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Tarlton Knob and Cadnia Hill. Joint progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
A consultant's detailed regional geological study of the northern Willouran Ranges, and then his very close examination of the apparent controls on known diapir-related exposed epigenetic / stratabound copper mineralisation, have identified three...-
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Gambier Basin investigation.
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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Copperlinka. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1991 to 6/6/1997.
Exploration for possible large, potentially open cut - mineable disseminated quartz vein - type syngenetic gold and base metal deposits within a licence area located near Outalpa, 150 km south-west of Broken Hill, has comprised geological mapping,...-
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RB 37/00094 Report of examination of clay deposits on Oulnina Station, (near) Manna Hill.
Two small deposits of white to pale-coloured claystone, discovered in creek banks located respectively 10.5 and 12 miles south of Manna Hill township, were inspected for the local station owners. It was found that the beds of clean claystone are very...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1954
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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 83/00010 Petrology of three kaolin-rich rock specimens, Cultana area.
Three specimens of kaolin-rich rocks from the Cultana area were examined. One specimen is distinguished by cross-bedded, highly angular quartz and is probably Adelaidean in age. Identification of the other two specimens is uncertain.-
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Published: 01 Feb 1983
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RB 83/00077 Petrography of forty-two specimens from the Wangianna sheet.
Forty-two thin sections collected from the Skillogalee Dolomite are representative of carbonate and non-carbonate facies, and include shales, siltstones, sandstones and conglomerates. Many of the specimens are partly or wholly stromatolitic: two...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1983
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RB 84/00010 Torrens Island sand resource, secn 453, Hd Port Adelaide, Co. Adelaide.
The deposit is worked for filling sand, but is suitable for replenishment of beaches, and with beneficiation, for glass and foundry. Reserves, based on 110 auger holes, are 835 000 tonnes (indicated) and 270 000 tonnes (inferred).-
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Published: 01 Feb 1984
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RB 83/00084 Ferns aggregate quarry - Report no. 3. Geological investigations, 1982. Co.Jervois, Hd Hawker, section 385.
Includes detailed geological mapping with stadia surveying, drilling proposals and suggestions for future quarry development.-
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Published: 01 Oct 1983
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RB 83/00087 Patawarta barite deposit, out of Counties, Flinders Ranges.
2 small vertical lodes which cross cut dolomite, contain inferred reserves of 1100 tonnes of oil drilling grade barite. Selective mining should also yield industrial grade, if deeper barite is less iron stained. Neither lode has been worked.-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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RB 84/00028 Petrography of 25 specimens from Mount Grainger Goldfield.
Specimens from the Mt Grainger Goldfield include quartzites, sandstones in which kaolinite is believed to represent earlier feldspar, siltstones, shales, diamictites of probable glaciogene origin, granitoids and andesites. Low to moderate temperature...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 82/00079 MacGillivray sand deposit, Kangaroo Island, District Council of Kingscote, Co. Carnarvon, Hd MacGillivray, secn 91.
Mapping, trenching and auger drilling have shown that dune sands overlie fluvio lagoonal clayey sand which overlies stranded beach Holocene sand. Indicated and inferred reserves total 66 000 tonnes of plaster and mortar sand and 384 000 tonnes of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1982
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RB 85/00039 Colour coding of sands and clays from the Simpson Desert dunefield according to Munsell soil colour charts.
Colour variation was ascribed to the dominance of limonite coatings on sand grains, to uncoated grains and to various proportions of clay.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1985
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RB 83/00093 Artipena barite deposits geological investigations 1980-1981, Out of Hundreds, County Derby, Flinders Ranges, PARACHILNA 6734-IV.
Reserves of 2500 tonnes (indicated) and 75 000 tonnes (inferred) is largely from no..2 Lode. Hand sorting is necessary to produce industrial grade.-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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RB 84/00086 Gladstone quartzite road rubble deposit. Third report. Section 176, Hundred Yangya.
Production from 1960 to 1961, was 37 304 m3 of crushed rock and 8 775 m3 of scalps. Los Angeles abrasian losses ranged from 35 to 64% and averaged 48%. Since extensive drilling is necessary to delineate reserves, future supplies should be obtained...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1984
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RB 80/00138 Oraparinna barite deposits, Bairstow and Tom Hill lodes, Flinders Ranges, ML 4305, Out of Hundreds, County Taunton.
From 1973 - 1978, 2000 tonnes of barite were produced from Bairstow Lodes and 16 tonnes in 1966 from nearby Tom Hill Lode. The lodes were mapped, surveyed and sampled. The steep barite lodes have formed in a fractured zone which cuts the enclosing...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 80/00137 Tumby Bay marble EML 4665. V.R. Hage, section 288 Hundred Hutchison, County Flinders.
EML 4665, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, contains isoclinally folded Lower Proterozoic Hutchison Group metasediments comprising serpentinized marble, jasper / ironstone, quartzite and gneiss. The lease was mapped, surveyed and sampled. The northern marble band...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 81/00033 Nitschkes sand deposit, Mount Compass, sections 205, 206, Hundred of Nangkita.
Reserves of Permian sand in excess of 2.0 million tonnes were indicated by drilling of 5 auger holes. Most of the sand is too fine grained for structural concrete, and is unsuitable for glass and foundry use. Some of the sand is suitable as garden...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 93/00019 Geology of the Upalinna Diapir, central Flinders Ranges.
Investigation of the Upalinna Diapir, located 20 km east of Wilpena Pound in the Adelaide Geosyncline, has identified a number of structural and sedimentary features normally associated with evaporite diapirs. The Upalinna Diapir is a small,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
