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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 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 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 78/00006 Progress report on the geology of part of the Worumba Anticline.
The Worumba Anticline is a regional fold in the gradational zone between the Olary Arc and the broader folding of the central Flinders Ranges. The limbs of the anticline comprise complete upper Adelaidean successions, of which the Holowilena...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00080 Revised lithostratigraphic correlations of Late Adelaidean sequences in the Kimberley region, Western Australia.
Adelaidean (late Precambrian) sequences in the Kimberley Region, Western Australia, contain undisputed evidence of glaciation. In the East and West Kimberleys, only a single major glacial epoch is represented, but in the MOUNT RAMSAY area, there are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 88/00050 Volcanic and sedimentary rocks from the Wirrulla region, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Volcanic rocks from the Wirrulla region include dacites, rhyodacites and rhyolites. They comprise both magmatic and pyroclastic types, and are similar to the Gawler Range Volcanics. Sedimentary rocks from the same region include quartz sandstones...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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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
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RB 90/00067 Brief exploratory survey of lithological variation in part of the Kanmantoo Group in the south of Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia.
The Madigan Inlet Member of the Kanmantoo Group at Carrickalinga Head and Myponga contains angular clasts of quartz, fresh feldspar and muscovite, altered feldspar and a range of lithic grains in a micaceous matrix. Grain sizes are unsorted below 0.2...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1990
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Prospect Hill. Progress reports and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/11/1990 to 22/11/1994.
Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation in the Prospect Hill area, 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, concentrated on infill channel geochemical sampling and mineragraphic/petrogenetic sampling of costeans...-
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Hamilton Creek. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/5/2010 to 16/5/2015.
A large area located in the far north of South Australia, abutting the Northern Territory border ~120 km north of Marla, and centred ~30 km east of the Stuart Highway wholly on Tieyon Station, has been explored for possible economic buried secondary...-
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Data release - as updated : Boundary Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2016.
A small area centred ~130 km north of Marla, and abutting the Northern Territory border along the northern side of Tieyon Station, has been explored for possible economic buried secondary uranium deposits, which Tianda Uranium (Tianda) thought could...-
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Peake Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/7/2013 to 8/7/2017.
A small area located on and adjacent to the eastern margin of the Denison Range, ~ 60 km south-east of Oodnadatta, has been explored for possible buried economic sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation. During licence Year 1 the licensee reviewed all...-
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Coober Pedy. Investigation of alunite occurrence.
At the request of several interested parties from Coober Pedy, 17 channel and grab samples of alunite-bearing clays obtained from opal workings near the town were analysed for their alunite content and its purity. Recent inspections by the author of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North Mulga, Wooltana and Paralana areas (Frome Basin Project). Joint annual reports for the period 24/9/2012 to 31/12/2018.
The continuation of Heathgate's programme of exploration for economic buried Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation within part of the north-western Frome Embayment during 2012-2013 has comprised exploratory drilling of 36 vertical rotary mud...-
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Postmark. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/5/1970 to 5/5/1972.
Exploration for possible economic sedimentary uranium deposits in the Postmark area on the northern margin of the Murray Basin in South Australia comprised two airborne radiometric and scintillometric surveys together totalling approximately 1350...-
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RB 00770 Pilot lithofacies study on the Toolachee Formation, Gidgealpa - Moomba - Big Lake area, Cooper Basin, South Australia.
A lithofacies study of the Upper Permian Toolachee Formation has been conducted in the Gidgealpa-Moomba-Big Lake area to determine the suitability of the technique in the reconstruction of depositional environments and palaeogeographic trends...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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RB 00794 Investigation of the basement rocks from Apollo no. 1 and Gemini no. 1 (inter alia).
This student vacational project report, for the Department's Petroleum Exploration Div., aimed to correlate the basement rocks met with in Great Australian Bight area offshore and near onshore petroleum exploration wells with outcropping formations...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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RB 68/00026 Sedimentary phosphate exploration, Summary Report, Part 1, the Cambrian of the Flinders Ranges.
No sedimentary phosphorate has been found in commercial quantities in outcropping Cambrian rocks of the Flinders Ranges. Two types of minor occurrences were defined: - 1.Those in ferruginous glauconitic limestone (consisting of pelletal apatite)....-
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Published: 03 Apr 1969
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Midgee. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2012.
Within a small relinquished area that is centred about 37 km north-northeast of Cowell, along the fault scarp at the edge of the western Spencer Gulf coastal plain, exploration for uranium has concentrated on identifying possible IOCG type...-
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