companies at that time.-
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ComRev 015 The South Australian Resources Sector 2016 (historical reference only)
Gold: Gold mineralisation is widespread in South Australia and occurs in most geological provinces Copper: Many of the deposits in South Australia’s copper provinces are covered by a sequence of younger rocks that have effectively hidden many large...-
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ComRev 011 Uranium in South Australia 2016 (historical reference only)
Australia has a substantial allocation of the world’s uranium resources, especially defined under the lower risk RAR (Reasonably Assured Resources) metric. Australia hosts 29% of the world’s uranium resources (RAR and inferred) recoverable at...-
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