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RB 99/00031 Assessment of zinc-lead prospectivity on the Murnaroo Platform and in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
The Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic Officer Basin is located on and adjacent to the northwestern margin of the Gawler Craton. Deposition of the basin began in Adelaidean time, before and during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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RB 88/00017 Holocene non-tropical coastal and shelf carbonate province of southern Australia.
The southern edge of Australia is the site of non-tropical biogenic carbonate formation over a greater expanse of continental shelf than the Great Barrier Reef. The variety of modern environments and sedimentary facies in this region, and the major...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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Report on dolomite deposits at the Neales River, north-west of Lake Eyre North, SA.
Geological investigations have delineated a dolomite deposit extending at least 8 miles along the lower Neales River and exposed in its banks. An indicated resource of approximately 20 million tons is estimated to be present. It is considered that...-
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Published: 09 Jan 1970
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Mount Fitton Talc Province. Progress, annual and miscellaneous technical summary reports for the period 16/2/79 to 24/11/96.
Talc has been mined at Mount Fitton in the northern Flinders Ranges on a continuous basis since 1945, for industrial use in the manufacture of cosmetics, ceramics and refractory ware. From 1979 to 1996, under authority of a series of Exploration...-
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Sedimentology and petroleum geochemistry of the Ouldburra Formation, eastern Officer Basin, Australia.
Deposition of the Early Cambrian Ouldburra Formation, a mixed siliciclastic/carbonate, marine carbonate and evaporite succession, occurred in the shallow marine setting of the Manya Trough. The observed variations between the facies are interpreted...-
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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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Geology of the Willippa Anticline, central Flinders Ranges.
In the central Flinders Ranges, Neoproterozoic and early Palaeozoic rocks are found outcropping within a series of broad, open, dome and basin-shaped folds. This region contains most of the diapiric structures in the Adelaide Geosyncline, many, but...-
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Sedimentology of the Ouldburra Formation (Early Cambrian), northeastern Officer Basin.
The Ouldburra Formation (Early Cambrian) is a newly defined sequence of carbonates, mixed carbonate/siliciclastics and evaporites in the northeastern Officer Basin, northern South Australia. Deposition took place during the late stages of...-
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Early origin of dolomite in Early Cambrian carbonates on Yorke Peninsula, western margin of Stansbury Basin, South Australia.
This study has shown that significant dolomite formation has occurred during early diagenetic stages in the Early Cambrian carbonate sequence of Yorke Peninsula. Relict depositional textures indicate that the sequence consists of tidal flat...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1994
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Warrioota Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration undertaken in an area of practically no outcrop that is situated south of the Ediacara Range, on the eastern side of Lake Torrens, has aimed primarily at investigating the Viburnum Trend (Mississippi Valley) - type mineral potential of...-
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Published: 12 Mar 1980
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Lake Gairdner. Progress reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 12/9/1979 to January 1980.
Very limited reconnaissance sampling of Cainozoic marginal lakebed sediments in northern Lake Gairdner has suggested that little chance exists there for discovering deposits of soluble sodium carbonate minerals.-
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Published: 31 Mar 1980
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Pillaworta Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 22/12/1976 to 4/9/1978.
Investigation of banded iron formation in the Lincoln Uplands of the Tumby Bay district for possible South West African type base metal sulphide deposits consisted of rock chip and soil sampling at potential gossanous outcrops, and limited drilling of...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1978
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SADME / Amdel Project 1/1/232 : Officer Basin [South Australian portion] stratigraphic drilling project - petrographic sampling and analyses. Progress reports 3, 5 and 7 re. Wilkinson 1 drillhole.
32 rock samples, of unknown age, taken from the carbonate sequence intersected above the salt diapir section in SADME Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic drillhole, were examined petrographically to determine their possible depositional environment. Another 21...-
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Published: 24 May 1979
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RB 75/00006 Introduction to laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks.
'Industrial minerals' are those minerals or assemblages of minerals which are economically important because of their physical or chemical properties, rather than their metal or energy content. The term is synonymous with 'non-metallic minerals', and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1974
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RB 74/00191;Amdel 01006 Possible uses of Coffin Bay lime sand.
Background At the request of Mr. R. Adam, South Australian Department of Mines, Amdel undertook an investigation of possible uses for Coffin Bay limesand. This was done as the result of greatly reduced consumption of limesand by the current operator,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Burnda. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/7/1989 to 2/7/1990.
Reverse air circulation rotary drilling of four outcrops of potentially glass-grade raw material dolomite rock (42 holes for a total penetration of 924 m), carried out 14 km north-west of Mount Gambier in April 1989 on a 50 m grid within pine...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1990
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bulloo Creek [ not Bulloo South ] (part of the Drew Hill Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/6/1994 to 28/9/2005.
Exploration for Kalkaroo or Portia style copper-gold deposits, and for Broken Hill type stratiform lead-zinc-silver deposits, both possibly formed within the Palaeoproterozoic basement intrusive rocks and high grade metasediments in an area lying...-
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RB 2000/00013 Australian Clay Minerals Society Inc. 17th Biennial Conference, Adelaide, 10-12 April 2000: Field Guide for post-conference tour, 13-14 April 2000 - Yorke Peninsula clays and carbonates, copper mines, desert loam soils and mangroves.
This tour is concerned with aspects of the soils, geology, landforms, clays and mining on Yorke Peninsula, and likewise for the northern Adelaide Plains which are separated from the Peninsula by Gulf St Vincent. Both of these regions are among the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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Willouran Ranges. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/7/1974 to 22/7/1975.
Exploration for possible economic Zambian Copperbelt - type stratabound copper deposits which may have formed within the northern Willouran Ranges has consisted of the acquisition of 1:25,000 scale aerial photographs, the conduct of limited regional...-
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