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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 58/00139 Report on survey of roadmetal deposits, portion of County Dalhousie - District Council of Orroroo.
Metal deposits for unsealed roads are required to be workable with earth moving equipment and to obtain hard fragments and sufficient amounts of clay fines for beding. Formations within the Adelaide System possess certain general characteristics and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 60/00071 (Report on the) Ukaparinga (Unaparinga) copper mine, Williamstown.
Copper carbonates are sporadically distributed throughout steeply dipping mica schist in a zone up to about 70 ft. wide. The host rocks have been regarded as overturned metamorphosed Burra Group (Torrensian) beds resting on the Aldgate Sandstone...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1965
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RB 78/00099 Drilling of John Road sand and shale deposit, pt sections 2147, 2148, Hd Yatala.
Auger drilling has proved reserves of 630 000 tonnes of washed sand, 450 000 tonnes of cream shale and 730 000 tonnes of coloured shale.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00158 Mitchells' Houghton clay pit (Private Mine 57), pt section 5541 Hd Yatala - PGH Industries Ltd.
At Mitchell's Clay Pit, 1 km north of Houghton, grey and white weathered shale of Adelaidean age is extracted for brickmaking. The shale is folded into an anticline, which is faulted on the eastern limb against kaolinitic sandstone. Rotary drilling...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 77/00091 Para Hills quartzite quarry.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 81/00061 Test drilling clay deposit Hancock Road - Golden Grove section 2146, Hundred Yatala, County Adelaide.
51 holes were drilled to assess weathered shale and plastic clay reserves. Tertiary plastic clay and clayey sand overlie red firing weathered Adelaidean shale, and extends eastwards under Hancock Road into Clay and Mineral Sales pit (formerly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 99/00019 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Portions of Torrens Rural Catchment.
The Torrens Rural Catchment can be divided into three zones where groundwater extraction from fractured rock aquifers is significant - the Fourth and Sixth Creek catchments, and the Birdwood - Gumeracha area. The Fourth Creek Catchment, which is...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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RB 92/00018 Holdfasts for rock climbers: Morialta Conservation Park.
Holdfasts were installed at Morialta Conservation Park to improve safety for rock climbers. Twenty three rockbolts were grouted into holes drilled into rocks of the Stonyfell Quartzite Formation. Two rockbolts were grouted into cast concrete blocks...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1992
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Mines in Burnside - their historical significance.
This report on the history and condition of the abandoned pioneer silver-lead mines at Glen Osmond on Adelaide's eastern outskirts was prepared for the Burnside suburban council to allow it to make an informed discussion about the possibility of...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-17 - Adelaide Fold Belt - Mount Elkington area stratiform copper mineral deposits. Project interim and final reports.
A PACE Initiative Year 5 partly subsidised drilling programme consisting of fourteen RC holes and 3 diamond holes, for a total of 60 m of rotary mud, 2233 m of RC percussion and 888.55 m of diamond core drill penetration, was completed at Helix...-
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Williamstown. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 28/3/1983 to 29/3/1984.
In a search for possible extensions to existing, almost worked-out poddy deposits of damourite mica and kaolinised sillimanite, that may occur within an area of prospective Barossa Complex Proterozoic basement inlier rocks located south-east of...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1984
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Copper Coast Project - Final Report - Utilising Seismic to Map, Validate and Understand 3D Basin Architecture and Vector Potential Locations of Sediment-hosted Copper Mineralisation ADI RD03-418 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 3, 2023].
IGO Ltd’s (IGO) Copper Coast Project is located along the eastern Spencer Gulf and is centred around Port Pirie. It sits along the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton and covers Proterozoic rocks of the Stuart Shelf, Torrens Hinge Zone, and Adelaide...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1923
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Geological investigations of clay, mica and sillimanite occurrences at Williamstown, and evolving mine development plans and alternatives. Progress reports for the period 6/10/1976 to July 1984.
Dataset contains Amdel - derived mineralogical and petrological data on the ore and host rocks, plus the mine operator's reports on its plans to resume and optimize production of the unique ore types known to exist in four current mine pits and their...-
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Granville - Oladdie area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1970 to 15/4/1971.
Continuing investigation of the stratabound copper and manganese potential of the Granville district consisted of stream sediment sampling, ground magnetic traverses over an atypically aligned aeromagnetic anomaly, and shallow percussion drilling of...-
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Arkaroola (part of the Wooltana Joint Venture project). Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/5/1971 to 18/5/1973.
Continuing exploration of the basal Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequence in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges for possible economic stratiform/stratabound Kapunda or Blinman - type copper mineralisation has concentrated on detailed 1:1200 and 1:4800...-
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RB 70/00001 Reconnaissance for road metal, Hundreds of Moorooroo and Nuriootpa, County Light - District Council of Tanunda.
2 main areas are outlined as likely sources, high quality marble to the N of the Penrice quarries and quartzite from many localities NW and close to Tanunda, but of lower quality.-
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Published: 02 Jan 1970
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RB 72/00032 Clay shale deposits, Glen Osmond, part secn 1079 Hd Adelaide, Co. Adelaide - City Bricks Ltd (Glen Osmond shale deposits).
City Bricks Ltd. is quarrying clay shale for brickmaking at Glen Osmond. At present the shale is being won from a lower unit of a three unit sequence of two shales separated by quartzite. Geological mapping and a knowledge of topography enable an...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1972
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RB 70/00118 Murray Bridge to Onkaparinga pipeline, summit storage, Mount Barker junction. secns 4262, 4263, 5214 Hd Onkaparinga, and secn 4412 Hd Macclesfield. Geological investigations, progress report no. 1 - EWS Department.
Tributary of the Onkaparinga River is to be dammed by an earth - and - rock embankment. Includes data for design of stable batters, prediction of excavation conditions, foundation conditions for dam embankment, spillway, outlet conduit and assessment...-
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Published: 10 Aug 1970
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RB 63/00082 Report on dolomite deposit near Williamstown, secn 309 Hd Barossa - A.H. London.
The country rocks consist of Burra Group (Torrensian) formations which have been metamorphosed to dolomite, marble and quartz-mica-schist. The dolomite appears to be of poor quality, easily weathered and it is contaminated with pyrite which has been...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
