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RB 35/00042 Nairne pyrite milled on a pilot scale. Iron sulphides concentrated in a flotation pilot plant operated by the South Australian Department of Mines.
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Published: 01 Jan 1953
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RB 51/00003 Final report on groundwater prospects, southeast portion of the Hundred of Haines and the southwest portion of the Hundred of Dudley.
Good quality water with a salinity of below 500 grains per gallon is required for the washing of gypsum, a minimum supply of 1,500 gallons per hour being needed. In the Salt Lake District supplies of probably not more than 100 to 200 gallons per hour...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1960
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RB 60/00078 Report on investigation of alternative site for proposed E&WS elevated tank, (Middle River,) Kangaroo Island.
An investigation has been carried out for the E&WS Department at an alternative site for a 250,000 gallon elevated tank. The examination was requested by application on 12th February 1965 in a letter to the Director of Mines. The new site is in...-
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Published: 13 Apr 1965
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RB 94/00043 Brukunga drilling, 1993-1994.
This report details drilling programs carried out by MESA at and near the Brukunga open-cut pyrite mine and tailings dam areas in the period 6/5/93 to 14/4/94. A total of 29 wells were drilled within the tailings dam, the spoil heaps and on the hills...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1994
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RB 99/00020 National land and water resources audit. Mount Lofty Ranges pilot implementation project. Sustainable yield of groundwater.
This project has developed an innovative method to determine the sustainable yield of groundwater resources in fractured rock aquifers of the Mount Lofty Ranges, using new and existing geographic information system (GIS) datasets. Groundwater...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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RB 99/00018 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Tookayerta Catchment.
The Tookayerta Catchment is an area which is increasingly coming under pressure from its landowners for the development of local groundwater resources to irrigate dairy pastures, berry plantations and vineyards. The catchment encompasses two...-
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Published: 01 Oct 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 92/00050 Soil Air CO2 / O2 Project. Progress report 1, Mount Lofty Ranges.
Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements as a guide to oxidizing sulphide have been assessed at 6 sites within Kanmantoo Group metasediments.-
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Published: 01 Aug 1992
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Rehabilitation of the Nairne Pyrites Ltd quarry area and treatment of acidic effluent. Progress and final reports on investigations for the period March 1973 to June 1975.
A chemical survey of Dawesley Creek in the Brukunga Mine area has concluded that seepages from the southern mine waste dumps located alongside the creek contribute the greater proportion of pollutants (acidity, iron, aluminium, manganese, zinc,...-
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Brukunga neutralisation pilot plant. Progress and final reports on laboratory studies and continuous operating performance under test conditions, for the period February 1975 to February 1976.
The objective of the present investigation was to obtain, by means of a continuous pilot plant, operating data for the appraisal and design of a full-scale neutralization plant for the treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD) at Brukunga. Laboratory...-
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Callawonga. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/8/1986 to 28/4/1988.
Possible economic epithermal/hydrothermal gold associated with the known Callawonga Creek tungsten deposit was the target of exploration carried out in an area of Cambrian sediments located 15 km south-southeast of Yankalilla on the Fleurieu...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnerships DPY9-43 - Brownlow and DPY9-47 - Bower. Drilling projects' joint interim and final reports.
Copper and gold mineralisation associated with felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous intrusive rocks which have intruded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments in the Nackara Arc region has been the target of exploratory drilling conducted with the...-
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Cambrian source rock geochemistry, Stansbury Basin, part 1. Preliminary evaluation of Mount McDonnell Formation in coastal exposures on northern Kangaroo Island.
17 samples of Early Cambrian Mount McDonnell Formation shallow marine mudstone outcropping on the northern coastline of Kangaroo Island near Hummocky Point were analysed geochemically to determine their source rock richness and thermal maturity, and...-
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Starvation Creek, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/5/1978 to 18/5/1980.
A programme of rotary drilling on Kangaroo Island of 56 shallow exploratory holes for 191 m, conjointly carried out by Comalco on its ELs 396 and 408, was designed to test for possible economic bauxite and low iron bauxite claystone occurrences...-
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RB 00769 Kitticoola mines appraisal. Mannum - Adelaide.
Kitticoola mine is situated within the outcrop of the Palmer Granite near the Palmer Fault. Copper bearing, sparingly auriferous sulphides occur in lodes following a conjugate fracture pattern. Early workings, dating from 1844, exploited enriched...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1972
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RB 74/00222 Amdel 01015 Rehabilitation of Brukunga mine, Nairne Pyrites Ltd.
This investigation of the Brukunga mine site was prompted by the observed release of acid waters with high iron and other heavy metal concentrations into Dawesley Creek, the consequences of which could include possible pollution of Lake Alexandrina...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1974
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Monarto. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2011 to 20/6/2012.
As part of a continuing search for kaolin of suitable quality for use in cement manufacture, the licensee commissioned Johnson Geological Services to investigate any areas that have a well developed weathered horizon overlying fresh granite bedrock....-
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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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Parndana. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 6/4/1981 to 5/4/1982.
In a search for base metals on northern Kangaroo Island, the licensee investigated an untested regional magnetic anomaly in the Middle River area, following the assumption that Kanmantoo type stratiform mineralisation would give a distinctive magnetic...-
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RB 2015/00019 Manual of geochemical leaching trials, 2010–2014; Brukunga Mine Remediation Program - Phase 3.
The Brukunga mine site is a former open pit iron sulfide mine that continues to contribute to Acid and Metalliferous Drainage (AMD) into downstream waterways. Mine-based sources of AMD include the waste rock dumps and tailings storage facility. In...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2015
