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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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Victory Downs. Progress and final reports for the period 10/6/1968 to 9/6/1970.
Government-prompted company exploration for orthite and related rare earth and other minerals in an area of the eastern Musgrave Ranges included an aerial inspection of quartz pegmatites, plus ground studies and sampling. Geochemical and detrital...-
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RB 65/00080 Amdel 00556 Mount Davies nickel deposits.
Low grade, nickel bearing, weathered ultrabasic rocks that form a part of the Giles Complex in the North-West Province of South Australia were first discovered by a SA Mines Department field party in 1953. Since their discovery the weathered rocks,...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1967
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Hanging Knoll (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/3/2002 to 17/3/2007.
A licence area located at the south-eastern end of the Mann Ranges in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 90 km south-southwest of Ayers Rock (Uluru), is being explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) and Delta Gold, as...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1907
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hardy (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/3/2002 to 17/3/2007.
A licence area located at the eastern end of the Deering Hills in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 150 km south-west of Ayers Rock (Uluru), is being explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) and Delta Gold, as part of...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1907
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RB 2003/00021 Musgrave Province - Geological summary and exploration history.
The Musgrave Province is largely incorporated within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands and includes cratonic crystalline middle Proterozoic basement rocks of the Musgrave Province proper, as well as mantling younger sedimentary rock successions...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2003
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RB 2006/00004 Crustal evolution of the Gawler Craton, South Australia: Application of the TerraneChron technique to detrital zircon from modern stream sediments.
This report presents the results of a Terranechron [registered brand name for this proprietary technique] study of detrital zircons from modern stream sediments of the Gawler Craton. The Terranechron approach involves obtaining uranium - lead decay...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2006
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Mount Dare. Annual and final reports for the period 29/9/94 to 28/9/96.
Loam sampling over 8 possibly kimberlitic, SAEI-defined dipolar aeromagnetic anomalies located near the SA-NT border, north-east of the old Pedirka railway siding, revealed no diamond indicator minerals, and only traces of deep crustal type zircon...-
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Arrelumbercumma Hill. Annual and final reports for the period 1/11/93 to 28/10/95.
Diamond exploration undertaken south of Abminga commenced with a review of MESA's SAEI aeromagnetic data, which delineated 5 promising magnetic targets. Helimag surveying and loam sampling of these anomalies were next performed, the latter to check...-
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RB 2022/00011 Eucla Basin and peripheral paleovalleys.
The Cenozoic Eucla Basin is located on the southern margin of the Australian continent, with a present-day basin onshore edge which extends for over 2,000 km from Western Australia into South Australia. The basin’s sediment fill comprises a thin...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2022
