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RB 60/00101 Reconnaissance for scheelite deposits in the Sir Joseph Banks Group of islands (undertaken during January and March 1964).
In the Sir Joseph Banks Group of southern Spencer Gulf offshore islands, outcropping Archaean arenaceous, arkosic and calcareous sedimentary rocks appear to have been folded and granitised prior to the deposition of the Adelaidean System sedimentary...-
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Published: 21 May 1965
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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-44, eastern Eyre Peninsula, Glensea & Franklin gravity targets representing inferred Proterozoic mesothermal/metamorphic basement uranium prospects. Final report.
PACE Initiative Year 5 funding for exploratory drilling was granted to Stellar Resources under its proposal DPY-5-44 for a project designed to test geophysical targets within EL 3978 which were interpreted / inferred to represent alaskite units...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-19, Murninnie mine area (north-eastern Spencer Domain) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Murninnie Cu-Bi-Au deposit and mine environs, located approximately 40 km south-west of Whyalla, have not been seriously explored in more than 50 years due to quarantining of the deposit under Private Mine title. The lode-style deposit is exposed...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-10, Parkinson Dam epithermal gold-silver mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
The Parkinson Dam prospect is located approximately 60 km west of Port Augusta, within Tasman Resources' current Exploration Licence 3307. The company's interest in this locality was kindled in late 2004 during its investigation of recent historical...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1906
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Roopena. Second partial surrender report, for the period 31/7/2000 to 26/10/2007.
Exploration of two now-relinquished licence sub-areas situated a short distance west of Port Augusta and Whyalla respectively, near the eastern edge of the Middleback Range, sought to find possible economic buried epithermal/hydrothermal gold deposits...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1908
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Data release - as updated : Lake Gilles (part of the East Eyre [Peninsula] Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/12/2005 to 28/11/2016.
Exploration aimed primarily for economic buried Menninnie Dam - style base and precious metals mineralisation hosted by Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary basement has been conducted on a licence located in the Lake Gilles district. The subject area...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1917
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-28 - Cultana district, Eyre Peninsula, Extension Tank shear-hosted Mesoproterozoic IOCG-U or porphyry type Au and base metal prospect. Drilling final report.
An area centred approximately 50 km south-west of Port Augusta is being explored for buried economic occurrences of gold, base metals and uranium primary mineralisation which may be genetically associated with the past emplacement there of the Gawler...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Midgee (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2019.
An area of the northern Cowell Hills was taken up to explore for possible economic basement-hosted copper-gold mineralisation of epigenetic style, analogous to that found at the Ernest Henry deposit, which may be associated with magnetic anomalies and...-
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Published: 08 May 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Gum Flat. Annual reports submitted prior to the commencement of joint reporting on the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 27/9/2005 to 26/9/2008.
An area lying immediately west of Port Lincoln and extending for ~10 km inland is being explored for buried occurrences of multiple metallic mineral commodities that may have been deposited within faulted, folded and metamorphosed Archaean basement...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1907
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Midgee. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2014.
A small area centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla and ~37 km north-northeast of Cowell, which lay along the fault scarp at the edge of the western Spencer Gulf coastal plain, has been explored for both primary and secondary uranium deposits. Targets...-
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Published: 14 Jan 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wartaka, Iron Knob, Reid Lookout and Old Wartaka (the Parkinson Dam Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports for the period 17/2/2005 to 26/4/2019.
Four small, adjacent licences located on the south-eastern, shallow subcrop margin of the Gawler Ranges, which together make up an area centred about 25 km north-east of Lake Gilles and 60 km west of Port Augusta, are being explored for possible...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1918
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Cowell. Second partial surrender report, for the period 7/11/2007 to 6/11/2016.
Exploration undertaken within the original EL 3978/5307 Cowell area by Hiltaba Gold and joint venture partners 1) UraniumSA and 2) Renaissance Uranium / Renascor Resources has included geological interpretation, geochemical sampling, ground and...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lipson Cove. Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 28/9/2014.
An area in the Cowell Hills centred ~20 km north of Tumby Bay on eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up primarily to explore and evaluate known talc and graphite occurrences, but the grant licensee's initial review of previous exploration data revealed...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Old Wartaka. Annual reports for the period 8/5/2013 to 7/5/2019.
A small area located on the eastern side of the Roopena Fault Zone, proximal to the south-eastern margin of the Gawler Ranges, is being explored for possible buried epigenetic gold and silver mineralisation, or IOCG type base metal sulphide...-
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Published: 13 May 1919
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Six Mile Hill and Corraberra (part of the Six Mile Hill Project). Annual and joint annual reports plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 17/5/2010 to 16/5/2017.
An area centred ~40 km west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried IOCG and other significant metallic mineralisation, which could have formed in the vicinity of the inferred subsurface continuation of the northern Roopena...-
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Published: 23 May 1917
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Data release (in part made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report) : Uno Range (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports for the period 1/8/2011 to 31/7/2020.
A licence consisting of two separate sub-blocks located ~30 km west-northwest of Iron Knob is being explored for possible economic buried Paris type epithermal/hydrothermal gold and silver mineralisation, as well as for Menninnie Dam type...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1920
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Midgee. Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2017.
Portions of two of three separate sub-blocks formerly comprising EL 5426, totalling 34 square km in area or ~25% of the licence's former extent, have been relinquished because of their now perceived diminished prospectivity for finding significant...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1917
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Barna Hill (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/2011 to 26/4/2018.
An area located ~20 km east-southeast of Kimba was taken up to explore for possible buried economic base and precious metals which could be related to regional scale NW to NE lineaments and basement structural corridors that are evident from regional...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1918
