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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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RB 52/00157 Reconnaissance sampling, Lightweight Aggregate Project.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 59/00130 Happy Valley outlet tunnel, inlet portal area. Exploration of shaft sites. Geological report.
Diamond drilling of two holes near the inlet portal of the Happy Valley Outlet Tunnel has shown the area to lie in highly to completely weathered slate of the Tapley Hill Formation. This material is marginal in properties between weak rock and very...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 55/00121 Test boring of clay deposit - North Reynella.
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 55/00059 Test boring of clay deposit, North Reynella.
Beneath a thin veneer of Recent sediments, Tertiary sands and clays cover weathered Tapley Hill laminated slates and siltstones. Within section 501 reserves of potential brick clay are estimated at 1½ million cubic yards. The average depth of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 56/00014 Geological investigation, Happy Valley Reservoir outlet tunnel. Geology of outlet tower and culvert foundations - EWS Department.
The Happy Valley outlet tower and culvert were investigated by drilling seven diamond holes from a pontoon in the reservoir. The drilling intersected up to 7m of lake bed sediments and valley fill of alluvium and slopewash, over weathered slate of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 57/00100;Amdel 00297 Lightweight aggregate rotary kiln tests.
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Published: 01 Nov 1963
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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 77/00025 Marino Golf Course groundwater investigation, progress report no. 1 and appendix on possible dam sites by W.R.P. Boucaut.
The investigation has involved a survey of known wells followed by the drilling of two rotary holes into dolomites of the Tapley Hill Formation. These have been abandoned due to high salinity and low yield. It is considered that the likelihood of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 80/00060 Wilmington water supply. Discharge test on Spring Creek mine shaft.
26 hour test has shown that the discharge of the existing pump is very close to the safe yield of the well. Analysis of the drawdown curve shows that a second production well sited 150 metres from the present well in the same fissure system would...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1980
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RB 78/00049 Jones Hill slate deposit, north Flinders Ranges - G. Brandl.
Since early 1976, 315 tonnes of structural slate have been mined. The slate is flaggy laminated carbonate bearing siltstone which splits along planar bedding surfaces to produce slabs for billiard table tops and paving. It is superior in some respects...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 94/00009 Soils, stratigraphy and engineering geology of near surface materials of the Adelaide Plains.
Metropolitan Adelaide is founded on a wide variety of soils that overlie sediments and rocks. Some of the soils and sediments react to seasonal and human-induced changes in water content with marked changes in volume. The black earths and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1996
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RB 89/00043 Noarlunga limestone deposit, sections 56, 57, Hundred Willunga. Highways Department.
A Highways Department quarry on the southern bank of the Onkaparinga Gorge was operated intermittently between 1962 and 1973, producing mainly 32 mm screened crushed rock. The quarry is situated on the crest of a southerly plunging anticline in...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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Eukaby. Annual and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 21/1/1997 to 19/7/2001.
The Eukaby mining field area of the eastern Flinders Ranges was explored for Au-Ag-Pb-Zn mineralisation, while geophysical data modelling targetted Olympic Dam style metallogenic systems. Information gained from detailed structural mapping and rock...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1901
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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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Willow Springs. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/12/2011 to 30/11/2016.
An area centred ~65 km north-east of Hawker in the Central Flinders Ranges, and located adjacent to the eastern side of the Oraparinna Diapir, has been explored for possible buried economic epigenetic copper, gold and uranium mineralisation. During...-
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Published: 03 Jan 1917
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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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Paltridge North, Rosmann East and Lorna Doone groundwater and dewatering investigations. Progress report no. 2. Appendix 9 to report to March 1987.
Investigations suggest that dewatering of Paltridge North and Rosmann East is possible. At Lorna Doone the ore occurs above the water table and the water supply well produced sufficient groundwater for processing of ore. The geological setting at all...-
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Published: 23 Jan 1987
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 18/10/2008 to 24/3/2018.
During licence Year 15 (2008-2009), activities at Mount Gunson comprised: - pegging of three Mineral Claims at the MG 14 deposit in December 2008; - acquiring part of a larger project-wide ground gravity survey during April-May 2009 (510 stations...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1918
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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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