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Landsat thematic mapper study of the Yardea Dacite, Gawler Range Volcanics, YARDEA 1:250 000 scale map sheet.
The South Australian Department of Mines and Energy (SADME) commissioned the South Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (SACRS) to undertake a digital analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data in an attempt to locate prospective areas for...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolcoomata, Macdonald Hill, Mingary, Bulloo South / Bulloo Creek, Drew Hill and Wompinie (the Drew Hill Project). Separate and joint annual reports for the period 30/9/2003 to 9/1/2008.
Three adjacent but separate exploration licences, ELs 3136, 3137 and 3138, together covering 491 square km of ground located north-east of Olary and also surrounding Mingary, were initially granted to Exco Resources NL (Exco) at the end of September...-
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Davis Hill and Mount Wells (the Lake Gregory Project). Annual reports, joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/11/2007 to 4/11/2012.
The two Lake Gregory project licences were located between the Birdsville Track and Lake Gregory, approximately 100 km north-northeast of Marree, and to the north of uranium exploration tenements held by Adavale Minerals. Regalpoint selected these...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1912
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo (the Olary Creek Project). Annual reports for the period 15/11/2005 to 7/2/2019.
An area centred ~50 km south west of Cockburn is being explored for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed in buried Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, as well as for any secondary uranium mineralisation that may...-
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Woomera Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/9/2008 to 15/6/2017. Includes information status for EL 6085 at licence expiry, for period 16/06/2017 to 01/01/2023: no work performed.
No field work was performed on the three subject licences during the period 2008-2010 inclusive. During 2010, Dominion Gold Operations undertook a desktop evaluation of the possible iron ore potential of the licences. During 2011, the licensee...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1923
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Holowilena South (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2014.
An area centred ~45 km east-southeast of Hawker was taken up to explore the stratabound, epigenetic copper resource potential of historic small copper workings located along a NW trending fault zone disrupting Adelaidean metasediments of the Burra and...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1914
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Woomera and Wirrappa. Annual reports and first joint annual report, plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/11/2018.
Two adjacent areas located immediately south and east of Woomera township were taken up to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence...-
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Published: 07 Jan 1919
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Warrakimbo. Progress and final reports from 13/5/87 to 13/5/88.
TARGET: Micaceous haematite. EXPLORATION: Photointerpretation, lineament studies using Landsat Multi Spectral Scanner (MSS), geological mapping, stream sediment and rock chip sampling and ground magnetic, gravity and IP surveys. RESULTS: A magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Hawks Nest. Annual reports for the period 8/4/2009 to 14/4/2019.
During the 2009-2010 reporting year, as part of the strategy to significantly advance the future development of the Hawks Nest Iron Ore Project, Western Plains Resources (WPG) successfully concluded a series of complex joint venture negotiations with...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1918
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Bimbowrie Hill. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 8/6/1976.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform, Broken Hill type base metal deposits hosted within Willyama Complex metasediments in the Bimbowrie Hill - Ameroo Hill area has consisted of a structural interpretation of aerial photos and ERTS imagery,...-
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Bindabu Bore. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 18/11/2009.
Exploration for possible economic iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits formed in buried Archaean to Proterozoic basement of the western Mabel Creek Ridge has consisted only of desktop prospectivity studies carried out by a consultant....-
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Published: 30 Apr 1910
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Peterlumbo, Botenella Range, Lake Gilles [West], Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Mount Miccollo and Tin Hut Hill (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 6/6/2002 to 31/10/2008. [Index Part 1 of 2].
Aquila Resources took up ownership of the much previously-explored ground comprising the Wilcherry Hill Project with the intent of exploring for the first time the iron oxide - associated copper-gold & uranium (IOCG-U) mineralisation potential of...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1908
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ooldea. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/9/2005 to 31/8/2010.
An area centred ~230 km north-west of Ceduna, in the far north-eastern corner of the Nullarbor Plain, and lying just south of the Ooldea railway siding on the Trans Australian Railway line, is being explored for possible economic buried deposits of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Devonborough Downs (part of the Olary Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/10/2007 to 21/10/2012.
An area centred ~30 km south-east of Olary township is being explored for possible buried economic porphyry copper-gold deposits, as well as for any other substantial either Carlin-type, skarn-hosted, Telfer-style, or mesothermal gold mineralisation....-
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Published: 16 Nov 1912
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Data release - as updated : South Dam. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 10/12/2009 to 4/11/2020.
A small licence area located on the northern margin of the Murray Basin, approximately 70 km north-east of Burra and about 40 km south of the previously studied Razorback Ridge banded iron formation magnetite deposit, has been explored for possible...-
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RB 2013/00019 Characteristics of porphyry Cu deposits and their potential as exploration targets in South Australia.
Porphyry Cu-(Au-Mo) deposits are typically large tonnage (>150 Mt) and low grade (<1% Cu) deposits which tend to occur in clusters, and the potential for discovering giant-sized such deposits makes them valuable exploration targets. Worldwide,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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Balah (part of the Oakvale Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 23/7/1999.
25 vertical open RC/aircore holes (total penetration 1077 m) were drilled during heavy mineral sands exploration of an area stretching from 10 km to 100 km north-northeast of Morgan. The target Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand was found to be barren of...-
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Pinerow. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/10/2004 to 9/11/2008.
To continue the assessment of the dimension stone and ornamental stone potential of granitic basement outcrops present on EL 2851, a 5-year Retention Lease, RL 116, was taken out on 7/2/2006 to cover 5.9 ha of the Middle Camp granite pluton. Several...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1909
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Eden Valley. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/9/1995 to 13/5/1998.
Reconnaissance gravel and rock chip sampling were carried out in the Rockleigh - Eden Valley area, 50 km north-east of Adelaide, to further investigate a kimberlitic indicator minerals cluster defined on the licensee's adjoining Truro EL 1732. A few...-
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