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RB 80/00028 Hawker town water supply investigation - 1979 drilling programme.
Drilling of 6 scout holes to maximum depth of 152 metres investigated a faulted syncline 5 km SE of the township. Yields were too low or salinity too high to provide a useful supply. Further drilling should be concentrated 11 km NW of Hawker where...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1980
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RB 84/00099 Nepabunna water supply - 1983 drilling.
Well drilled to 120 metres had airlift yield of 12 L/s from Cambrian limestone aquifer, which has good potential for stream recharge and capable of supplying the 1.2 L/s peak discharge required. Salinity is 950 mg/L. Confirms effectiveness of deep...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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Reaphook Hill and Mount Frome (a tenement group having amalgamated expenditure commitments, which is part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports for the period 4/8/2001 to 1/7/2015.
During the third year of exploration nominally ending on 1/7/2002 [and subsequent to the starting date of 5/3/2002 for the application of provisions of the Flinders Ranges Project's multi-tenement Amalgamation of Expenditure Agreement (AEA), whence...-
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Published: 07 Aug 1915
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Beltana mine area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/9/1982 to 8/12/1987.
Renewed exploration by E-Z of the area surrounding the Beltana zinc mine has investigated the possibility for finding deep, unweathered Cambrian or Proterozoic carbonate-hosted zinc-lead sulphide mineralisation. It was considered that this target had...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wilkatana Project. First annual report for the period 26/11/2015 to 25/11/2016 and annual reports for Kallioota to expiry 25/11/2022.
A large multi-licence project area skirting the south-eastern and southern sides of Lake Torrens is being explored for economic buried deposits of base metals. This area is considered prospective on the basis of known mineral occurrences, proximity to...-
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Published: 25 Nov 1922
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Wirrealpa. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
Possible economic stratabound or epigenetic lead-zinc or copper deposits, formed in altered carbonate rocks lying marginal to the Wirrealpa Diapir, were the targets of new exploration centred on the area of the old Wirrealpa lead-silver mine....-
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Published: 06 Nov 1989
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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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Biomarker geochemistry of the Early Cambrian oil show in Wilkatana 1 - Implications for oil generation in the Stansbury Basin.
This report critically reassesses the biomarker geochemistry of the crude oil show encountered in the Wilkatana 1 well, using new analytical data, then compares its molecular composition with that of other Australian Cambrian oils, and discusses the...-
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Copley and Leigh Creek. Progress reports for the period 4/10/1982 to 27/1/1991.
TARGET: Exploration and evaluation of known secondary copper occurrences and exploration for gold and phosphates in the Lyndhurst-Copley region. EXPLORATION: Including the work done previously in EL 929, exploration activities undertaken since 1981...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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Arrowie Block acreage assessment.
During the period January 1946-December 1985 under review, the following petroleum exploration work was carried out over the Arrowie Block: 6 gravity, 2 aeromagnetic and 10 seismic surveys (total seismic coverage 2781 line km), plus 4 wells, all dry....-
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RB 73/00241 Hawker district groundwater potential.
Investigations on general groundwater potential of the Hawker area were carried out with special attention being paid to the Hookina Creek, Worro Downs - Wonoka Creek, Glen Oak - Willow Creek, Mount Craig areas. An improved supply of water for the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2, Lake Torrens South and Lake Torrens North (the Lake Torrens Brine Potash Project). First joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 16/6/2016.
Much of the eastern side of the very large, 5,745 square km saline playa Lake Torrens, which occupies one of the most arid parts of Australia, was taken under licence by a Northern Territory - based company with the intent of systematically sampling...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1916
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RB 2000/00010 Investigation of the potential for rainwater harvesting at Nepabunna, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
The availability of rainwater, and possible harvesting techniques and storage media are investigated. Reasonable amounts of rainfall occur, but falls are interspersed by long droughts. There are problems with silting up of dams, and with protecting...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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Reaphook Hill. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 1/12/1965 to 13/5/1968.
The reported presence of high geochemical zinc values in the Parachilna Formation rocks exposed there prompted Kennecott Explorations to include the Reaphook Hill outlier of Lower Cambrian sediments into its regional investigation of the stratiform...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1967
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Arrowie Gorge Project, northern Flinders Ranges, SA. Progress reports for the period June 1968 to September 1969.
After one of E-Z's Beltana-based field parties discovered some high radioactivity associated with copper mineralisation in old mine workings in the Arrowie Gorge area during early 1968, six mineral claims were taken out to secure the area of interest...-
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Moro Gorge. Progress and final reports for the period 6/7/1973 to 5/7/1975.
Exploration of the Lower Cambrian Parachilna Formation and Upper Proterozoic Pound Quartzite in an area around the nose of the Balcanoona Anticline and cross-folded Arrowie Syncline, where a quantity of surface copper mineralisation occurs, initially...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1975
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Kanyaka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1966 to 31/10/1967.
As part of a regional search for possible economic stratabound Early Palaeozoic base metal deposits, Kennecott Explorations carried out stream sediment sampling and geological mapping of the Kanyaka Syncline, plus more intensive near-mine exploration...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1967
