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Roopena Station. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 26/6/1985.
Exploration of an area situated between Whyalla, Iron Knob and The Bluff overlooking Myall Creek, 20 km south-west of Port Augusta, aimed to test for Olympic Dam - type Cu-U-Au mineralisation associated with products of igneous activity located in and...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1985
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Landsat thematic mapper study of the Yardea Dacite, Gawler Range Volcanics, YARDEA 1:250 000 scale map sheet.
The South Australian Department of Mines and Energy (SADME) commissioned the South Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (SACRS) to undertake a digital analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data in an attempt to locate prospective areas for...-
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RB 54/00005 Geological investigation of quartz-feldspar gneiss, section 329 Hundred of Louth.
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 59/00146 Molybdenum and tungsten in the southeastern portion of Spilsby Island (Sir Joseph Banks Group) 10/12/1964.
Investigations have shown that in the Sir Joseph Banks Group, molybdenite and scheelite are confined to the southern tip of Spilsby Island. The minerals occur in thin irregular veins, in masses of quartz, and as disseminations scattered through...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1964
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RB 58/00031 Geological investigation of a quartzite deposit, section 147, Hundred of Lincoln.
200,000 tonnes of ballast are required by the BHP Co. to construct a proposed tramway that will connect the calcareous sand deposits of Coffin Bay with its bulk loading installation being constructed at Proper Bay, 3 miles south-west of Port Lincoln....-
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Published: 10 Feb 1964
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RB 60/00043 Examination of five possible sites for water storages near Whyalla. Geological progress report, March 1965.
At the request of Mr. C. England, Assistant Engineer for Design, E. and W.S. Department, the sites for 5 alternative water storage facilities near Whyalla were examined on 17th and 18th February, 1965. On 18th February, the inspections were in company...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1965
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RB 81/00099 Stuart Highway, Baker Well to Gosses section. Drilling for construction water.
13 of 38 wells were completed as production wells. Pump testing showed that 6 were capable of yielding 50 kl/day or more for 2 year period. Salinity was in excess of 10 000 mg/L TDS except near Glendambo where water from 4000 to 8000 mg/L was...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 85/00005 Gneiss and amphibolite deposits. Drilling and testing pavement materials, Poonindie to Tumby, section 7, Hd Koppio.
3 backhoe trenches and 5 drill holes (127 metres) outlined quarry site to yield 80 000 m3 of interbanded gneiss and amphibolite beneath 17 000 m3 of silty soil, clay and weathered rock to an average depth of 2 metres. Additional reserves are available...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1985
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RB 86/00056 Boree Rocks - Preliminary investigation of granite for monumental and ornamental purposes.
An inlier of late Kimban pink porphyritic adamellite on western Eyre Peninsula is too small and distant to warrant quarrying. Although colour and texture are suitable, drilling is required to prove that adequate reserves of stone with consistent...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1986
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RB 87/00061 Calca granite deposits - Discovery, geology and production. Calca quarry section - EML 4469, section 46, Hundred Rounsevell. Calca South - EML 5068, section 48, Hundred Wrenfordsley.
Middle Proterozoic red granite is quarried near Calca, 35 km SE of Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. It is ideally suited as dimension and monumental stone, being fresh, uniform in texture and colour, and comparatively free of defects. It is...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 79/00121 Uranno microgranite deposit for road sealing aggregate and rail ballast.
A quarry plan, designed to yield 100,000 cubic m of in-situ material, has been outlined in a microgranite outcrop on Eyre Peninsula which is located 15 km east of Cummins and 10 km south-east of the Uranno railway siding. Diamond drilling (3 inclined...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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RB 83/00084 Ferns aggregate quarry - Report no. 3. Geological investigations, 1982. Co.Jervois, Hd Hawker, section 385.
Includes detailed geological mapping with stadia surveying, drilling proposals and suggestions for future quarry development.-
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Published: 01 Oct 1983
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RB 87/00030 Identification of a major crustal shear zone, northwest Gawler Craton, SA.
SADME stratigraphic drilling, which was undertaken recently based on detailed geophysical modelling of aeromagnetic data, has identified the major linear aeromagnetic anomaly associated with the Karari Fault Zone (NW Gawler Craton) as a major (300 km...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 84/00085 Stuart Highway - Gosses to Mirikata section, drilling for construction water.
11 of 16 wells were completed as production water wells. Responses to test pumping were mostly of the Boulton delayed yield type. Yields range from less than 0.5 litres to 3.7 litres and salinities from 4 000 to 1 300 mg. Only 2 wells penetrated...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1984
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RB 86/00040 Olympic Dam. The first decade.
The discovery of copper mineralization by WMC on Roxby Downs station in July 1975 heralded 1 of the more intensive base metal exploration programmes undertaken in Australia. Comprehensive exploration, evaluation and feasibility studies between 1975...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1986
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RB 80/00113 Rhyolite sealing aggregate deposit, Kingoonya.
Porphyritic rhyolite adjacent to the Stuart Highway, 21 km east of Kingoonya was identified as a potential sealing aggregate deposit. It was tested by 3 holes totalling 26.3 metres. Large reserves (100 000 m3) below 30 cm of overburden were proved.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 77/00114 Foundation conditions at Mangalo, Eyre Peninsula.
Recent excavations at Mangalo (Fig. 1), in connection with extensions to a silo complex, have revealed unusual foundation conditions that were not anticipated in the original site investigation. The geological section, exposed in the main foundation...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1977
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RB 80/00139 Tumby Bay marble EML 3554. T.W. Norton, sections 288, 299, Hundred Hutchison, County Flinders.
EML 3554, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, contains 3 separate marble outcrops, each 40 metres wide, of similar mineralogy, which are isoclinally-folded Katunga Dolomite of the Hutchison Group of Lower Proterozoic age. The marble quarries where mapped, surveyed...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1980
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RB 80/00137 Tumby Bay marble EML 4665. V.R. Hage, section 288 Hundred Hutchison, County Flinders.
EML 4665, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, contains isoclinally folded Lower Proterozoic Hutchison Group metasediments comprising serpentinized marble, jasper / ironstone, quartzite and gneiss. The lease was mapped, surveyed and sampled. The northern marble band...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 80/00124 Drilling of dolomite for road sealing aggregate, Lipson, Eyre Peninsula. Sections 413, 414 Hundred Yaranyacka, County Flinders - Highways Department.
160 000 m3 of stone in situ is required to supply crushed rock and sealing aggregate. Diamond drilling of 2 calcrete hard, grey dolomite outcrops 4.5 km NW of Lipson revealed a deep weathering profile in section 413. Inferred reserves at the northern...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
