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RB 84/00052 Reconnaissance sampling of palygorskitic clay, Garford Palaeochannel - Coober Pedy.
Hand auger and channel sampling was carried out at 23 localities on the margins of playa lakes within the palaeochannel. Large areas of Garford Formation clay, possibly suitable as industrial absorbents, are likely in the centre of the palaeochannel....-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 78/00106 Garford Formation.
Regional 1:250 000 mapping and associated studies in the Tallaringa-Coober Pedy-Stuart Range area have established the presence of palaeodrainage features which were active during Eocene to Pleistocene times. Preliminary details of two of these, the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 78/00038 Report on drilling in the Tallaringa palaeodrainage system.
Programme of fully cored shallow holes. Aim was to investigate stratigraphy of the palaeochannels, relate this to the geology and evaluate economic potential of channel confined sediments, to test for lignite, sedimentary uranium, alluvial gold, heavy...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 88/00050 Volcanic and sedimentary rocks from the Wirrulla region, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Volcanic rocks from the Wirrulla region include dacites, rhyodacites and rhyolites. They comprise both magmatic and pyroclastic types, and are similar to the Gawler Range Volcanics. Sedimentary rocks from the same region include quartz sandstones...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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RB 95/00048 Palygorskite clay investigation, Garford Palaeochannel, South Australia: results of drilling, April-May 1995.
Reverse circulation (RC) drilling, combined with shallow auger holes and field infrared analyses, were used to identify areas of high-grade palygorskite associated with illitic and dolomitic clays of the Garford palaeodrainage system, 110 km...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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Garford. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/2018 to 15/4/2020.
An area centred ~140 km north-west of Tarcoola and ~20 km north of the Challenger gold mine has been explored for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite (synonym attapulgite) clays which may have formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and...-
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Lake Anthony. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 711) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
An area located just to the east of the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, occupied by many scattered large and small salt lakes surrounded by sand dunes, with Precambrian basement [of the western Gawler Craton] subcropping near the surface, has been...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Dunn Hill, Wallala Hill and Mount Centre. Progress report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 14/2/1989 to 16/6/1989.
TARGET: Possible heavy mineral placer or sedimentary uranium deposits within the Narlaby Palaeochannel in the Nunjikompita - Hiltaba areas on western Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: Reverse circulation drilling traverses (50 holes totalling 1213 m),...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1989
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Garford Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 12/4/1983 to 11/4/1984.
After a regional review of the absorbent clay mineral potential of known palygorskite and attapulgite - bearing Middle Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in an area centred 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, a possibly economic partly-exposed attapulgite...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1984
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Wirrulla, Cungena, Mortana, Kolballa and Calca. Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/8/1989 to 17/12/1991.
TARGET: Possible heavy mineral sands emplaced within Tertiary sediments in the Wirulla, Poochera, Inkster and Streaky Bay areas. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance 10-15 km spaced and infill 100 m spaced reverse circulation drilling to pre-Tertiary basement...-
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Lake Anthony and Lamont. Progress and relinquishment reports for the period 12/4/82 to 11/4/85.
Literature reviews, plus studies of photogeology and of drillhole data, have confirmed the existence of palaeochannels and of the selective accumulation of Tertiary lignites within a broad area that surrounds and lies to the north and west of Lake...-
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Nalara and Pulkatha. Progress and final reports for the period from 29/9/88 to 28/3/90.
TARGET: Heavy mineral sands in the Eocene Hampton Sandstone of the Eucla Basin. EXPLORATION: A review of Landsat data, aerial photographs and topographic maps to located fossil Tertiary coastal strandlines, plus reverse circulation drilling (97 holes...-
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Published: 11 Apr 1990
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Sandstone. Progress reports for the period 18/12/86 to 18/12/90.
TARGET: Palygorskite (absorbent clay) in playa lakes within the Garford Palaeochannel. EXPLORATION: Trenching and 10-20 kg bulk sampling of known dolomitic palygorskite occurrences (15 backhoe cuts in seven lake depressions, to 3.6 m below surface,...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1990
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Wilkinson Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/7/1978 to 5/10/1981.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary paleochannels draining the western margin of the Gawler Craton, and in sediments of the Wilkinson Trough. Base metals in Proterozoic basement rocks. EXPLORATION: Rotary drilling (48 holes totalling 3213 m),...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1981
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Wynbring (part of the Eucla Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/5/2005 to 22/5/2010.
As part of a regional exploration project targeting possible economic buried secondary, roll-front style uranium deposits within Tertiary sediments of the Wynbring Palaeochannel and its several tributaries, an area located approximately 75 km...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kottata Well, Eldale, Tootla and Broadacres (also part of the Yaninee Project). First annual report for EL 3135, plus subsequent joint annual reports, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2009.
An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....-
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RB 2001/00021 Development of geoscientific models for exploration in Tertiary palaeochannels draining the north-western Gawler Craton, SA.
The precise geometric definition of palaeochannels on the north-western Gawler Craton, South Australia, is important in the exploration for placers (e.g. gold and heavy minerals), secondary geochemical deposits (e.g. uranium) and even for lignite and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2001
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RB 2006/00001 Guide to the sedimentary cover of the central Gawler Craton, South Australia
The central Gawler Craton is blanketed by thin sedimentary cover that ranges in age from Neoproterozoic to Quaternary. Locally, though, such cover can reach a maximum of ~500 m thickness in Permian glacial valleys or rift structures. This guide...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2006
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RB 2016/00025 Geology of the Peltabinna 1:75 000 Special Edition Map Sheet.
The Peltabinna 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2017
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Venus Bay. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/7/1994 to 26/1/1998.
Diamond and gold exploration undertaken on the two relinquished ground portions located north-west and east of Venus Bay on Eyre Peninsula, which total 530 square km in area, have comprised heavy mineral sampling, heavy mineral grain microprobing,...-
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