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RB 81/00055 Subdivision of Lower Adelaidean, Willouran Ranges.
The Arkaroola and Curdimurka Subgroups of the Callanna Group (late Precambrian) are defined respectively in the Arkaroola and Willouran areas. The Curdimurka Subgroup is the uppermost of these subdivisions; it comprises 4700 m of sediments that were...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1981
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RB 93/00010 Explanatory Notes for the WARRINA 1:250 000 geological map.
The oldest rocks on WARRINA outcrop in the Peake and Denison Inliers, which comprise the Davenport and Denison Ranges and small inliers to the east. Basement in this area consists of Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic rocks which were intruded by...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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RB 88/00076 Summary review of lead-zinc mineralization in South Australia.
266 summary sheets on significant lead-zinc occurrences and anomalous concentrations have been prepared by the Department's Lead-Zinc Taskforce as a data package, in the form of 5 reports, to assist in the search for lead-zinc deposits to provide...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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RB 89/00036 Small piercement structure southwest of Marree.
A small piercement structure east of Callanna station is an off-shoot from a major fault. The piercement cuts through steeply-dipping sandstone, siltstone and carbonate of the Tapley Hill Formation and Amberoona Formation and contains tectonic breccia...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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AMIRA Project P544: Proterozoic sediment-hosted copper deposits. Quarterly progress reports and final report for the period July 2000 to October 2003.
The original objectives of this project were: 1) To understand the processes responsible for transporting, concentrating and fixing copper and other ore constituents during sedimentary basin evolution 2) To document the various stages and paragenesis...-
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Willouran Ranges Stratiform Copper Project. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/12/1976 to 21/12/1978.
Detailed geological mapping, rock and soil sample geochemistry, sedimentary petrology, and rotary percussion and diamond drilling were undertaken in the Willouran Ranges, south-west of Marree, to explore for stratiform copper mineralisation,...-
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Data release - as updated : Castle Rock. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/3/2009 to 14/1/2016.
Exploration for possible economic concealed Beltana mine type stratabound lead-zinc-(silver) mineralisation, and for other diapiric and associated basic igneous intrusion - related base metal and/or gold occurrences, was carried out over a small area...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Lyndhurst area Annual technical report for period ending 11/12/2018.
Exploration licence 5899 was granted to Datong Gold Mining Pty Ltd on 12 December 2016. The tenement sits approximately 21 km north of the township of Leigh Creek. The tenement lies in the northern part of the Adelaide Geosyncline and has the...-
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Published: 04 Apr 1918
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Geochemical mapping of a copper mineral system, Lyndhurst area (for the ARC North Project). Final report, Project ADI RD01-126 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
As a part of searching for economic deposits of sediment-hosted copper (SHC) mineralisation that might have formed within rocks of the Adelaide Rift Complex Neoproterozoic sedimentation sequence occupying an area located due east of Lyndhurst in the...-
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Ruby Hill Project : Douglas Creek prospect drilling program. Final report, Project ADI RD02-288 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Copper Search Australia Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Copper Search Limited) was granted co-funding from the Department of Energy and Mining in July 2021 to a subsidy total of up to $228,000, to assist it with high risk exploration of remote parts of the...-
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Bull 053 The Adelaide Geosyncline: Later Proterozoic Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Pataeontology and Tectonics
The extremely thick succession provides one of the most complete sedimentary records for the Late Proterozoic. The term geosyncline is used in a non-genetic sense for the basin in which deposition occurred during the Adelaidean and Cambrian. Only the...-
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Merna Mora. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2006 to 8/10/2013.
A small licence area located on the Flinders Ranges piedmont plain south-east of Lake Torrens was taken up by Jim Allender to investigate the IOCG potential of a discrete regional gravity anomaly which he had identified from data in the public domain,...-
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Published: 20 Nov 1913
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Mount Denison (part of the BHP Billiton - Rio Tinto - Phelps Dodge' Peake and Denison Joint Venture Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 12/7/1993 to 16/9/2003.
Exploration carried out over the northern Peake and Denison Ranges since 1993 has targeted possible large-scale Proterozoic iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits considered to have formed in stratigraphic/structural settings similar to...-
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Mount McCallum, Mount Morris and Mount Roebuck (part of Flinders Ranges Project). Combined first annual report, plus progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/5/2005 to 22/5/2008.
Neoproterozoic glacial sedimentary units in the intramontane basinal valley located east of Leigh Creek and Copley, which were considered likely to contain possible geologically suitable palaeo-depositional sites for secondary uranium mineralisation...-
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Published: 16 Jun 1908
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Eurelia - Carrieton area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/11/1976 to 31/10/1977.
Exploration near Carrieton for possible economic stratiform copper deposits hosted by metasediments at the base of the Adelaidean System, as the culmination to a 9-year long programme carried over from Utah's former EL 137 and six prior tenements...-
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Interpreted basement geology to the Murray Basin and surrounds.
The purpose of this interpretation is to provide an initial framework for the basement to the Murray Basin upon which to plan the Geological Survey of South Australia’s MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative drilling project targeting the Delamerian...-
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Published: 07 Jul 2020
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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