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RB 78/00154 Stuart Creek agate deposit.
Agate or banded chert nodules weather out of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone over an area of several square kilometres south of the Stuart Creek Opal field. In places the agate nodules are concentrated into extensive deflation lag gravels. Banding is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00006 Opal at the Stuart Creek, Charlie Swamp and Yarrawurta Cliff diggings. Report no. 12 on geological investigations and Calweld drilling of the Stuart Creek Precious Stones Field.
Small quantities of precious opal have been mined from sediments of the Early Cretaceous Marree Formation at Stuart Creek, 50 km north of Andamooka. These sediments appear to have been unaffected by the Early Tertiary deep weathering and bleaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 97/00051 Poona copper mine, Moonta, South Australia - Investigation of alteration mineralogy using short-wave infrared analysis.
The Poona Copper Mine on northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, was worked from 1988-92 on an extension of the original Poona lode, a narrow, shear-hosted copper sulphide vein deposit in Moonta Porphyry of Mesoproterozoic age. The orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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RB 91/00089 Mineral occurrences of the GAIRDNER 1:250 000 map sheet area.
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Published: 01 Sep 1991
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Summary report on the mineralogy of the Mount Gunson copper mineral deposits, SA.
Two distinct types of sulphide deposits have been recognized. One is syngenetic with the host quartzite, and may thus also have formed elsewhere at various positions within it. The other type of occurrence was deposited below the water table from...-
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Mount Gunson copper deposit. Cattlegrid orebody sample testing by metallurgy and mineragraphy (results of 1973 and 1974 studies).
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Mount Gunson - Main Open Cut deposit. Metallurgy.
The Mount Gunson mine Main Open Cut workings are developed in a mixed sulphide - oxide orebody. Flotation of oxidized ores from this orebody fails to give economically acceptable recoveries, whereas flotation of sulphides gives excellent recoveries....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1984
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Cattlegrid copper mine. Mineragraphy of ore processing mill feed and product samples, as submitted for examination on a monthly basis over the period October 1974 to May 1983.
The included mineralogical reports and explanatory prior company correspondence give the results of, and rationale behind, a lengthy programme of mill product sampling and sample description for weekly to monthly process monitoring throughflow samples...-
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Published: 13 May 1983
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Reedy Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/2/1987 to 2/2/1992.
TARGET: Possible diamondiferous kimberlites subcropping under Cainozoic cover in an area located 110 km north-east of Glendambo. EXPLORATION: Acquisition and interpretation of 6759 line km of airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys, regolith heavy...-
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Bull 041 Geology and Mineral Resources of the Andamooka and Torrens Area
Regional geological mapping of the area was initiated in 1959 and was completed in 1964. All tracks in the area were traversed and detailed mapping confined to critical localities and to areas where this was considered desirable. Geological boundaries...-
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RB 66/00160 Pandurra agate deposit.
Banded agate of gem quality occurs as cavity fillings in Gawler Range Volcanics and as detrital fragments in younger sediments. The distribution of agate is discussed. Results of laboratory testing of kaolinised porphyry are given. Prospecting for...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 70/00072 Groundwater supplies, Andamooka Opalfield, grid I.5. Lat. 30-31 degrees, Long. 137-138 degrees.
Numerous attempts have been-made over the past 25 years to augment the meagre supply of potable water for the miners at Andamooka Opal field. This report provides a summary of the work carried out, mainly in the form of drilling and assesses the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 61/00102 Geology and mineral resources of the Andamooka-Torrens area (19/10/1965).
The area embraced by the Andamooka and Torrens 4-mile geological sheets is defined by long 136° 30- long 138° 00 and lat 30° 00- lat 32° 00 and comprises an extensive partially dissected plateau west of Lake Torrens, the Lake Torrens sunkland and part...-
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Published: 19 Oct 1965
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RB 2010/00003 High Resolution Resistivity Test Survey: Andamooka.
A new high-resolution resistivity measurement instrument, developed by ZZ Resistivity Imaging Pty Ltd, was tested within the Andamooka Precious Stones Field, located 640 km by road north of Adelaide, to determine its suitability for assisting in opal...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2010
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Geology of the Stuart Creek - Charlie Swamp area, northern South Australia.
As a B.Sc. Honours project with the Geology Department of the University of Adelaide, which was sponsored by the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy, the author during 1978 carried out geological mapping of a nearly 400 square km area...-
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HandBk 003 - A Guide to the Geology and Mineral Resources of South Australia. Ludbrook, N.H. 1980 South Australia. (reprinted version)
South Australia has had a very long geological history traceable back for over 2000 million years. It has areas of ancient basement rocks and of younger rocks representing most of the geological column, which are exposed at the surface or have been...-
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HandBk 005 - Opal: South Australia's Gemstone. Barnes L.C. et al. (1992 revised edition)
South Australia's famous desert opalfields supply about 80% of the world output of precious opal, with current production coming almost entirely from the major fields at Andamooka, Coober Pedy and Mintabie, each of which is expected to increase output...-
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Price. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 6/12/1978.
Continuation by Aquitaine of its regional appraisal of the mineral potential in the Cambrian carbonate sequence on northern Yorke Peninsula, has recently involved them in acquiring and interpreting ground gravity and magnetic surveys, completing a...-
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Andamooka. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 26/11/1970 to 25/5/1972.
An area situated adjacent to the recently defined Andamooka Opalfield, and located about 20 miles north of Andamooka township centre, has been explored for possible economic occurrences of opal or base metals within Cretaceous and Precambrian strata...-
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Published: 07 Jan 1972
