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Mount Sabine. Partial surrender report for the period 12/2/1981 to 22/1/1986.
As part of a regional diamond and kimberlite exploration programme, 50 drainage and loam samples were collected for heavy mineral analysis from within the two areas being relinquished, which lie respectively 50 km NW and 40 km NE of Kingoonya. No...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Ongoing exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, during this period comprised 3D geophysical modelling of possible source geometries for, and RC drilling (10 holes, total...-
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RB 94/00044 Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen as a guide to oxidising sulphide concealed beneath shallow cover. Soil air CO2/O2 project: review report 1.
A joint project between Dr I.G. Watmuff (consultant) and the Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, to appraise the soil air CO2/O2 technique as a guide to concealed oxidising sulphides, has been completed. Testing was conducted over known...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1994
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RB 98/00008 Geochemical studies of the regolith at the Mount Gunson copper deposits, Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
The principal objective of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) Shields Program and the Primary Industry and Resources of South Australia (PIRSA) Regolith Terranes Group in South Australia is to...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1998
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Porter Hill. Annual reports for the period 26/8/1998 to 26/5/2000 (the commencement of the Lake Torrens Project joint reporting period) : part of a data release made on 31/12/2006 upon a subsequent partial surrender.
Following the detection in late 1997, by reconnaissance mobile metal ion partial leach analytical methods, of anomalous base and precious metal concentrations in the soil above several low amplitude magnetic anomalies on Tasman Resources' EL 2340, the...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1999
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Wirrappa - Mount Gunson - Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 4/11/1971 to 3/11/1972.
Interest was centred on the Whyalla Sandstone - Pandurra Formation stratigraphic contact (the locus of the Gunyah Lake mineral occurrence), and on a quartzite unit developed adjacent to the Woocalla Dolomite Member (the locus of the House and Main...-
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Published: 08 Nov 1972
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-39, Torrens Hinge Zone / Stuart Shelf project area Mississippi Valley type (MVT) mineral prospects. Project final report.
The recent Geoscience Australia - run regional seismic traverse across the Stuart Shelf has revealed the architecture of the buried Neoproterozoic sediments there, and also that of the structures created during the Delamerian inversion. Dewatering of...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1907
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Bernard Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/9/2002 to 4/9/2005.
As part of a project examining the Adelaidean cover rocks that surround the Pernatty Culmination on the southern Stuart Shelf for possible economic stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles known to be present in the Mount Gunson area,...-
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Screech-Owl Creek (part of Lake Torrens Project). Final report at licence surrender for the period 14/6/2000 to 20/4/2006.
Possible economic Neoproterozoic stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation hidden under Mesozoic and Recent sedimentary cover was targeted in an area located approximately 95 km north-east of Andamooka. Aeromagnetic data interpretation of some...-
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Mount Eba. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 19/10/2008.
An area within the northern Stuart Shelf which extends from 15 to 65 km south of the Prominent Hill mine site has been explored for possible similar IOCG-U type economic mineral deposits by a new industry entrant uranium explorer, Uranium Exploration...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1909
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Stuart Creek. Annual reports for the period 9/4/1998 to 26/5/2000 (the commencement of the Lake Torrens Project joint reporting period) : part of a data release made on 31/12/2006 upon a subsequent partial surrender.
In exploration carried out over an area located 60 km north of the Olympic Dam mine, Adelaidean Wilpena Group metasediments extending northwestwards along strike from gold-anomalous strata previously identified on Tasman Resources' Mulgaria EL 2340...-
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Published: 07 May 1900
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Woocalla (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a reduced area, for the period 4/8/1995 to 3/8/2000.
Stuart Metals took up EL 2099 covering ground in the Wirrappa - Lake Blyth - Bookaloo Siding area primarily to explore it for stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles present in the Mount Gunson area. In addition, it was thought that the...-
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The Lake Torrens Project; plus the Olympic Domain Project. Joint annual reports for the period 1/1/2006 to 31/12/2010.
Licensee Copper Range originally took up a group of three tenements located in central South Australia covering areas within and west of Lake Torrens, with the intent, much reinforced following the Carrapateena deposit discovery made in 2005, of...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1911
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Ediacara Range. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/1997 to 4/6/1999.
No significant gold or base metal values were returned from geochemical sampling of quartz and barite veins in the vicinity of the Ediacara Fault, 40 km north-west of Parachilna. Imaging of aeromagnetic data purchased as infill coverage to a 1999...-
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Koolcutta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/4/1997 to 29/4/2002.
Rock chip and calcrete sampling were the main methods of exploration for iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation in an area 60 km west of Port Augusta. Initial rock chip sampling returned no anomalous Au values, but gave best results of...-
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Depot Creek, Myrtle Springs West, Mulgaria Creek, Wangianna and Bluebush Dam [Lake Torrens Project combined ELs reporting group]. First partial relinquishment report for the period 24/9/99 to 31/12/2002.
The Lake Torrens Project consists of twelve tenements held in the area north and east of Lake Torrens, where the conceptual target is iron-oxide copper-gold mineralisation of Olympic Dam style. Limited soil sampling along two traverses over...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1903
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Mount Gunson. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/re-issue over a larger area, for the period 25/10/1979 to 20/12/1985.
As part of an ongoing search for extensions to the Cattlegrid orebody style of stratiform Cu-Fe-Mn mineralisation within its exploration licences on the Stuart Shelf, besides testing for any indications of Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au deposits in the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Oak Dam North-east. Annual reports for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
A relatively large but little-explored area of the central-eastern Stuart Shelf, which is almost wholly covered by scrubby sand dunes and swampy salt lakes, thereby making surface access very difficult despite it being located only ~30 km to 50 km km...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1911
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Mulgaria. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/1/2012 to 19/1/2016.
Exploration for possible economic sandstone-hosted copper-lead-zinc mineralisation, carried out over a small area centred ~50 km north-north east of Andamooka, consisted only of logistics-related field reconnaissance visits, the collection of ground...-
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Published: 10 May 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Glenside. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/12/2005 to 4/12/2010.
An area centred approximately 40 km south of the Andamooka Opal Field and 50 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine is being explored for possible buried economic Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill type IOCG-U mineralisation as well as for possible...-
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Published: 28 Jan 1911
