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Warraweena. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/9/1974.
Geological mapping, further surface geochemical sampling, test IP surveys and limited shallow diamond drilling (2 holes, total 201.3 m, including 147 m of NQ/BQ wireline coring) were done over a previously identified stream sediment zinc anomaly at...-
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RB 96/00014 Clayton water supply - Aquifer storage and recovery investigation.
Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is being developed as a solution to provide an emergency town water supply in a location where blue- green algae make River Murray water unfit for domestic use during summer. Algae-free river water will be injected...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1998
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RB 98/00006 Aquifer storage and recovery in a highly saline aquifer as a solution for town water supply.
An aquifer storage and recovery scheme is being developed at Clayton township on Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, notably as a solution to provide a town water supply in a location where blue-green algae make River Murray water (extracted via the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1998
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RB 90/00019 Transient electromagnetic survey at Kleins Point limestone quarry for Adelaide Brighton Cement Ltd.
A TEM Survey was carried out west of the quarry to determine whether the method was helpful in differentiating between hard and soft limestone for blasting / rippability purposes. Apparent resistivity variations in early channels probably mapped...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1989
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Uley. Annual reports for the period 16/9/2005 to 12/10/2018.
A licence area located 20 km west-southwest of Port Lincoln, which covers the historically worked Uley graphite deposit and environs, was taken up to try to delineate sufficient mineral resources and, eventually, ore reserves of graphite in the Mining...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1919
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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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Curnamona. First partial surrender report for the period 2/7/1976 to 1/7/1977.
In a search for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits, a resistivity survey and a 19 hole, 2818 m reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling and downhole geophysical logging programme were carried out in parts of the Tertiary Curnamona...-
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Published: 25 Jul 1977
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Andamooka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/3/1970 to 25/3/1971.
Exploration for supergene Cu-Pb-Zn mineralisation within the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone, 12 miles north-east of Andamooka, comprised broad scale surface geochemical sampling (302 samples), detailed mapping of the resulting prospects, bulldozer...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1971
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Lake Fowler gravity magnetic and sesmic survey. Half-monthly progress reports OEL 24 SA. Nov 1969 to Feb 1970.
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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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 64/00109 First geological and geochemical report on the Sellicks Hill area for the period January to May 1967.
The Lower Cambrian rocks of South Australia contain a number of stratiform lead, zinc and copper deposits. Work at Sellick Hill has indicated that a massive Archaeocyatha-bearing limestone carries anomalous amounts of lead and zinc. Basal...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 73/00276 Caroline sinkhole resistivity experiment.
An attempt has been made to measure the rate of movement of the groundwater in the limestone aquifer of the lower south-east of South Australia using an electrical resistivity method of following a salt slug dumped into Caroline Sink Hole. The...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-13, Lake Frome area Holocene and Neogene calcrete - hosted uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
Surficial sedimentary uranium deposits are estimated to comprise about 4% of world uranium resources. Calcrete deposits form approximately 5% of Australia's total uranium reserves and resources. Exploration for calcrete - hosted uranium of Neogene age...-
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Published: 11 Jun 1908
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Coonalpyn. Combined first annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/1/2010 to 20/1/2011.
Assessment of the economic potential of a historically worked manganese mineral occurrence located just north of Mount Boothby, near Coonalpyn, initially comprised a field inspection of two remnant infilled costeans during October 2009, plus the...-
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Published: 19 May 1911
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The Adelaide Hills Project. Data release made at the partial surrenders / full surrender of subsequent licences: annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 27/6/2000 to 15/5/2005.
A diamond exploration project area comprising nine mineral exploration licences located in the central Mount Lofty Ranges was taken up by new public company Flinders Diamonds (FDL) to search for possible commercial accumulations of diamonds, thought...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ooldea. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/9/2005 to 31/8/2010.
An area centred ~230 km north-west of Ceduna, in the far north-eastern corner of the Nullarbor Plain, and lying just south of the Ooldea railway siding on the Trans Australian Railway line, is being explored for possible economic buried deposits of...-
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RB 23/00263 Radioactivity research in connection with the 1948 search for copper at Wallaroo-Moonta.
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Published: 24 Apr 1948
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RB 2000/00015 Groundwater resources on Kangaroo Island.
Despite good rainfall, the groundwater resources on Kangaroo Island are limited, with localised good quality groundwater available only in small supplies. Just over 75% of all wells drilled on the island have a salinity of over 2000 mg/L, with 95% of...-
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Published: 01 May 2000
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RB 2010/00018 Investigation into the use of radon and soil sampling in exploration at the Hillside copper-gold deposit, South Australia.
Copper and gold mineralisation is commonly associated with accessory uranium, and so radon generated from the uranium's decay may provide a tool that is useful in exploration for this style of deposit. As part of an investigation into applying radon...-
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Published: 01 May 2010
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Ninnes. Combined first annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1998.
A 79 m deep RC drillhole sited on an aeromagnetic and calcrete geochemical anomaly located south of Bute returned anomalous zinc from Cambrian limestone over the depth interval 14-26 m (the best grade being 1 m @ 1802 ppm from 16 m depth). No...-
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