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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 89/00076 Mount Barker Golf Club water well testing.
Competing groundwater use is a problem in the vicinity of the Mount Barker Golf Club grounds, which has been recognized by the parties involved and government since late 1985. A well monitoring network for both water level and salinity was set up and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1989
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Prince Alfred mine. First annual report to licence full surrender and re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 26/10/1996 to 9/4/1998.
Assays of tailings heaps at the Prince Alfred Mine, located 40 km north-east of Carrieton, returned 1-1.5% Cu. Up to 12.7 % Cu was recorded from rock sampling, and elevated Au and anomalous Cu were recorded in calcrete samples. Four areas of...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1997
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 15/7/1994 to 17/10/2008 [ Index Part 3 of 4 ].
During the eighth year of tenure, work done on EL 2639 included: - the conduct of infill ground gravity and CSAMT surveys; - geophysical modelling and interpretation of the new survey data; - geological interpretation and refinement of drilling...-
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Aerial [INPUT] EM survey data interpretation and follow-up drilling results, Winnie Pinnie area, Stuart Shelf, for the period April 1976 to May 1979.
The results of 1185 line km of aerial EM surveying carried out in the vicinity of Winnie Pinnie Dam, 85 km north-west of Port Augusta, using the Barringer INPUT system, have been interpreted as a possible means of identifying prospective Adelaidean...-
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Manna Hill [not 'Mannahill']. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/10/1987 to 15/1/1990.
TARGET: Possible concealed, saddle-reef type lode developments of inferred Telfer-style gold deposits at the Manna Hill Goldfield. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance inspection of old mine workings, rock chip sampling (79), and shallow RAB bedrock drilling...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North Roxby and Acropolis South. Joint annual reports, plus EL 3762 fifth annual report to licence sale, for the period 4/5/2009 to 3/5/2012.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of buried, Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-U style mineralisation is being conducted over two separate multiple-block licence areas in the Olympic Dam district, EL 3761 (North Roxby) and EL 3762...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnerships DPY9-43 - Brownlow and DPY9-47 - Bower. Drilling projects' joint interim and final reports.
Copper and gold mineralisation associated with felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous intrusive rocks which have intruded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments in the Nackara Arc region has been the target of exploratory drilling conducted with the...-
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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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RB 2010/00019 Hardrock extractive minerals for metropolitan Adelaide - strategic review. [Summary version]
The purpose of the project is to provide essential data on the hardrock extractive (construction material) resources supplying the Adelaide metropolitan area, in order to be able to: - Critically examine current hardrock supplies and resources and how...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2010
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Cone (subsequently part of the Burra North Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 6/3/2007 to 5/3/2009.
An area of 300 square km located immediately north and north-east of Burra was taken up because it is considered to be prospective for gold and copper mineralisation related to Cambro-Ordovician sediments and late-stage felsic and mafic intrusives,...-
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RB 2001/00003 Sandstone dimension stone in South Australia - Results of geological reconnaissance, 1998 and 1999.
Sandstone as a building material was used extensively in Adelaide and regional South Australia from the founding of the colony until the end of World War II. However, since 1945 the industry has declined steadily, with closure of many quarries, until...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2001
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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
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Kapunda. Progress reports, annual reports and technical consultants' reports submitted until licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/5/1985.
Economic evaluation of the Kapunda copper deposit for open pit mineability has included the acquisition of experimental and ore - definitive EIP and MIP surveys along strike extensions of the main fault zone, the commissioning of consultants' detailed...-
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Published: 29 Jul 1985
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Leigh Creek. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 4/3/1974 to 3/3/1976.
Ongoing exploration of abandoned historic mine workings and the surrounding area at the Mountain of Light prospect, located approximately 2 miles east of Copley, was aimed at delineating an economic copper oxide/carbonate - mineralised orebody and any...-
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Boolooroo. Progress reports for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1971.
A consultant's technical review was received on existing recent exploration data originating from the SA Mines Department, for the Mount Coffin Diapir and its immediate environment. It was found that significant geochemical and induced polarisation...-
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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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Laura. Summary and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/8/1993 to 23/1/1996.
A manganese-rich Adelaidean stratigraphic unit outcropping along the western flank of the Mount Remarkable Range, which returned 1.8% Co, 1.5% Cu and 1.0% Zn in a grab sample from the Willowie Cobalt prospect, warrants further work because it is...-
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Eurelia. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 23/6/1969 to 22/6/1970.
In an area located approximately 7 to 20 miles north of Orroroo, a number of previously worked old small barite and copper prospects were examined in detail, and recommendations were made for additional work to be done, e.g. bulldozer trenching, soil...-
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Published: 10 Jul 1970
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Parachilna, Hookina, Burt Lagoon and Kootaberra (part of the Wilkatana Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/11/2015 to 18/1/2018.
Following the completion of desktop studies of previous exploration data, and the conduct of a site visit to the Wilkatana Project area, it was decided that the metalliferous mineral prospectivity of basinal sediments underlying the four subject...-
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Published: 23 Jan 2018
