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Stuart Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/5/1977 to 12/5/1979.
Stratiform base metal sulphide deposits and sedimentary uranium accumulations were targeted in the Stuart Creek area, which straddles the Torrens Fault on the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf. Two airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys totalling...-
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Andamooka, Stuart Creek, Arcoona, Lake Torrens, Todds Dam, Lake Arthur, Woodforde Hill and Murdie Island (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint first partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1975 to 16/6/1986.
WMC's Stuart Shelf exploration activities from 1975 to 1985 have sought mainly Olympic Dam style mineralisation (copper - uranium - precious metals in haematitic breccia host rocks), with lesser emphasis directed at: possible distal analogues of the...-
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RB 80/00036 Redcliff gravity survey.
Survey between Nectar Brook reservoir and Redcliff Point over the proposed Redcliff petrochemical plant indicates that a narrow valley, filled with up to 200 metres of low density sediments, occurs beneath the western portion of the site. Subsidence...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1980
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RB 88/00057 Torrens Hinge Zone Project - Bute region. Second and final report.
The Torrens Hinge Zone Project aimed to demonstrate the existence of prospective metalliferous rocks beneath the Cainozoic cover, to stimulate exploration and to investigate the transition between the Adelaidean sequences of the well-exposed Adelaide...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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Lake Torrens South. Data release : combined second annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/1/2006 to 1/7/2009.
A planned detailed ground gravity survey across the licence area on southern Lake Torrens (780 readings to be taken at 500 m x 500 m station spacing) did not eventuate due to delays in preparing and gaining stakeholder approval for a satisfactory...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bosworth (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/7/1998 to 5/4/2009.
An area covering parts of west-central Lake Torrens and Andamooka Island was taken up by Pima Mining because it was considered a strategic acreage acquisition, since it adjoins the southern boundary of the company's EL 2528 Andamooka already issued to...-
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Published: 06 May 1909
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The Hummocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/2009 to 17/8/2017.
EL 4278 was Southern Uranium's first mineral exploration foray into the northern Yorke Peninsula. The subject tenement was pegged in January 2009 in order to secure ground surrounding the northern reaches of the Pine Point Fault. This particular...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Curdimurka. Annual reports for the period 4/9/2014 to 3/9/2018.
An area centred near Lake Phibbs, ~70 km west of Marree, which also abuts the southern edge of Lake Eyre South, is being explored for possible economic buried Olympic Dam type IOCG-U mineralisation that might exist within covered basement in a poorly...-
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Published: 03 Sep 1918
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Ardrossan. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/11/1981 to 15/11/1982.
Exploration of an area of covered Proterozoic basement extending northwards from Ardrossan was undertaken to search for possible Stuart Shelf - type stratiform base metal occurrences at unconformity surfaces developed near the base of the Adelaidean,...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1983
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Stuart Creek. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1979 to 18/10/1982.
One vertical stratigraphic diamond drillhole [the 1a re-drill] was fully cored to 1450 m total depth over a regional gravity high in the western half of the licence which was thought to be prospective for Olympic Dam type polymetallic mineralisation...-
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Baker Dam. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 26/1/1978 to 25/4/1979.
A subtle regional gravity high located 10 km east of Uro Bluff on the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf was the subject of further investigation by a new group of licensees seeking buried Olympic Dam type mineralisation. After a consultant's review...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1979
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Bute - Port Broughton area. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/1979 to 18/1/1991.
TARGET: Uranium and base metal deposits associated with Early to Middle Proterozoic basement geological structures and rock units in Spencer Gulf coastal areas east and south of Port Broughton. EXPLORATION: Aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys,...-
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Warrioota Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated south of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the Viburnum Trend (Mississippi Valley) - type mineral potential of...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1980
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William Creek (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/8/1979.
Exploration for possible Olympic Dam type mineralisation in an area located 20 km south-west of William Creek has consisted of grid-based ground gravity and magnetic surveys followed by the drilling of a deep diamond exploratory / stratigraphic hole...-
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Codna Hill (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/5/1977 to 2/5/1979.
Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...-
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Price. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
In continuing regional exploration conducted over north-eastern Yorke Peninsula, further reconnaissance stratigraphic drilling and wireline geophysical logging (in 3 vertical rotary percussion holes totalling 373 m) was carried out in May 1976 to test...-
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Lake Torrens and Lake Torrens South. Annual and final reports to licences' respective surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 30/11/2009.
Exploration for possible economic buried IOCG-U type mineral deposits within areas covering the southern third of Lake Torrens has consisted only of office-based prospectivity studies and the planning of a detailed ground gravity survey aimed at...-
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Published: 07 Jul 1910
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Port Broughton (part of the Pirie Basin Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/5/2010 to 30/5/2014.
Eocene fluvial sediments underlying the coastal plain immediately north of Port Broughton have been explored for possible economic buried occurrences of palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium, as part of a regional programme being conducted by Areva...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Opalfields (the Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project) . Progress reports to licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 16/1/1981 to 16/6/1986. [ Index Part 3 of 3 ].
(Abstract continued): During the first quarter of 1985, diamond drillhole OFD3 was completed at TD 498 m at a site 2 km west of hole OFD2, to further investigate the magnetic high south of the Opal Field. This hole reached basement at 359 m depth,...-
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Port Pirie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/4/1977 to 19/4/1979.
Concerted exploration for possible stratiform Mount Gunson type or epithermal Olympic Dam type base metal deposits, on the south-eastern edge of the Stuart Shelf near Port Pirie, was begun by North Broken Hill Ltd in response to the public release by...-
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