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Mount Bayley. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/7/1971 to 21/7/1972.
A small area located 15 km north-east of Beltana was explored for possible economic stratabound or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metal deposits associated with Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous/dolomitic strata and Willouran diapiric structures. Work...-
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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 84/00039 Beltana barite deposits - No. 2 lode. Geological investigations 1983. Out of Hundreds - Flinders Ranges. Steetley Industries Ltd.
Barite with abundant botryoidal goethite and quartz formed during Ordovician Delamerian Orogeny as infillings of fissure near regional northwesterly fault. Largely mined for oil drilling grade barite. Uneconomic tonnages remain.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1984
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Mount Goddard, Mount Deception and Parachilna (part of Flinders Ranges Project). First partial surrender report for the period 14/10/1999 to 13/10/2000.
Three areas in the Parachilna - Beltana - Leigh Creek area were excluded from prospectivity for Cambrian base metal mineralisation following reconnaissance soil and rock chip sampling and a review of previous exploration.-
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Beltana mine and Aroona zinc mine mining leases and retention leases (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Option period first annual report, for the period 1/1/2000 to 30/12/2000.
During the first year of its evaluation of the Beltana and Aroona mining properties on which it has taken out an option, Perilya undertook the following intensive work programme aimed at locating buried extensions and repetitions of the willemite...-
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Mount Bayley. Progress reports for the period 3/2/87 to 2/7/88.
TARGET: Shallowly buried Mesozoic coal of a rank at least equal to that of Leigh Creek coal. EXPLORATION: A gravity survey and 2 scout rotary drillholes (total 167.5 m). RESULTS: No coal was intersected.-
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Published: 18 Aug 1988
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Mount Stuart. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1987.
Epithermal, fault-related gold and base metals in calcareous Adelaidean metasediments (cf. the Beltana and Aroona zinc-lead deposits), and sedex style base metals of Mount Isa - McArthur River type, or stratiform base metals in black shale units, were...-
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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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Mount Roebuck. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 28/3/90 to 29/10/91.
TARGET: Diamonds, gold and copper in the Mount Roebuck area. EXPLORATION: Drainage, loam and rock chip sampling, ground magnetic, radiometric and IP surveys, and diamond drilling (4 holes totalling 739 m). RESULTS: A single, 0.5 mm x 0.4 mm diameter...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1991
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Warraweena. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 14/2/91 to 13/11/91.
TARGET: Possible diapirism-related gold, base metals and diamonds in the Warraweena area, located 10 km south-east of Copley. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance gravel and stream sediment BLEG sampling, plus geochemical tests for signatures of possible...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1991
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Alioota. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 8/4/1971 to 7/4/1972.
Continuing exploration for economic stratiform base metal deposits in an area approximately 30 km north-east of Copley has outlined the presence of persistent traces of disseminated chalcopyrite, galena and pyrite within green shales and dolomitic...-
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Published: 30 Dec 1971
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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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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 71/00075 Report on pump tests, Rawnsley Park, Wilpena grid I6.
Following a request by the Northern District Engineer of the Highways Department (dated 4th February, 1971) pump tests were carried out on 3 privately-owned bores between the 3rd and 11th of March, 1971. It was planned to test 4 bores but Bore 3 (see...-
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Published: 12 May 1971
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RB 76/00042 Proposed Aroona Dam silt traps, seismic profiles and engineering geology - EWS Department and ETSA.
Shallow seismic refraction traverses have been carried out at six proposed sites for silt traps upstream of Aroona Dam, near Leigh Creek. The aims of the survey were to determine seismic velocities in the soil and weathered rock overburden, and in the...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1976
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Balcanoona and Wertaloona. Progress reports to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 20/8/1965 to 19/8/1966.
Examination of an historically worked occurrence of stratiform base metal mineralisation near Balcanoona in the central Flinders Ranges, 50 miles east of Copley, has involved intensive geochemical sampling of abandoned mine adits, old dumps,...-
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Beltana - Aroona region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/7/1971 to 15/7/1972.
Continuing prospect exploration work at the Beltana zinc orebody discovery has consisted of detailed geological mapping at 1:4 800 scale, rock chip sampling of outcropping Adelaidean and Cambrian sediments, field investigation of microgravity...-
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