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RB 87/00061 Calca granite deposits - Discovery, geology and production. Calca quarry section - EML 4469, section 46, Hundred Rounsevell. Calca South - EML 5068, section 48, Hundred Wrenfordsley.
Middle Proterozoic red granite is quarried near Calca, 35 km SE of Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. It is ideally suited as dimension and monumental stone, being fresh, uniform in texture and colour, and comparatively free of defects. It is...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 89/00084 Geology of St Peter and Goat Islands (Nuyts Archipelago) and Cape Beaufort.
Outcrops of Proterozoic rocks consist of a complex suite of comagmatic intrusives which exhibit a variable degree of deformation and are correlated with the Early Proterozoic Lincoln Complex. On southern Saint Peter Island, felsic volcanics,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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RB 90/00074 Explanatory Notes for the ELLISTON 1:250 000 map sheet.
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Published: 01 Nov 1990
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RB 97/00028 Reconnaissance granite sampling of the Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Reconnaissance sampling of Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, to identify all potentially quarryable granite varieties, was carried out by MESA during 1996/97. A total of 157 outcrops were inspected and 99 samples...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 91/00011 Saint Francis Granite of the southwestern Gawler Craton.
Volcano-plutonic rocks of the Nuyts Archipelago represent a discrete phase of felsic magmatism at about 1630 Ma. Associated with the Nuyts Volcanics are grey alkali granites, leucogranites and leucoporphyries - here defined as the Saint Francis...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 89/00070 Gawler Ranges Excursion, October 7th-9th, 1989.
Summarises the chemical classification and macroscopic visual attributes of basement igneous rocks seen in outcrop within the regional geological settings of northern Eyre Peninsula and the Gawler Ranges.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1989
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RB 90/00065 Explanatory Notes for the STREAKY BAY 1:250 000 sheet.
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Published: 01 Oct 1990
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RB 96/00016 Review of mineral exploration - CHILDARA region.
Mineral exploration on CHILDARA 1:250 000 geological map sheet was reviewed from SADME open file Envelopes, to complement an overview of regional prospectivity supported via the recent acquisition of high quality aeromagnetic data and a compilation by...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-45, Old Well and New Well shear-associated gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
The Yarlbrinda and Yerda Shear Zones of the central Gawler Craton, partly present within EL 3107 in the Tarcoola-Glenloth-Lake Harris region, were the target for a number of mineral exploratory drillholes put down there by by licence farminee Minotaur...-
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Christie. Annual technical reports for the period 25/10/96 to 24/10/98.
Reconnaissance calcrete sampling over aeromagnetic features was carried out in interdunal corridors 110 km south-west of Tarcoola. Although sampling was restricted by excessive depths to the calcrete horizon, weakly anomalous gold and copper were...-
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Published: 18 Jan 1999
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/7/1998 to 1/7/2001.
An area located 45 km west of Whyalla, which is underlain by Palaeoproterozoic and Archaean sediments, metasediments and intrusives, was inferred to have potential to host gold and base metal mineralisation. Interpretation of Landsat images and...-
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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/144 : "Stratigraphy and petrology of the Gawler Range Volcanics". Progress reports 1 to 20 for the period 17/4/1972 to 24/11/1983.
This dataset presents the observations and interpretive results of a project aiming to define and classify the complex suite of volcanic rocks found outcropping within the Gawler Ranges, as a corollary to regional geological mapping by the SA...-
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Published: 24 Nov 1983
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Cocunda and Calca (Poochera Kaolin Project). Progress reports, annual reports, and final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 12/5/1986 to 28/3/2002.
Kaolin, derived mainly from deep weathering of Hiltaba Suite granites, was the principal target of exploration in the area south and south-west from Poochera, near Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. Following a review made of historic drillhole...-
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Ceduna. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1996 to 17/7/2000.
Joint venture exploration over an area extending for 40, 35 and 50 km respectively west, north and east of Ceduna targeted Archaean and Proterozoic Yarlbrinda - style Au and Ernest Henry / Olympic Dam style Cu-Au associated with shear zones and...-
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Elbow Hill. Information status at licence surrender, for the period 12/4/2013 to 29/5/2014: no work performed.
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hall. Annual reports for the period 23/7/2013 to 22/7/2015.
An area extending inland between Baird Bay and Venus Bay, 50-80 km South-east of Streaky Bay, has been taken up to explore for significant buried occurrences kaolin associated with the deep Cenozoic weathering of Proterozoic granite, in order to...-
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Mount Finke South. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/1987 to 16/7/1988.
TARGET: Possible epithermal or hydrothermal gold in the Mount Finke region, 50 km south-west of Tarcoola. EXPLORATION: A regional magnetic interpretation, ground magnetic surveys, and RAB drilling (49 holes totalling 1055 m) to sample the bedrock...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1988
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Tolmer. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/11/1987 to 26/5/1988.
TARGET: Possible epithermal gold in contact metamorphosed zones in the Tolmer area, 40 km south of Tarcoola. EXPLORATION: Highly magnetic contact aureoles associated with 2 granite intrusions were delineated by a regional magnetic interpretation. A...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1988
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/122 : Geochronology of the younger granites of the Gawler Block and its north-western margin. Progress reports 1-32 for the period 10/7/1969 to 2/3/1982.
A SADM project to attempt to determine the ages of the youngest granites of the Gawler Block, of its north-western margin, and of known subsurface granites in the Officer and Eucla Basins, was initiated with Amdel in July 1969. The project aims to...-
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