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RB 96/00016 Review of mineral exploration - CHILDARA region.
Mineral exploration on CHILDARA 1:250 000 geological map sheet was reviewed from SADME open file Envelopes, to complement an overview of regional prospectivity supported via the recent acquisition of high quality aeromagnetic data and a compilation by...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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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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Data release - as updated : Lock. Annual reports plus final report to licence's full surrender, for the period 16/12/2008 to 13/4/2017.
No field work was done during all of licence Years 6 to 13, until the tenement was eventually surrendered. An office -based assessment was performed on ground geophysical data collected during the earliest years of tenure, allowing some new targets to...-
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Published: 28 Mar 1917
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Colona North and Barton (the Barton Magmatic Nickel-Copper-Platinum Project) and Fig Tree Corner (the three together constituting Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1). Joint annual reports for the period 10/9/2001 to 28/2/2010.
Two adjoining exploration Licences 2840 “Colona North” and 2841 “Barton” were acquired by Adelaide Exploration Limited to search principally for nickel, copper and platinum group precious metals (PGM) mineralisation within Proterozoic and Archaean...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Brimpton Lake. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2005 to 8/8/2018.
An area of the southern Gawler Craton, which is located on Eyre Peninsula east of Elliston, is continuing to be explored for possible economic buried Archaean to Proterozoic bedrock-hosted primary base and precious metal deposits of inferred...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warrior (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/2/2005 to 16/2/2010.
Tasman Resources is exploring an area that is centred about 78 km north-west of Tarcoola for possible economic buried occurrences of sedimentary roll front style uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels and nickel mineralisation in Archaean -...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1910
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Fig Tree Corner. Second partial surrender report, for the period 10/3/2005 to 4/4/2019.
Most of a sizeable licence area located on SA's Far West Coast, which formerly extended for 10 to 90 km inland from the vicinity of Bookabie, has now been partially relinquished owing to its perceived diminished prospectivity for Tertiary marine...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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Poondinga. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/10/2004 to 4/4/2019.
309.6 square km or ~18.77% of the pre-existing area of EL 5564 Poondinga was partially relinquished on 19/2/2019 because in the licensee's view this south-eastern portion of the licence are does not appear to exhibit the geological features required...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1919
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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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Western Gawler Project. Final report, Magneto Telluric, Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. Project ADI RD02-296 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises geophysical studies conducted by Western Areas between October 2021 and October 2022, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/296-GP Magneto Telluric (MT), Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu...-
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Published: 06 May 1923
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Sahara Prospect. Final report, Model Test and Core Scanning. Project ADI RD02-270 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises exploration conducted by Western Areas between May 2021 and October 2021, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/270-ED Sahara Prospect Model Test and Core Scanning. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide at Sahara in 2020,...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1922
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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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Thurlga Ramp (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project, Corrobinnie Uranium JV and Thurlga JV periods). Data release : final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/1/2013 to 3/5/2019.
During the report period, licensee Andromeda Metals did no on-ground exploration. During its agreed 3-year earn-in period, joint venturer Investigator Resources undertook the following work described herein: - acquisition of high resolution aerial...-
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Published: 19 Jul 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Warrior (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports for the period 17/2/2010 to 20/6/2015.
During the sixth licence year, in February 2011, new licence owner Marmota Energy Limited ('Marmota') undertook a reconnaissance biogeochemical survey at the Pundinya prospect, collecting 54 x 30 g grab samples of vegetation of Mulga trees, in the...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1915
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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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Barton West and Barton East (initially part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting a third partial surrender report for the latter licence : joint annual reports for the period 14/3/2001 to 11/1/2011.
The trigger event causing this data release to be made is that three portions of licence ground that together cover ~289 square km or 19.5% of the former area of EL 4217 Barton East have now been relinquished, as of 11/1/2011. No corresponding partial...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1911
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Pinding. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/5/2004 to 24/8/2012.
An area centred approximately 30 km south-west of Tarcoola has been explored primarily for possible economic shear-hosted or epithermal/hydrothermal IOCG style Proterozoic gold, and for inferred Archaean magmatic nickel deposits associated with...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1912
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East Nullarbor Regional Reserve (Watson Joint Venture Project). Data release at licence expiry/full surrender: annual reports & partial surrender reports submitted until the start of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 3/3/2005 to 2/3/2008.
An area centred approximately 200 km north-west of Ceduna was taken up initially to explore for possible buried nickel mineralisation, and subsequently was farmed out to companies interested in assessing its base/precious metal and sedimentary uranium...-
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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