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Nullarbor. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary cored holes totalling 189 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast just west of...-
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Oladdie Prospect. First and final progress report for the period 1/7/1968 to 31/12/1968.
Exploration for possible stratabound or hydrothermal copper deposits in an area between Johnburg and Orroroo consisted of detailed 1:12,000 scale geological mapping and a stream sediment geochemical survey. This work failed to locate any copper of...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1969
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Oraparinna. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 1/12/1967 to 9/4/1969.
Widespread copper carbonate and weathered, disseminated sulphide mineralisation occurring within large diapiric breccias at Oraparinna and Wirrealpa, that are located respectively ~ 35 km north-northeast of Hawker and 20 km east of Blinman, was found...-
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Published: 17 Feb 1969
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Oodnadatta. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/1973 to 7/6/1974.
Shallow, open pit mineable near-surface coal within Permian sediments along the eastern rim of the Boorthanna Trough was the target of exploration in EL 108 and in adjoining EL 104 to the south. After conducting photo-interpretation on aerial...-
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Waukaringa. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 25/7/1974 to 24/7/1976.
Work carried out at the Ajax and Waukaringa mine prospects included an aerial reconnaissance, grab sampling of mine tailings heaps and limited detailed stream sediment sampling plus, at the Ajax prospect, the drilling of 5 vertical rotary percussion...-
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Ediacara Range. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/3/1973 to 15/3/1975.
Results of rotary percussion / diamond core drilling of 3 holes (total penetration 532.2 m, of which 341.2 m was cored) near the Black Eagle mine on the western margin of the Cambrian Ediacara Sub-basin, plus a reinterpretation of previous drilling...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1975
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Coward Springs. Combined first annual/final report at licence full surrender, for the period 12/8/1975 to 19/10/1976.
TARGET: Coal horizons developed within Mesozoic sediments on the south-western margin of the Great Artesian Basin. RESULTS: Two vertical rotary mud holes (total 122 m) were drilled, transecting Mesozoic sediments and reaching basement at relatively...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1976
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Lake Tallacootra. First partial surrender report for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1973.
In a 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, 17 rotary holes totalling 711.8 m were put down along 4 traverses across...-
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Magnesite in the Mount Fitton area, South Australia.
Over the past three years crystalline magnesite has been found in the Mount Fitton area in many places, in a 12 miles long belt which follows the lower edge of a dolomite mass of Late Proterozoic age. The Mount Livingston deposit with indicated...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1967
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Waroonee. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/5/1970 to 27/5/1971.
In a search for base metals within an area located east of Peterborough, detailed stream sediment sampling (2722 samples) and statistical analysis of the results defined several discrete anomalies of interest that warrant geological inspection and...-
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Parachilna. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/11/1973 to 18/5/1974.
In exploration conducted over an area of basin margin Tertiary sedimentation located south-west and south of the Beltana railway station, initial analyses of groundwater samples taken from 44 water bores (maximum assay value 40 ppm U) indicated...-
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RB 2017/00022 PACE Copper Coompana Drilling Project: Drillhole CDP001 preliminary field-data report.
The Geological Survey of South Australia, in partnership with Geoscience Australia, is undertaking a regional pre-competitive geoscience research drilling program in the far west of South Australia called the Coompana Drilling Project. The Coompana...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2017
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RB 2022/00011 Eucla Basin and peripheral paleovalleys.
The Cenozoic Eucla Basin is located on the southern margin of the Australian continent, with a present-day basin onshore edge which extends for over 2,000 km from Western Australia into South Australia. The basin’s sediment fill comprises a thin...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2022
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Abandoned mines in South Australia.
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The Black Hill Gabbroic Complex - a Bushveld or Fifield analog?.
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RB 2007/00020 Mount Woods Domain: Proterozoic metasediments and intrusives.
Investigations aimed at revising the stratigraphy of the Mount Woods Domain in the north-eastern Gawler Craton have identified numerous metasedimentary and intrusive units. The dominant metasedimentary package has been classified and named the Skylark...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2007
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RB 2020/00006 SHRIMP geochronology of the Mount Double area, Southern Gawler Ranges margin
This geochronological study was undertaken within the scope of the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP), a program that was aimed at improving the understanding of the geology and prospectivity of the southern Gawler Ranges margin area on northern...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2020
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[Distinctive outcrop features of] Rocks of the western part of the Great Artesian Basin and adjacent areas - [a pictorial assemblage].
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Lake Tinko. Progress and final reports for the period 1/6/1973 to 31/5/1974.
A 50-hole rotary drilling program (total 3898 m) conducted near Lake Tinko and Billeroo Creek, south-east of Lake Frome, has partly delineated a north-south trending basement trough which, as a controlling influence on subsurface drainage, represents...-
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Published: 20 May 1974
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RB 76/00060 Progress of mapping the Precambrian rocks of the WARRINA 1:250 000 sheet.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
