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Mount Sabine. Partial surrender report for the period 12/2/1981 to 22/1/1986.
As part of a regional diamond and kimberlite exploration programme, 50 drainage and loam samples were collected for heavy mineral analysis from within the two areas being relinquished, which lie respectively 50 km NW and 40 km NE of Kingoonya. No...-
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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RB 79/00114 Palaeodrainage systems in western South Australia. Their detection by Landsat imagery, stratigraphic significance and economic potential.
Two major palaeodrainage systems of Tertiary age, with watersheds of up to 35 000 square km and channel lengths of 200-250 km, have been recognised and delineated using LANDSAT imagery, during 1:250 000 scale geological mapping in western South...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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 97/00051 Poona copper mine, Moonta, South Australia - Investigation of alteration mineralogy using short-wave infrared analysis.
The Poona Copper Mine on northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, was worked from 1988-92 on an extension of the original Poona lode, a narrow, shear-hosted copper sulphide vein deposit in Moonta Porphyry of Mesoproterozoic age. The orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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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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Reconnaissance structural investigation of the southern Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
Photogeological fracture analysis, Landsat interpretation and aerial geophysical data interpretation techniques have been concurrently applied to the problem of identifying deep-seated linear structures on the Stuart Shelf. Results of a consultant's...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1981
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Carrapateena Arm, Hatch Hill, Beda Arm and Lake Torrens South (the OZ Minerals Carrapateena Project). Annual reports (separate and joint) for the period 8/1/2008 to 6/1/2016.
Exploration of the Lake Torrens JV Project area during 2008, managed by Teck Cominco Australia (Teck), consisted of diamond drilling some wedge holes off a parent to determine the lateral and vertical dimensions of bornite and chalcopyrite - dominated...-
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Mount Sabine and Snow Hill [Billa Kalina joint venture]. Joint final surrender report for the period 21/3/83 to 20/3/87.
Diamond exploration in the Bon Bon - Millers Creek region, about 80 km north-northeast of Kingoonya, included Landsat imagery and photogeological studies plus extensive reconnaissance soil and stream sediment sampling. No kimberlitic indicator...-
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Mount Gunson. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/8/1977 to 4/8/1979.
In a search for possible economic repetitions of Cattlegrid and MG14 - style copper sulphide mineralisation, or for any buried analogues to Western Mining Corp.'s recently discovered copper deposits on Roxby Downs Station, ongoing exploratory work...-
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Rawlinson Hill, Mount Sabine, Snow Hill and Billa Kalina Homestead (Stuart Shelf / Arckaringa Basin). Joint progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/2/1981 to 28/4/1987.
Over the report period Agip Australia completed the drilling and geophysical logging of 39 open rotary holes totalling 3845 m to investigate if economic coal seams occur within Permian sediments of the southern Arckaringa Basin. Although the Permian...-
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Codna Hill (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/5/1977 to 2/5/1979.
Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...-
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Woomera. First partial surrender report, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/1/2015.
An area located immediately south and east of Woomera township has been acquired to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence of the...-
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RB 2000/00018 Exploring ancient landscapes. Workshop abstracts.
Abstracts to PAPERS: - Baker, A.K.M. - Metal geochemistry of regolith in the Mount Lofty Ranges and associated alluvial fans on the Adelaide Plains. - Belperio, A.P. and Freeman, H. - Exploration using gold and base metal pathfinders in calcareous...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 2009/00006 Alteration mapping - HyLogger workshop, course manual, ASEG 09.
HyLogging systems, and the PIMA and ASD field spectrometers (Terraspec, Labspec and Fieldspec), are a generation of analysis instruments which provide rapid and cost effective data on sample mineralogy and on mineral characteristics. Spectral...-
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Published: 26 Feb 2009
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Harcus Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/10/2004 to 13/10/2008.
During mineral exploration of an area located approximately 30 km west of Olympic Dam, an initial search for possible diamondiferous kimberlites entailed modern era reprocessing and image analysis of available post-1990 regional aeromagnetic data, to...-
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Parakylia (part of Lake Torrens Project). Combined first annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/10/2004 to 13/10/2005.
Diamond exploration in an area located approximately 50 km north-west of Roxby Downs was undertaken based on regional prospectivity modelling and a previous De Beers report of some kimberlitic indicator minerals being recovered nearby. A geophysical...-
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PACE Copper Gawler Craton Airborne Survey, Region 3B, data package.
During the period 4 March to 22 June 2017, most of the TORRENS 1:250k map sheet area was flown under contract to the SA Government and Geoscience Australia as part of the PACE Copper Gawler Craton Airborne Survey. The intent of this survey overall [it...-
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PACE Copper Gawler Craton Airborne Survey, Region 3A, data package.
During the period 23 February to 14 June 2017, most of the ANDAMOOKA 1:250k map sheet area was flown under contract to the SA Government and Geoscience Australia as part of the PACE Copper Gawler Craton Airborne Survey. The intent of this survey...-
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Margaret Creek (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/7/1977 to 12/7/1979.
Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...-
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