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Tarlton Knob and Cadnia Hill. Joint progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
A consultant's detailed regional geological study of the northern Willouran Ranges, and then his very close examination of the apparent controls on known diapir-related exposed epigenetic / stratabound copper mineralisation, have identified three...-
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Landsat thematic mapper study of the Yardea Dacite, Gawler Range Volcanics, YARDEA 1:250 000 scale map sheet.
The South Australian Department of Mines and Energy (SADME) commissioned the South Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (SACRS) to undertake a digital analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data in an attempt to locate prospective areas for...-
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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 46/00063 Third report on soil samples collected from Lake Alexandrina area - CSIRO.
An additional 12 samples were examined mainly to establish the depositional environment of the black Poltalloch clays. No marine foraminifera were found in six of the clay samples, but the microfauna of the sample taken at 63"-66" indicates deposition...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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Nelshaby. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2005.
Bedded deposits of magnesite known to exist within the southern Flinders Ranges, where they outcrop over a considerable strike distance extent in the country approximately 20 km east of Port Pirie, were identified by Magnesium Developments Limited...-
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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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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Malcolm Plains. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/12/1989 to 21/12/1993.
Possible economic deposits of filter-grade diatomite and of agricultural grade gypsum within Holocene lacustrine sediments in the Cooke Plains Embayment and Waltowa Swamp areas, located immediately east of Lakes Alexandrina and Albert respectively,...-
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Pidinga (part of the Eucla-Maralinga Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 27/8/2004 to 28/2/2009.
An area located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, and centred ~60 km north-east of Fowlers Bay, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for possible buried economic occurrences of zircon-rich heavy...-
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Copley and Leigh Creek. Progress reports for the period 4/10/1982 to 27/1/1991.
TARGET: Exploration and evaluation of known secondary copper occurrences and exploration for gold and phosphates in the Lyndhurst-Copley region. EXPLORATION: Including the work done previously in EL 929, exploration activities undertaken since 1981...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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Callington stone deposit (under lease by the Readymix Group). Notice of Intent to extract material [road sealing aggregates] by quarrying.
The site of the Callington greywacke deposit, located 2 km south of Callington township, was leased from the landowners by the Readymix Group in 1972 when preliminary geological investigations indicated that it contained unusually massive bedrock that...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1978
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RB 66/00033 SAG Cootanoorina no. 1 well. Upper Palaeozoic and Lower Cretaceous micropalaeontology. Grid G/3.
Microfossils from the section intersected in Cootanoorina 1 were analysed to enable correlation and age determination of the various rock units and interpretation of the Permian depositional environments. Age determinations include: Unit 3 (2925-3111...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1968
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RB 72/00190 Two Cainozoic fossiliferous sands from Waterloo Bay, Yorke Peninsula, SA, Hd Melville, Co. Fergusson.
One sand has benthonic foraminifera of Upper Eocene age, and is referred to Rogue Formation, correlating also with basal Port Willunga Beds. The other sand is from a Pleistocene "aeolianite" sequence, Bridgewater formation. Its microfauna, mostly...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1972
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RB 72/00083 Marine foraminifera from Eocene carbonaceous sediments of the Polda, Cummins and Wanilla Basins, Eyre Peninsula.
The first foraminifera reported from the Polda Basin are in highly carbonaceous glauconitic clays palynologically dated middle-upper Eocene. The microfauna comprises, sparse and stunted marine benthonic forms whose origin and mode of association with...-
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Published: 10 May 1972
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RB 72/00120 Muddy Tank 001 Well completion report.
Stratigraphic well Muddy Tank 1 was drilled to sample fossiliferous late Jurassic clays. Consequently seen palynological evidence has firmly dated the Algebuckina Sandstone as very late Jurassic (ca. 144 to 141 Ma).-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 72/00241 Diatomite occurrence near Port MacDonnell, secn 468 Hd MacDonnell, Co. Grey.
Diatomite of Recent to Sub-Recent age occurs as a thin discontinuous layer above Gambier Limestone and beneath peat in reclaimed swamplands cast of Port MacDonnell. The assemblage of diatoms is similar to that comprising the diatomite deposit at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 5/3/2002 to 28/2/2009.
The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...-
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RB 2012/00008 Abminga bedrock drilling program 2001.
The Abminga bedrock drilling program was initiated in 1999 as part of the Targeted Exploration Initiative of South Australia (TEISA) strategy conceived by the SA Government and implemented through PIRSA's Mineral Resources Group. Drilling was proposed...-
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Published: 01 May 2012
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Geological report on Wallaroo - Moonta, South Australia.
Prospecting of the lease areas has been restricted to surface examination of the locations of previously noted geophysical (magnetic, electrical resistivity) and geochemical (soil sampling) anomalies. One of four old caved-in prospecting shafts found...-
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Published: 23 Sep 1948
