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RB 83/00047 Auger drilling Morgan gypsum deposit in 1981. Blocks Q, 77 and 61 Hd Stuart, County Young.
205 auger holes up to 9 metres deep indicate the bulk of the reserves without beneficiation are suitable for agriculture. Reserves of 149 000 tonnes of high grade seed gypsum, suitable for cement and plaster manufacture near present mining...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 83/00046 Auger drilling of Craigie Plains gypsum deposit no. 2 in 1981. Sections 199 and 120, Hundred Brownlow, County Eyre.
Flour seed gypsum deposit in lunette dune system was investigated by auger drilling of 34 holes up to 9 metres deep. 243 000 tonnes of flour gypsum remain with an average grade of 43% gypsum, which is unsuitable for commercial use, although...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1983
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RB 90/00061 Yamba-Noora gypsum deposits - Results of 1989 scout drilling program.
Dunes derived from Yamba Formation gypsiferous beds are mantled with flour gypsum in the Yamba-Noora area. They have been a source of agricultural gypsum for Riverland irrigation areas since the early 1900s. Auger drilling located 6 deposits with good...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1990
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Barna. Annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 30/8/2002 to 29/8/2004.
Exploration for possibly economic small deposits of agricultural grade gypsum conducted on Eyre Peninsula has located several such occurrences within the remnant evaporitic sediments of past Holocene lakebeds, and in related nearby lunette dunes. The...-
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Published: 13 Jul 1905
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Annual, joint annual and combined annual reports for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2009.
A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1909
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Gluepot Homestead area, Waikerie district. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/5/1984 to 21/11/1984.
A total of 6 test pits and 4 hand auger holes were constructed to extend and delineate the known reserves of seed gypsum at Parcoola, located approximately 40 km north-northeast of Waikerie, and to explore for possible further reserves of higher grade...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1985
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Joint annual reports for the period 4/1/2009 to 3/1/2019.
During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1919
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RI 039 Regional Stratigraphy of Surficial Deposits in the Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment
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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 65/00079 Lake MacDonnell gypsum deposit, Hd Kevin. Department of Mines bore A.A.10w micropalaeontological examination.
Lake Macdonnell bore A.A.10W (total depth 150 feet) intersected a Quaternary sequence consisting of a thin salt crust and lime sand (Recent, marine), Yamba Formation (Recent to Pleistocene, gypsiferous, lagoonal), Bridge-water Formation, upper member...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 71/00001 Regional stratigraphy of surficial deposits in the Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment.
This report deals with the regional stratigraphy of surficial deposits in the region of the Murray Basin and adjoining Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin. The aim is to place deposits described in selected earlier publications of anthropologists,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 71/00033 RENMARK, South Australia, sheet SI54-10 International Index.
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 73/00070 Fossiliferous marine and non-marine Cainozoic rocks from the eastern Eucla Basin, South Australia.
Outcrop and subsurface samples taken from various sources, that represent all the Cainozoic marine formations of the eastern Eucla Basin, have been studied. The current stratigraphic knowledge of these formations in SA is summarised. A marine...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1973
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RB 73/00085 Preliminary notes on the geology of the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, FOWLER 1:250 000 sheet area.
This report deals with the stratigraphy and economic geology of an area on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin and the western margin of the Gawler Block. The area is centred upon the FOWLER 1:250 000 map area. The stratigraphic section of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 63/00064 Stratigraphy of the Chowilla area, South Australia.
This report deals with the stratigraphy and sedimentary history of the Chowilla area in the Murray Basin. Local geology is set against a background of geological information derived from other areas in southern Australia. Local stratigraphy is based...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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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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Hincks. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/10/1999 to 30/9/2004.
Exploration for gypsum on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, 70 km west of Cowell, resulted in the establishment of mining operations at Terra Leen. Other potential gypsum sources were identified. No exploration for metals was undertaken.-
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Published: 30 Sep 1904
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Tailem Bend - Bordertown - Mount Gambier area (South-Eastern Coastal Plains Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/7/1974 to 19/7/1975.
Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1975
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ExpNotes NUYTS: Explanatory Notes NUYTS
Proterozoic basement outcrops consist of syn and post- Kimban Orogeny granitoids, volcanics and basic dykes. Their rock type geochronology, field relationships and regional correlation are reported. Previous economic mineral investigations, plus...-
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