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Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/3/1970 to 18/3/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over part of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field has targeted base metal anomalies previously found by Australian Selection in the Blue mine area. An area of about 80 square miles was assessed by reconnaissance stream...-
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Kalabity - Old Boolcoomata area [= Olary 'A' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
As part of exploration for economic metallic mineral deposits within an area of partly outcropping Precambrian calcsilicate rocks present on Kalabity Station, a field reconnaissance of all known mineralised areas was carried out initially. The...-
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MR 006 Review of mining operations in the State of South Australia during the year ended June 30th, 1907
Articles and summaries are provided for the following: Copper: Wallaroo and Moonta, Paramatta and Yelta, Hamley, Burra Burra, Kapunda, Blinman, Mount Gunson (North-West), Paull’s Consolidated Gold: Mount Torrens, Peterborough, Tarcoola, Glenloth...-
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RB 00596 Heavy mineral sands investigations. Second report. The recovery of monazite from Moana Beach sand.
The treatment of Moana Beach Sands has been investigated further with the object of recovering monazite. Further work is recommended.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 00610 Heavy mineral sands investigation. Third report. The recovery of monazite from Moana Beach sand.
Further investigation into the recovery of monazite from Moana Beach sand has indicated that the production of market grade concentrates with an acceptable recovery would be difficult if not impossible. No further work is recommended.-
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RB 00337 Mineralogy of samples from Tallaringa bore.
Drill cuttings samples taken from the depth interval 102 to 173 feet KB in the SADM Tallaringa (water) bore were separated into light and heavy mineral fractions and these were examined microscopically. The sediments studied can be divided into two...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1900
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RB 00530 Preliminary report on the thorium resources of South Australia.
The following is submitted as a summary of the present knowledge of the distribution of thorium in the State of South Australia. The aim has been to assemble the information contained in the numerous departmental reports and to record the degree of...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1900
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RB 00515 Moana Beach sand. First report to Australasian Oil Exploration Ltd.
Results of experimental work carried out on a' sample of mineral bearing sand from Moana are presented in this report. Market grade concentrates were not produced.Possible treatment methods of producing saleable products are outlined and further...-
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RB 00514 Moana Beach sand. First report to SA Rutile Ltd.
A sample from a sand dune at Moana, South Australia, has been tested for extraction of heavy minerals. Good recoveries of rutile and zircon were obtained, but products were below market grade. Possible treatment methods of producing saleable products...-
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RB 00561 Heavy mineral sands investigation. The recovery of monazite, rutile and zircon from Moana Beach sand.
A concentrate of heavy minerals was made from the beach sand deposit at Moana, South Australia. This concentrate was treated by magnetic and electrostatic methods to recover monazite, rutile and zircon. The valuable mineral product was in each case...-
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RB 68/00049 Report on Copper Prospect Mineral Claims 5284 and 5285: G.H. Stewart and B.J. Burslem, Lock Ness Area, Balcanoona Station.
Work copper mineralisation occurs along the northern margin of a probable intrusion of Willouran diapiric material into siltstones of the Wilpena Group. The mineralisation is mainly secondary copper carbonates but quartz-carbonate veins containing...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1969
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RB 73/00295 Rare earths, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
Rare earth minerals have been found in numerous localities in South Australia, but most deposits are small or are low in grade. There has been no production on a commercial scale. The most abundant minerals are those containing variable amounts of...-
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Published: 11 Dec 1973
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Yalanda Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 5/12/2005 to 20/3/2014.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of primary uranium mineralisation, undertaken within the subject licence which is centred approximately 90 km south-west of Whyalla, initially consisted of a field reconnaissance using a spectrometer, and...-
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Progress reports on part of Special Mining Lease 704 Gunsight, South Australia,1972-1973.
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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Giant Head. Progress reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/4/1982.
Calc-silicate contact metamorphic aureoles within moderately deformed Adelaidean carbonate sedimentary rocks, which surround Ordovician granitic intrusions in the Needles area of the northern Flinders Ranges, were investigated for epigenetic gold,...-
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Published: 08 Apr 1982
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RB 2012/00012 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2011-2012.
This report presents the results of geochronology from projects completed during 2011 and 2012, which addressed rock samples collected from a number of different geological provinces within South Australia. The Musgrave Province in northern South...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2012
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RB 2008/00010 Unravelling the Fowler Domain: new geochronological data from the western Gawler Craton, South Australia.
This report book contains a compilation of zircon and monazite U-Pb geochronological data, plus geochemical data, that are derived from the Fowler Domain of the Gawler Craton. The related study has been undertaken as part of the Australian Research...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2008
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RB 2009/00002 EPMA monazite geochronological constraints on the timing of ultra-high temperature reworking in the western Gawler Craton.
New electron microprobe monazite geochronological constraints on the timing of Proterozoic granulite facies metamorphism from the western Gawler Craton are presented. Monazite grain geochronological data obtained from samples of basement rocks...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Pinnaroo, Mount Timothy and Dingo Range (the Pinnaroo Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1999.
An airborne magnetic survey acquired by the grant licensee over the Lameroo district during August 1997 generated a number of shallow-source anomalies which suggested that there was fair potential for discovering buried Tertiary palaeocoastal...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1999
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Amdel Ltd project - Fluid inclusion studies of South Australian ores, rocks and minerals. Progress reports nos 1 to 6 for the period 7/5/1976 to 3/4/1980.
In September 1975 the South Australian Department of Mines accepted a proposal from Amdel Ltd to purchase and set up some microthermometry apparatus, in order to commence fluid inclusion studies of selected rock types and minerals in South Australia....-
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