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Mount Misery. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1985.
Stratabound, chemically precipitated Telfer - type replacement style vein gold was the target of exploration undertaken over an area 25 km north-west of Yunta, which contains good exposures of Neoproterozoic Umberatana Group clastic metasediments that...-
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Bendigo Station. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/8/1992.
Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...-
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Published: 02 Jul 1992
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RB 37/00024 Geological survey of road metal deposit near Dayeston, section 128 Hundred of Nuriootpa, County Light.
A request was recieved from the Highways and Local Government Department (D.M. 864/50) for a geological survey and estimation of reserves of road metal from Sections 229 and 128 in the Hundred of Nuriootpa. The volume of stone required was 500,000...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 37/00026 Investigation of road metal deposit near Greenock.
The Highways and Local Government Department indicates that this area around Greenock and Daveyston is in a strategic position to supply material for future road construction and maintenance and that large volume of road metal (500,000 cubic yards)...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 38/00093 Hook quarry building stone deposit.
The present survey was carried out at the request of the Manager of the Building Stone Co. to determine the quantity of stone suitable for cutting with carborundum saws for the production of building stone. The present Company commenced operations at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 39/00062 Preliminary report on a building stone deposit at Basket Range.
The deposit is within Section 250, Hundred of Onkaparinga, on the southern side of the main road between Basket Range and Forest Range, 15 miles easterly from Adelaide. The land is owned by Mr. W. Bishop of Forest Range, to whom royalties on minerals...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 41/00053 Survey for road metal deposit, secn 2008 Hd Kondoparinga and reserve, Hd Nangkita.
A geological survey of the "stone reserve opposite Section 2008, Hundred Kondoparinga" was requested by the Highways and Local Government Department. A telephone call to that department failed to obtain information as to the exact area for which a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 60/00082 Coober Pedy Opalfield.
Mapping of the Coober Pedy Opalfield has shown that opal occurrence, although erratic, is not entirely unpredictable. Several groups of workings are present in an area of about 150 square miles. The host rock is a distinctive pink and white...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1965
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RB 49/00145 Greenhill quarries.
Rock types mapped in the above area include arkosic ortho quartzites, arkosic sandstones and chloritic quartzite schists of the Stonyfell Quartzite formation in the Torrensian Series. Total available reserves of rock are estimated at over thirty...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 50/00017 Report on road metal quarry, quartzite, secn 5299 Hd Kanmantoo - Mount Barker Quarries.
A road metal quarry in buff quartzites and micaceous sandstones occurs half a mile east of the township of Nairne. The sediments exposed are basal members of the Kanmantoo Group. The beds strike south-south-east dipping 60 to the east. More than...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 50/00152 Report on proposed mining of sandstone, section 1180 Hd Adelaide.
For a number of years White Rock Quarries Ltd. have operated on Part Section 1109 and Section 1180, Hundred of Adelaide, which are Government property. The company has now acquired its own deposits of stone on adjoining land, but wishes to continue...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 50/00170 Quartzite deposit, secns 163, 167, 16 Hd Onkaparinga.
Eight quartzite horizons occur in the area mapped. These are interbedded with micaceous sandstones, siltstones and mica schists in the Sturtian Series of the Adelaide System. Total reserves in four of the quartzite horizons designated Nos. 2, 5, 6 and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 42/00100 Hooks sandstone quarry.
Reserves of feldspathic sandstone in the Aldgate formation in part of Section 155, Hundred Onkaparinga, suitable for dressing with carborundum saws are estimated to exceed 20,000 cubic yards. This figure could probably be increased to exceed 40,000...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 77/00009 Construction materials investigation Redcliff petrochemical site, sections 12, 18, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 102, 134 Hd Winninowie, Co. Frome.
Materials suitable for concrete aggregate, railway ballast, road base course, protection of salt field sea wails and rock fill will be required should construction of the petrochemical plant and appurtenant works proceed at Redcliff, 25 km...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 78/00152 Murnaroo 1. Well completion report.
During September-December 1976, Murnaroo 1 was drilled by the SA Department of Mines to TD 627.5 m near Observatory Hill in the central southern part of the Officer Basin, to investigate the local subsurface stratigraphy and economic potential, and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1979
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RB 79/00030 Geology of the Riverview quartzite quarry, sections 38, 5394, Hd of Yatala. Private Mine 31 (The Readymix Group SA).
Quartzites and sandstones in the Stonyfell Quartzite formation of the Adelaide System are quarried by the Readymix Group (S.A.) at Riverview quarry, 14 km north-east of Adelaide. Inferred geological reserves above the level of the nearby River Torrens...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 79/00063 Geology of the Eagle quartzite quarry.
Quartzite and sandstone of the Stonyfell Quartzite formation of the Burra Group are quarried by Quarry Industries Ltd at Eagle Quarry, located in the Adelaide Hills less than 10 km from the Adelaide GPO. The deposit is fault bounded to the west and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 98/00007 South Australian experience in aquifer storage and recovery.
It is estimated that 390 000 ML of storm water/effluent is generated in South Australia annually. Most is discharged, with less than 5% being reused. In recent times attitudes have changed and the resource potential of this water is being...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1998
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RB 96/00032 Mount Barker Creek 1. Well completion report.
Mount Barker Creek 1 was drilled by MESA Mineral Provinces Branch at a location 30 km southeast of Adelaide during May 1994 to test a model of stratiform lead-zinc mineralisation within the Kanmantoo Trough, and to confirm the composition and...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1996
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
