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Blue Gum Hill, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/4/1973 to 29/1/1974.
In ongoing exploration of the base metal potential of a small licence area located 34 km west of Kingscote, 5 inclined shallow diamond drillholes totalling 399 m were put down on significant anomalies located by IP surveys and/or geochemical soil...-
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Published: 29 Jan 1974
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Callington. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 6/6/1978 to 24/4/1985.
The target in the Kanmantoo mine area was Cambrian stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation known to be associated with pyritic units of the Brukunga Formation, and copper associated with andalusite-staurolite-garnet-chlorite-biotite schists in the same...-
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Published: 28 Mar 1985
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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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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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Kanmantoo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/4/1979 to 15/12/1984.
Exploration conducted in the Mount Pleasant - Tungkillo area included stream, soil and rock chip sampling, an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, ground magnetic, gravity, IP and EM surveys, and drilling. These activities provided further...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1985
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RB 37/00138 Report on an investigation of the unstable constituent of Nairne pyrites concentrates.
Free sulphur has been shown to be present in Nairne Pyrite Ore to the extent of 0.18%. The concentration of free sulphur in Flotation Concentrates was increased to 0.47-0.49%. From 89-94% of the Sulphur in the ore appeared in the concentrates....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 39/00061 Demag Humboldt Niederschachtofen, GMBH low shaft furnace process for Nairne Pyrites Ltd.
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 55/00102 Report on Harrogate geochemical anomaly, section 1796 Hundred of Kanmantoo - R.G. Wachtel.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 56/00048 Harrogate geochemical anomaly. Preliminary report on geophysical investigation.
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 60/00004 Source and distribution of heavy metals in Cambrian and Marinoan shelf sediments in South Australia.
The sedimentary environment of Cambrian and Marinoan shelf sediments in South Australia is outlined. Tables are presented showing the distribution of Cu and Pb in the various facies of these sediments. Low grade copper mineralisation in some Marinoan...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1965
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RB 56/00083 Pyrite-pyrhotite deposits at Nairne.
The Nairne Pyrite Deposit occurs at Drukunga, three and a half miles east of Nairne, and 29 miles from Adelaide on the eastern flank of the Mount Lofty Ranges. The deposit is being worked for iron sulphides. Operations commenced in 1955 as a joint...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 57/00039 Progress report no. 2 on investigation of Dawesley aeromagnetic anomaly.
Two diamond drillholes were completed over the period January to July 1963 in the initial stages of investigation of the Dawesley aeromagnetic anomaly, aiming mainly to test two IP anomalies 1 mile apart that had been detected on SADM grid line 1000...-
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Published: 30 Aug 1963
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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 59/00007 Geological report on known iron ore deposits in South Australia outside the Middleback Range.
The high grade crabodies and the jaspilites of the Middleback Group Archaean (?) in the Middleback Ranges (Loc. 1) are the largest reserves if iron ore in South Australia. Most of the numerous deposits elsewhere in the State, especially the high grade...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1964
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RB 50/00010 Beneficiation of Nairne pyrite calcines. First report.
Magnetic separation, flotation concentration arid gravity concentration/size classification methods were tested for the beneficiation of Nairne-pyrite calcines. Magnetic separation following a reducing roast produced a concentrate assaying 62.1% Fe at...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1959
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RB 50/00063 Beneficiation of Nairne pyrite calcines. First report.
Magnetic separation, flotation concentration and gravity concentration/size classification methods were tested for the beneficiation of Nairne-pyrite calcines. Magnetic separation following a reducing roast produced a concentrate assaying 62.1% Fe at...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1959
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RB 50/00104;Amdel 00002 Elemental sulphur from Nairne pyrites. A review of methods for the recovery of elemental sulphur from iron sulphides.
Processes for the production of elemental sulphur from iron sulphides are reviewed. Application of any process to Nairne Pyrites is at present uneconomic.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 94/00043 Brukunga drilling, 1993-1994.
This report details drilling programs carried out by MESA at and near the Brukunga open-cut pyrite mine and tailings dam areas in the period 6/5/93 to 14/4/94. A total of 29 wells were drilled within the tailings dam, the spoil heaps and on the hills...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1994
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RB 95/00043 Synsedimentary mineralisation in the Kanmantoo Trough. Geological Society of Australia, SA Division. Field excursion, 18 September 1994.
The metamorphic rocks to be examined on the field excursion have been assigned to the Tapanappa Formation (Early Cambrian Kanmantoo Group), a generally monotonous sequence of greywackes with narrow siltstone partings. This formation hosts most...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1995
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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
