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Watson Siding (South). Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 11/12/81 to 10/10/82.
In a search for possible concealed Olympic Dam type base metal deposits within an area located 80 km north-west of Yalata, the licensee investigated several previously identified contiguous magnetic and gravity anomalies by performing ground magnetic...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1982
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RB 96/00024 Gawler Ranges drilling report 1994.
The Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics - Hiltaba Granite Suite - related Olympic Dam style Cu-U-Au mineralisation, and Menninnie Dam replacement style Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation, have served to raise the prospectivity of rocks in and underlying the...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1996
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-42, Talia Hill area (Harris Greenstone Domain) copper-nickel and platinum group elements mineral prospects. Project final report.
In December 2005 Mithril Resources completed five RC percussion drillholes totalling 682 m on three 100 m - spaced traverses, as one of the approved PACE Initiative Year 2 subsidised drilling projects. This drilling was intended to test a surface TEM...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-42 - Mount Woods Project area, Gawler Craton: assessing the potential for ISGC style mineralisation within the Mount Woods Inlier. Drilling final report
Historically, exploration undertaken for finding Iron Oxide - associated Copper-Gold (IOCG) mineralisation on the eastern Gawler Craton, over the long period since the discovery of the Olympic Dam deposit in July 1975, has targeted positive gravity...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-25 - Wilcherry Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, Zealous prospect Mesoproterozoic epithermal calc-silicate skarn Sn-U-Pb-Cu-Ag mineral occurrence. Final report.
Arising out of exploratory drilling carried out by Ironclad Mining in 2012, which aimed to test the shallow subsurface haematite ore potential of an ironstone outcrop located in the central north of the Wilcherry Hill licence area, an unexpected...-
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Birthday Hill (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). First progress report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1977 to 29/3/1978.
During exploration carried out in an area located approximately 60 km south-west of Anna Creek, Newmont targeted Zambian Copperbelt - style mineralisation similar to perceived equivalents of the then newly discovered and poorly understood Olympic Dam...-
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Franklin Harbour. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/2/1972 to 25/2/1973.
As part of an ongoing regional search of the eastern Eyre Peninsula for possible economic stratiform base and precious metal deposits, soil sampling and SP and IP surveys were carried out over previously identified, separate linear lead and zinc...-
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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/209 : [petrographic] comparison of some Archaean and Proterozoic iron formations in SA. Progress reports 1 to 4, for the period December 1977 to July 1979.
A project to compare Gawler Craton iron formations of unknown age with those of known Archaean age (from geochronology) and with the Proterozoic, Lake Superior - type Middleback Range iron deposits has concentrated on characterising each formation by...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1979
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RB 2018/00003 Summary and final report on pyrite, magnetite and hematite mineral geochemistry, South Australia (including samples from the Mineral Systems Drilling Program and the Emmie Bluff IOCG prospect).
Sulfide and oxide trace element geochemical analyses have been conducted on more than 290 core chip samples collected from stored drill cores of 39 drillholes located across South Australia, as part of a collaborative project being conducted between...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2018
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Geology of the Hillside mine area, Yorke Peninsula, SA.
Exploration of a small area at the historic Hillside mine copper-uranium prospect near Ardrossan on Yorke Peninsula, which is presently covered by Mineral Claim 1115 held by Pegmin Ltd, has been undertaken during late 1979 and early 1980 by option...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/11/1976 to 16/11/1978.
Brownfields copper exploration undertaken by WMC in the Phillips Ridge area, located about 24 km east-southeast of the Olympic Dam discovery, initially consisted of the acquisition of gravity and ground magnetic traverses across a regional gravity...-
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Glenloth (part of the Tarcoola Joint Venture Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 11/7/2003 to 2/11/2009.
When exploring for nickel sulphide mineralisation within buried ultramafic rocks of the Archaean Lake Harris Greenstone Belt, over TEMPEST aerial EM anomalies lying ~16 km north-west of Yerda Outstation, Mithril Resources carried out a ground EM...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 6 partnership DPY6-39 - The Hummocks area - Ridgeback [North] IOCG mineral prospect. Drilling final report.
The greenfields Ridgeback prospect, located about 5 km east-southeast of Bute on the northern Yorke Peninsula, is being explored by EL 4278 sole licensee Investigator Resources for possible Hillside deposit look-alike, Proterozoic basement-hosted...-
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Wallaroo - Moonta mines. Company-compiled copies of geological and petrographic logs of drill cores from diamond drillholes put down in near-mine exploration undertaken by the SADM over the period 1907-1947.
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Published: 01 Jan 1948
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Compeera Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/1980 to 19/8/1981.
Exploration for buried Middle Proterozoic basement - hosted Cu-U-Au mineralisation similar to that found at Olympic Dam, and for possible younger buried Adelaidean sediments, was undertaken over a basement high in the Mount Purvis area. Diamond...-
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Warramboo area. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/11/1993 to 28/11/1995.
Cu-Au and iron ore exploration, undertaken over ground situated 10-15 km south and east of Kyancutta, comprised the acquisition of an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey and ground gravity, ground magnetic and IP surveys, followed by RC drilling of 5...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1995
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Stafford [Rise]. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/12/1993 to 29/12/1994.
Exploration for possible Archaean volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits 100 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy comprised the drilling of one vertical reverse circulation hole to a total depth of 200 m over a Sirotem basement conductor. No...-
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Tolmer Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1980 to 10/8/1982.
Following the conduct of magnetic and gravity surveys in the Childara area and south of Mount Finke, 24 aircore/diamond holes were drilled (aggregate 1123 m, including 49 m cored) to ascertain the nature of the concealed basement. Two of these...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1982
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Pinding Rocks. Progress reports for the period 12/11/1970 to 11/5/1971.
Geological reconnaissance identified discontinuous quartz reefs along a strike length of 1.6 km, which yielded up to 21 oz/ton Ag and significant Bi content. Subsequent gridding, geological mapping, soil sampling and VLF EM geophysical surveys...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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Summary report on the Roopena area, SML 204, SA.
During early 1970 BHP investigated an area on Roopena Station, 20 miles north-northwest of Whyalla, for possible late Meso- to early Neoproterozoic stratiform copper associated with the basal Adelaidean unconformity. Previously, interesting minor...-
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