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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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RB 91/00015 Murray Basin Basement Transect Project. 1990 well completion reports.
During the period March to June 1990, 9 stratigraphic rotary mud/diamond cored holes with a total penetration of 3056 m, including 433.25 m of NQ or HQ cored diamond tails, were drilled by SADME in three cases and by its contractor Rockdril for the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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Coonalpyn (part of the Coonalpyn Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/10/2006 to 15/10/2008.
To investigate the possible Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide mineralisation potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, as well as exploring for base metal mineralisation...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1908
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Ki Ki (part of the Coonalpyn Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 17/1/2009.
To investigate the possible Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide mineralisation potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, the licensee and...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1909
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-32, Ki Ki intrusion mafic/ultramafic - hosted mineral prospects. Project final report.
To further investigate the Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, the licensee of EL 3295 sought PACE Initiative funding to complete two...-
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Black Hill Intrusive Complex (northern [Bower - Florieton] and southern [Cambrai] areas). Joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/2/2005 to 16/2/2007.
Inco Resources has been exploring the outcropping portion of the Ordovician Black Hill Intrusive Complex for possible Voisey's Bay style nickel, copper and platinum group element (PGE) mineralisation since 2004, when it signed a joint venture...-
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Brownlow (part of the Padthaway and Black Hills Joint Venture Projects). Annual reports and first partial surrender report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/1998 to 25/8/2002.
The area of EL 2544, centred 90 km north-east from Adelaide, was considered to be prospective for porphyry/skarn type and iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) systems related to high level intrusive igneous plutons. Initial exploration...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1903
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Keith. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 28/5/2002 to 29/7/2004.
Exploration for basement-hosted, Mount Read Volcanic Belt - type epithermal base metal deposits and gold possibly associated with an inferred shallowly buried Early Palaeozoic basement high situated in the vicinity of Keith, has entailed a lengthy...-
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Published: 19 Jul 1904
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2012.
Twelve licence areas owned and operated by Gold Fields Australasia (GFA), comprising two subareas respectively located approximately 50 km east of Burra and 15 km south-east of the Benda Range, on the eastern edge of the Adelaide Fold Belt, are being...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1912
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Data release at first partial surrender on 20/8/1989 : report on investigations into the platinoid potential of the Black Hill Norite, EL 1419, Sedan, SA.
TARGET: Possible primary magmatic platinoid and/or other precious metals deposited at or near the base of expected cumulate layered rock sequences within the Black Hill Norite. EXPLORATION: After making preliminary regional geophysical and drillhole...-
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Angaston. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/12/1981 to 10/12/1984.
As part of a base metal exploration programme looking for possible stratabound or exhalative/hydrothermal deposits in Cambrian metasediments, which was undertaken approximately 75 km north-east of Adelaide, stream sediment sampling along the base of...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Assessment of basement geology and geochemistry, EL 2487, Sedan, South Australia.
Evaluation of the prospectivity of the pre-Tertiary basement on EL 2487, for finding gold and base metal mineralisation, failed to yield encouraging results. The evaluation was based on geochemical analyses and re-logging of stored samples from...-
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Parndana, Middle River and Yerda (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Joint annual reports, plus EL 4581 third partial surrender report, to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/10/2012 to 18/10/2015.
Monax Mining has being exploring since May 2005 along a 40 km stretch of the hinterland to the central-northern coast of Kangaroo Island, searching mainly for possible economic gold, silver and Mississippi Valley type base metal sulphide...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 2 of 3 ].
In May 1992 six traverses of shallow RAB drilling were completed at the Angas prospect (222 holes for a total penetration of 1550 m). The objective was to test the Cambrian bedrock geochemistry beneath shallow Tertiary and Recent sediments that cover...-
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Western River Cove - Parndana area (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Data release: annual reports and first partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/7/2005 to 18/10/2012.
An area in the vicinity of Parndana, located on north-central Kangaroo Island approximately 30 km west-southwest of Kingscote, is being explored mainly for possible economic gold and Mississippi Valley type base metal sulphide mineralisation...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1913
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Mount Rough. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/12/1994 to 10/6/1998.
Ground magnetic survey and gravity survey traverses were conducted south-southwest of Tintinara over aeromagnetic features considered to be prospective for base and precious metals. 13 rotary mud/diamond drillholes (respective total penetration 1048...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1998
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Sherlock. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 16/12/1994 to 10/6/1998.
Shallow aeromagnetic targets in the vicinity of the Padthaway Ridge were investigated in the Sherlock area, 35 km east of Tailem Bend. Ground magnetic surveying follow-up, and a program of 41 rotary mud / diamond drillholes (respective total...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1998
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Coonalpyn. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/3/1982 to 6/9/1985.
Cambrian rocks lying beneath relatively thin Phanerozoic cover on the western edge of the Murray Basin were targeted by CSR principally for stratiform volcanogenic massive copper sulphide deposits, and for epigenetic Palaeozoic gold occurrences...-
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Cooke Plains. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 16/12/1994 to 10/6/1998.
Ground magnetic survey and gravity survey traverses were conducted south and east of Tailem Bend over aeromagnetic signatures considered to be prospective for base and precious metals. 68 rotary mud/diamond drillholes (respective total penetration...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1998
