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RB 38/00018 Report on radioactive occurrences ( in the ) Middleback Range.
Three occurrences of anomalous radioactivity detected by BHP within Palaeoproterozoic metasediments on the eastern side of the Iron Prince open pit iron mine were inspected at the company's request, to try to determine the source of radiation. The...-
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Published: 04 Aug 1954
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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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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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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Tumby Bay. Annual reports [to the 24/11/2006 commencement of the Eyre Peninsula Project licences' combined reporting status] for the period 18/1/2002 to 17/1/2007.
Exploration Licence 2887 Tumby Bay was taken out to cover prospective magnetite rich Banded Iron Formations (BIF) close to the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula. Potential was seen for a magnetite concentrate export operation taking advantage of...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1907
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Morgans (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports for the period 17/1/2012 to 16/1/2019.
An area of mainly covered bedrock consisting of two separate sub-blocks bordering the south-eastern Gawler Ranges, which is considered prospective for finding buried hypogene IOCG mineralisation and possible stratiform and metamorphic base metals in a...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 7/11/2008 to 6/11/2011.
No field work was undertaken during licence Year 7, but Stellar instead did a review of the Cowell area's prospectivity for Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium mineralisation. Previous drilling data for the local Pirie Basin sediments...-
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Published: 05 Dec 1911
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Middleback Range and Moonabie Hills. Joint annual reports for the period 1/2/2007 to 30/1/2019, plus surrender reports to 9/7/2023.
Project Connelly is designed to target haematite mineralisation on OneSteel's mining and exploration leases, including EL 3516 Middleback Range, with the aim of adding to the haematite reserve. In addition to the exploration programme, reserve...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1918
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1978.
Stratabound, metasedimentary iron ore was the principal target of exploration undertaken by BHP over a large area surrounding the Moonabie Range that extends along strike and borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf. Base and precious metals...-
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Wartaka [Homestead] (part of the Parkinson Dam Project). Annual reports [to the commencement of project licences' combined reporting] and final report to licence surrender, for the period 20/6/2003 to 30/6/2012.
An area located approximately 50 km west of Port Augusta has been explored for economic epithermal gold and silver mineralisation following the discovery of such mineralisation a short distance to the north on the licensee's adjoining EL 3307 / 4475....-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 23/9/2002 to 6/11/2008.
A large licence area, comprising two separate blocks aligned along strike, which cover the northern Cowell Hills and the less elevated country stretching north-east of Lucky Bay, was taken up by Avoca Resources Ltd as part of a much wider search...-
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Data release - as updated : Moonabie (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/2006 to 13/3/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are centred approximately 60 km WSW of Whyalla is being explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation plus precious and base metals, in a structurally complex epithermal and...-
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Published: 29 Apr 1917
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Data release - as updated : Botenella Gate (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/4/2009 to 19/4/2018.
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. There was also...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1918
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RB 2007/00004 Director of Mines' Exploration Licence Application 383 (Sleaford Bay). Report of results.
This report presents the results of exploration on the Director of Mines E.L.A. 383 at Sleaford Bay during November, 2006. A number of samples of Carnot Gneiss, Hutchison Group and Donington Suite granitoids were collected from coastal exposures at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2007
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RB 00377 Port Lincoln [district] uranium exploration - report on completion of diamond drilling at the Hospital prospect.
The programme of uranium exploration described in this report commence on 18/5/1954, following the discovery of three separate occurrences of uraniferous gneiss near Port Lincoln township by local resident Mr J. Gibson. The largest of these outcrops,...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1900
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RB 2012/00010 Geochronology and geochemistry of a Kimban diorite, drillhole LED001, Lake Gilles, eastern Gawler Craton.
The geology of the Lake Gilles locale in the south-west of the PORT AUGUSTA 1:250k map sheet area is poorly understood. Outcrop of basement rocks there is sparse, and typically occurs along the margins of the salt lake, where it is highly weathered....-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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RB 2008/00011 Definition of the Cultana Subsuite, Gawler Craton: a high level felsic Hiltaba Suite age intrusive with hydrothermal alteration and brecciation.
This paper provides a formal definition of the Cultana Subsuite, outlining the igneous petrology of the intrusion, its geochemical characteristics, and the nature of hydrothermal alteration and brecciation affecting the rocks. The Cultana Subsuite is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Roopena. Second partial surrender report, for the period 31/7/2000 to 30/7/2005.
Two separate areas located respectively 20-45 km west-southwest and 70 km south-southwest of Whyalla have been selectively relinquished from EL 2741 in accordance with licence conditions. The ground has potential for Palaeoproterozoic to...-
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