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RB 51/00003 Final report on groundwater prospects, southeast portion of the Hundred of Haines and the southwest portion of the Hundred of Dudley.
Good quality water with a salinity of below 500 grains per gallon is required for the washing of gypsum, a minimum supply of 1,500 gallons per hour being needed. In the Salt Lake District supplies of probably not more than 100 to 200 gallons per hour...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1960
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RB 51/00144 Cromer C white clay deposit. Sections 136, 143 and 154 Hundred Para Wirra - County Adelaide.
The Cromer-C clay deposit consists of three groups of workings extending over 1¼ miles in fractured greywacke rooks of the Kanmantoo Group of sediments. The white clay is derived from kaolinisation of the original sediments possibly due to hydro...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00134 Report on site investigation SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd site, railway yards, Strathalbyn.
The site of a proposed silo at Strathalbyn was investigated by one cable tool hole 17.8m deep. The drilling intersected 3m of clay and sand slopewash overlying completely weathered to fresh schist and sandstone of the Kanmantoo Group.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 56/00018 Seismic refraction survey proposed, Teal Flat dam site.
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 55/00093 Lower Murray dam sites - Teal Flat report on geological investigations (drill logs in separate report 55/93, main report in 55/93A).
Three potential damsites on the lower Murray River near Mannum were investigated by drilling and geological mapping. Two holes at Site 4 and one at Site 5 showed Tertiary sediments overlying granite bedrock at depth exceeding 24m. Exploration was...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00136 Report on site investigation SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd site, railway yards, Monarto South.
Two percussion holes were drilled at Monarto South to test foundation conditions at a proposed silo site. The site is underlain by Holocene to Tertiary sediments 12m thick over schist of the Kanmantoo Group.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 60/00078 Report on investigation of alternative site for proposed E&WS elevated tank, (Middle River,) Kangaroo Island.
An investigation has been carried out for the E&WS Department at an alternative site for a 250,000 gallon elevated tank. The examination was requested by application on 12th February 1965 in a letter to the Director of Mines. The new site is in...-
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Published: 13 Apr 1965
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RB 49/00084 Preliminary geological report on the Salt Creek site for a pumped storage electricity generating scheme.
Salt Creek traverses Kanmantoo Group greywackes and arkoses striking north and south and dipping 25° east. Patches of Permian sands and clays occur in irregular Permian valleys. At the proposed dam site and to the west the rocks are heavily jointed...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 50/00017 Report on road metal quarry, quartzite, secn 5299 Hd Kanmantoo - Mount Barker Quarries.
A road metal quarry in buff quartzites and micaceous sandstones occurs half a mile east of the township of Nairne. The sediments exposed are basal members of the Kanmantoo Group. The beds strike south-south-east dipping 60 to the east. More than...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 82/00053 Geological assessment of proposed Penneshaw Harbour for Philanderer ferry service.
Well cemented slightly wrathered metasandstone (Kanmantoo Group) occurs at the site of the proposed harbour. Fracture spacings are such that when blasted the rock would form blocks of a suitable size for a breakwater. The rock is considered to be...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1982
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RB 85/00042 Shallow refraction seismic survey Christmas Cove, Kangaroo Island.
In the construction of marina, the results suggest that, apart from small areas, blasting should not be required if the material to be excavated is similar to that removed for the deepening of the cove at Cape Jervis.-
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Published: 01 Aug 1985
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RB 77/00023 Groundwater resources for South-East town water supplies review no. 1 - Kingston.
Recent drilling information, aquifer testing, a review of data on existing town water supply wells and a survey of wells intersecting the confined Kongorong Sand aquifer in the vicinity of Kingston have been used to assess the state of Kingston's...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 99/00019 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Portions of Torrens Rural Catchment.
The Torrens Rural Catchment can be divided into three zones where groundwater extraction from fractured rock aquifers is significant - the Fourth and Sixth Creek catchments, and the Birdwood - Gumeracha area. The Fourth Creek Catchment, which is...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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RB 99/00018 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Tookayerta Catchment.
The Tookayerta Catchment is an area which is increasingly coming under pressure from its landowners for the development of local groundwater resources to irrigate dairy pastures, berry plantations and vineyards. The catchment encompasses two...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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RB 96/00040 Resources '96 Convention. Kanmantoo tectonics, sedimentology and metallogeny excursion. Field guide.
An integrated scientific research program addressing structural, sedimentological and metallogenic aspects of basin evolution has been conducted in the Kanmantoo Trough for the past three years. Joint collaboration in this program involved MESA, the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1996
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Mount Mary. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 14/4/2008 to 13/4/2009.
During initial exploration of the Mount Mary area, located approximately 120 km north-east of Adelaide, the compilation and reprocessing of available gravity and magnetic data were used to interpret the bedrock geology hidden under a widespread...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1909
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Mount Pleasant (part of the Kanmantoo Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/delayed renewal, for the period 31/8/1976 to 30/8/1978.
At the newly discovered Mount Torrens lead prospect, grid auger soil geochemical sampling, 1:5000 scale geological mapping, limited ground geophysical test surveying and the drilling of 23 percussion holes totalling 3388 m indicated the existence of...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1978
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Starvation Creek, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/5/1978 to 18/5/1980.
A programme of rotary drilling on Kangaroo Island of 56 shallow exploratory holes for 191 m, conjointly carried out by Comalco on its ELs 396 and 408, was designed to test for possible economic bauxite and low iron bauxite claystone occurrences...-
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Callington stone deposit (under lease by the Readymix Group). Notice of Intent to extract material [road sealing aggregates] by quarrying.
The site of the Callington greywacke deposit, located 2 km south of Callington township, was leased from the landowners by the Readymix Group in 1972 when preliminary geological investigations indicated that it contained unusually massive bedrock that...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1978
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RB 67/00033 South Eastern Freeway geological investigations. Progress report no. 3, Littlehampton to Callington section, STA 85 and 00 to STA 197 and 00 - Highway and Local Government Department.
Materials outcropping along the freeway route are quartzite, then interbedded grey schist and laminated siltstone. Surface mapping, seismic refraction surveys and diamond drilling show that these materials are rippable except for minor schist bands....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
