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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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Poochera. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 8/1/1996 to 15/1/2000.
As part of a search for structurally related Ernest Henry - style Cu-Au mineralisation and other possible polymetallic deposits, analysis of aeromagnetic data obtained from an area 60-100 km east to north-east of Streaky Bay indicated the presence of...-
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Smoky Bay. Progress and surrender reports for the period 1/5/1997 to 1/9/2000.
Exploration in an area centred on Smoky Bay, 40 km south-east of Ceduna, targeted shear - hosted mineralisation associated with granitoids of the Hiltaba and St Peter Suites. Several lineaments were identified from aeromagnetic data. Undertaking...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1900
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Wynbring South. First annual report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/6/1999 to 31/5/2000.
A review of existing calcrete geochemistry within the Yellabinna Regional Reserve, 80 km south-west of Tarcoola, suggested that weakly elevated Cu, Au and Ni values can be correlated with areas of better calcrete development and associated higher Ca...-
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Ceduna. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1996 to 17/7/2000.
Joint venture exploration over an area extending for 40, 35 and 50 km respectively west, north and east of Ceduna targeted Archaean and Proterozoic Yarlbrinda - style Au and Ernest Henry / Olympic Dam style Cu-Au associated with shear zones and...-
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The Venus Bay Project. Respective joint annual and subsequent individual [for Venus Bay] annual reports to that remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2002 to 16/9/2012.
Renewed diamond exploration has been conducted in a part of the western Eyre Peninsula where numerous kimberlite indicator mineral (KIM) anomalies occur in surficial sediments, and where the four adjoining licence areas involved lie in close proximity...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1912
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Ceduna (part of Eucla Basin tenement Group 2). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/4/2006 to 17/4/2017.
The remnant portion of EL 4962, which is centred ~30 km north-east of Ceduna, has now been fully surrendered owing to a perceived lack of prospectivity for economic detrital zircon entrapped there within Tertiary Eucla Basin sediments. During the...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1917
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Penong B area and Yumbarra (part of the Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Joint final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2017.
Two adjoining areas located north of Koonibba were taken up to explore this part of the south-eastern Eucla Basin for possible buried economic marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM), because they were believed to contain shallow or exposed...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1917
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 1. Joint annual reports, for the period 1/1/2016 to 31/12/2018. Plus EL 6369 surrender.
27 contiguous licence areas within the eastern Eucla Basin, that span a combined 21,772 square km of ground between points as far as 90 km north of the Trans Australian Railway, 50 km east of Nullarbor and extending right down to the coastline, and...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1919
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-25 - Pidinga and Fig Tree Corner, western Gawler Craton, orogenic gold prospects. Drilling project final report.
An area centred ~70 km north-east of Yalata and lying ~30 km to the east of the Jacinth and Ambrosia heavy mineral deposits is being explored by Doray Minerals Limited under a joint venture agreement it has made with grant licensee Iluka Resources...-
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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fowlers Bay (part of the Western Gawler JV Project). Annual report for the period 9/3/2015 to 8/3/2018.
During the 2015-2016 licence year, the Western Gawler JV Project exploration operator Western Areas Limited (WSA) conducted the first part of a regional reconnaissance bedrock drilling campaign targeting aeromagnetic anomalies which were interpreted...-
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Kulliparu. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/1/2010 to 20/1/2013.
An area located approximately 60 km east of Streaky Bay was taken up primarily because of old reports of gold prospectivity in the north of the tenement area at and near the historic Kattata mine. Marmota Energy considered that regional geological...-
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Published: 19 Feb 1913
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fowlers Bay. Annual reports for the period 11/10/2004 to 8/3/2015.
An area centred about 40 km north-west of Fowlers Bay is being explored for possible buried economic nickel-copper mineralisation that may be hosted in a craton boundary setting by ultrabasic intrusive igneous bodies, in a manner similar to that of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ceduna. Licence-specific annual reports submitted until the commencement of project joint reporting, for the period 28/11/2001 to 18/4/2008.
EL 2870 Ceduna covers 1390 square km located adjacent to the coast near Ceduna on north-western Eyre Peninsula. Minotaur believed that the area, which lies relatively close to the continental Fowler Suture Zone, was prospective for Proterozoic...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1908
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Toondulya Bluff. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/1/2004 to 14/7/2013.
A licence area centred about 100 km north-east of Streaky Bay township, on the south-western perimeter of the Gawler Ranges, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG mineralisation or Tunkillia stye fracture controlled lode gold...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1913
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RB 2001/00004 CHILDARA bedrock drilling program.
Fifty-eight shallow aircore holes totalling 2140.5 m were drilled by PIRSA's Mineral Resources Group in the Ceduna area during November 1999 to as part of a programme designed to assist regional mapping and geological interpretation of the CHILDARA...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2001
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Ceduna. Partial surrender report for the period 31/8/1996 to 30/8/1997.
Evaluation of SAEI aeromagnetic data for an area south-east of Ceduna, and surface calcrete sampling on a 1 km regional grid for anomalous Au-Cu-Ni, in a search for buried Ernest Henry / Olympic Dam style Cu-Au mineralisation, identified an area of...-
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Poochera. Partial surrender report for the period 8/1/1996 to 7/1/1999.
An aeromagnetic survey was followed by soil and calcrete sampling in the Poochera - Wirulla area, over possible southerly extensions to the Yarlbrinda Shear Zone. Only slightly elevated Au and Cu values were returned, and follow-up sampling in one...-
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Insights into tectonic evolution of the western Gawler Craton - Childara bedrock drilling.
The understanding of the tectonic evolution of the western Gawler Craton has been greatly enhanced by recent drilling in an area of poor basement exposure. Fifty-eight air-core holes (totalling 2140.5 m) were completed near Ceduna on the CHILDARA...-
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