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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 [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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Coober Pedy. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/11/2016 to 31/10/2019.
A large area situated on the north-eastern side of the Stuart Range, comprising three separate sub-blocks that taken together are centred ~20 km north of Coober Pedy township, has been explored for possible economic near-surface accumulations of the...-
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Coober Pedy. First partial surrender report, for the period 1/11/2016 to 31/10/2018.
An area located immediately east and north-east of Coober Pedy is being explored for possible economic near-surface accumulations of the evaporite industrial mineral epsomite. Historic drilling and costeaning in this area performed by CRA Exploration...-
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Lake Gregory. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 13/5/2016 to 9/3/2017.
A licence area covering a large salt lake (Lake Gregory) of the Cenozoic Lake Eyre Basin, and the underlying Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments situated to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage and Mount Painter inliers, ~120 km north-east of...-
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Giddi Giddinna Creek. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/lapse of tenure, for the period 16/6/1983 to 23/9/1987.
In early 1983, mineral prospector Peter Tayler discovered a near-surface secondary occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a creek-bank exposure of Mesozoic shales, deposited at the base of the Lower Cretaceous Bulldog Shale near the western...-
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Published: 23 Jun 1987
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kalkaroo (part of the Mundi Mundi Plains JV Project). Annual reports for the period 21/4/2010 to 1/6/2018.
During 2010-2011, the sixth year of the subject licence, as part of its continuing search for buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted roll front style secondary uranium deposits, Marmota conducted the following work: • acquired a 58.6 line km moving...-
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Published: 17 Jul 1918
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Sturt and Sturt East Fields studies. Technical reports and data.
Contains contractor's reports on proprietary petrophysical formation evaluation studies of 3 Sturt Field oil appraisal wells, to analyse rock properties across the basement, Patchawarra Formation, Poolowanna Formation and part of the Hutton Sandstone...-
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Innamincka 1. Test reports.
Contains palaeontology, palynology, sedimentology, petrology, coal source rock, formation testing, test and completion flow fluid sampling and seismic reflection analysis reports, plus upper hole drill bit records and limited geochemical and...-
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Mount Hopeless, Paralana Creek and John Brown Well areas. First partial surrender report for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1979.
As part of conducting a regional search for possible occurrences of Tertiary sediment-hosted, Wyoming roll-front type uranium mineralisation, the Paralana Plains joint venture partners were required to drop at least 25% of the area of their EL 402...-
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RI 056 Geology of the Coober Pedy Precious Stones Field Results of Investigations, 1981-86
The Coober Pedy Opal Fields, since their discovery in 1915, have been the largest producer of precious opal in the world, with the estimated value of production over the period 1978-86 averaging $25 million per year. Mining is now done mainly by...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and annual reports for the period 7/12/1987 to 22/9/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Diamond exploration undertaken within the southern of two adjoining licence areas taken up along part of the western flank of the Peake and Denison Ranges, that is centred ~100 km south-east of Oodnadatta, was aimed at discovering the source(s) of...-
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Marree. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1977 to 10/2/1979.
Exploration conducted over an area stretching westwards and eastwards from Marree, along the south-western margin of the Great Artesian Basin, addressed the potential for possible economic sedimentary deposits of trona, sodium bentonite, chlorite,...-
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Lake Frome East. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 13/11/79 to 12/5/80.
As part of a wider search over SA for possible continental salt lake occurrences of NaCO3-rich brines and of fossil crystalline trona beds, presumed to be equivalent to the Lake Magadi (Kenya) / Green River Basin (Utah - Wyoming) style Tertiary...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1980
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Curdimurka. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/4/1979.
An area located along the Marree - Alice Springs Railway in the region of Curdimurka was selected to be explored on the basis of its potential to contain deposits of bedded trona in closed basins, and to have sodium carbonate brines present in near...-
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Paralana Hill. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 23/9/1975 to 22/9/1977.
As part of ongoing regional Tertiary stratigraphic appraisal work, an area located to the south and east of the Beverley uranium deposit was explored for economic roll-front style sedimentary uranium mineralisation by conducting resistivity surveys...-
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Published: 06 Jul 1977
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Nilpinna Spring. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/7/1982 to 11/1/1985.
As the start of a regional diamond exploration programme with secondary base metal objectives, portion of a detailed low-level airborne magnetic/radiometric survey was flown over the Nilpinna Spring area to define targets for drilling. Field...-
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Oolgelima Hill. Progress reports plus second partial surrender report, for the period 14/7/1983 to 14/10/1986.
Evaporite minerals in black shale at the base of the Early Cretaceous Bulldog Shale near the western margin of the Eromanga Basin were the target about 50 km NE of Coober Pedy. Reconnaissance mapping, soil sampling, auger drilling and the backhoe...-
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Published: 03 Nov 1986
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Lake Frome. Progress reports for the period 3/10/1968 to 9/6/1971.
TARGET: Uranium in Tertiary sediments. EXPLORATION: 56 rotary drillholes for a total of 31,690 feet. All drillholes were geophysically logged. Samples from selected water bores were analysed for radon and uranium. RESULTS: All drillholes ended in...-
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