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University student thesis : Detailed geological investigation of the Burra open pit, Burra, SA.
Detailed geological and structural mapping of Samin's partly excavated new Burra open cut was performed by the author at a scale of 1:480 during the period December 1972 to end of January 1973. By the latter date the pit had been excavated downwards a...-
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Yudnamutana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1972 to 23/6/1973.
As part of continuing exploration for possible economic buried stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation in the Yudnamutana Mining Field, the target lower Callanna Group strata were geologically mapped, petrologically studied and geochemically...-
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RB 51/00089 (Report of an inspection made at the undeveloped) Truro talc deposit.
An inspection of an occurrence of talc situated in Section 228, Hundred of Jellicoe, 3¼ miles northeast of Truro, was made on 12/10/1960. The deposit was first noted by D. King (Mining Review 103, 1957, pp. 68-69) when a borehole showed about 4 feet...-
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Published: 20 Oct 1960
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RB 41/00134 Mineral investigations in the Mount Painter region. Progress report.
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Published: 06 Jan 1956
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RB 79/00122 Penrice marble deposit. (Report on the) 1977-1978 drilling programme.
Since 1950, recorded production from ICI's Penrice marble deposit near Angaston has totalled 13,083,395 tonnes. High grade marble is used at the company's Osborne plant, while lower grade stone is sold for cement manufacture and roadstone, and small...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1979
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RB 89/00051 Cowell Jade Province: Detailed geological mapping and diamond drilling of jade and ornamental marble outcrops, 1982-1987. Volume 1.
Detailed mapping undertaken between 1982 and 1987 of 48 known jade outcrops located in the Cowell - Cleve area, and diamond drilling of 3 jade outcrops and 2 ornamental marble prospects, has identified many factors controlling nephrite formation. The...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1992
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Mount Olinthus. Annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1996.
Base metal mineralisation, indicated by newly discovered shafts at the historic Atkinson Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine, was the impetus for exploration in the upland area 20 km north-west from Cowell. Grab samples collected from shafts, stockpiles and dumps varied...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Beltana. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1993 to 15/4/1998.
Contains a subset of data compiled by the licensee on the subject of commercial use of coloured iron oxides, plus some progress reports dealing with an assessment of red dolomitic marble from the Ajax Limestone unit for its potential use as an...-
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Warrow. Progress and final relinquishment reports for the period 10/6/83 to 9/12/84.
Extensive geophysical prospecting, an 8 hole percussion drill coring programme (477 m) and a 140 hole RAB drilling programme (1798 m) at the Lady Franklin prospect were not encouraging. Percussion drillhole 83WP2 intersected a zone of primary but...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1984
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Angaston. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/7/1991 to 21/1/1992.
TARGET: Marble resources in the Angaston area which might be suitable to use as raw material for soda ash manufacture. EXPLORATION: Detailed geological mapping [some scale(s) given] and surface rock chip geochemical sampling (22) of various deposits....-
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Published: 20 Mar 1992
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Burra Copper [open pit mining] Project. Reports of geological investigations for the period October 1969 to February 1981.
A collection of miscellaneous reports referring to geochemical sampling of costeans and exposed bedrock, drilling, mapping and petrology work that has recently been carried out in the re-developed Burra open cut copper mine. The focus of the work...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1980
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Kia Ora Station. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 20/8/1980.
The target of exploration carried out approximately 60 km north-east of Burra was diamonds, with base metals and coal as secondary interests. Aeromagnetic and radiometric surveys identified several anomalies which were interpreted as possibly due to...-
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Reports on the Rapid Bay limestone deposit, for the period 1956 to 1958.
This Cambrian marble deposit, which has been quarried by BHP since August 1942 to supply metallurgical fluxes to its Whyalla Steelworks, has recently been surveyed, mapped at 1:1200 scale and sampled through its entire extent to determine stone grades...-
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Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/3/1970 to 18/3/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over part of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field has targeted base metal anomalies previously found by Australian Selection in the Blue mine area. An area of about 80 square miles was assessed by reconnaissance stream...-
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Terowie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/11/1976 to 26/6/1978.
In an area of strongly folded, sericitised and silicified lower Adelaidean sedimentary rocks located km north-east of Terowie, an initial four areas of base metal geochemical anomalism were identified on prior EL 158 by surface sampling and geological...-
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RB 25/00013 Report on diamond drilling marble deposits at Penrice near Angaston.
Since June 1945, an extensive programme of diamond drilling has been carried out on the recently acquired property of I.C.I. Alkali (Australia) Pty Ltd at Penrice, with the object of investigating the reserves of high grade marble available for open...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1950
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RB 25/00011 Report on diamond drilling marble deposits at Penrice near Angaston.
To support the production of soda ash at its Osborne plant in Adelaide, South Australia, ICI Australia has been obtaining crushed marble from the Barossa Valley region as process raw material. Since June 1945, the South Australian Department of Mines...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1949
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RB 56/00067 Re-interpretation of the Burra Burra copper deposits.
The Burra Burra (sic) copper mine is located in complexly folded Torrensian dolomites and limestones forming the faulted axial region of a major anticline. The orebody formerly mined was largely of secondary origin and confined between two faults,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1963
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Mount Painter area (Yudnamutana Mining Field and Shamrock Valley). Progress and final relinquishment reports for the period 1/10/1968 to 31/3/1970.
Kennecott took up 3 SMLs in the Mount Painter district during 1968 to evaluate known copper-uranium occurrences and to search for new occurrences. At the same time, they secured the ground surrounding four 40-acre Mineral Claims already in their...-
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