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Yudnamutana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1972 to 23/6/1973.
As part of continuing exploration for possible economic buried stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation in the Yudnamutana Mining Field, the target lower Callanna Group strata were geologically mapped, petrologically studied and geochemically...-
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Minbrie. Progress reports for the period 28/6/1973 to 27/6/1975.
Reports describe the ongoing field prospecting and downstream jade marketing activities associated with the Cowell nephrite jade discovery. Black nephrite blocky material extracted from the operating company's new mining leases (MLs 4130-4132) was...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1975
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RB 38/00056 Stone deposits - Hd Hawker.
Following the request from the Commissioner of Railways for information regarding a possible road metal deposit (quartzite) in Section 115 Hundred Hawker, contained below, an inspection was made of this deposit and adjacent areas during the period 10...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 59/00152 Further diamond drilling, Bald Hill marble deposit (logs not published) 16/12/1964.
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 41/00134 Mineral investigations in the Mount Painter region. Progress report.
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Published: 06 Jan 1956
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RB 79/00122 Penrice marble deposit. (Report on the) 1977-1978 drilling programme.
Since 1950, recorded production from ICI's Penrice marble deposit near Angaston has totalled 13,083,395 tonnes. High grade marble is used at the company's Osborne plant, while lower grade stone is sold for cement manufacture and roadstone, and small...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1979
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RB 87/00106 Textures, minerals and organic remains in marbles from Kapunda.
Thin sections of 3 specimens were examined for traces of organic remains, metallic minerals and the metamorphism of the rocks. Contains petrographic reports.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 80/00139 Tumby Bay marble EML 3554. T.W. Norton, sections 288, 299, Hundred Hutchison, County Flinders.
EML 3554, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, contains 3 separate marble outcrops, each 40 metres wide, of similar mineralogy, which are isoclinally-folded Katunga Dolomite of the Hutchison Group of Lower Proterozoic age. The marble quarries where mapped, surveyed...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1980
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RB 80/00131 Tumby Bay marble quarry, County Flinders.
An abandoned quarry, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, was mapped and surveyed. It is sited on the equivalent of the Katunga Domomite, part of the Hutchison Group of Middle Proterozoic age. The marble was isoclinally folded and metamorphosed to granulite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 89/00051 Cowell Jade Province: Detailed geological mapping and diamond drilling of jade and ornamental marble outcrops, 1982-1987. Volume 1.
Detailed mapping undertaken between 1982 and 1987 of 48 known jade outcrops located in the Cowell - Cleve area, and diamond drilling of 3 jade outcrops and 2 ornamental marble prospects, has identified many factors controlling nephrite formation. The...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1992
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RB 89/00074 Industrial and non metallic minerals - Operations in South Australia.
This data package discusses mining and processing operations of the major non metallic and industrial mineral commodities in South Australia and is of interest to those in the industry and to manufacturers and suppliers of a range of machinery and...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1906
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A gemmological assessment of the nephrite jade deposits near Cowell, South Australia.
Nephrite jade is associated with Lower Proterozoic dolomitic marbles and calc-silicate rocks as part of a sequence of metasedimentary quartzo-feldspathic gneisses, quartzites and mica schists of amphibolite metamorphic facies. These rocks normally...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1980
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Burra Copper [open pit mining] Project. Reports of geological investigations for the period October 1969 to February 1981.
A collection of miscellaneous reports referring to geochemical sampling of costeans and exposed bedrock, drilling, mapping and petrology work that has recently been carried out in the re-developed Burra open cut copper mine. The focus of the work...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1980
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Kia Ora Station. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 20/8/1980.
The target of exploration carried out approximately 60 km north-east of Burra was diamonds, with base metals and coal as secondary interests. Aeromagnetic and radiometric surveys identified several anomalies which were interpreted as possibly due to...-
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Reports on the Rapid Bay limestone deposit, for the period 1956 to 1958.
This Cambrian marble deposit, which has been quarried by BHP since August 1942 to supply metallurgical fluxes to its Whyalla Steelworks, has recently been surveyed, mapped at 1:1200 scale and sampled through its entire extent to determine stone grades...-
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Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/3/1970 to 18/3/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over part of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field has targeted base metal anomalies previously found by Australian Selection in the Blue mine area. An area of about 80 square miles was assessed by reconnaissance stream...-
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Terowie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/11/1976 to 26/6/1978.
In an area of strongly folded, sericitised and silicified lower Adelaidean sedimentary rocks located km north-east of Terowie, an initial four areas of base metal geochemical anomalism were identified on prior EL 158 by surface sampling and geological...-
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Bull 010 The Building Stones of South Australia
In South Australia the abundance of stone suitable for building, and the comparative lack of easily worked local timber, at a very early date determined the choice of building material, so that the use of stone is very general throughout the State....-
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