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Shallow groundwater quality monitoring program for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board area.
The Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board (OCWMB) is responsible for an area of approx. 920 square km which includes the Onkaparinga Catchment in the Adelaide Hills and the Noarlunga and Willunga sedimentary embayments south of Adelaide, South...-
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Lake Cadi Potash Project. Progress and final reports for the period January 1982 to 10/2/83.
To evaluate potash potential, brine samples were collected from below the dry bed of Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, and analysed for Ca, Mg, Na, K, B, HCO3, C1, total phosphate and sulphate. Potassium contents were too low to be of interest.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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Lake Dey Dey, Lake Maurice, Ooldea Range, Waldana, Lake Maurice West, Leemurra, Punthanna, Yadina and Lake Maurice East. Joint progress reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 15/11/1982.
The exploration concept was based on searching for secondary uranium mineralisation that might be derived from the Musgrave Block basement rocks and that could have become precipitated within calcrete horizons from ponded uraniferous surface drainage...-
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RB 59/00004 Progress report evaporite investigation, Lake Torrens, 8/7/1964.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 57/00012 Aluminium sulphate from alunite.
It was proposed that the recovery of aluminium sulphate from South Australia alunite should be investigated. The only known deposit of any significance is in the Hundred of Ramsay, Yorke Peninsula, near Port Vincent. Material from this locality and...-
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RB 78/00085 Comparison of Olympic Dam copper-uranium deposit and Mount Painter uranium deposits.
Geological data indicates deposits have similar Cu - U mineralization. The Mount Painter deposits occur in Radium Ridge Beds of Sturtian age unconformably overlying Radium Creek Metamorphics and underlying Mount Gee Beds. Recent work suggests these...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 78/00118;Amdel 01236 Behaviour of potassium during weathering of potash-rich granite rocks at Mount Painter.
Electron microprobe analysis was carried out on 3 brecciated samples to establish whether feldspar grains have identifiable overgrowths and if these are consistent with the feldspar having grown in low temperature, low pressure conditions.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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Boorthanna 001 Well completion report.
Boorthanna 1 was drilled as a combined mineral/petroleum exploration hole and stratigraphic test in the southern section of the Boorthanna Trough, 29 km west of William Creek township, to: (1) penetrate the Devonian section in the search of potash...-
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Data release - as updated : World's End. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/2009 to 2/3/2016.
An area centred about 30 km south-east of Burra has been explored for possible buried economic Burra style copper mineralisation and for Mongolata Goldfield type alluvial and reef gold. The host metasedimentary unit to the Monster mine, the...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1916
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Camel Lake. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2023.
An area located ~ 70 km north-east of Ooldea Siding and 50 km east of Maralinga is being explored for the industrial mineral kaolin, and more particularly its crystallographic form halloysite, which typically occurs as microtubules or nanotubes which...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1923
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Narrina. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded metasedimentary area centred ~50 km east-northeast of Blinman, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has...-
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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 25 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~1280 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1971
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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 7 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~110 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1971
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Lake Conway - Oodnadatta area (the South Australia Potash Project). First progress report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 14/8/1969 to May 1970.
TARGET: Potash in Devonian evaporites within deep Palaeozoic basins. Secondary targets were coal and sulphur in the Devonian to Permian section. The area was selected because of the recent discovery of Devonian evaporites in SADM Cootanoorina 1....-
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Published: 15 May 1970
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RB 67/00085 Minlaton stratigraphic no. 2 borehole, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report.
This borehole was drilled to a total depth of 321 ft. 4 ins., and a complete cored section was obtained of the lower part of the Middle Cambrian Ramsay Limestone and of the Lower Cambrian Red Bed Clastics, in which thin bands of gypsum had been...-
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Published: 07 Nov 1968
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RB 64/00022 Amdel 00519 Recovery of potassium from bitterns. (DEPARTMENTAL USE ONLY)
Background Seawater is potentially a vast and readily accessible reserve of potassium for fertilizer production. Potassium is not at present recovered from seawater commercially, since potash can be produced easily and cheaply from the extensive...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1966
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RB 73/00257 Potassium, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
South Australia has no current production of potassium minerals. Attention was given to occurrence of alunite during World War I when supplies of potash from Germany and France were cut off and almost 400 tonnes were marketed. The deposits are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Yalymboo, Dingo Hill and Black Oak Hill (the Cariewerloo Project). Joint annual reports and separate final reports to licence's respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 20/6/2009.
Possible Mesoproterozoic unconformity-related uranium deposits within the Cariewerloo Basin, involving an inferred structural preparation component whereby basic intrusive members of the Gairdner Dyke Swarm cut across this unconformity in a manner...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1909
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Eureka Bluff. Annual reports and combined 4th-5th annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/11/2005 to 28/11/2010.
An area located 50 km north-northeast of Wudinna, and situated on the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges, has been explored for possible economic deposits of both Olympic Dam style epithermal copper-gold-uranium and Tanami style orogenic lode gold,...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1911
