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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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RB 97/00025 Preliminary report of palaeodrainage in the St Vincent Basin and Mount Lofty Ranges.
Generalised contouring of the Mount Lofty Ranges aimed at reconstructing the Tertiary landsurface topography has identified the locations of a number of possible buried fluvial valleys and channels associated with the St Vincent Basin palaeodrainage,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Annual, joint annual and combined annual reports for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2009.
A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1909
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Pine Creek Kimberlite [Field] : indicator mineral study.
A study of the Pine Creek kimberlite field was undertaken as a 2001-2002 TEISA "New Initiatives" Project aimed at increasing the potential for new mineral discoveries in South Australia. The study focused on a number of important facets of diamond...-
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Carrieton West (part of the Orroroo North Project). Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1981.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Cradock - Carrieton region. EXPLORATION: Regional and follow-up stream sediment and gridded loam sampling, heavy mineral processing and SEM microscopy of bulk samples, grid-based ground magnetic surveys, and part of a regional...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Joint annual reports for the period 4/1/2009 to 3/1/2019.
During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Crystal Brook, Port Broughton, Port Pirie, Mundoora and Winninnowie (the Moonta North Project). Annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 19/10/2000 to 1/8/2008.
Buried basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style is the target of exploration across a number of scattered Exploration Licences trending from Port Broughton in the south to...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1908
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Diamond provenance studies at Chapel Hill Reserve, Echunga, South Australia. [being work done within one of the "Areas to be reserved under the Mining Act and Regulations 1971"].
The principal aim of Flinders Diamonds Limited’s (FDL) exploration in the Chapel Hill area is to discover a commercial diamond deposit. The source of the "Echunga" diamonds, found in the alluvial gold workings within the Chapel Hill Fossicking Reserve...-
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Muckanippie, Garford, Commonwealth Hill and Mulgathing Hill (part of the Central Gawler Project). Joint annual reports to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/2005 to 19/5/2010.
Tasman Resources' Central Gawler Project acreage, originally comprising seven exploration licences ELs 3339 to 3345, was initially applied for on the basis of perceived prospectivity for diamonds, however, further potential for discovering buried...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and annual reports for the period 7/12/1987 to 22/9/2008. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Diamond exploration undertaken within the southern of two adjoining licence areas taken up along part of the western flank of the Peake and Denison Ranges, that is centred ~100 km south-east of Oodnadatta, was aimed at discovering the source(s) of...-
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The Springfield Project. Data release at licences' partial surrender/ full surrender: licences' combined annual reports re. diamond exploration activities for the period 1/1/2001 to 1/8/2011. [Index Part 2 of 2].
During 2005, consultant geomorphologist Richard Russell was contracted by FDL to undertake a study of existing 'unsourced’ kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies that occur in the northern part of the Springfield Project area. The initial aim of...-
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Published: 09 Nov 1911
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Balta (part of the Edward Creek Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2000 to 17/7/2010.
An area located approximately 35 km west and south-west of Anna Creek Homestead, straddling the Coober Pedy - William Creek Road, was taken up to explore for possible buried diamondiferous kimberlite intrusions that could be the source(s) of the...-
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Hiles Lagoon. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/9/1993 to 14/9/1998.
Diamond exploration undertaken in an area south of Terowie included acquisition of a low-level detailed helimag survey flown along irregular flight traverses centred on Hiles Lagoon that used a mean sensor elevation of 80 m above the ground surface,...-
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Bopeechee and Cadnia Hill/Stuart Creek and Porter Hill (The Lake Torrens Project). Data release made at two licences' surrender/two latter licences' fifth partial relinquishment: annual reports and final reports for the period 9/4/1998 to 31/12/2006.
The reports comprising this data release package describe exploration for economic deposits of base and precious metals that have possibly formed within Neoproterozoic metasediments, the underlying Palaeoproterozoic basement, and in Cambrian carbonate...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1909
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Lyons, Commonwealth Hill Station, Jumbuck Outstation, Mount Christie Siding and Sandstone Outstation (part of Tarcoola/Barton Project). Joint final [plus ELs 826 and 830 partial surrender] report for the period 13/4/1981 to 12/4/1983.
After two intensive regional reconnaisance programmes of heavy mineral sampling, backed up by air photointerpretation and drill hole record checks, the licensee has concluded that the tenement areas relinquished have a low prospectivity for diamonds....-
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Mypolonga, Oakbank and Sturt Vale (part of CRA's Murray Basin Project). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 7/7/1980 to 20/6/1983.
As part of ongoing exploration of three areas in the western and northern Murray Basin, an open-file data review, in conjunction with the acquisition and interpretation of previous aeromagnetic and gravity data, provided a basis for CRAE's siting of 5...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1983
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Hiles Lagoon. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2004.
A discrete gravity low centred on Hiles Lagoon, which is a quite unusual topographic feature located 30 km east of Jamestown, that exists within a district where several kimberlite intrusions are known, was the target of resumed diamond exploration....-
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Published: 01 Feb 1904
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Reedy Lagoon. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 20/7/81 to 4/8/86.
Exploration as part of a continuing regional search for possible diamondiferous kimberlites was undertaken 70 km west-northwest of Roxby Downs. Extensive sampling of current drainage lines in interdune swales, plus loam sampling in other...-
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