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Wallaroo and Moonta mines and smelters, Yorke's [sic] Peninsula, South Australia. History, nature and methods.
A detailed account of the large scale copper mining and processing operations occurring in the 'Copper Triangle' region of South Australia in the few years following the end of the First World War. The included metrics and pictorial coverage of many...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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University student thesis : Detailed geological investigation of the Burra open pit, Burra, SA.
Detailed geological and structural mapping of Samin's partly excavated new Burra open cut was performed by the author at a scale of 1:480 during the period December 1972 to end of January 1973. By the latter date the pit had been excavated downwards a...-
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South Warren Reservoir. Progress report to licence expiry for the period 10/10/1973 to 9/10/1974.
The Ukaparinga and Southern Hills prospects lie within EL 99, a small exploration tenement located near the Warren Reservoir, 20 km south-east of Gawler. The included Ukaparinga mine area is privately held under three mineral claims, over which...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1974
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Interpretation report on self potential surveys undertaken at the Gunsight area, South Australia.
SP data acquired over the Gunsight Cu-U-Co-REE prospect has accurately located the main mineralised zone between grid 900E and 1100E, with a maximum anomaly of approximately 200 mV on line 900E. The slight asymmetry of the SP profiles confirms the...-
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Tarlton Knob and Cadnia Hill. Joint progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
A consultant's detailed regional geological study of the northern Willouran Ranges, and then his very close examination of the apparent controls on known diapir-related exposed epigenetic / stratabound copper mineralisation, have identified three...-
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Yudnamutana Project, SML 704. Old Noll prospect. Report on drilling DDH NFK1.
Diamond drill-hole NFK1 was drilled to a total depth of 289.56 metres at the Old Noll prospect in November - December 1972, with the aim of intersecting the buried source of mineralization that has given rise to the boxwork structures outcropping...-
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Moonta-Wallaroo region - South Australian Exploration Initiative. Prospectivity re-assessment and GIS data package (compiled 1994-1995).
To promote renewed regional exploration of the northern Yorke Peninsula using modern techniques and concepts, MESA as part of the SAEI programme has prepared a GIS-based data package, which incorporates a study of all available drillcore and a...-
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Mount Painter district (the Gunsight Joint Venture Project). Individual licence's progress reports and annual reports to project licences' joint full surrender, for the period 1/12/1982 to 16/11/1993.
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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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RB 35/00021 Recovery of copper from Moonta Dumps.
The ore submitted for beneficiation consisted of borehole samples from the Handcock tailings dump at the old treatment plant at Moonta. Some 21 boreholes were systematically sunk in this dump by the Mines Department during 1951 to investigate the...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1955
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RB 35/00035 Report on (the) Spring Creek copper mine.
The abandoned and flooded Spring Creek mine, located 7 miles south of Wilmington on the north-western slope of Mount Remarkable, was visited by an officer of the SA Dept of Mines in order to check whether any radioactive minerals were present in still...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1953
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RB 36/00014 Wallaroo slime dumps.
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Published: 01 Jul 1953
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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 37/00149 Appraisal of Torrens barite mine, Hundred of Onkaparinga.
In February 1951, South Australian Barytes Limited became interested in this mine, held under claim by Reginald John Alfred Larsson and requested an inspection by Department of Mines officers. This request was repeated, and endorsed by Larsson in...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1954
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RB 39/00050 Government drilling operations, diamond drilling, North Kadina, Hundreds of Wallaroo and Tickera.
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 39/00078 Radiometric reconnaissance of copper mines dumps, northern Yorke Peninsula.
A radiometric investigation of mine dumps in the Moonta-Kadina copper-mining district and of 17 other known copper prospects on northern Yorke Peninsula revealed the presence of anomalous radioactivity associated with much of the copper mineralisation...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 53/00095 Re-appraisal of the Kapunda mine.
Bedded sulphide mineralisation has been recognised in the carbonaceous felspathic siltstone host rocks of the Kapunda ore body environment. Evidence for lateral secretion origin for the ore veins is advanced. The new data enable recommendations to be...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 54/00087 Geological inspection of the Old Nuccaleena copper mine.
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 59/00136 Geological report on the West Burra copper mine.
The West Burra copper deposit, which lies in hilly country 3.5 miles west-southwest of Burra, was discovered in January 1913 and worked as a single 40-acre mining claim until that claim was cancelled on 18/2/1919. Information about the mine has been...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1964
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RB 59/00153 Copper-silver-lead prospect, Peters Hill mine.
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
