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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 21/10/1974.
A re-investigation of base metal geochemical anomalies detected during Electrolytic Zinc Co.'s former stream sediment and rock chip sampling programme conducted near an historic copper-lead mine prospect at Mount Chambers in the eastern Flinders...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1974
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Warraweena. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/9/1974.
Geological mapping, further surface geochemical sampling, test IP surveys and limited shallow diamond drilling (2 holes, total 201.3 m, including 147 m of NQ/BQ wireline coring) were done over a previously identified stream sediment zinc anomaly at...-
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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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Ediacara. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1971 to 12/11/1972.
During June-July 1972, 35 shallow vertical rotary percussion drillholes for a total penetration of 877 m were completed within the Ediacara Fault Zone to test for economic base metal mineralisation, the majority of the holes being sited at locations...-
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Frome Downs and Curnamona. Respective progress reports, annual reports and JV partner's final report to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 11/2/1971 to 12/2/1973.
77 rotary / diamond holes drilled by Pacminex (total 9385 m, including 196 m cored) plus another 53 holes drilled within SML 544 by joint venturer Esso (total 7029 m) indicate that a highly prospective radioactive mineralised zone occurs within...-
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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 58/00135 Ediacara Mineral Field. Summary report.
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Published: 26 May 1964
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RB 60/00009 Brachina dolomite deposit, central Flinders Ranges, Hd Bunyeroo.
Mapping and sampling have confirmed high grade dolomite at the base of the Lower Cambrian Wilkawillina Limestone at Brachina Gorge. The dolomite appears chemically suitable for refractory and other industrial purposes, with an average grade of 54%...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1965
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RB 44/00096 Shallow seismic reflection survey, Wilkatana.
Both time cross-section and dip cross-section plots have been attempted over a 14,400 foot long traverse through the Wilkatana 1 bore site, to outline the Tertiary - Cambrian unconformity. The time cross section shows some reflections below the base...-
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Published: 04 Jun 1957
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RB 78/00117 Bumbarlow 1 - Well completion report.
Bumbarlow 1 (TD 720.33 m) aimed to test the lithology and petroleum potential of the Cambrian section in the central part of the eastern Arrowie Basin. It continuously cored a sequence over 300 m thick of flat-lying Proterozoic sediments interbedded...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1978
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RB 81/00013 Nepabunna water supply, 1980 drilling programme.
7 wells were drilled : 2 successful production wells, 1 observation well and 4 scout holes, which were unsuccessful in locating an alternative supply. Wells are prone to reduction in yield within a few years because of clogging of fissures with...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 81/00098 Leigh Creek town water supply groundwater investigation, progress report no. 2.
Fractured rock aquifers were investigated by drilling of 7 vertical holes and 2 angle holes in the Windy Creek area. 1 well was completed as production well with an airlift yield of 12 L/s. The steeply dipping fractured sandstone aquifer responds as a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 77/00143 Stratigraphic drilling in the eastern Arrowie Basin, 1975-1976.
The Arrowie is a sedimentary basin composed nearly entirely of unmetamorphosed Cambro-Ordovician detrital and carbonate strata. It covers a present-day area across the Flinders Ranges, westwards to Lake Torrens and eastwards to the New South Wales...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1977
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RB 83/00056 Edeowie 1. Well completion report.
Edeowie 1 (TD 984 metres), which aimed to identify a series of seismic reflectors mapped by SADME beneath the eastern Lake Torrens piedmont plain, has intersected a stratigraphic sequence with features indicating that complex structural changes occur...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 84/00099 Nepabunna water supply - 1983 drilling.
Well drilled to 120 metres had airlift yield of 12 L/s from Cambrian limestone aquifer, which has good potential for stream recharge and capable of supplying the 1.2 L/s peak discharge required. Salinity is 950 mg/L. Confirms effectiveness of deep...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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RB 79/00058 Reaphook Hill scholzite deposit. MLs 4114, 4368 - C.W. Johnston.
The rare zinc phosphate mineral, scholzite, has been found in gossans developed on Early Cambrian Parachilna Formation siltstone and sandstone near Reaphook Hill in the Flinders Ranges. Other rare phosphate minerals, including tarbuttite,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 91/00101 Lead-zinc drilling investigations, 1989. Wirrealpa area, SA.
Potential target areas for Mississippi Valley style lead zinc mineralization were drill tested by 31 open drill holes totalling 825 metres. Postulated eastern extensions of low grade, flat-lying lead (-zinc) mineralisation were confirmed at the Eric...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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RB 99/00032 Trial dewatering of the BHP dolomite quarry at Ardrossan, South Australia.
Trial dewatering of the quarry, which is excavated in fractured and well-bedded Cambrian dolomite, took place for at least 56 days during early 1994, but pumping was terminated when a further significant water level drawdown could not be achieved. Ten...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 89/00089 Nepabunna - Proposed artificial recharge scheme.
Nepabunnas water supply has a salinity of 1300 mg/L and a high carbonate hardness (550 mg/L) which causes severe scaling in pipes. Artificial recharge was suggested as a means of introducing low salinity and hardness floodwaters into the aquifer....-
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Published: 01 Feb 1990
