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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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RB 87/00109 Geological investigations and exploration activities, 1982 to 1986, at Mount Grainger gold mine, Hundred Coglin, County Herbert. Volume 1 (of 2).
Investigations consisted of: 1) economic appraisal, mapping and sampling of mineralised structures within mineral leases; 2) regional investigation to east of Mount Grainger mine (report in RB 84/31) - includes details of exploration by Abignano Ltd....-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 86/00092 Historical and geological review of Teetulpa Goldfield. Volume 1 - Background.
Alluvial gold was discovered at Teetulpa in 1886 by Thomas Brady and Thomas Smith. Reef mining soon commenced, but the reefs were narrow and low grade and only worked on very small scale. Teetulpa Goldfield is predominantly alluvial, from erosion of...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1987
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RB 79/00016 Far Western barite occurrences, Oraparinna, Out of Hds, Co. Taunton, Flinders Ranges.
At Oraparinna, in the Flinders Ranges, barite has formed in fracture zones cross-cutting an Elatina Formation siltstone, within the Umberatana Group of Marinoan age. The occurrences are in a Class B Environmental Area as defined in the Flinders...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00046 Universal Milling (SA) barite deposit, Linke's Lode, Flinders Ranges.
Since 1962, recorded production from Universal Milling's barite deposit, part of Linke's lode, has totalled 28,542 tonnes. The deposit is in a Class B Environmental Area within the Flinders Ranges National Park. The steep barite lode has formed in a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00098 Steetley's barite deposit - Linkes Lode, Flinders Ranges, ML 3414, Out of Hundreds, County Taunton.
Since 1962, recorded production from Steetley's barite deposit, which forms part of Linke's lode, has totalled 6,237 tonnes. The deposit is in a Class B Environmental Area within the Flinders Ranges National Park. The steep barite lode has formed in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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The Kapunda mine, 1842 - 1912.
The subject report, drawing on numerous contemporary accounts, sketches and photographs of the historic Kapunda copper mine, clearly demonstrates that despite this mine being much smaller and earlier than the better-known 'monster' Burra mine, its...-
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AMIRA Project P544: Proterozoic sediment-hosted copper deposits. Quarterly progress reports and final report for the period July 2000 to October 2003.
The original objectives of this project were: 1) To understand the processes responsible for transporting, concentrating and fixing copper and other ore constituents during sedimentary basin evolution 2) To document the various stages and paragenesis...-
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Geological report on the Mount Mary mine.
Copper mineralisation at the Mount Mary workings is restricted to a large E-W trending fault that emanates from the Blinman Diapir. Minor cross-shear fractures along this fault are filled by quartz-siderite veins that carry malachite plus some...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Manunda, Tiverton Outstation, Iron Peak and Pualco Range (the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, later the Mawson Iron Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2016.
Three adjoining licence areas in the Baratta Trough within the northern Nackara Arc have been taken up to explore for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic metasedimentary semi-stratabound iron ore. Central EL 4267 covers ~3 km strike length of the...-
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Manna Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 27/11/1984.
Exploration undertaken to search for Telfer - style Proterozoic stratabound gold, within a large area extending to the north and north-west of Manna Hill township, included an aerial photographic survey of known occurrences, and helicopter-assisted...-
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Paratoo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/3/1988 to 30/2/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic, open-pit mineable stratiform low grade gold and copper deposits within Adelaidean units of the Nackara Arc, in an area lying west of and including Yunta. EXPLORATION: A detailed geological field reconnaissance, review of...-
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Published: 19 May 1990
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Manna Hill [not 'Mannahill']. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/10/1987 to 15/1/1990.
TARGET: Possible concealed, saddle-reef type lode developments of inferred Telfer-style gold deposits at the Manna Hill Goldfield. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance inspection of old mine workings, rock chip sampling (79), and shallow RAB bedrock drilling...-
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Terowie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/10/1974 to 20/10/1976.
Known, previously worked anomalous surface copper, lead, zinc and gold occurrences within gossanous basal Burra Group metasediments located on the flanks of the overturned Ulooloo Anticline, have been investigated with 1:2500 scale geological mapping,...-
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RB 63/00016 Report on geological investigation proposed SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd silo, railway yards, Spalding, secn 396 Hd Andrews.
The site of a proposed silo at Spalding was investigated by two cable tool holes 13m and 15m deep. The drilling intersected Pleistocene clays of the Pooraka Formation and Tertiary gravels to about 12.5m depth overlying steeply dipping and highly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 75/00034 Mongolata Goldfield.
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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Methuen Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/3/2005 to 3/3/2010.
Exploration of a small licence area located east of Nackara township has targeted possible buried economic stratabound copper deposits in altered Adelaidean metasediments, and also any Telfer-style gold occurrences in these same rocks. Over about half...-
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Published: 13 Jun 1912
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Nackara Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/12/2006 to 10/12/2009.
Exploration of a small area located north of Oodla Wirra has targeted possible buried economic Mount Grainger or Telfer - style epigenetic gold mineralisation hosted by altered and structurally disconformable Adelaidean metasediments, and has also...-
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Yednalue. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/2/2012 to 12/2/2016.
During licence Year 11 (2012-2013), David Miller rehabilitated his three drillsites that had been used in April 2011, delivered representative drill samples from his six holes to the DMITRE Drill Core Library, and further considered the logistics of...-
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Published: 10 Feb 1916
