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RB 94/00009 Soils, stratigraphy and engineering geology of near surface materials of the Adelaide Plains.
Metropolitan Adelaide is founded on a wide variety of soils that overlie sediments and rocks. Some of the soils and sediments react to seasonal and human-induced changes in water content with marked changes in volume. The black earths and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1996
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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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Bond Hill. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 17/5/2002 to 3/6/2005.
An area located between Lakes Acraman and Gairdner was taken up to explore for possible buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold deposits hosted by subcropping basement rocks of the Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV). The licensee had noted a lack of...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1905
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 15/7/1999.
Exploratory drilling to search for heavy mineral sands, performed over an area extending to 160 km north and north-west of Renmark, has targeted marginal marine placer deposits of detrital rutile, ilmenite and zircon in potential Loxton - Parilla Sand...-
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale, northern Murray Basin, South Australia (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint third partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/12/2001.
Within the now relinquished licence portions, parts of six traverses of reverse circulation aircore drilling (involving 68 vertical open holes, total 1918.5 m) tested 60 km strike length of interpreted heavy mineral sand - bearing marine beach facies...-
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Interim report on mapping of surficial materials in ELs 113 and 114.
The Kapunda region is principally one in which prolonged denudation, or lowering of the landsurface, has been operative over the past 100 Ma, while the present topographic amplitude of the region is also at its greatest since the onset of the...-
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Oakbank, Balah, Sergeant's Dam and Record Dam (Basin Minerals' Oakvale Project). Joint annual reports plus joint final report at the latest licence's full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/4/2004.
Heavy minerals in the Pliocene Loxton - Parilla Sands marginal marine sequence of the western Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area 130 km north of Renmark. During March 1998, a trial 571 line km low-level aeromagnetic survey was...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1904
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Kybunga (latterly a part of the Balaklava HMS Project - Iluka tenements Group 9). First annual report 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2013, plus a joint annual report and final report for Group 9 submitted at the five project licences' full surrender on 24/9/2015.
Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1915
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Mount Rose. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2015.
An area of 145 square km comprising the northern ~38% portion of EL 4554 centred ~50 km north-east of Leigh Creek has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for copper and gold mineralisation. Work conducted on the...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1916
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Mount Magnificent. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 30/9/1968 to 29/12/1968.
Fourteen shallow auger holes to 30 feet deep were drilled in the Mount Magnificent area to test an occurrence of kaolinised sand which might suit as raw material for refractory ceramic manufacture. Laboratory sieve analyses and clay silica...-
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Carrieton West (part of the Orroroo North Project). Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1981.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Cradock - Carrieton region. EXPLORATION: Regional and follow-up stream sediment and gridded loam sampling, heavy mineral processing and SEM microscopy of bulk samples, grid-based ground magnetic surveys, and part of a regional...-
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RB 68/00025 Reconnaissance geological survey of the STREAKY BAY and NUYTS 1:250 000 areas.
The Streaky Bay and Nuyts 1:250 000 map areas are located on the western side of Eyre Peninsula. Precambrian greenschist and amphibolite facies metamorphics of the Gawler Platform are intruded by Lower Proterozoic or Carpentarian granites, gneisses...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1969
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RB 69/00001 Preliminary notes on the Oakvale 1:63 360 sheet.
Flat-lying Tertiary sandstones crop out in the Southwestern corner of the Oakvale 1 mile sheet, the remaining area being almost entirely Pleistocene. Definition of Quaternary units is difficult due to lack of outcrop, and possible variations in...-
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Published: 10 Jul 1969
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RB 74/00228 Exploration drilling for coal, Lake Weatherstone.
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 75/00011 Monarto construction sand investigation progress report no. 1, Tepko sand deposit - Monarto Development Commission.
Reconnaissance auger drilling for construction sand to supply the proposed new city of Monarto was carried out in the Tepko-Mannum and Hartley-Monarto South areas in 1974 The programme consisted of 79 holes 0.6m to15m deep for a total of 451m. Grain...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 74/00084 Construction materials resources, Monarto area.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 76/00091 Monarto brick clay investigation - Monarto Development Commission.
Reconnaissance sampling and exploratory drrilling have been undertaken to locate suitable brickmaking clay for the proposed city of Monarto. Samples from exposures and boreholes in Quaternary and Tertiary sediments and in weathered bedrock have been...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 2007/00008 CHILDARA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH53-14. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The CHILDARA 1:250 000 map area is located on the western Gawler Craton, an ancient crystalline shield comprising Archaean, Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic metasediments, volcanics and granites that has been tectonically stable since 1450 Ma...-
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Published: 01 May 2007
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RB 2015/00028 Modbury North Catena Study in metropolitan Adelaide: geology, regolith, soils and gilgai; their mineralogy, geochemistry, landscape evolution, geomechanics, and implications for civil engineering.
During the early to mid-1980s, the SADME (SA Department of Mines and Energy) Engineering Division collaborated with CSIRO Soils Division to jointly sponsor a major geomechanics project, investigating metropolitan Adelaide’s problem soils and near...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2016
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RB 2016/00008 Geological field excursion guide — Cenozoic Willunga Embayment: from Australo-Antarctic Gulf to Sprigg Orogeny.
INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE As superb exposures of fossiliferous strata, refreshed by coastal erosion and winter storms and backing popular beaches in what is now suburban Adelaide, the coastal cliff sections in the Willunga Embayment have attracted...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2016
