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Mount Bayley. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/7/1971 to 21/7/1972.
A small area located 15 km north-east of Beltana was explored for possible economic stratabound or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metal deposits associated with Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous/dolomitic strata and Willouran diapiric structures. Work...-
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RB 84/00031 Appraisal of gold tailings - Mount Grainger Goldfield.
Between 1901 and 1916 gold ore from Mount Grainger Goldfield, 10 km north of Oodla Wirra, was treated by battery amalgamation and cyanidation at the Mount Grainger Mine. Tailings and slimes from this ore processing period still remain on site, and...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 84/00075 Review of phlogopite in kimberlitic rocks as a possible source of vermiculite in South Australia.
Vermiculite is an alteration product of phlogopite. Kimberlitic bodies of sufficient size and phlogopite content for possible exploitation have been discovered in South Australia during past exploration for diamonds and base metals. Sampling is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1984
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RB 85/00057 Type curves for recovery tests in leaky strip aquifers.
During pump tests of water wells in completed within fractured rock aquifers, the amount of drawdown to the standing water level frequently increases linearly with the square root of pumping time. Long-term, however, the drawdown will depend on the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1985
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RB 99/00001 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment. Piccadilly Valley.
A water balance study of the Piccadilly Valley has indicated that almost 20% of annual rainfall, amounting to 2000 ML, recharges the fractured rock aquifers. The current usage of about 1200 ML represents just under 60% of this annual recharge. Total...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1999
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RB 98/00027 Aquifer storage and recovery as a means of utilising imported water in the Barossa Valley.
Results of a desktop study to identify the opportunities for aquifer storage and recovery in the Barossa regional aquifer system, with injection water being sourced from the River Murray and supplied through SA Water Corporation's infrastructure.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1998
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Review of Mineral exploration activity, 2003 and 2004.
2003 activity: Expenditure by companies on mineral exploration licences in South Australia for calendar year 2003 was $37.0 million, a slight increase on the $35.7 million spent in 2002. Mineral exploration drilling metreage, a key indicator of...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Clare (part of the Spalding Project). Annual reports for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2010.
In Phoenix Copper's opinion, although several previous explorers had investigated the Spalding Inlier area, many targets remained insufficiently tested. The principal structural target the company wished to explore is the intersection between an...-
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Mount Victor. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 30/11/1981 to 29/11/1986.
Evaluation of the potential of the Nillinghoo Goldfield district to hold Telfer - type low grade, shallowly dipping stratabound gold deposits suitable for open pit extraction has included aerial photograph, Landsat and regional magnetic data...-
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Mount Chambers. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
TARGET: Downdip extensions of known Cambrian stratabound mineralisation occurring at the Eric lead-zinc prospect, principally along a mineralised, disconformable interpreted syn-depositional palaeosurface developed within the Wilkawillina Limestone....-
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Published: 14 Nov 1989
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Bute. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/1989 to 17/7/1991.
TARGET: Economic hydrothermal copper or gold mineralisation in shallowly concealed pre-Adelaidean meta-igneous and metasedimentary bedrock known to occur over an area near Bute township. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetic profiling over previously defined...-
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Mount Arden. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1970.
Assays of 21 geochemical samples taken from within Donnelly's iron ore deposits on Mineral Claim 4573 indicate that they have a significant anomalous trace metal content, with up to 0.25% Cu occurring in wallrocks consisting of manganiferous quartzite...-
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Published: 04 May 1970
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Robertstown. Progress reports, first partial surrender report, and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/11/1988 to 29/11/1989.
As part of a regional exploration programme, possible Neoproterozoic sediment-hosted gold was sought in the Eudunda - Robertstown area, that could be associated with a major structure and with carbonate-bearing rocks formed low in the post-glacial...-
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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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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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/206 (part) : commodity survey, sillimanite. Final report for the period August 1977 to May 1978.
The aim of this project was to review Australian production and consumption of sillimanite, including gathering data on such topics as raw material sources, production rates, specifications, prices, markets and uses.-
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RB 00799 Stonyfell and Greenhill Quarries.
Investigations into the future development of the Stonyfell and Greenhill quarries have involved detailed geological mapping and the study of future market trends. Geological factors have been shown to affect the quality of stone present within the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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RB 09/00105 Report on the silver and lead discovery between Ooloo Dam and Mount Distance, north of the Flinders Range.
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Published: 26 Feb 1924
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RB 10/00105 Report on [ the feasibility of re-opening the ] Kapunda mine, Hd Kapunda.
This report, written by a very experienced consultant mining engineer (later the manager of the Broken Hill South Silver Mining Co.), addresses the known geology and mining history of the Kapunda copper mine from its opening in January 1844 until its...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1907
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South Australian Magnesium Oxide Project : pre-feasibility study.
This study reports on a project to establish a magnesium oxide derivatives business in South Australia, by exploiting a resource of sedimentary magnesite held by Commercial Minerals Ltd (a member of the Normandy Poseidon Group of companies). Aspects...-
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Published: 04 Aug 1992
