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Orroroo. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 18/11/1971 to 28/9/1972.
In a continuation of diamond and base metal exploration of newly discovered carbonatite / kimberlite intrusive bodies in an area located immediately north of Orroroo, these bodies were examined petrographically and analysed to compare their...-
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RB 50/00100 Noarlunga limestone deposit diamond drilling.
A deposit of limestone situated adjacent to the south bank of the River Onkaparinga, 4 miles NE of Noarlunga, has been tested by diamond drilling to prove its suitability for road building. The good quality of the stone has been confirmed, although...-
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Published: 22 Mar 1960
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RB 44/00063 Myponga Dam Project - Geological investigation of the tunnel route on the proposed pipeline from the reservoir.
Detailed geological examination of the area in the vicinity of the proposed tunnel has shown that, provided suitable precautions are taken, there are no geological factors which will prevent the successful construction of a tunnel through the ridge...-
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Published: 02 May 1957
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RB 47/00116 Geological investigations, Myponga Dam construction phase report no. 2.
Further geological investigations at the dam site, particularly on the left bank, have delineated the width of limestone present and by means of an exploratory adit have shown that solution cavities are relatively rare. Cavities are of two types;...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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Mount Gunson. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/re-issue over a larger area, for the period 25/10/1979 to 20/12/1985.
As part of an ongoing search for extensions to the Cattlegrid orebody style of stratiform Cu-Fe-Mn mineralisation within its exploration licences on the Stuart Shelf, besides testing for any indications of Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au deposits in the...-
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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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Data release - as updated : Wilmington. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 15/4/2009 to 8/3/2018.
An area located within the western Adelaide Fold Belt adjacent to the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton, and centred approximately 20 km south-east of Port Augusta, has been explored for possible economic buried copper mineralisation associated with...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1918
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Data release - as updated : Kapunda North / Bagot Well North (part of the Eudunda Project). Licence-specific annual reports and final report submitted to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/2005 to 12/12/2015.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within an area centred immediately north-northeast of Kapunda has as its initial objective to find shallow deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra and Kapunda, focussing...-
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Lake Torrens - Port Augusta and Point Paterson areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/11/1977 to 30/11/1979.
SALT MINING STUDY: Field tests on the feasibility of Lake Torrens salt production to supply raw material for the planned Redcliff Petrochemical Project were continued, with project planning technical data demonstrations given to visiting officials of...-
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Progress reports on prospectivity investigations carried out in 1962 to assess phosphorite deposits formed within Adelaidean sediments of the Flinders Ranges [prior to the grant of a SML over an area in the southern Flinders Ranges].
TARGET: Phosphate occurrences in the Mid Sturtian from Port Pirie to Marree. EXPLORATION: Regional investigation of the occurrence, distribution and origin of phosphate by mapping of known phosphate occurrences and geological traversing across...-
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Published: 11 Oct 1962
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Geology of the phosphorite deposits of the Orroroo district, and notes on phosphorite deposits at Kapunda and Noarlunga, South Australia.
Mapping of phosphate occurrences in the mid-Sturtian sedimentary sequence of the Adelaide System rocks of South Australia has led to the recognition of 4 types : - bedded phosphorite which generally underlies the Brighton Limestone. This...-
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Geological mapping based on airphoto interpretation and an appreciation of rock types in the Mountain-of-Light [mine] area, Copley, SA.
A geological consultant's inspection of historic copper mining leases in the Copley district concluded that grid-based soil geochemical sampling, shallow drilling of the oxidised ore zone, trenching to obtain bulk samples for metallurgical tests, and...-
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RB 2018/00001 Regolith hand specimen atlas for South Australia
This regolith material hand specimen atlas displays 246 images of 212 regolith samples which have been collected over the last 30 years by the authors, present and past Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) staff and members of the Cooperative...-
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Published: 01 May 2018
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RB 68/00011 Phosphate Desposits - Wait's Workings - Sections 40 and 48 - Hundred of Noarlunga.
Following investigations at Oliver's phosphate workings, Sections 65 and 66, Hd. Willunga (Callen, 1968), it was decided to map Wait's workings on Section 40, Hd. Noarlunga and those on Section 48 at the same stratigraphic horizon. Reconnaissance...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1969
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RB 66/00012 Oliver's phosphate deposits.
A deposit of bedded phosphate rock occurs in a siltstone unit 40-50 feet thick within an essentially calcareous sequence 25 miles south of Adelaide. Approximately 8,000 tons of phosphate rock were removed in the period 1907 to 1930. There are possible...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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The Flinders Ranges Project, Jamestown Group of tenements. Data release at partial surrender of subsequent licences: combined annual reports for the period 18/9/2004 to 31/12/2010.
Ten contiguous exploration licences in the Jamestown - Peterborough - Quorn region are being explored for possible economic diamonds associated with inferred buried kimberlite intrusions. Prior work done in the 1960s by Stockdale Exploration (a de...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Adelaide Hills Project. Joint annual reports for the period 16/5/2005 to 31/12/2013.
The Adelaide Hills Project consists of 3419 square km of land covered by eight contiguous exploration licences, ELs 3057, 3064, 3141, 3215, 3239, 3277, 3425 and 3534, which are owned by or joint ventured to Flinders Diamonds Limited (FDL). By an...-
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-01 - South Australia Ludi Mining Pty Ltd, Coward Springs area gravity/magnetic anomaly IOCG targets. Drilling project interim report and final report.
South Australia Ludi Mining Pty Ltd (“SALM”) acquired Exploration Licence 4619 “Coward Springs” to explore for large Mesoproterozoic copper/gold/uranium deposits analogous to Olympic Dam, which is located approximately 120 km to the south. The licence...-
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
