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Mount Hope. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/9/1988 to 11/6/1992.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Mount Hope area on western Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: An airborne magnetic-radiometric survey (SADME / BMR / Stockdale 1988), heavy mineral sampling, follow-up ground magnetic surveying, and RAB drilling (91 holes totalling...-
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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/209 : [petrographic] comparison of some Archaean and Proterozoic iron formations in SA. Progress reports 1 to 4, for the period December 1977 to July 1979.
A project to compare Gawler Craton iron formations of unknown age with those of known Archaean age (from geochronology) and with the Proterozoic, Lake Superior - type Middleback Range iron deposits has concentrated on characterising each formation by...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1979
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Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1979.
Exploration for possible economic stratiform/volcanogenic base metal sulphide deposits hosted by the (elsewhere) pyrite - bearing Early Cambrian Bruckunga Formation, in the Vivonne Bay district on south-central Kangaroo Island, was hampered by the...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1979
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/170 : Petrology of the Olary region. Progress reports and final report for the period October 1974 to September 1977.
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RB 62/00040 Heavy mineral sands, Kangaroo Island (11/2/1966).
Beach sands of Recent age which have accumulated in shallow water adjacent to the present shore of Morrison Beach, Kangaroo Island, have a heavy mineral content of 0.31%. The recently completed drilling programme has defined a sequence of fine to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 74/00159 Abrasive grade garnet at Milendella, secn 961, Hd Tungkillo, Co. Sturt - B.C. and M.C. Lindner.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 2017/00046 Koongawa Grey dimension stone deposit geological investigations: evaluation of gneiss on ML 6426 for use as dimension stone.
The Resource Assessment and Advice (RAA) team of the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) was approached by John Chesini of Chesini House Pty Ltd to provide feedback as to the suitability of stone within Mining Lease (ML) 6426 for the purpose...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2018
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Carrieton West. Progress reports to licence renewal, for the period 7/6/1979 to 15/5/1981.
While looking for possible westward extensions to the Eurelia Kimberlite Province, Stockdale's stream gravel sampling for kimberlitic indicators, followed by ground magnetometer traversing and observation of vegetation anomalies, led to the discovery...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1981
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......[Key SAMREF record for accessing referenced reports and data via DEM Content Manager - SPOT]...... Mount Toondina. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/2/1995 to 15/8/1998.
The Mount Toondina structure, a small but pronounced vertically fault-bounded inlier of Permian sediments within a flat-lying Mesozoic sequence, is represented by an annular magnetic feature located 45 km south of Oodnadatta. A single gravity profile...-
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SADM / Amdel Project no. 1/1/148 : Fission-track dating of South Australian rocks. Progress reports for the period August 1973 to September 1978.
This project has been undertaken to develop fission-track dating expertise for several common minerals, which can subsequently be applied to specific geological or geochronological problems in South Australian regional geological mapping. In...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1978
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Lake Alexandrina. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/11/1997 to 2/11/1999.
Exploration for lacustrine evaporites and for detrital heavy minerals on and near the shores of Lake Alexandrina, south of Milang, had previously located minor deposits of garnet sands along a 700 m stretch of beach on the northern shore of Sturt...-
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New diamond field discovered in South Australia.
The Gawler Craton has, for some time, been known to have potential for kimberlite discoveries. Recently, Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd found a complete range of kimberlitic indicator minerals, and five small diamonds, on Flinders Island, about 40 km...-
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Orroroo. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 21/3/1978 to 20/3/1980.
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Published: 03 Apr 1980
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Pinnaroo, Mount Timothy and Dingo Range (the Pinnaroo Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1999.
An airborne magnetic survey acquired by the grant licensee over the Lameroo district during August 1997 generated a number of shallow-source anomalies which suggested that there was fair potential for discovering buried Tertiary palaeocoastal...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1999
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Terowie Kimberlite Province. Progress and technical reports for the period 26/2/1980 to 26/2/1982.
Following a literature review of the mode of occurrence, field relationships, matrix mineralogy and geochemistry of Terowie - type kimberlite intrusions, the lease operator undertook large scale costeaning and bulk sampling of four kimberlites in that...-
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Kimberlites near Orroroo, South Australia.
A suite of Jurassic kimberlite dykes occur near Orroroo, South Australia. They range in thickness from a few millimetres to 30 metres. The intrusions are all extensively altered at surface, but a few of them are petrographically similar, and have...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1982
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Reports on hyperspectral mapping of geology within the Curnamona Province.
An 11 km x 23 km area located east of Broken Hill township was chosen for the acquisition of an experimental OARS (Operational Airborne Remote Sensing) and prototype TIPS (Thermal Infrared Profiling System) hyperspectral survey flown during the period...-
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Tumby Bay. Progress and final reports for the period 20/11/1969 to 19/11/1971.
Exploration conducted primarily for base metals, over an area extending for 5-50 km north of Port Lincoln, has consisted of reconnaissance and detailed stream sediment surveys followed by soil and rock chip sampling, plus limited geological mapping....-
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Northern Kangaroo Island. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/12/1967 to 30/11/1968.
Laboratory beneficiation feasibility tests have been conducted on a 250 lb bulk sample of known heavy mineral - bearing beach sands which were taken from nearshore dunes located along the northern coastline of Kangaroo Island at Nepean Bay. It was...-
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Published: 28 Oct 1968
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pernatty [Station]. Annual reports for the period 29/11/2005 to 28/11/2009.
An area centred approximately 110 km north of Port Augusta, covering part of the Pernatty Ridge plateau on the south-western side of Lake Torrens, approximately 145 km south-east of the Olympic Dam mine, was taken up to explore for possible economic...-
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Published: 24 May 2010