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RB 98/00014 Clare Drilling. Phase 2 - June 1997.
Phase Two of a drilling program at Clare, South Australia was undertaken in June, 1997. A total of 6 bores were drilled, 4 of these at existing locations established during Phase One drilling in January, 1996, and a further 2 at Watervale Oval as...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Reaphook Hill and Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Respective early annual reports, for the period 17/1/2000 to 16/1/2002.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~50-70 km to the east and south-east of Blinman are being explored for possible economic buried willemite (zinc silicate), scholzite (zinc phosphate) and other base metal mineralisation associated with particular...-
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Mount Mantell. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 22/11/1983 to 21/2/1984.
An area centred approximately 100 km north-east of Hawker was taken up to look for possible economic Mississippi Valley type lead-zinc mineralisation that may have formed locally within the Cambrian Wilkawillina Limestone. A proposed programme of...-
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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] : 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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Burnda. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/7/1989 to 2/7/1990.
Reverse air circulation rotary drilling of four outcrops of potentially glass-grade raw material dolomite rock (42 holes for a total penetration of 924 m), carried out 14 km north-west of Mount Gambier in April 1989 on a 50 m grid within pine...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1990
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Melton. Progress reports to licence surrender, for the period 21/7/1980 to 24/5/1989.
A small area located about 20 km north-west of Port Wakefield was taken under licence by ETSA to try to secure limestone/dolomite material of suitable quality and in sufficient quantity to provide chemical additives for aiding the process of...-
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Published: 20 Apr 1989
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pondooma. Annual and combined annual reports for the period 3/12/2002 to 2/12/2005.
Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, consisting of two separate sub-blocks that are centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, is located immediately west of the Middleback Range and 5 km west of Onesteel’s Iron Duke mine. This licence was granted to SA...-
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Mount Norwest (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2013.
A search primarily directed at assessing the stratiform copper and magnesite potential of an area centred 50 km south-west of Marree has consisted mainly of office studies comprising the collection and review of open file geoscientific data. Early in...-
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Strangways [Springs]. Annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/1/2011 to 6/1/2013.
An area extending along the Marree - William Creek - Oodnadatta Track, some distance to the west of Lake Eyre South and centred 140 km north of Olympic Dam, has been explored for possible economic buried Mesozoic sandstone-hosted (Kazakhstan style)...-
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Mount Norwest (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). First partial surrender report for the period 19/6/2014 to 18/6/2016.
61% of a subsequent licence area located in the southern Willouran Ranges has been surrendered due to its perceived diminished prospectivity for buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform copper mineralisation and inferred MVT, replacement or...-
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RB 22/00009 Mineral resources of South Australia and their utilization.
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Published: 27 May 1946
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RB 2000/00013 Australian Clay Minerals Society Inc. 17th Biennial Conference, Adelaide, 10-12 April 2000: Field Guide for post-conference tour, 13-14 April 2000 - Yorke Peninsula clays and carbonates, copper mines, desert loam soils and mangroves.
This tour is concerned with aspects of the soils, geology, landforms, clays and mining on Yorke Peninsula, and likewise for the northern Adelaide Plains which are separated from the Peninsula by Gulf St Vincent. Both of these regions are among the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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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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HandBk 006 - Living with Minerals - A South Australian perspective. Armstrong, A.T
This publication highlights how the availability of minerals is crucial to providing the basic requisites of life, or else, to fundamentally contributing for the manufacture of vital requisites such as food, clothing, heat, light and shelter, in order...-
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Moolooloo. First and final progress report to licence surrender, for the period 1/7/1968 to 15/3/1969.
Exploration for possible economic hydrothermal / replacement style copper deposits within two known mineralised areas on the northern margin of the Blinman Diapir comprised geological mapping of the stratigraphic / structural setting of accessible...-
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Lake Macfarlane - Lake Finniss area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/7/1967 to 31/12/1967.
Consultants were engaged by the licensee to conduct an extensive geological and geochemical investigation of a 2700 square mile area surrounding the Mount Gunson copper deposit, and to perform an interpretation of available regional aeromagnetic data....-
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Progress report on [near-mine] exploration activities [performed by the] Burra [Joint] Venture, for the period 10/10/1965 to 28/2/1967.
At the invitation of the South Australian Department of Mines, a mining company consortium has been formed to continue recent SA Government studies at Burra aimed at establishing the economic feasibility of re-opening the historic copper workings to...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1967
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Lochaber. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1994 to 31/1/1998.
Industrial mineral exploration undertaken for unconsolidated, clean white carbonates and celestite that may occur within Recent paralic sediments, that was accomplished by push tube and auger drilling of near-surface strata in a cluster of salt lakes...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1998
