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PUBLICATION DATE

Specific date: 1980, 20/04/1980, 04/1980

Date range: 1980-2022, 04/1980-08/1990

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Commodity: Rare earth element Geological province: Gawler Craton

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  • Archaean Metabasic Diamond Drilling Project.

    The Archaean Metabasic Diamond Drilling Project was undertaken by SADME Regional Geology Branch (part of the Geological Survey of South Australia) in two locations within the north-western Gawler Craton. Metasediments in this region include banded...
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  • RB 93/00004 Tarcoola - Tallaringa bedrock drilling 1991. Summary.

    Archaean and Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...
      Document Published: 01 Feb 1993
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  • RB 97/00012 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Review of previous company exploration on the BILLA KALINA and COOBER PEDY 1:250 000 map sheets.

    This report is a summary of company exploration of the Coober Pedy Ridge and Mount Woods Inlier, northern Gawler Craton, for the period until 1993, being information extracted from data on open file with the emphasis on data referring to the iron ore...
      Document Published: 01 Feb 1997
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  • RB 97/00009 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Peculiar Knob prospect.

    As part of the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, MESA has targeted significant aeromagnetic anomalies in the search for a possible iron ore resource. At Peculiar Knob prospect, previous company exploratory drilling in 1985 of such a magnetic...
      Document Published: 01 Feb 1997
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  • Weetulta. Fourth partial surrender report for the period 16/9/2005 to 15/9/2009.

    Exploration addressing a new style of copper-nickel-cobalt-rare earth element mineralisation has been conducted in part of the Copper Triangle region of northern Yorke Peninsula, where reported historical drilling had encountered such mineralisation...
      Document Published: 20 Oct 1909
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  • Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.

    Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...
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  • Mabel Creek. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint licence reporting on the Mabel Creek JV Project tenements, for the period 20/12/1999 to 23/3/2006.

    Exploration currently underway for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation within Proterozoic basement on the Mabel Creek High, in one of two joint venture group project licence areas located approximately 50...
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  • Manguri (part of the Mount Woods Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/12/1999 to 4/10/2006.

    Possible craton margin magmatic nickel deposits or iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) type large base and precious metal deposits within buried Proterozoic basement were targeted in an area lying just to the north-west of Coober Pedy. Delays...
      Document Published: 20 Nov 1906
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  • Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kapinnie (part of the Brimpton Lake Project). Annual reports for the period 17/9/2003 to 4/3/2010.

    An area extending to the north of Kapinnie on western Eyre Peninsula area is being explored by grant licensee Anglo American and (since March 2003) its joint venture partner Lynch Mining, looking for possible buried economic Archaean volcanic or...
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  • PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-09 - Margaret Dam, southern margin, Peake and Denison Inliers, kimberlite diamond prospect. Drilling project final report.

    Monax Alliance's Margaret Dam Project is located on their EL 5347 Francis Creek, which is centred approximately 40 km south of William Creek in northern South Australia. The initial project work done for licence operator Monax Mining by geophysical...
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  • Tarcoola - Tallaringa Bedrock Drilling Project.

    Archaean, Early and Middle Proterozoic rocks of the north-western Gawler Craton have features which suggest good prospectivity for base metals, precious metals and other commodities. However, outcrop is poor and there has been relatively little...
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  • Safari, Lake Woorong, Leonard Rise, Thunderstorm Creek and Brumby Creek areas (Coober Pedy Ridge Project). Quarterly and six-monthly progress, plus annual and final, joint activity reports for the period 22/4/1991 to 22/3/2000.

    The Coober Pedy Ridge / Mount Woods Inlier project investigated a 170 km long east-west belt of medium to high grade Proterozoic metamophics and syn- and post tectonic granites, centred 25 km south of Coober Pedy, for Broken Hill type stratiform...
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  • Port Broughton. Progress reports, annual reports, technical reports, and final report to licence expiry/ surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 19/9/2001.

    Exploration targetted Roxby Downs style and Ernest Henry style copper-gold mineralisation in an area of intensely magnetic, concealed Proterozoic metasedimentary and intrusive igneous basement terrain, characterised by complex regional geophysical...
      Document Published: 12 Dec 1900
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  • Francis Swamp. Combined first and second annual reports/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2013 to 8/10/2015.

    An area believed to cover the concealed southern margin of the Peake and Denison Domain of the Northern Gawler Craton was taken up by the Monax-Antofagasta copper exploration consortium to explore for possible buried economic iron-oxide associated...
      Document Published: 24 Nov 1915
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  • Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Oak Dam North-east. Annual reports for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.

    A relatively large but little-explored area of the central-eastern Stuart Shelf, which is almost wholly covered by scrubby sand dunes and swampy salt lakes, thereby making surface access very difficult despite it being located only ~30 km to 50 km km...
      Document Published: 16 Mar 1911
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  • Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Weetulta. Annual reports for the period 16/9/2005 to 15/9/2009.

    EL 3413, surrounding the township of Weetulta on the Yorke Peninsula, is located geologically along the prospective south-eastern margin of the Gawler Craton. The licence area, which lies only about 10 km south of Moonta, has several historic mines...
      Document Published: 20 Oct 1909
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  • Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Pernatty [Station] and Yeltacowie (the Punt Hill IOCG Project). Joint annual reports for the period 29/11/2009 to 6/1/2012.

    Two adjoining licence areas located in the country east of Pernatty Lagoon that lies between 80 and 180 km north of Port Augusta are being explored by Monax Mining Limited (Monax) for economic Proterozoic basement-hosted Iron-Oxide associated...
      Document Published: 21 Jun 1912
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  • Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Island Dam, Stuart Shelf and Andamooka Ranges (the Stuart Shelf Project). Joint annual reports for the period 11/10/2009 to 30/6/2018.

    Exploratory drilling carried out by BHP Billiton (BHPB) during the 2009-10 project reporting year took place at six prospects thought to have good IOCG mineralisation potential, based in part on earlier drilling results and also on refined target...
      Document Published: 30 Aug 1918
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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...
      Document Published: 26 Nov 1912
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  • Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Annual reports for the period 24/9/2001 to 23/9/2005.

    The buried Menninnie Dam zinc-lead(-silver-copper) deposit, located approximately 55 km north of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula, and sitting adjacent to the south-eastern margin of the Gawler Ranges, is being evaluated for its future commercial...
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