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The Ukaparinga Schist - a syngenetic copper deposit near Williamstown, South Australia.
An amphibolite-facies mica schist carrying syngenetic copper mineralisation has been mapped over a strike length of 2.5 km near Williamstown, 40 km North East of Adelaide, South Australia. The schist, termed the Ukaparinga Schist, contains...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Williamstown. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 16/12/1971 to 15/12/1972.
Exploration for possible stratiform or hydrothermal, fault-associated copper deposits in the area of basal Adelaidean metasediments lying to the north of known such mineralisation at the abandoned historic Ukaparinga mine, immediately north of...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1973
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RB 60/00071 (Report on the) Ukaparinga (Unaparinga) copper mine, Williamstown.
Copper carbonates are sporadically distributed throughout steeply dipping mica schist in a zone up to about 70 ft. wide. The host rocks have been regarded as overturned metamorphosed Burra Group (Torrensian) beds resting on the Aldgate Sandstone...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1965
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RB 44/00019 Diamond drilling for road making materials - Mount Compass.
Three diamond holes drilled on the southern slopes of Mt Compass in a search for road-making aggregate encountered variably banded calc-silicate rocks, syenitic types and pegmatites of the Lower Proterozoic Barossa Complex. The required volume of fair...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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Lobethal (part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Data release made upon the commencement of project licences' joint reporting] : annual reports for the period 29/9/1993 to 3/3/2003.
A large, 722 square km area of the central Adelaide Hills extending between Jupiter Creek and the Warren Conservation Park is being explored for diamonds, gold and base metals, in host geological structures that appeared to be associated with...-
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Houghton. Annual reports and partial relinquishment report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/10/2001 to 21/10/2006.
Three potentially economic gold and platinum / palladium - bearing, known primary uranium-mineralised targets in the Palaeoproterozoic Houghton basement inlier have been evaluated through the conduct of office-based geological and geophysical studies,...-
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Published: 26 Apr 1907
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Houghton. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 15/4/1968 to 28/2/1970.
As part of uranium exploration being carried out over the oldest basement rocks forming inliers to the Adelaide Geosyncline within the southern Mount Lofty Ranges, an airborne scintiilometer survey was flown across the Houghton Inlier during December...-
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Geological investigations of clay, mica and sillimanite occurrences at Williamstown, and evolving mine development plans and alternatives. Progress reports for the period 6/10/1976 to July 1984.
Dataset contains Amdel - derived mineralogical and petrological data on the ore and host rocks, plus the mine operator's reports on its plans to resume and optimize production of the unique ore types known to exist in four current mine pits and their...-
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/140: geochronology of the [State's] eastern basement rocks. Progress reports 1 to 22 for the period 14/9/1971 to August 1979.
More than 275 selected rock chip samples of Precambrian basement or near-basement igneous lithologies were described in detail petrographically and, if they were found to contain suitable minerals, then analysed using radiometric methods, the aim...-
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Mount Effie. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/8/1977 to 15/8/1979.
Exploration for possible Precambrian hydrothermal vein-style or unconformity type uranium deposits, and for any other economic metalliferous minerals, was carried out over several small inliers of Palaeoproterozoic rocks that crop out poorly through...-
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RB 2020/00015 Reconnaissance zircon U-Pb geochronology of the southeastern Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia.
The eastern Gawler Craton is the location of the Olympic Cu-Au Province, a world-class metallogenic province known for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena (Skirrow et al., 2007;...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2020
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RB 00052 General petrology - Myponga Uranium Field.
Petrographic study of a selection of rocks taken from major horizons recognised at the Myponga uranium prospect has allowed discrimination of a confusing suite of rocks into several intelligible groups on which future field mapping may be based. It is...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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Myponga. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/9/1978 to 7/5/1979.
Exploration for hydrothermally emplaced, vein-type uranium ore deposits within Proterozoic basement of the Myponga Inlier and within overlying metasedimentary and lateritic detrital cover rocks, in an area located 60 km south-southwest of Adelaide,...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1979
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SADM/Amdel Project MP 1/31/10 : Mineralogical investigation [following earlier economic assessment and roasting tests] of the Ukaparinga mine copper ore. Progress reports for the period October 1966 to February 1972.
24 diamond drill core samples of primary copper ore from the Ukaparinga mine, which is located about 4 km south of Williamstown, plus 3 hand specimen samples of oxidised ore taken from a near surface adit of this mine, have been investigated by...-
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Gawler and Kersbrook - Mount Crawford areas. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 16/8/1977 to 15/11/78.
A strong radiometric anomaly, previously found in pre-Adelaidean basement schist near its contact with Adelaidean Woolshed Flat Shale metasediments at the Pine Ridge prospect, and situated within the Mount Crawford State Forest approximately 7 km...-
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Houghton. First partial surrender report for the period 22/10/2001 to 21/10/2005.
Three potentially gold and platinum / pallidium - bearing, known primary uranium-mineralised targets in the Palaeoproterozoic Houghton basement inlier, have been evaluated through the conduct of office-based geological and geophysical studies followed...-
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Para Wirra. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/1/1972 to 12/1/1973.
Exploration for possible subsurface epithermal / hydrothermal, vein - style gold and base metal mineralisation in the vicinity of historic mines on the Houghton Inlier has consisted of the acquisition and interpretation of an initial semi-detailed...-
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RB 2020/00017 SHRIMP U-Pb dating of the Barossa Complex, South Australia: exploring tectonic links between the Gawler Craton and Curnamona Province.
The SHRIMP zircon dating study described herein was undertaken as part of the National Geoscience Agreement (NGA), as a collaborative research project between the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) and Geoscience Australia (GA). Eight samples...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2020