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RB 79/00114 Palaeodrainage systems in western South Australia. Their detection by Landsat imagery, stratigraphic significance and economic potential.
Two major palaeodrainage systems of Tertiary age, with watersheds of up to 35 000 square km and channel lengths of 200-250 km, have been recognised and delineated using LANDSAT imagery, during 1:250 000 scale geological mapping in western South...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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Yeltacowie (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/8/2005 to 19/2/2010.
Two licence subareas located in the north-eastern Cariewerloo Basin were taken up to explore for possible economic Athabasca Basin style, unconformity - related uranium deposits of potentially high grade (>25% U), similar to the McArthur River...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1910
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South Vivian [Homestead]. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2007 to 11/6/2009.
An area located on the northern Stuart Shelf between Olympic Dam and Prominent Hill, approx. 50 km south-southwest of the latter, has been explored for possible Olympic Dam type iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits and for Canadian...-
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Published: 17 Oct 1909
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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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Oak Dam North-east, Lake Torrens, Glenside, Winjabbie and Trimmer Inlet; plus Shore Hill and Red Swamp (initially the UXA Stuart Shelf South JV Project; then OZ Minerals' Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/11/2010 to 6/1/2017.
In continued exploration for possible economic buried Olympic Dam or Prominent Hill type IOCG style mineralisation that may exist within Proterozoic bedrock, joint venture operator Straits Resources undertook the following work on the project...-
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Published: 06 Mar 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Island Dam, Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports for the period 11/10/2009 to 30/6/2018.
Exploratory drilling carried out by BHP Billiton (BHPB) during the 2009-10 project reporting year took place at six prospects thought to have good IOCG mineralisation potential, based in part on earlier drilling results and also on refined target...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1918
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Data release - as updated : Pound Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/12/2010 to 16/11/2017.
South Australia Ludi Mining Pty Ltd (“SALM”) acquired Exploration Licence 4619 in the vicinity of Coward Springs to explore it for large Mesoproterozoic copper/gold/uranium deposits analogous to Olympic Dam, which is located approximately 120 km to...-
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Published: 21 Nov 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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Fiddle Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/9/1980 to 3/9/1982.
TARGET: Olympic Dam style Cu-Au-U mineralisation lying on a linear gravity feature extending south of Lake Macfarlane, which has associated magnetic discontinuities; unconformity - related sedimentary U at the Pandurra Formation/Gawler Range Volcanics...-
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Rawlinson Hill, Mount Sabine, Snow Hill and Billa Kalina Homestead (Stuart Shelf / Arckaringa Basin). Joint progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 28/4/1987.
Over the report period Agip Australia completed the drilling and geophysical logging of 39 open rotary holes totalling 3845 m to investigate if economic coal seams occur within Permian sediments of the southern Arckaringa Basin. Although the Permian...-
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Andamooka Creek, Willaroo Dam, Island Dam and Stuart Shelf / Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports on activities undertaken by the Joint Venture consortium for the period 11/10/1996 to 10/10/2009 [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
The four Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project exploration licences collectively cover approximately 2668 square km of semi-arid pastoral land surrounding the Olympic Dam mine and extending east and south-eastwards as far as Lake Torrens [the Olympic Dam...-
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RB 00790 Summary of seismic experiments [conducted] in EL 190, May 1975.
Refraction and experimental reflection seismic shooting was undertaken in EL 190 on Roxby Downs Station during May 1975, along 3 lines totalling 13.2 line km. The aim was to map Cambrian and Precambrian sedimentary horizons using methods generally...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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RB 74/00144 Helicopter geological survey of the Gawler Block 1973.
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Cariewerloo. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 23/7/2007 to 22/7/2009.
Exploration Licence 3852 'Cariewerloo', located approximately 60 km WNW of Port Augusta and covering 369 square km, was granted to Kensington Exploration Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Archer Exploration Ltd, on 23 July 2007. The ground was...-
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Published: 23 Jun 1909
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Red Lake (part of the Olympic Domain Project). Combined first annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/6/2009 to 17/6/2010.
EL 3809 is part of Copper Range's Olympic Domain Project which comprises a group of thirteen tenements located in central South Australia covering areas of the Gawler Craton and Stuart Shelf within and west of Lake Torrens. Across this project acreage...-
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Published: 17 Sep 1910
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wilaroo Dam (part of the Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project). Annual and joint annual reports to licence expiry/re-issue, for the period 1/8/1994 to 31/7/1999.
The subject licence is one of four located to the east and south-east of the Olympic Dam deposit, on which greenfields exploration for economic IOCG-U mineralisation is being carried out by Western Mining in joint venture with the Power and Nuclear...-
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Welcome Creek (part of the Billa Kalina JV Project). First partial surrender report for the period 19/5/2005 to 18/5/2009.
Late in 2007 joint venturer Eromanga Uranium conducted part of a combined airborne TEM and magnetic survey across the entire licence area, using a Eurocopter Squirrel helicopter with the TEM towed array suspended at a nominal height above ground of 30...-
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Chinaman Hat Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/7/2007 to ending 29/7/2012.
An area centred approximately 60 km north-northwest of Andamooka has been explored for possible economic Olympic Dam type primary uranium and IOCG style mineralisation formed within Mesoproterozoic basement. Work by UEA commenced with a review of...-
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Published: 29 Jul 1912
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Wirraminna. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/3/2007 to 6/3/2011.
Exploration undertaken within the now relinquished portion of EL 3724 has consisted only of the acquisition of a detailed ground gravity survey during November 2007 over a gravity anomaly identified ~ 80 km west-northwest of Woomera (236 stations were...-
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Published: 29 Feb 1912
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Acropolis South. Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/5/2007 to 3/5/2012.
19 square km of the Acropolis South licence area have been removed at licence renewal in May 2012, at the instigation of the SA Government, because this portion of the tenement now lies within the Red (Commonwealth Department of Defence continuous...-
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