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RB 80/00044 Limestone and dolomite deposits, Port Wakefield area. Report no. 1 - Review and reconnaissance sampling, Hundred of Kulpara - Electricity Trust of SA.
The Electricity Trust of South Australia requires a source of high grade limestone or dolomite to be used in the planned industrial firing process for brown coal from the Wakefield coal deposit. A SADME survey of available literature, supplemented by...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1980
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Minlaton. Progress reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 6/12/1978.
One diamond and seven rotary/percussion drillholes tested Cambrian rocks for base metals. Six water bores were logged geophysically. IP/resistivity and gravity surveys were undertaken.-
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Minlaton South 1, 3.75 miles south of Minlaton Township. Well completion details and related reports.
Minlaton South 1 was a shallow stratigraphic test well drilled by Beach Petroleum to investigate a possible ?Archaean basement high subcropping 3.75 miles south of Minlaton township, as suggested by SADM regional mapping observations made during 1961....-
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Published: 15 Jun 1966
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Maitland. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
As part of an ongoing search for MVT style base metal mineralisation within Lower Cambrian strata of the southern part of the Torrens Hinge Zone on Yorke Peninsula, in September 1975 112 RC holes for 1730 m were drilled at 500 m spacings along...-
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Price. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
In continuing regional exploration conducted over north-eastern Yorke Peninsula, further reconnaissance stratigraphic drilling and wireline geophysical logging (in 3 vertical rotary percussion holes totalling 373 m) was carried out in May 1976 to test...-
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RB 69/00120 Reconnaissance survey for ballast, southern Yorke Peninsula, Co. Fergusson - South Australian Railways.
Ballast sources on southern Yorke Peninsula are listed and discussed with reference to quality and availability. Further work required to define reserves at each site is indicated. Cambrian limestones are available near Ardrossan and Curramulka but...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 71/00131 Reconnaissance for railway ballast, Redhill-Bowmans area - SA Railways.
A site in Barunga Sandstone (Tent Hill Formation equivalent) located 2.5 miles south east of Nantawarra Siding has been selected for testing. Previous quarrying operations from this unit in the area have disclosed the presence at many sites of clay in...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1971
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Melton. Progress reports to licence surrender, for the period 21/7/1980 to 24/5/1989.
A small area located about 20 km north-west of Port Wakefield was taken under licence by ETSA to try to secure limestone/dolomite material of suitable quality and in sufficient quantity to provide chemical additives for aiding the process of...-
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Published: 20 Apr 1989
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Melton and Kulpara. Progress and technical reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/10/1982 to 24/5/1989.
Minimal field work only was undertaken, in the form of geological mapping of the Kulpara - South Hummocks Range area, plus petrological examination of selected rock chip samples. Envelope also contains a [formerly held confidential] FEAC submission -...-
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Published: 25 Nov 1988
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RB 2000/00013 Australian Clay Minerals Society Inc. 17th Biennial Conference, Adelaide, 10-12 April 2000: Field Guide for post-conference tour, 13-14 April 2000 - Yorke Peninsula clays and carbonates, copper mines, desert loam soils and mangroves.
This tour is concerned with aspects of the soils, geology, landforms, clays and mining on Yorke Peninsula, and likewise for the northern Adelaide Plains which are separated from the Peninsula by Gulf St Vincent. Both of these regions are among the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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Progress report on the palaeontology of the Cambrian sequence encountered in SADM Minlaton stratigraphic bore 1.
Reports describe the various Cambrian biostratigraphic horizons encountered in the bore, making comparisons and correlations with the Cambrian elsewhere in the Adelaide Geosyncline, particularly at Mount Scott Range, Sellicks Hill, Curramulka, The...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1957
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Port Pirie. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/10/1968 to 31/3/1969.
Field inspection and the assaying of 20 drainage samples of possible zinc silicate - bearing Lower Cambrian archaeocyathid limestone outcrops, in a small area located 8-12 miles west and north-west of Wakefield, failed to identify any such deposits or...-
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Published: 28 Jan 1969
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Water analysis and limestone analysis 1956 - 1958, Minlaton stratigraphic well 1. Detailed summary log and organic analysis.
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
