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RB 37/00155 Flint deposits, County Grey (16/7/1954).
For at least the past forty years the flint deposits occurring on the lower south east coast of South Australia have been worked to supply a comparatively limited Australian demand for flint pebbles as a grinding medium in the mining and paint...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 98/00025 Hydrochemistry of groundwaters in the South Australian-Victorian Designated Area - Groundwater Border Agreement Act.
Hydrochemical data from a total of 165 bores along the 40 kilometre wide strip of the South Australian - Victorian Border Designated Area were used to provide a spatial, and temporal, hydrochemical framework of the groundwaters from the three main...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1998
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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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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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Price. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
In continuing regional exploration conducted over north-eastern Yorke Peninsula, further reconnaissance stratigraphic drilling and wireline geophysical logging (in 3 vertical rotary percussion holes totalling 373 m) was carried out in May 1976 to test...-
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RB 72/00158 Hydrogeology of the Milang-Langhorne Creek area - Third report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ooldea. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/9/2005 to 31/8/2010.
An area centred ~230 km north-west of Ceduna, in the far north-eastern corner of the Nullarbor Plain, and lying just south of the Ooldea railway siding on the Trans Australian Railway line, is being explored for possible economic buried deposits of...-
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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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RB 2000/00015 Groundwater resources on Kangaroo Island.
Despite good rainfall, the groundwater resources on Kangaroo Island are limited, with localised good quality groundwater available only in small supplies. Just over 75% of all wells drilled on the island have a salinity of over 2000 mg/L, with 95% of...-
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Published: 01 May 2000
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Ninnes. Combined first annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1998.
A 79 m deep RC drillhole sited on an aeromagnetic and calcrete geochemical anomaly located south of Bute returned anomalous zinc from Cambrian limestone over the depth interval 14-26 m (the best grade being 1 m @ 1802 ppm from 16 m depth). No...-
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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/9/1966 to 1/3/1967.
Reconnaissance geochemical exploration for possible economic stratiform copper deposits hosted by Adelaidean and Lower Cambrian sediments in an area of the northern Flinders Ranges located east of Blinman has consisted of aerial surveys,...-
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/157 : production of an [advisory] manual re. laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks. Final report for the period February 1974 to December 1974.
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Agnes Creek. Final report for the period 7/5/1970 to 6/11/1970.
Contains a brief reconnaissance geological report on basement and cover rocks of the eastern Musgrave Ranges which are exposed in an area on De Rose Hill Station. Kennecott targeted photo linears that might reflect mafic/ultramafic dyke complexes...-
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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/11/1974 to 7/7/1976.
As part of a continued search for possible Proterozoic - Cainozoic unconformity - related, concealed sedimentary uranium deposits in an area of the Eucla Basin located 60 km north of Fowlers Bay, Pechiney conducted geological reconnaissance, ground...-
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Ifould Lake. Progress and final reports for the period 29/11/1974 to 4/8/1976.
10 reverse circulation holes were drilled, totalling 311 m. Surface radiometric effects were attributed to groundwater Ra and/or Rn, or to evaporitic concentrations of uranium daughter products. Results from drilling and from track etch (alpha)...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Beltana / Copley. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/4/1994 to 24/6/2003.
A portion of the central Flinders Ranges covering the Beltana Diapir and its surrounds has been taken up mainly to explore for possible economic buried hydrothermal replacement type or epigenetic stratabound base metal mineralisation, with magnesite...-
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Published: 23 Dec 2014
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Lake Hawdon North. Third partial surrender report for the period 5/8/1999 to 4/8/2003.
Push tube sampling of Neogene lacustrine sediments at three sites near the southern shores of Lake Hawdon North, about 16 km east of Robe, encountered only thin and low quality dolomitic lime mudstone. Geological mapping to the north and east of the...-
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Published: 08 Aug 2003
