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Stuart Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/5/1977 to 12/5/1979.
Stratiform base metal sulphide deposits and sedimentary uranium accumulations were targeted in the Stuart Creek area, which straddles the Torrens Fault on the eastern margin of the Stuart Shelf. Two airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys totalling...-
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Spencer Gulf. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 11/2/83.
A 900 line km detailed aeromagnetic survey was carried out over the northern extremity of Spencer Gulf, in a search for possible Olympic Dam style mineralisation associated with a significant and complex magnetic high anomaly that is located almost...-
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Published: 15 Jun 1982
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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/2/1978 to 2/1/1983.
Exploration undertaken on ground situated east of Pernatty Lagoon has included the acquisition of extensive ground magnetic and gravity surveys plus a small aerial magnetic and radiometric survey, and performing many specific gravity and magnetic...-
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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Ongoing exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, during this period comprised 3D geophysical modelling of possible source geometries for, and RC drilling (10 holes, total...-
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Woomera, Portulacca Ridge and Red Lake. Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 15/2/1983 to 7/11/1986.
The three licences now being surrendered were originally taken out by Seltrust in the mid-1970s to search for stratabound base metals and Olympic Dam type mineralisation. After Seltrust withdrew from the subsequently formed Stuart Shelf joint venture...-
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RB 87/00033 Glendambo town water supply - 1985 and 1986 investigations.
Glendambo, 298 km NW of Port Augusta, is currently supplied with 5000 mg/L groundwater. Drilling has located a small area of 2000 mg/L water. Hydraulic and recharge estimates indicate a sustained yield of about 1 ML/year. Because the town is located...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1987
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RB 79/00024 Adelaidean sedimentation. The Adelaide Geosyncline and Stuart Shelf.
In southern South Australia, the meridional Torrens Hinge Zone, at approximately longitude 138º, separates the cratonic Stuart Shelf with its undeformed, relatively thin sedimentary cover in the west, from the folded Adelaide Geosyncline to the east....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 91/00041 Geology of the KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map sheet area.
Extensive field geological mapping, augmented by petrological and geochemical studies, reinterpretation of company drilling and water-bore logs and a nine-hole drilling programme has detailed the geology of the KINGOONYA area. The stratigraphy spans...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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RB 94/00044 Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen as a guide to oxidising sulphide concealed beneath shallow cover. Soil air CO2/O2 project: review report 1.
A joint project between Dr I.G. Watmuff (consultant) and the Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, to appraise the soil air CO2/O2 technique as a guide to concealed oxidising sulphides, has been completed. Testing was conducted over known...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1994
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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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RB 92/00073 Soil Air CO2/O2 Project. Progress report 4, Wirrda Well prospect, Stuart Shelf.
Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements as a guide to oxidising sulphide have been assessed by several researchers and government geological surveys in the United States, Ireland, Africa and Saudi Arabia over the period 1983-1990. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1992
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RB 92/00061 Soil Air CO2/O2 Project. Progress report 3, Mount Gunson area.
The rationale of utilising soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements as a guide to oxidising sulphide is that sulphide oxidation in the presence of water and oxygen will produce sulphuric acid, which in turn will attack any carbonates present to...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1992
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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
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RB 90/00017 Early Cambrian Andamooka Limestone and Yarrawurta Shale of the Stuart Shelf.
Early Cambrian (Atdabanian to Botomian) sediments, known from limited outcrop and over 70 drillhole intercepts, are divided into the Andamooka Limestone, including the Curdlawidny Siltstone Member, and the overlying Yarrawurta Shale. The Andamooka...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1990
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RB 97/00039 Lineament tectonic data, South Australia, with a focus on the Cooper Basin.
The lineament mapping methods used by E.S.T. (Tim) O'Driscoll, which were a crucial factor in the discovery of Olympic Dam, the world's largest known Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, and of several other lesser Australian metallic orebodies, have now been applied...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-03, Marathon South mineral prospect. Project interim and final reports.
During exploration of Exploration Licence 3209 situated on the northern Stuart Shelf, gravity and magnetic modelling performed in early 2004 highlighted several anomaly source bodies, which immediately became of much interest as potential iron-oxide...-
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Unlocking South Australia's Mineral and Energy Potential - A Plan for Accelerating Exploration. Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry) : Year 1 partnership no. DPY1-12, Chianti mineral prospect. Project final report.
The subject report describes the results of drilling two fully cored rotary holes totalling 1161.10 m at the Chianti prospect, an unusually-shaped residual gravity anomaly located in Gunson Resources' EL 3264, 20 km north-east of the Mount Gunson...-
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Bernard Hill. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/9/2002 to 4/9/2005.
As part of a project examining the Adelaidean cover rocks that surround the Pernatty Culmination on the southern Stuart Shelf for possible economic stratiform copper mineralisation of the various styles known to be present in the Mount Gunson area,...-
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[ Report on drilling ] Evaluation of the East Lagoon orebody, Mount Gunson, South Australia.
This report presents the results of ore definition drilling derived from 60 percussion and diamond drill holes put down over the central and southern parts of the East Lagoon orebody, and gives the methodology for calculating currently mineable ore...-
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