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Roopena Station. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 26/6/1985.
Exploration of an area situated between Whyalla, Iron Knob and The Bluff overlooking Myall Creek, 20 km south-west of Port Augusta, aimed to test for Olympic Dam - type Cu-U-Au mineralisation associated with products of igneous activity located in and...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1985
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RB 53/00024 Report on northern Eyre Peninsula stratigraphic relationships and Gawler Range porphyry reconnaissance.
In the course of the programme of sampling of rocks for age determination on Northern Eyre Peninsula, an opportunity was taken to check certain stratigraphic relationships, with particular reference to the age of the Tent Hill Formation and Corunna...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 55/00038 Report on a visit to the Australian National University, the Bureau of Mineral Resources, and other universities.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 59/00120 Progress report on (field mapping of the) stratigraphic sequence in (the) Moonabie Range.
Report gives detailed descriptions of two stratigraphic sections that were sampled by the author to submit rock unit specimens for petrological studies.-
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Published: 17 Nov 1964
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/77 : Moonabie Range investigation - [geological unit] age relationships. Progress reports 1 and 2 and final report for the period 19/4/1964 to 25/5/1965.
See the related index record for the project final report.-
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Published: 25 May 1965
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Roopena and Iron Knob. Joint progress reports, joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/4/1992 to 23/2/2000.
Exploration for Mount Isa style, Fe-oxide associated Cu-Au mineralisation has targeted Whyalla Group metasediments and associated Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions within a 110 km long x 15 km wide, north - south aligned corridor situated west of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Roopena area . Annual technical report for the period ending 11 December 2018.
EL 5898 is an area of 155 km2 located in the Roopena area of South Australia approximately 10 km northwest of Whyalla on 1:250,000 Map Sheet: Port Augusta (SH5304) and Whyalla (SH5308). Works within EL 5898 have targeted predominantly IOCG-style...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Old Wartaka. Annual reports for the period 8/5/2013 to 7/5/2019.
A small area located on the eastern side of the Roopena Fault Zone, proximal to the south-eastern margin of the Gawler Ranges, is being explored for possible buried epigenetic gold and silver mineralisation, or IOCG type base metal sulphide...-
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Published: 13 May 1919
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Pandurra. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/4/1975 to 6/4/1977.
Ongoing exploration for a possible Cattlegrid type stratabound copper deposit over an area south-west of Lake Torrens included aerial magnetic and EM surveys, drill testing of EM anomalies by 47 percussion holes totalling 2086 m, a regional magnetic...-
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Petrology of samples from Charlinga, Pandurra and Mount Gunson DDHs LD24, LD25, J-12, MG11 - MG14 and WOB-12.
Samples studied for stratigraphic identification.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Kapunda. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/3/1976 to 23/3/1978.
Utah's ongoing exploration for possible economic, buried stratiform Late Proterozoic copper orebodies at Kapunda and in the surrounding district has consisted principally of percussion and diamond drilling (66 and 9 holes respectively, totalling...-
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Cultana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 28/10/1975 to 27/10/1977.
Exploration for possible stratiform or hydrothermal/epithermal base and precious metals within Adelaidean metasedimentary cover and Middle Proterozoic crystalline basement in the Cultana area, 35 km south-southwest of Port Augusta, has consisted of...-
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Eastern Eyre Peninsula. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/10/1976 to 24/10/1978.
Stratabound, metasedimentary iron ore was the principal target of exploration undertaken by BHP over a large area surrounding the Moonabie Range that extends along strike and borders the north-western side of Spencer Gulf. Base and precious metals...-
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Kapunda. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/11/1973 to 20/11/1975.
Continuing assessment of the stratiform copper potential of the Kapunda Mine area and now also the surrounding country has consisted of diamond and percussion drilling, assaying of mineralised intersections (best intercept 10 m @ 2.13% Cu from 427-437...-
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Published: 22 Dec 1975
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Bull 003 The Geology of the County of Jervois, and of Portions of the Counties of Buxton and York, with Special Reference to Underground Water Supplies.
The extension of railways through Eyre's Peninsula, and the opening up of the country to agricultural settlement has made the problem of water supply a matter of grave concern to the Government of South Australia. Large centrally situated reservoirs,...-
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Uro Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1975 to 15/4/1977.
Stratiform copper sulphides, hosted within the basal Tapley Hill Formation, and extensions of known kimberlite bodies were targeted in this program. Reconnaissance and closer (down to 1 km x 1 km) spaced diamond and percussion drilling (28 and 83...-
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RB 75/00016 Mount Laura barite deposit, Co. York Hd Cultana, secn 26, MC 481 - R.C. Davison.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Moonabie Range. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/5/2007 to 10/5/2009.
Possible economic buried IOCG mineralisation thought to be associated with a regional gravity anomaly in the Moonabie area, located approximately 100 km south-west of Port Augusta, has been investigated by conducting gravity surveys during...-
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RB 2015/00014 Chief Government Geologists' excursion, 2015.
This report contains the excursion guide for the field trip which was held as part of the Chief Government Geologists' Meeting convened in South Australia on 23rd and 24th March 2015. The focus of the field trip was to see rocks of the Gawler Range...-
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Published: 01 May 2015
