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EL 272 Hamilton Creek. A regional assessment of the base metal potential of the Parabarana (to) Gunsight trend, and Callanna Beds (through) Yudnamutana sequence, northern Mount Painter Province, South Australia.
Aquitaine Australia Minerals Pty Ltd (Aquitaine) entered into a joint venture with North Flinders Mines on 21 August 1975, over an area defined by Exploration Licence 272 (ex EL 153). The area included two main prospective zones for copper deposits:...-
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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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Report on exploration investigations in the Mount McDonnell Valley.
Outcropping Wywyana Formation in the Mount McDonnell Valley, which had been shown by past work to be highly anomalous in copper, with attendant gold enrichment, was targetted by 50 m by 20 m grid-based geological, geochemical and ground geophysical...-
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Arkaroola. Progress and technical reports to licence renewal for the period 19/5/1972 to 18/5/1974.
Ongoing base metal exploration in the Arkaroola Station region of the north-eastern Flinders Ranges by licensee North Flinders Mines (NFM) has involved reviews of certain existing prospects, which has led to the entry of farminee Shell Minerals...-
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Summary of the previous exploration for stratiform copper and proposed follow-up exploration in the Yudnamutana Hill area, South Australia.
This report summarises the relevant results of previous copper exploration in the Yudnamutana Hill area by Utah Exploration Co. and Australian Aquitaine Petroleum Pty Ltd, and suggests an ongoing exploration programme for stratiform copper. It also...-
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Review of stratiform gold within the Adelaidean sediments, Mount Painter Province, South Australia.
The southern portion of the Mount Painter Province held under ELs 871 and 1049 contains Adelaidean sediments of the Upper Callanna Beds and Burra Group overlying the Carpentarian Mount Painter Complex. Reconnaissance work by Marathon Petroleum during...-
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Tarlton Knob and Cadnia Hill. Joint progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
A consultant's detailed regional geological study of the northern Willouran Ranges, and then his very close examination of the apparent controls on known diapir-related exposed epigenetic / stratabound copper mineralisation, have identified three...-
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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 60/00040 Geology of the MARREE 1:250 000 map area.
The MARREE mapsheet area lies in arid country about 400 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia. It includes the town of Marree, on the Alice Springs railway line, and part of the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks. The area is covered mainly by flat...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1965
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RB 60/00091 Diapirism in the Adelaide Geosyncline.
During the Neoproterozoic Willouran Epoch, a thickness of approximately 20,000 feet of Callanna Beds were deposited under shallow water conditions in the western zone of the Adelaide Geosyncline. Diapirs were produced by the lower Callanna sequences....-
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Published: 07 May 1965
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RB 85/00027 Gravity of the Blinman Dome Diapir.
Gravity traverses completed over the Blinman Dome indicate the presence of a low density body, interpreted to consist of brecciated material with a large depth extent. The bulk of the dismembered sedimentary rafts and xenoliths may be confined within...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1985
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RB 82/00084 Some comments on Late Precambrian Cambrian stratigraphic nomenclature in the Adelaide Geosyncline. A reply.
Report gives a detailed justification for the author's recently made proposal to erect three members of a new "supergroup" classification level within the published stratigraphy for the Adelaide Geosyncline, an idea which is based purely on observed...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1982
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RB 84/00033 Progress in mapping the Precambrian of the Curdimurka area.
Summarises information gathered during mapping since 1981, particularly work by Utah Development Company. Covers fault - bounded structural complexes in the Callanna Group and sections measured through upper Burra Group, overlying glacial beds and...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 79/00159 Three sections measured in Lower Adelaidean (Proterozoic) rocks, southeastern Curdimurka area.
Stratigraphic sections were measured through the Callanna Beds and lower Burra Group, by tape and air photo enlargement, at the following localities: (1) north-east of Kingston Dam, (2) south-east of Dome Hill and (3) west of Callanna Homestead. At...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 79/00024 Adelaidean sedimentation. The Adelaide Geosyncline and Stuart Shelf.
In southern South Australia, the meridional Torrens Hinge Zone, at approximately longitude 138º, separates the cratonic Stuart Shelf with its undeformed, relatively thin sedimentary cover in the west, from the folded Adelaide Geosyncline to the east....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 81/00113 Report on the geophysical investigation of Worumba Anticline.
The core complex contains carbonate breccia and raft like inclusions of rocks including dolerites. These have distinct magnetic signature and associated gravity effects. Gravity surveys have revealed steep regional gradient characteristic of basement...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 89/00002 Excursion guide to diapirs of the Flinders Ranges, Specialist group in Tectonics and Structural Geology Conference, Kangaroo Island, 2-3 February 1989.
The Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia contain well exposed late Proterozoic and early to middle Cambrian dominantly sedimentary rocks, deposited in the Adelaide Geosyncline and deformed during the Cambro-Ordovician Delamerian Orogeny;...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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RB 93/00019 Geology of the Upalinna Diapir, central Flinders Ranges.
Investigation of the Upalinna Diapir, located 20 km east of Wilpena Pound in the Adelaide Geosyncline, has identified a number of structural and sedimentary features normally associated with evaporite diapirs. The Upalinna Diapir is a small,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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RB 88/00051 Pre-Mesozoic geology of the Curdimurka region.
Pre-Mesozoic rocks are best exposed in the Willouran Ranges SW of Marree, but inliers occur as far west as Stuart Creek. These approximate the junction of the Stuart Shelf (to the west) with the Torrens Hinge Zone, which extends east to the Norwest...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1988
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RB 89/00035 Petrography and interpretation of lower Adelaidean sediments in drillholes near Port Pirie.
Thirty-five thin sections prepared from stored North Broken Hill drill cores indicate that conglomeratic sandstones classified as Emeroo Subgroup, and red siltstones classified as Callanna Group, could alternatively be lateral equivalents of 1 major...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
