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RB 77/00009 Construction materials investigation Redcliff petrochemical site, sections 12, 18, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 102, 134 Hd Winninowie, Co. Frome.
Materials suitable for concrete aggregate, railway ballast, road base course, protection of salt field sea wails and rock fill will be required should construction of the petrochemical plant and appurtenant works proceed at Redcliff, 25 km...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 77/00116 Adelaide Port Pirie railway standardisation ballast supplies. Geological investigation of Redhill quartzite quarry secns 828, 843 Hd Redhill - SA Railways.
The Barunga Sandstone, of Marinoan age, has previously been worked for railway ballast and road metal at the Redhill Quarry. Mapping and drilling have indicated 342,000 cubic metres of good quality ballast, available from the Lower Massive Quartzite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 80/00086 Base metal deposits - Pinda Springs and Waukawoodna Creek areas, northern Flinders Ranges.
Several mineral claims were pegged over base metal deposits in class A and B. Environmental areas, northeast of Blinman. Copper, lead and barite deposits were inspected and mapped. Includes petrography and mineragraphy of 11 samples. Mineralization is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 82/00042 Oraparinna barite mine - A summary.
Oraparinna or Bunkers Hill mine is the largest operating underground mine in SA and has produced more than 50% of all barite and nearly 90% of industrial grade barite mined in SA. It has been the largest supplier of industrial grade barite in...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1982
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RB 84/00101 Compositions of some Adelaidean and Cambrian sedimentary rocks, South Australia.
56 whole rock major and trace element geochemical analyses of Adelaidean and Cambrian sedimentary rock drill core samples recovered from 6 diamond drillholes are presented. Many of the samples are carbonate - rich, and their lithologies include...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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RB 87/00133 Port Gawler 3. Well completion report and revision of the geology around Port Gawler.
312 metres of Cainozoic overlie Precambrian bedrock : ABC Range Quartzite (312-587 metres) conformably overlying finer-grained Brachina Formation (587-682 metres). The drilling and former seismic data permitted reinterpretation of bedrock structure...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1987
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RB 78/00076 Mount Remarkable National Park, Alligator Gorge - Groundwater drilling results. 1978.
1 of 5 water wells (254 metres) drilled was successful. 4 were abandoned due to drilling difficulties in fine sands and hard quartzite.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00011 Quorn town water supply well 3 and scout hole 1.
One standby groundwater production well and one exploratory hole were successful drilled at Quorn in March/April 1978. The long term yield of the production well has been estimated at 600 kl/day, with the produced groundwater salinity marginally...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00078 Redcliff area. Groundwater scout drilling (1979).
2 holes totalling 144 m intersected Precambrian quartzite at 65 metres. No significant aquifers were found. Geophysical work indicates trough as source of saline ground water and target for coal exploration.-
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Published: 01 Apr 1985
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RB 80/00132 Redcliff Point Seismic Survey.
A seismic refraction survey at Redcliff Point on Spencer Gulf has confirmed the existence of a trough up to 450 m deep and 3.5 km wide, oriented north-south beneath the western portion of the promontory. Two internal refracting horizons have been...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 95/00033 Drilling and discharge testing of the Endilloe well.
In June 1994 MESA drilled a low yielding irrigation well for an experimental/demonstration arid-land horticulture project at 'Endilloe', near Quorn in South Australia's Flinders Ranges. The depth of the well was 94.5 metres and the standing water...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1995
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Hawker. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2009.
Copper Range has targeted several different styles of base metal mineralisation within the Chace Range district. Initially its focus was on sediment (sandstone)- hosted copper deposits, with exploration being confined to reconnaissance field visits to...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1909
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Port Broughton (part of Moonta Project). Partial relinquishment report for the period 23/5/2002 to 22/5/2003.
Olympic Dam style iron oxide hosted copper-gold mineralisation was the target of exploration in an area 20 km east of Port Broughton. Geological field observations and a review of available data indicate that the target Mesoproterozoic basement in...-
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Published: 07 Jul 1903
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Kapunda. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/3/1976 to 23/3/1978.
Utah's ongoing exploration for possible economic, buried stratiform Late Proterozoic copper orebodies at Kapunda and in the surrounding district has consisted principally of percussion and diamond drilling (66 and 9 holes respectively, totalling...-
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RB 65/00047 Stratigraphic section measurement and sections near Spalding and Port Augusta.
A programme of stratigraphic section measurement is envisaged in order to facilitate rock correlation and help outline the pattern of sedimentation in the Adelaide Geosyncline. In many areas measurement may be made on air photo enlargement, as has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 71/00035 PARACHILNA, South Australia, sheet SH54-13 International Index.
The Parachilna 1:250 000 map area is about 250 road miles north of Adelaide, South Australia, and includes the eastern shore of Lake Torrens, the central Flinders Ranges and part of the Lake Frome Plains. The ranges are composed of folded Adelaidean...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 71/00131 Reconnaissance for railway ballast, Redhill-Bowmans area - SA Railways.
A site in Barunga Sandstone (Tent Hill Formation equivalent) located 2.5 miles south east of Nantawarra Siding has been selected for testing. Previous quarrying operations from this unit in the area have disclosed the presence at many sites of clay in...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1971
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RB 72/00112 Adelaide to Port Pirie railway standardization, ballast supplies, site investigations at Nantawarra and Bumbunga - SA Railways.
A source of railway ballast was sought in the Barunga Sandstone of Upper Proterozoic age which underlies the Hummock Range, Barunga Range and other low lying hills in the midnorth of South Australia. Green clay occurring as interbeds and as joint...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 73/00001 Groundwater survey, Hundred Barunga, sections 49, 51.
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Published: 02 Jan 1973
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RB 63/00126 Quartzite deposit, Crystal Brook (2/12/1966).
Thin clay seams and clay pellets occur in the Barunga Sandstone where it is exposed in quarries in the Redhill district. The clay lowers the quality of crushed rock. Mine shallow diamond core holes were drilled in portion of Section 89, Hundred...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
