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University student thesis : Detailed geological investigation of the Burra open pit, Burra, SA.
Detailed geological and structural mapping of Samin's partly excavated new Burra open cut was performed by the author at a scale of 1:480 during the period December 1972 to end of January 1973. By the latter date the pit had been excavated downwards a...-
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Yudnamutana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1972 to 23/6/1973.
As part of continuing exploration for possible economic buried stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation in the Yudnamutana Mining Field, the target lower Callanna Group strata were geologically mapped, petrologically studied and geochemically...-
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RB 51/00089 (Report of an inspection made at the undeveloped) Truro talc deposit.
An inspection of an occurrence of talc situated in Section 228, Hundred of Jellicoe, 3¼ miles northeast of Truro, was made on 12/10/1960. The deposit was first noted by D. King (Mining Review 103, 1957, pp. 68-69) when a borehole showed about 4 feet...-
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Published: 20 Oct 1960
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RB 59/00152 Further diamond drilling, Bald Hill marble deposit (logs not published) 16/12/1964.
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 59/00093 Further diamond drilling of marble deposits at Penrice (22/10/1964).
Quarrying of marginal zones of low grade marble contaminated by silicate minerals has caused a decline in the quality of stone produced at Penrice. The extent of these zones has been indicated following a re-interpretation of the original quarry...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 57/00077 Diamond drilling operations, marble deposit, pt secn 506 Hd Moorooroo.
In the Bald Hill area, one mile south of Angaston, 1½ million cubic yards of high grade marble (greater than 90% total carbonate) are available for quarrying above the 780 feet level. Reserves of high grade marble in the western area are estimated at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 58/00035 Diamond drilling operations, marble deposit, secns 333 and 334 Hd Moorooroo.
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 41/00134 Mineral investigations in the Mount Painter region. Progress report.
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Published: 06 Jan 1956
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RB 79/00122 Penrice marble deposit. (Report on the) 1977-1978 drilling programme.
Since 1950, recorded production from ICI's Penrice marble deposit near Angaston has totalled 13,083,395 tonnes. High grade marble is used at the company's Osborne plant, while lower grade stone is sold for cement manufacture and roadstone, and small...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1979
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RB 87/00106 Textures, minerals and organic remains in marbles from Kapunda.
Thin sections of 3 specimens were examined for traces of organic remains, metallic minerals and the metamorphism of the rocks. Contains petrographic reports.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 80/00139 Tumby Bay marble EML 3554. T.W. Norton, sections 288, 299, Hundred Hutchison, County Flinders.
EML 3554, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, contains 3 separate marble outcrops, each 40 metres wide, of similar mineralogy, which are isoclinally-folded Katunga Dolomite of the Hutchison Group of Lower Proterozoic age. The marble quarries where mapped, surveyed...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1980
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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/1/1979 to 30/11/1984.
Adelaide Brighton Cement took up tenure of the Moorlands lignite deposit during September 1976 in order to conduct confirmatory drilling of the published coal resource, to prepare a mining study for Lobe 'E', and overall, to assess the coal's...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1984
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Warrow. Progress and final relinquishment reports for the period 10/6/83 to 9/12/84.
Extensive geophysical prospecting, an 8 hole percussion drill coring programme (477 m) and a 140 hole RAB drilling programme (1798 m) at the Lady Franklin prospect were not encouraging. Percussion drillhole 83WP2 intersected a zone of primary but...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1984
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Mount Craig Copper Project. Final report for June to December 2021 geophysical and drilling program, Project ADI RD02-268 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2021].
An area centred ~28 km east of Hawker is being explored for possible buried epigenetic/hydrothermal, skarn style and sediment-hosted stratabound base and precious metals mineralisation that may have formed within prepared Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1921
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Angaston. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/7/1991 to 21/1/1992.
TARGET: Marble resources in the Angaston area which might be suitable to use as raw material for soda ash manufacture. EXPLORATION: Detailed geological mapping [some scale(s) given] and surface rock chip geochemical sampling (22) of various deposits....-
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Published: 20 Mar 1992
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A gemmological assessment of the nephrite jade deposits near Cowell, South Australia.
Nephrite jade is associated with Lower Proterozoic dolomitic marbles and calc-silicate rocks as part of a sequence of metasedimentary quartzo-feldspathic gneisses, quartzites and mica schists of amphibolite metamorphic facies. These rocks normally...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1980
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Burra Copper [open pit mining] Project. Reports of geological investigations for the period October 1969 to February 1981.
A collection of miscellaneous reports referring to geochemical sampling of costeans and exposed bedrock, drilling, mapping and petrology work that has recently been carried out in the re-developed Burra open cut copper mine. The focus of the work...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1980
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Kia Ora Station. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 20/8/1980.
The target of exploration carried out approximately 60 km north-east of Burra was diamonds, with base metals and coal as secondary interests. Aeromagnetic and radiometric surveys identified several anomalies which were interpreted as possibly due to...-
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Reports on the Rapid Bay limestone deposit, for the period 1956 to 1958.
This Cambrian marble deposit, which has been quarried by BHP since August 1942 to supply metallurgical fluxes to its Whyalla Steelworks, has recently been surveyed, mapped at 1:1200 scale and sampled through its entire extent to determine stone grades...-
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