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Wallaroo and Moonta mines and smelters, Yorke's [sic] Peninsula, South Australia. History, nature and methods.
A detailed account of the large scale copper mining and processing operations occurring in the 'Copper Triangle' region of South Australia in the few years following the end of the First World War. The included metrics and pictorial coverage of many...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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RB 37/00149 Appraisal of Torrens barite mine, Hundred of Onkaparinga.
In February 1951, South Australian Barytes Limited became interested in this mine, held under claim by Reginald John Alfred Larsson and requested an inspection by Department of Mines officers. This request was repeated, and endorsed by Larsson in...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1954
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RB 90/00031 Geotechnical zoning of subdivided land above the Bremer mine, Callington, South Australia.
The residential development area, west of Baker Street, Callington, overlies portions of the Bremer Mine. The mine is associated with 360 metre long, 12 metre thick, NNW-trending shear zones, dipping 70 degrees SW to a depth of 220 metres. The...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1990
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RB 89/00044 Mineral resources of the Kapunda District Council area.
Kapunda DC is underlain by folded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments which host important mineral deposits in the area. An estimated 15 million tonnes of ore averaging 1.2% copper remains near the Kapunda mine, with potential for further...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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Wynbring [Siding]. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report upon licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 30/8/2004 to 29/8/2009.
An area located approximately 160 km north-northwest of Ceduna is being explored for possible economic nickel-copper-platinum group metal magmatic mineral deposits, which may have formed within Archaean to Proterozoic basement rocks in a geological...-
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Archaeological survey of the Wallaroo copper smelters, Wallaroo, South Australia.
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The Bull engine, or direct- acting steam engine, in South Australia.
This technical report discusses the historical usage and the origin of a particular example of Cornish-invented steam powered engine technology, with reference to mining site remains and records of such engines used in South Australia, and those of...-
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Peake and Denison Ranges. Data release made at subsequent licences' expiry/full surrender : annual reports for the period 12/7/1993 to 11/7/1995.
An area covering most of the northern outcropping Peake and Denison Ranges basement inliers was taken up by Pancontinental Mining to test for possible economic occurrences of lead-zinc and copper-gold mineralisation (broadly matching Mount Isa Block,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Torrens area. Annual reports for the period 6/4/2009 to 17/8/2018.
During the 2009-2010 reporting period, work completed by Straits included: • participation in Native Title and Land Access activities and negotiations, which have constituted the majority of the work undertaken; and • Holding numerous meetings and...-
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Mount Grainger (Oodla Wirra). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/1970 to 7/10/1971.
Extensive literature and geological and geochemical field investigations of historic mines and prospects at the Mount Grainger and Oodla Wirra Goldfields have failed to disclose any remaining economic gold occurrences. The sparse native gold occurs...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1971
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports [Year 2 subset] to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/12/1967 to 30/11/1968.
During the current period, 25 holes/1042 feet of diamond drilling to check on discrepancies with previous downhole percussion drillhole ore sample assays reported from the Lagoon area, plus 31 holes/2780 feet of exploratory/appraisal percussion...-
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Weekeroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/10/1970 to 30/9/1971.
A detailed examination of mineralised rock sequences within the metamorphosed Precambrian basement and Adelaidean cover rocks of the Weekeroo area, and recording of their relationship to successive deformational events and resulting rock structures,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
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Final report on exploration activities, MEPL Burra Joint Venture, for the period 1/3/1967 to 15/10/1969.
Work carried out during the final stages of the investigation consisted of diamond and percussion drilling (3 inclined and 11 vertical holes respectively, totalling 4107 and 1122 feet), plus shallow shaft sinking (16 shafts totalling 483 feet) for the...-
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Published: 07 May 1970
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Mount Gunson Project. Cattlegrid mine (east-northeast areas B2, B3 and B4) - intended mining development plans drawn up in 1982 and 1983.
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Mount Gunson Project. Pernatty Lagoon area, Main Open Cut mine, Lagoon orebody and West Lagoon orebody - intended mining plans.
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Mount Gunson Project. Main Open Cut mine - monthly incremental mining progression : surveyed pit face work plans drawn up over the period January 1981 to December 1981.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : North-west of Cockburn area. Annual reports for the period 22/10/2009 to 21/10/2014.
An area centred located approximately 80 km west of Broken Hill and 19 km north-west of Cockburn is being explored for possible buried economic Broken Hill type stratiform Pb-Ag-Zn mineralisation. The tenement is also prospective for Kalkaroo or...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Carrapateena Arm, Hatch Hill, Beda Arm and Lake Torrens South (the OZ Minerals Carrapateena Project). Annual reports (separate and joint) for the period 8/1/2008 to 6/1/2016.
Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...-
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Springfield, Glen Oak, Willochra, Gilbert Hill, Quorn, Radford Creek and Kanyaka (the Springfield district tenement group within the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual report for the period 1/1/2011 to 31/12/2013.
Work said to have been completed during the 2011 reporting period included an inspection and limited sampling of retained historic Utah drill cores from the Copper Claim area, checking of the preliminary resource estimates made by Utah from its drill...-
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