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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 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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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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Petrography of Pandurra area thin sections. Part II (January 1974), Part III (June 1974) and Part III (April 1975).
Samples examined for stratigraphic identification.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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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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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 2016/00027 The Gluepot Granite: CA-TIMS geochronology and constraints on the timing of deformation on northeastern Eyre Peninsula.
The Gluepot Granite is a heterogeneous granite comprising coarse-grained porphyritic granite and medium-grained equigranular granite, as well as late stage pegmatite and aplite phases. It occurs as a large pluton intruding the c. 1755 Ma Moonabie...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2017
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RB 2010/00008 Age of deposition and provenance of Palaeoproterozoic basins on north-eastern Eyre Peninsula : constraints from SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology.
Two basin systems in north-eastern Eyre Peninsula comprising Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary and volcanic successions are described in terms of rock age and provenance. The older system comprises the Myola Volcanics and the Broadview Schist, which...-
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Published: 01 May 2010
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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Moonabie Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 19/2/1982.
Exploration in the Moonabie area, located 40 km south-west of Whyalla, was aimed at possible concealed epithermal or Alligator Rivers (NT) type stratabound uranium occurrences within the Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary/metavolcanic sequence....-
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Uno (synonym Aroha). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1978 to 5/3/1980.
Exploration for uranium in the vicinity of Lake Gilles targeted the Lower Proterozoic Cleve Metamorphics and the unconformably overlying sandstone, conglomerate and rhyolite units of Carpentarian age, searching initially for analogues to the deposits...-
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Aroha. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/5/1980 to 26/5/1982.
As part of Esso's continued exploration programme for buried Late Proterozoic stratiform uranium deposits in the Uno - Corunna area, detailed geochemical, petrological, thermoluminescence and lead isotope studies were performed on samples obtained by...-
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RB 2008/00011 Definition of the Cultana Subsuite, Gawler Craton: a high level felsic Hiltaba Suite age intrusive with hydrothermal alteration and brecciation.
This paper provides a formal definition of the Cultana Subsuite, outlining the igneous petrology of the intrusion, its geochemical characteristics, and the nature of hydrothermal alteration and brecciation affecting the rocks. The Cultana Subsuite is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Petrography of Pandurra thin sections.
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RB 2007/00015 Geochronology of the Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Geochronology enables us to determine the age of rocks and minerals. The variety of isotopic geochronological techniques give complementary information on, for example, the timing of igneous or metamorphic crystallisation, as is often the case for the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2007
