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RB 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 79/00157 Cambrian alkali playa-lacustrine sequence in the northeastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Byilkaoora 1, a stratigraphic well drilled in the northeastern part of the Officer Basin in South Australia, intersected aeolian and fluvial sandstones and mudstones overlying 224 m of fine-grained, dolomitic, calcareous and argillaceous sediments...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 93/00054 Hydrologic change in the Strzelecki Desert from U-series dating of gypsum, celestite and calcite, and an assessment of published radiocarbon dates.
Reassessment of age frequency of published and unpublished radiocarbon dates from the Strzelecki Desert and Lake Frome - Lake Callabonna region in northeastern South Australia has delineated some Late Pleistocene climatic events. These include...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1993
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Report on dolomite deposits at the Neales River, north-west of Lake Eyre North, SA.
Geological investigations have delineated a dolomite deposit extending at least 8 miles along the lower Neales River and exposed in its banks. An indicated resource of approximately 20 million tons is estimated to be present. It is considered that...-
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Published: 09 Jan 1970
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Sedimentology and petroleum geochemistry of the Ouldburra Formation, eastern Officer Basin, Australia.
Deposition of the Early Cambrian Ouldburra Formation, a mixed siliciclastic/carbonate, marine carbonate and evaporite succession, occurred in the shallow marine setting of the Manya Trough. The observed variations between the facies are interpreted...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
Possible economic stratabound or epigenetic lead-zinc or copper deposits, formed in altered carbonate rocks lying marginal to the Wirrealpa Diapir, were the targets of new exploration centred on the area of the old Wirrealpa lead-silver mine....-
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Published: 06 Nov 1989
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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 25/10/1979 to 25/2/1988.
As part of a regional project of exploration for Mississippi Valley type (MVT) lead-zinc mineralisation emplaced in tectonically and structurally 'prepared ground' within Lower Cambrian limestones, Dampier/BHP investigated rocks of this age which...-
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Sedimentology of the Ouldburra Formation (Early Cambrian), northeastern Officer Basin.
The Ouldburra Formation (Early Cambrian) is a newly defined sequence of carbonates, mixed carbonate/siliciclastics and evaporites in the northeastern Officer Basin, northern South Australia. Deposition took place during the late stages of...-
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulloo Creek [ not Bulloo South ] (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/6/1994 to 28/9/2005.
Exploration for Kalkaroo or Portia style copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill type stratiform lead-zinc-silver deposits, both possibly formed within the Palaeoproterozoic basement intrusive rocks and high grade metasediments in an area lying...-
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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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Wilkinson Lakes South. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/9/1980 to 4/2/1982.
TARGET: Possible Irish Plains type carbonate-hosted base metals, and sylvite, hosted within the evaporite sequence of the Early Cambrian Observatory Hill Formation in the area immediately south of the Wilkinson Lakes. EXPLORATION: Two percussion...-
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Ediacara Range. Partial surrender report for the period ending January 1998.
Relinquished portions of the EL were considered to have low potential for economically viable Mississippi Valley-type lead mineralisation similar to that occurring at the Ediacara Mineral Field, a conclusion based on the outcome of literature...-
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Lake Florence. First quarterly report [to licence surrender] for the period 8/12/1980 to 7/3/1981.
No work undertaken.-
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Lake Frome East. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 13/11/79 to 12/5/80.
As part of a wider search over SA for possible continental salt lake occurrences of NaCO3-rich brines and of fossil crystalline trona beds, presumed to be equivalent to the Lake Magadi (Kenya) / Green River Basin (Utah - Wyoming) style Tertiary...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1980
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Lake Frome. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 12/5/1980.
As part of a wider search over SA for possible continental salt lake occurrences of NaCO3-rich brines and of fossil crystalline trona beds, presumed to be equivalent to the Lake Magadi (Kenya) / Green River Basin (Utah - Wyoming) style Tertiary...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1980
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Musgrave Province, including APY Lands, Mineral Potential Modelling Data Package.
The purpose of this data package is to provide end-users with the GIS datasets and geophysical raster grids used for the 2010 modelling of mineral potential in the Musgrave Province region, which includes the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara -...-
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Prescott Point. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/12/1980 to 23/6/1981.
Exploration for possible economic trona deposits thought to have formed within Cainozoic near-surface sediments, in an area of thick lacustrine sedimentation located 80 km north of Marree, consisted only of a consultant's review of available...-
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Calcrete investigations. Progress report nos 1 to 3 for the period September 1974 to December 1976.
Calcrete samples taken from various likely residential and industrial sites in South Australia were examined to determine features applicable to stratigraphic classification and to engineering geology requirements for construction planning.-
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