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RB 94/00009 Soils, stratigraphy and engineering geology of near surface materials of the Adelaide Plains.
Metropolitan Adelaide is founded on a wide variety of soils that overlie sediments and rocks. Some of the soils and sediments react to seasonal and human-induced changes in water content with marked changes in volume. The black earths and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1996
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RB 98/00015 Clare Valley groundwater resources. Progress report 1 - Hydrogeology, drilling and groundwater monitoring.
A fundamental question remains to be answered in the Clare Valley. How much water can be safely extracted without causing depletion of the groundwater resources? This question is being addressed by a major investigation into the groundwater...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1998
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RB 98/00014 Clare Drilling. Phase 2 - June 1997.
Phase Two of a drilling program at Clare, South Australia was undertaken in June, 1997. A total of 6 bores were drilled, 4 of these at existing locations established during Phase One drilling in January, 1996, and a further 2 at Watervale Oval as...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 98/00031 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Brownhill Creek Catchment.
The Brownhill Creek Catchment can be divided into two main zones - the Hills Zone (rural catchment) and the Plains Zone (urban catchment). The Hills Zone is underlain by fractured rock aquifers which contain good quality groundwater (salinities...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1998
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RB 89/00024 Shale and clay supplies for metropolitan Adelaide - Preliminary report for the Mount Lofty Ranges Review.
This report summarises the main consumers, reserves, production and probable life of current mines and identifies potential alternative sources. Shale reserves in the currently worked pits are sufficient for 50 years, white plastic clay at Golden...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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Leighton. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 21/8/2009.
Basal Umberatana Group glacial tillitic sedimentary sequences and upper Burra Group interglacial arenaceous sediments were explored for possible economic stratabound gold mineralisation in an area located about 10-40 km north-west of Burra. In the...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-63, Mongolata area epithermal gold and base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
An observed trend between base metals anomalism in soils and previously identified magnetic and gravity anomalies within inferred Adelaidean basement metasediments present within the eastern part of Mongolata EL 3164 provided the impetus for the...-
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Princess Royal, Burra West, Burra North, Florieton, Mount Bryan, Burra Central, Mongolata, Redbanks, Hallett Hill and The Gums (the Burra Project tenement group). Joint annual reports for the period 1/5/2009 to 30/4/2017.
A multi-licence project area centred on the historic abandoned Burra copper mine is being explored for possible economic, buried Burra type copper oxide and copper carbonate mineralisation that may have formed within Neoproterozoic metasedimentary...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Clare (part of the Spalding Project). Annual reports for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2010.
In Phoenix Copper's opinion, although several previous explorers had investigated the Spalding Inlier area, many targets remained insufficiently tested. The principal structural target the company wished to explore is the intersection between an...-
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Benda Range. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/4/1988.
TARGET: Cross-cutting gold mineralised quartz reefs / veining, primarily in the Tarcowie Siltstone; gold in known mineralised zones in the Saddleworth Formation; and circular features as outlined from Landsat image interpretation. EXPLORATION: Rock...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1987
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Economic geology and mineralogy of Birdwood kaolin, South Australia.
White clay is won from 5 pits operated by 3 companies for use in white cement and cream brick manufacture with some as a filler / extender. White clay formed by intensive kaolinization of mica schist and fine grained micaceous quartzite. Irregular...-
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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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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnerships DPY9-43 - Brownlow and DPY9-47 - Bower. Drilling projects' joint interim and final reports.
Copper and gold mineralisation associated with felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous intrusive rocks which have intruded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments in the Nackara Arc region has been the target of exploratory drilling conducted with the...-
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Hallett (part of the Nackara Gold Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/8/2002 to 4/10/2012.
An area of high country in the far northern Mount Lofty Ranges was taken under licence to try to find the primary source(s) of widely dispersed detrital gold known from Recent and Tertiary cover sediments in the region, while focussing mainly on...-
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Benda Range (part of the Manna Hill Project). Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/5/2008 to 5/5/2013.
141 square km or ~51.5% of the former area of EL 4139 has been relinquished as a condition of renewing tenure for a second 5-year licence term. The only field work undertaken on the relinquished ground has been reconnaissance traverse geological...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Burra Hill (part of the Burra South Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 1/5/2006 to 30/4/2009.
Within a small licence area centred about 15 km south-south-east of Burra township in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, Copper Range initially targeted near-surface copper oxide mineralisation associated with an altered and brecciated contact zone...-
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Leighton. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/3/2010 to 14/3/2014.
A small area centred ~18 km west-northwest of Burra has been explored for possible buried primary porphyry type copper-gold mineralisation, and also for small scale secondary copper carbonate deposits of Burra style. Reprocessing of existing...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bald Hill North. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2009.
A small area centred ~5 km west of Burra township is being explored for possible buried economic, Monster mine type stratiform copper oxide or copper carbonate deposits, thought to be associated with poorly exposed fault structures and related...-
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RB 2016/00013 Geological field excursion guide — Rifts, reverse faults and regolith: Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic geology in the Mid-North of South Australia.
The rolling hills, wheat paddocks and vineyards of the Mid-North region of South Australia conceal a geological transition between the Adelaide Hills and the Flinders Ranges. Here the landscape is subtly controlled by the Neoproterozoic bedrock...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2016
