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RB 80/00044 Limestone and dolomite deposits, Port Wakefield area. Report no. 1 - Review and reconnaissance sampling, Hundred of Kulpara - Electricity Trust of SA.
The Electricity Trust of South Australia requires a source of high grade limestone or dolomite to be used in the planned industrial firing process for brown coal from the Wakefield coal deposit. A SADME survey of available literature, supplemented by...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1980
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Minlaton. Progress reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 6/12/1978.
One diamond and seven rotary/percussion drillholes tested Cambrian rocks for base metals. Six water bores were logged geophysically. IP/resistivity and gravity surveys were undertaken.-
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Reports on the Rapid Bay limestone deposit, for the period 1956 to 1958.
This Cambrian marble deposit, which has been quarried by BHP since August 1942 to supply metallurgical fluxes to its Whyalla Steelworks, has recently been surveyed, mapped at 1:1200 scale and sampled through its entire extent to determine stone grades...-
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Maitland. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
As part of an ongoing search for MVT style base metal mineralisation within Lower Cambrian strata of the southern part of the Torrens Hinge Zone on Yorke Peninsula, in September 1975 112 RC holes for 1730 m were drilled at 500 m spacings along...-
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Stream sediment reconnaissance survey EL 180 Price, SA.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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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 00492 Report on a reconnaissance geological survey of the Proterozoic - Cambrian succession of Yorke Peninsula, with reference to oil exploration in the Cambrian system.
In order to better assess the oil prospects of the Cambrian rocks of Yorke Peninsula, the Fuel Section of the Geological Survey of South Australia undertook during 1956 a detailed investigation of the Proterozoic - Cambrian stratigraphic succession...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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RB 00765 Curramulka limestone deposits, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report - Site 2.
2 diamond drillholes (total 518 feet) and 22 air holes (total 1851 feet) have indicated the presence of 28.5 million tons of Lower Cambrian limestone containing over 85% calcium carbonate in a bed dipping at about 10 degrees southwards, and below...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 00764 Curramulka limestone deposits, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report - Site 1.
3 diamond boreholes (total 737 feet) and 8 air holes (total 1122 feet) were drilled in the Lower Cambrian Parara Limestone, half a mile south-west of Curramulka, to investigate the availability of commercial quality resources of limestone. Recovered...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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Myponga. Information status at licence expiry, for the period 14/6/2000 to 13/12/2002 : no work performed.
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Melton. Progress reports to licence surrender, for the period 21/7/1980 to 24/5/1989.
A small area located about 20 km north-west of Port Wakefield was taken under licence by ETSA to try to secure limestone/dolomite material of suitable quality and in sufficient quantity to provide chemical additives for aiding the process of...-
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Published: 20 Apr 1989
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Melton and Kulpara. Progress and technical reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/10/1982 to 24/5/1989.
Minimal field work only was undertaken, in the form of geological mapping of the Kulpara - South Hummocks Range area, plus petrological examination of selected rock chip samples. Envelope also contains a [formerly held confidential] FEAC submission -...-
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Published: 25 Nov 1988
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RB 24/00249 To the Director of Mines. Geological investigation of dam sites, Myponga River.
At two alternative proposed dam sites, to check for the possibility of seepage being able to occur through dam wall abutment rocks, a diamond drilling and core sampling programme is suggested. Test holes should be bored on a 50 ft. grid at both sites....-
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Published: 28 Jan 1949
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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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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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Progress report on the palaeontology of the Cambrian sequence encountered in SADM Minlaton stratigraphic bore 1.
Reports describe the various Cambrian biostratigraphic horizons encountered in the bore, making comparisons and correlations with the Cambrian elsewhere in the Adelaide Geosyncline, particularly at Mount Scott Range, Sellicks Hill, Curramulka, The...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1957
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Port Pirie. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/10/1968 to 31/3/1969.
Field inspection and the assaying of 20 drainage samples of possible zinc silicate - bearing Lower Cambrian archaeocyathid limestone outcrops, in a small area located 8-12 miles west and north-west of Wakefield, failed to identify any such deposits or...-
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Published: 28 Jan 1969
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Cape Jervis, Aldinga and Quorn. Combined progress report to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 23/9/1968 to 6/4/1969.
Field inspection and the assaying of 207 drainage samples of possible zinc silicate - bearing Lower Cambrian archaeocyathid limestone outcrops, taken from two areas located on the western Fleurieu Peninsula and also from another area a few miles north...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1969
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Rapid Bay. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/5/1969 to 7/5/1970.
Exploration for possible Mississippi Valley - type stratabound base metal deposits hosted by Early Palaeozoic limestones in the Rapid Bay district has consisted only of a regional stream sediment survey (204 samples). Numerous low order base metal...-
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Mineral Resource Potential Map Series - Cape Jervis.
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Published: 01 Jun 2015
