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Brukunga. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/4/1977 to 26/4/1979.
As part of continuing exploration along the eastern Mount Lofty Ranges for economic stratabound base metal occurrences hosted within Kanmantoo Group metasediments, CRAE undertook regional soil and rock chip sampling to confirm the results of 1960s...-
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Published: 31 May 1979
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RB 55/00062 Geology of the Mount Barker-Callington area.
The Cambrian sediments in the vicinity of the Mount Barker Creek and about the Callington-Kanmantoo mines have been studied. Evidence is produced to show there is rapid thickening of members above the Inman Hill Formation north of Mount Barker Creek....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 60/00078 Report on investigation of alternative site for proposed E&WS elevated tank, (Middle River,) Kangaroo Island.
An investigation has been carried out for the E&WS Department at an alternative site for a 250,000 gallon elevated tank. The examination was requested by application on 12th February 1965 in a letter to the Director of Mines. The new site is in...-
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Published: 13 Apr 1965
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RB 45/00151 Report on gold prospect (probably Bullapratta mine), secn 242 Hd Waitpinga, Co. Hindmarsh.
Greywackes and phyllitic slates of the Kanmantoo Series intruded by quartz veins carrying gold and in part lateralised occur in the area mapped. Gold values are too low to warrant further development and it is recommended that permission be granted to...-
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Published: 23 Dec 1957
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RB 76/00122 Geology of the Kitticoola mine (with appendix on Palmer granite).
37 000 tonnes of gold-copper ore have been produced from the Kitticoola Mine in five phases of mining during its 150 year history. 30 000 tonnes were mined as gold ore, yielding 162 560 grams of gold at an average grade of 5.4 grams/tonne. 7 000...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 96/00040 Resources '96 Convention. Kanmantoo tectonics, sedimentology and metallogeny excursion. Field guide.
An integrated scientific research program addressing structural, sedimentological and metallogenic aspects of basin evolution has been conducted in the Kanmantoo Trough for the past three years. Joint collaboration in this program involved MESA, the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1996
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Tanunda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1989 to 26/7/1990.
Possible epithermal/hydrothermal and shear-related vein style gold, and Proterozoic and Cambrian metasedimentary-hosted industrial minerals, were the targets of reconnaissance exploration over a licence taken up in the Barossa region. 1:2000 scale...-
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Kanmantoo. Progress reports for the period 26/4/1972 to 25/4/1973.
Copper exploration in the vicinity of Kanmantoo has recently been recommenced in order to find out whether extensions to the known lode-bearing andalusite schist horizon, containing possible economic mineralisation, will fall within the alignment of...-
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Callington stone deposit (under lease by the Readymix Group). Notice of Intent to extract material [road sealing aggregates] by quarrying.
The site of the Callington greywacke deposit, located 2 km south of Callington township, was leased from the landowners by the Readymix Group in 1972 when preliminary geological investigations indicated that it contained unusually massive bedrock that...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1978
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Brief summary of exploration work done at the Kitticoola mine, near Palmer, South Australia.
Past exploratory work done at the Kitticoola mine is discussed. Six diamond drillholes put down by SADME between 1935 and 1938 located sub-economic Cu-Au mineralisation in several projections of known lodes. Geophysical surveys by McPhar Geophysics...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1971
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RI 057 Cambrian Sediment-hosted Exhalative Base Metal Mineralisation, Kanmantoo Trough, South Australia
A deformed and metamorphosed succession of sandstone, greywacke, siltstone and shale which accumulated in the Early Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough hosts a number of exhalative base and precious metal deposits. This sequence is apparently devoid of...-
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Woodchester. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/1977 to 2/5/1978.
As part of a regional search for possible economic Mount Torrens - type stratiform base metal occurrences within the Kanmantoo Trough, the soil surrounding all outcropping pyritic Cambrian metasediment units within the licence area was geochemically...-
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Published: 17 Mar 1978
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RB 00769 Kitticoola mines appraisal. Mannum - Adelaide.
Kitticoola mine is situated within the outcrop of the Palmer Granite near the Palmer Fault. Copper bearing, sparingly auriferous sulphides occur in lodes following a conjugate fracture pattern. Early workings, dating from 1844, exploited enriched...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1972
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SP 001 Silver and a Trace of Gold
After placing the Aclare mine within its setting in the early mining history of the Kanmantoo and Callington districts, this historical account ranges widely, for the problems encountered during Aclare's period of operation plus the vicissitudes of...-
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RB 75/00070 Recharge investigations, northern margin of the Milang Basin. Milang-Langhorne Creek area.
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 75/00143 Monarto coarse aggregate investigation limestone and gneiss drilling and testing. Client - Monarto Development Commission.
Sources of coarse aggregate were investigated for the Monarto Development Commission. Recrystallised limestone near Murray Bridge was tested by four diamond drill holes, and gneisses near Pallamana were tested by 8 holes. Large quantities of suitable...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 2014/00001 Geology of the dimension stone quarries at Black Hill, South Australia.
Black Hill, located 85 km to the east of Adelaide, is an important source of black "granite". The gabbro and norite exposed on the hill over an area of 4 km by 3 km represent the outcropping top of a much larger Cambro - Ordovician gabbroic intrusion....-
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Published: 01 Apr 2014
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RB 33/00072 Callawonga Creek wolfram prospect.
The Queen Mary Wolfram Mine at Callawonga Creek which was discovered in 1911, worked till 1918 and reopened in 1952 is the only one three local workings to produce worthwhile wolfram ore. The mine is located intersecting pneumatolytic quartz veins...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 2000/00019 Dawesley Bremer Catchment, phase 2 sampling program for potential environmental contaminants.
A previous regional soil and stream sediment sampling program (cf. RB 2000/00002) has delineated areas of heavy metal contamination in the Dawesley-Bremer Catchment. Heavy metal contamination was found to occur sporadically along both Dawesley Creek...-
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Published: 01 May 2000
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RB 2000/00002 Soil and stream sediment sampling of the Dawesley-Bremer Catchment for potential environmental contaminants.
A program of soil and stream sediment sampling was conducted along the Dawesley - Bremer Catchment to determine the extent and magnitude of potential heavy metal contamination downstream from the Brukunga Pyrite Mine. Arsenic, cadmium, copper and zinc...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2000
