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Report on the Shamrock uranium prospect.
Uranium mineralisation was first discovered at the old Shamrock Copper Mine during a systematic search of old mine dumps by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1955. Follow-up investigations located a small high-grade uranium lode (Valley...-
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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 84/00013 Wilgena 1. Well completion report.
Wilgena 1 (TD 973 m) penetrated 964 m into Tarcoola Formation within the Wilgena Sub-basin, without encountering magnetic basement. Thin dacitic to basaltic tuffs and basaltic flows, interbedded with carbonaceous siltstones, indicate contemporaneous...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1984
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RB 78/00090 Olivine basalt dyke near Terowie. Hd Terowie Co. Kimberley.
This discordant dyke related to kimberlite and carbonatite intrusions has been emplaced at a low temperature into Umberatana Group shales and siltstones. Its composition is unsuitable for use in manufacturing glass and ceramics due to both low...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1978
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RB 87/00110 Miscellaneous thin sections from the Proterozoic and Cambrian of South Australia.
Rocks from Saint Francis Island include trachyte, trachyandesite and rhyolite. Drill core from Dampier DDH1 includes 2 types of dolerite, and from Afmeco KGB3 fresh dolerite or basalt. Other specimens examined include basalt and gneiss from the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 80/00147 Roopena stratigraphic diamond drillholes 1 and 1A.
The SADM stratigraphic hole Roopena DDH1 was originally drilled near Roopena homestead in 1967 to TD 155.61 m, and was deepened to TD 249.59 m by SADME in 1978 (as DDH1a) to obtain relationships between the Roopena Volcanics and older units. At...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 82/00018 Geology of Chapman basalt quarry near Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, Hd Menzies, pt secns 51 and 52.
Reserves of 151 tonnes of basalt are inferred.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 82/00029 The Bluff basalt quarry, Kangaroo island, Co. Carnarvon, Hd Menzies, secns 397, 398.
Since 1950, 75 000 tonnes of fine grained, columnar jointed Wisanger Basalt have been quarried, 3 km NW of Kingscote. It is the only aggregate quarry with a crushing plant on K.I, and produces a large range of products. Indicated reserves are 370 000...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 77/00113 Boucaut Volcanics.
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Published: 31 Oct 1977
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RB 77/00090 Pillow structures in an older Precambrian hornfels near Kokatha, South Australia.
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Published: 01 Aug 1977
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RB 81/00029 Gawler Range Volcanics in diamond drillhole Myall Creek RC1.
The wholly cored SADME DDH Myall Creek RC1 was sited at the eastern extremity of the exposed Gawler Range Volcanics, and was completed [as a vertical hole] at 551.34 m total depth [the limit of drilling rig capability] on 26/10/1978, without reaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 89/00040 New occurrence of mafic igneous rocks beneath the northern Murray Basin.
SADME Nanyah 1 (hole synonym M154), a Murray Basin hydrogeological observation bore, was extended beneath the sedimentary cover to reach basement in order to investigate the source of a prominent aeromagnetic anomaly. A 3-metre bottomhole core of...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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RB 90/00043 Rocks from the area of lamproite intrusion near Truro, SA.
Rocks which in the field appear to be emplaced as dykes or lava flows have been found to be altered and weathered, and include metasediments and laterites or gossans. Rocks of probable igneous origin include basaltic and doleritic types. Only one...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1990
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-59, Billa Kalina Project area Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
Maximus Resources' Billa Kalina Project area lies within the Olympic Dam Province of the Gawler Craton, where the basement rocks host Olympic Dam, one of the largest iron oxide-associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits in the world. IOCG deposits are...-
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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 [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The Twins (part of the South Mount Woods Joint Venture). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/3/2002 to 6/3/2007.
An area covering ground adjacent to the southern boundary of current EL 3056 (formerly EL 2483), on which licence the newly discovered (in November 2001) Prominent Hill IOCG deposit is situated, is being explored for similar style buried...-
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Published: 03 Apr 1907
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-28 - Cultana district, Eyre Peninsula, Extension Tank shear-hosted Mesoproterozoic IOCG-U or porphyry type Au and base metal prospect. Drilling final report.
An area centred approximately 50 km south-west of Port Augusta is being explored for buried economic occurrences of gold, base metals and uranium primary mineralisation which may be genetically associated with the past emplacement there of the Gawler...-
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/77 : Moonabie Range investigation - [geological unit] age relationships. Progress reports 1 and 2 and final report for the period 19/4/1964 to 25/5/1965.
See the related index record for the project final report.-
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Published: 25 May 1965
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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/144 : "Stratigraphy and petrology of the Gawler Range Volcanics". Progress reports 1 to 20 for the period 17/4/1972 to 24/11/1983.
This dataset presents the observations and interpretive results of a project aiming to define and classify the complex suite of volcanic rocks found outcropping within the Gawler Ranges, as a corollary to regional geological mapping by the SA...-
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Published: 24 Nov 1983
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-04 - Woodmurra Project, Denison Inlier, Proterozoic metamorphosed volcanogenic basement stratiform/syngenetic Broken Hill type Pb-Zn-Ag prospects. Final report
An area lying ~70 km east and south-east of Oodnadatta is being explored for possible buried economic giant Broken Hill type (BHT) stratiform Pb-Zn-Ag deposits which may be contained within strongly deformed and metamorphosed Palaeo- to...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1916
