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RB 60/00101 Reconnaissance for scheelite deposits in the Sir Joseph Banks Group of islands (undertaken during January and March 1964).
In the Sir Joseph Banks Group of southern Spencer Gulf offshore islands, outcropping Archaean arenaceous, arkosic and calcareous sedimentary rocks appear to have been folded and granitised prior to the deposition of the Adelaidean System sedimentary...-
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Published: 21 May 1965
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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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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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Whyalla. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2003 to 11/6/2008.
Evaluation of the perceived Olympic Dam style copper-gold and Stuart Shelf type stratabound copper potential of, respectively, the Proterozoic basement and the Adelaidean cover rocks in an area lying immediately to the west of the Cultana Inlier was...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1908
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-10, Parkinson Dam epithermal gold-silver mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
The Parkinson Dam prospect is located approximately 60 km west of Port Augusta, within Tasman Resources' current Exploration Licence 3307. The company's interest in this locality was kindled in late 2004 during its investigation of recent historical...-
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Published: 28 Aug 1906
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Roopena. Second partial surrender report, for the period 31/7/2000 to 26/10/2007.
Exploration of two now-relinquished licence sub-areas situated a short distance west of Port Augusta and Whyalla respectively, near the eastern edge of the Middleback Range, sought to find possible economic buried epithermal/hydrothermal gold deposits...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1908
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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wartaka, Iron Knob, Reid Lookout and Old Wartaka (the Parkinson Dam Project). Annual reports and joint annual reports for the period 17/2/2005 to 26/4/2019.
Four small, adjacent licences located on the south-eastern, shallow subcrop margin of the Gawler Ranges, which together make up an area centred about 25 km north-east of Lake Gilles and 60 km west of Port Augusta, are being explored for possible...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1918
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Corunna North. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/10/2014 to 12/10/2019.
An area located on the south-eastern edge of the Gawler Ranges, extending northwards from near Corunna Station Homestead, has been explored for possible buried economic epithermal style base and precious metal mineralisation occurrences within the...-
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Published: 18 Nov 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lipson Cove. Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 28/9/2014.
An area in the Cowell Hills centred ~20 km north of Tumby Bay on eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up primarily to explore and evaluate known talc and graphite occurrences, but the grant licensee's initial review of previous exploration data revealed...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Old Wartaka. Annual reports for the period 8/5/2013 to 7/5/2019.
A small area located on the eastern side of the Roopena Fault Zone, proximal to the south-eastern margin of the Gawler Ranges, is being explored for possible buried epigenetic gold and silver mineralisation, or IOCG type base metal sulphide...-
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Published: 13 May 1919
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Data release (in part made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report) : Uno Range (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports for the period 1/8/2011 to 31/7/2020.
A licence consisting of two separate sub-blocks located ~30 km west-northwest of Iron Knob is being explored for possible economic buried Paris type epithermal/hydrothermal gold and silver mineralisation, as well as for Menninnie Dam type...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1920
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Barna Hill (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/2011 to 26/4/2018.
An area located ~20 km east-southeast of Kimba was taken up to explore for possible buried economic base and precious metals which could be related to regional scale NW to NE lineaments and basement structural corridors that are evident from regional...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1918
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Gilles Downs. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/8/2018 to 22/11/2019.
An area centred ~55 km west-northwest of Whyalla, extending between the northern shore of Lake Gilles and country to the west of Iron Baron, has been explored for possible buried economic epithermal style base and precious metal mineralisation...-
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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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Yudnapinna [West]. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/2020 to 21/9/2021.
Two contiguous exploration licences, ELs 6522 and 6523, were secured in the Yudnapinna district to apply new concepts and techniques aimed at revitalising the rate of copper-gold mineral deposit discovery in South Australia. The licences’ area lay...-
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Published: 03 Nov 1921
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Yudnapinna [East]. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/2020 to 21/9/2021.
Two contiguous exploration licences, ELs 6522 and 6523, were secured in the Yudnapinna district to apply new concepts and techniques aimed at revitalising the rate of copper-gold mineral deposit discovery in South Australia. The licences’ area lay...-
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Published: 03 Nov 1921
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Nyllow Hill. First partial surrender report for the period 2/9/1988 to 1/9/1989.
The licence was taken out to assess the untested potential for finding platinum group metal occurrences associated with two known ultramafic intrusive plugs outcropping in the Lincoln Uplands, 40 km north-northeast of Port Lincoln. Incidental...-
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Cultana. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/9/2012 to 12/9/2017.
An area centred ~50 km south-west of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried VHMS or porphyry style copper mineralisation and for primary uranium mineralisation hosted by basement rocks within this part of the southern portion of...-
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Published: 28 Nov 1917
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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
