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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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RB 99/00019 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Portions of Torrens Rural Catchment.
The Torrens Rural Catchment can be divided into three zones where groundwater extraction from fractured rock aquifers is significant - the Fourth and Sixth Creek catchments, and the Birdwood - Gumeracha area. The Fourth Creek Catchment, which is...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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Data release at first partial surrender on 20/8/1989 : report on investigations into the platinoid potential of the Black Hill Norite, EL 1419, Sedan, SA.
TARGET: Possible primary magmatic platinoid and/or other precious metals deposited at or near the base of expected cumulate layered rock sequences within the Black Hill Norite. EXPLORATION: After making preliminary regional geophysical and drillhole...-
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1992 Scientific Investigation Permit [for a marine seismic survey], Backstairs Passage. Reports for the period April 1992 to February 1995.
AIM:To provide critical structural information on the relationships between major structural provinces (viz. Stansbury Basin / Adelaide Geosyncline / Kanmantoo Trough / Murray Basin) and, in particular, test an hypothesis that folded rocks from the...-
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Mannum area (including the Anna and Sedan coal deposits). Data release at licence expiry/renewal : coal exploration progress reports and data, plus Sedan coal deposit mine planning management progress reports, for the period 13/11/1978 to 20/8/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...-
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RB 00747 Otway Basin study. The igneous rocks of the Padthaway Ridge.
Report reviews the limited data on these igneous rocks, giving summaries of their petrographic (hand specimen) descriptions, of outcrop occurrences, and of the nature of the predominant younger sedimentary cover, as deduced from isolated drillholes...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 2 of 3 ].
In May 1992 six traverses of shallow RAB drilling were completed at the Angas prospect (222 holes for a total penetration of 1550 m). The objective was to test the Cambrian bedrock geochemistry beneath shallow Tertiary and Recent sediments that cover...-
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RB 2014/00001 Geology of the dimension stone quarries at Black Hill, South Australia.
Black Hill, located 85 km to the east of Adelaide, is an important source of black "granite". The gabbro and norite exposed on the hill over an area of 4 km by 3 km represent the outcropping top of a much larger Cambro - Ordovician gabbroic intrusion....-
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Published: 01 Apr 2014
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RB 2013/00016 A user's guide to migmatites.
Migmatites are complex, high-grade crystalline rocks that have formed by partial melting. They have been recognised within the crustal rock record across most of geological time, are seen to be developed in various tectonic settings, and can affect a...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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Kangaroo Island Project. Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 1/10/1996 to 30/9/1998.
Diamond exploration which was undertaken across practically the whole of Kangaroo Island, barring national and conservation parks and reserves, sought to test the potential of the island to contain kimberlite pipes and / or associated rock types, and...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports, plus individual licence final reports at their respective full surrender, for the period 19/12/1997 to 30/6/2018.
Previous investigations of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine littoral zone clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand (HM) placer accumulations have discovered numerous occurrences of economic to...-
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The Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project. Joint and combined annual reports, for the period 19/12/1997 to 31/12/2010.
An assessment of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand accumulations has discovered numerous occurrences of economic to sub-economic amounts of heavy minerals...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1911
