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Mount Plantagenet. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1982 to 7/1/1986.
Detailed base and precious metals exploration undertaken by Utah Development Company in the area of the Worumba Anticline has targeted possible stratiform Zambian Copperbelt - type deposits. Exploratory work has included 72 geochemical vertical...-
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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 76/00148 Warrakimbo micaceous haematite deposit, secn 109, Hd Barnidoota, Co. Blachford. (ML 4521 - L. Morellato).
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Published: 18 Nov 1976
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RB 99/00008 Burra miners 1860 - 1865 - An index to two Burra Burra mines' copper day books, July 1860 - November 1861, October 1863 - December 1865.
Burra was the largest metalliferous mine in Australia between 1845 and 1860, and employed up to 1,000 men and boys. The workforce was predominantly Cornish, Burra being the first significant concentration of Cornish immigrants in Australia. The...-
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Published: 01 May 1999
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RB 99/00031 Assessment of zinc-lead prospectivity on the Murnaroo Platform and in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
The Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic Officer Basin is located on and adjacent to the northwestern margin of the Gawler Craton. Deposition of the basin began in Adelaidean time, before and during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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Archaeological survey of the Wallaroo copper smelters, Wallaroo, South Australia.
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Mount Gunson ore controls as a basis for further exploration.
This report presents the geological setting and postulated ore controls for the Mount Gunson style of mineralisation, with an expansion on the inferred metal concentration mechanism and its quantitative feasibility. Recommendations for two optimal...-
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Published: 17 Aug 1971
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The Bull engine, or direct- acting steam engine, in South Australia.
This technical report discusses the historical usage and the origin of a particular example of Cornish-invented steam powered engine technology, with reference to mining site remains and records of such engines used in South Australia, and those of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bosworth (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/7/1998 to 5/4/2009.
An area covering parts of west-central Lake Torrens and Andamooka Island was taken up by Pima Mining because it was considered a strategic acreage acquisition, since it adjoins the southern boundary of the company's EL 2528 Andamooka already issued to...-
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Published: 06 May 1909
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Lake Torrens South, Beda Arm and Carrapateena Arm (latterly the Lake Torrens Joint Venture Project). Annual reports (singular and combined) to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 21/2/1996 to 7/1/2008.
Economic Olympic Dam style iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation has been the target of exploration carried out in three adjoining areas which together extend for about 55 to 170 km north of Port Augusta, covering southern Lake...-
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Mount Gunson regional plans and reports.
Includes results of diamond drilling at Pernatty Lagoon to check reserves estimated from results of percussion drilling, and results of percussion drilling at the House workings to extend indicated reserves of run-of-mine grade sulphide ore....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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Environmental Base Statement, EL 160, Yudnamutana, South Australia.
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Genesis of Mount Gunson copper deposits.
2 main types of copper deposit are recognized. 1 of these is of low grade, near the base of the laminite sequences in the Woocalla Dolomite, probably of syngenetic origin, and is believed to be the oldest and primary kind of deposit. (Gully, MG 14...-
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Results of exploration activities in the Oakden Hills - Lake Macfarlane area. (Appendix 1 to progress report to 19/10/1973).
TARGET: Sulphides at Whyalla Sandstone - Pandurra Formation contact (Cattlegrid type), in Woocalla Dolomite (Sweet Nell type) and in black shale. EXPLORATION: Geological mapping at 1:30 000 scale, reconnaissance rock chip sampling, subsurface soil...-
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Results of August, 1974 drilling at the MG14 target, EL 81, Mount Gunson.
14 cored holes have intersected copper mineralization in shaley facies of the Woocalla Dolomite, and extending up into dark claystone at the base of the Whyalla Sandstone. The mineralised rocks occupy a shallow depression in the post-Pandurra erosion...-
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Progress report on geology of the Cattlegrid [copper mine]. Observations since the commencement of mining.
Opening up of the Cattlegrid pit has greatly elucidated the geology of the Whyalla Sandstone and the ore bearing zone of the Pandurra Formation and with the discovery of the MG 14 basic dyke and overlying mineralization, a much more direct association...-
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Mount Gunson. The case for structural control of ore deposition.
Structural interpretation of the pre-Adelaidean basement from aeromagnetic and gravity data defines uplifted basement blocks and basement fractures which were active as normal faults during deposition of Adelaidean sediments, controlling the...-
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Ongoing appraisal work conducted by CSR at the company's newly discovered Cattlegrid copper deposit that lies at the top of the Pandurra Formation has included infill rotary percussion and diamond drilling (13 holes for 554 m, including 166 m cored),...-
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Facies trends in the Bunyeroo and Wonoka Formations, EL 361, Beltana area, SA.
Report presents the results of eight weeks (August-September 1977) spent in the licence area under application, measuring and describing nine stratigraphic sections, with the aim of examining possible sedimentary controls on the known widespread...-
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Broch 072 Moonta Mines
In 1861, a shepherd, Patrick Ryan, discovered traces of copper in earth burrowed oui of a wombat hole on the pastoral lease of W.W. Hughes. The discovery was made in a patch of dense scrub known by aboriginals as Moonta-Moontera. By 1876. Moonta was...-
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