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RB 87/00061 Calca granite deposits - Discovery, geology and production. Calca quarry section - EML 4469, section 46, Hundred Rounsevell. Calca South - EML 5068, section 48, Hundred Wrenfordsley.
Middle Proterozoic red granite is quarried near Calca, 35 km SE of Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. It is ideally suited as dimension and monumental stone, being fresh, uniform in texture and colour, and comparatively free of defects. It is...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 97/00028 Reconnaissance granite sampling of the Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Reconnaissance sampling of Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, to identify all potentially quarryable granite varieties, was carried out by MESA during 1996/97. A total of 157 outcrops were inspected and 99 samples...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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RB 90/00054 Provenance and accumulation of coarse-grained sand on Silica Beach, Baird Bay, Eyre Peninsula.
Silica Beach, 45 km SSE of Streaky Bay, is the source of a well sorted and well rounded, very coarse-grained sand, extracted in limited quantities since 1970 for filtration and other uses at Whyalla Steelworks. Sand and gravel are derived locally from...-
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Published: 01 May 1990
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Cocunda and Calca (Poochera Kaolin Project). Progress reports, annual reports, and final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 12/5/1986 to 28/3/2002.
Kaolin, derived mainly from deep weathering of Hiltaba Suite granites, was the principal target of exploration in the area south and south-west from Poochera, near Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. Following a review made of historic drillhole...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hall. Annual reports for the period 23/7/2013 to 22/7/2015.
An area extending inland between Baird Bay and Venus Bay, 50-80 km South-east of Streaky Bay, has been taken up to explore for significant buried occurrences kaolin associated with the deep Cenozoic weathering of Proterozoic granite, in order to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tootla. Annual reports for the period 6/6/2009 to 13/10/2015.
During the 2009-2010 reporting year, Great Southern Kaolin Pty Ltd (GSK)'s activities comprised: - commissioning the pilot plant at the fabrication site in Kingaroy, Qld, in May-June 2010, and processing about 2 t of kaolinised granite through it to...-
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Glenloth Goldfield. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/1/1987 to 11/1/1989.
GLENLOTH GOLDFIELD TARGET: Gold associated with quartz veins in shears in the Glenloth Granite, which have an uncertain relationship to dolerite dykes. Possible mineralised shears or dykes within the Glenloth Granite, as indicated by NW trending...-
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Published: 10 Jan 1989
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Wudinna and Chilpuddie Hill. Progress reports and partial relinquishment/final reports, respectively, for the period 30/7/1985 to 29/7/1990.
TARGET: Exploration in the Minnipa - Kyancutta region for uranium in Recent lake sediments, heavy mineral sands in Tertiary palaeochannels, base and precious metals in basement rocks, and diamonds associated with possible kimberlitic intrusions....-
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Published: 02 Aug 1990
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1993 to 14/3/1998.
A low-lying small area situated 40 km west of Whyalla has been explored primarily for economic gypsum occurrences within Recent surficial sediments, while latterly, a search for metallic minerals has also commenced, via a geological survey of basement...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kottata Well, Eldale, Tootla and Broadacres (also part of the Yaninee Project). First annual report for EL 3135, plus subsequent joint annual reports, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2009.
An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....-
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RB 2001/00006 Reconnaissance sampling of basement rocks of the Gawler Craton, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Eighty-five sites of crystalline basement rocks on the Gawler Craton were inspected to determine which lithological or stratigraphical units have potential for use as dimension stone. The Gawler Craton contains a variety of rock types including...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2000
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RB 2001/00005 Reconnaissance sampling of Gawler Range Volcanics for use in the porphyry industry.
The Gawler Range Volcanics are an extensive series of subaerial felsic lavas and ignimbrites, which crop out on the central Gawler Craton. Twenty seven sites within the southern Gawler Range Volcanics were inspected to determine their potential to...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2001
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Wedge Hill (Mount Wedge Project). Annual and final reports for the period 26/5/1997 to 25/5/1999.
Groundwater sampling, aeromagnetic interpretation, shallow auger sampling and isotope studies were carried out over an area 30 km northeast of Elliston. Heavy mineral concentrates from composite auger samples contained zircon, galena and sphalerite,...-
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Minnipa area. Surrender report for the period 12/8/94 to 22/6/95.
Reconnaissance for commercially viable granite dimension stone, over an area located north-east of Minnipa, indicated that the outcrops had a marked variability in deleterious properties, particularly fracturing. Direct core sampling of the granite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1995
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Poondana Rock. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 26/1/1978 to 25/7/1979.
Kaolin samples were dispatched in late 1978 to Georgia Kaolin in the USA for testing, and results are awaited.-
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Published: 09 Mar 1979
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Cortlinye [subsequently named Buckleboo]. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint licence reporting on ELs comprising the Eyre Peninsula Joint Venture Project, for the period 18/12/1995 to 7/3/2004.
Exploration Licence 2132 sits within part of the Cleve Subdomain within the Gawler craton. The Cleve subdomain is a Paleoproterozoic fold belt extending from Port Lincoln in the south to north of Kimba. Tightly folded high grade metamorphic rocks...-
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Published: 14 Feb 2005
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Whichelby. Annual reports for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2015.
An area centred ~20 km east of Streaky Bay is being explored for bulk commodity industrial minerals deposits including gypsum and kaolin. The Carey’s Well kaolin deposit (Measured Resource 16.3 Mt of “bright white” kaolinised granite) is located ~8 km...-
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Published: 08 Feb 2016
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Poochera Kaolin Project. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/6/1994 to 27/6/1995.
Three composite samples, taken from five RC drillholes (total 85 m) put down in kaolinised granite near Colley Hill, on testing exhibited poor raw and fired whiteness due to the presence of fine biotite.-
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Published: 10 Jul 1995
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Calca [part of CML's Poochera Project]. First partial surrender report, for the period 12/7/1993 to 11/7/1997.
Exploration for kaolin, gold and base metals in the Colley Hill - Witera area, centred 40 km south-east of Streaky Bay, comprised aircore drilling (23 holes, total 379 m) and calcrete geochemical sampling on a regional 1 km x 1 km grid. Despite the...-
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Published: 08 Aug 1997
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wild Horse Plain. Annual reports for the period 8/7/2005 to 23/2/2019, plus partial surrender reports to 23/2/2021.
An upland area located approximately 100 km south-west of Whyalla on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, and with its eastern boundary running parallel to the coast at a distance of 15 km from Cowell and Franklin Harbour, is being explored for uranium,...-
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Published: 11 Jan 2021
