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RB 87/00078 Geological investigation, Mittopitta Goldfield 1985-1987.
Gold mineralization in a deep lead was appraised. Alluvial gold occurs in a 1 metre thick basal bed. Over 60 samples collected from exploratory bulldozer cuts, main open cut and drill cuttings from water bore indicate grade of 0.073 g/t Au, although...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1987
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RB 87/00109 Geological investigations and exploration activities, 1982 to 1986, at Mount Grainger gold mine, Hundred Coglin, County Herbert. Volume 1 (of 2).
Investigations consisted of: 1) economic appraisal, mapping and sampling of mineralised structures within mineral leases; 2) regional investigation to east of Mount Grainger mine (report in RB 84/31) - includes details of exploration by Abignano Ltd....-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 83/00101 Geology, geophysics and stratigraphic drilling at Depot Creek, southern Flinders Ranges.
Depot Creek is one of few localities with sedimentary contact between the Burra and Callanna Groups. The Depot Creek 1 drillhole [TD 874.35 m] provided subsurface control for making an interpretation of the structure of the eastern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 77/00027 Tweedie Gully lodes - Lyndoch talc deposits.
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 77/00102 Summary of unpublished Honours theses in the Mount Painter area.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 79/00102 Megabreccia in Burra Group, Worumba Anticline.
Reconnaissance and regional mapping (Spry, 1952; Dalgarno and Johnson, 1966; Binks, 1968) have demonstrated a series of outcrops of Skillogalee Dolomite (Burra Group) on the west limb of the Worumba Anticline (about 20 km east of Hawker), between...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1979
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RB 79/00159 Three sections measured in Lower Adelaidean (Proterozoic) rocks, southeastern Curdimurka area.
Stratigraphic sections were measured through the Callanna Beds and lower Burra Group, by tape and air photo enlargement, at the following localities: (1) north-east of Kingston Dam, (2) south-east of Dome Hill and (3) west of Callanna Homestead. At...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 79/00158 Mitchells' Houghton clay pit (Private Mine 57), pt section 5541 Hd Yatala - PGH Industries Ltd.
At Mitchell's Clay Pit, 1 km north of Houghton, grey and white weathered shale of Adelaidean age is extracted for brickmaking. The shale is folded into an anticline, which is faulted on the eastern limb against kaolinitic sandstone. Rotary drilling...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 81/00055 Subdivision of Lower Adelaidean, Willouran Ranges.
The Arkaroola and Curdimurka Subgroups of the Callanna Group (late Precambrian) are defined respectively in the Arkaroola and Willouran areas. The Curdimurka Subgroup is the uppermost of these subdivisions; it comprises 4700 m of sediments that were...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1981
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RB 77/00022 Underground water in the Booborowie Valley.
A study has been carried out to determine the cause of declining water levels in wells for irrigation, stock and domestic supplies. The study commenced in 19/1 and has involved field surveys, the establishment of a network of observation wells and the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 77/00091 Para Hills quartzite quarry.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 81/00061 Test drilling clay deposit Hancock Road - Golden Grove section 2146, Hundred Yatala, County Adelaide.
51 holes were drilled to assess weathered shale and plastic clay reserves. Tertiary plastic clay and clayey sand overlie red firing weathered Adelaidean shale, and extends eastwards under Hancock Road into Clay and Mineral Sales pit (formerly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 79/00024 Adelaidean sedimentation. The Adelaide Geosyncline and Stuart Shelf.
In southern South Australia, the meridional Torrens Hinge Zone, at approximately longitude 138º, separates the cratonic Stuart Shelf with its undeformed, relatively thin sedimentary cover in the west, from the folded Adelaide Geosyncline to the east....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 76/00156 Bungaree Quartzite (new name). Lower Adelaidean, southwest of Spalding, South Australia.
Mapping near the Spalding Inlier and to the south indicates that a quartzitic sequence between the River Wakefield Group (now termed Subgroup) and Skillogalee Dolomite was wrongly identified as Rhynie Sandstone and should now be re-named. The term...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1976
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RB 79/00087 Geochemical sampling of the Sturtian tillite and basal Tapley Hill Formation, Copley.
In a sampling programme carried out over the Sturtian Merinjina Tillite and basal Tapley Hill Formation strata on parts of the COPLEY 1:250 000 mapsheet area, 684 soil samples and 71 rock samples were collected at 25 m and 12.5 m intervals along 24...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 89/00002 Excursion guide to diapirs of the Flinders Ranges, Specialist group in Tectonics and Structural Geology Conference, Kangaroo Island, 2-3 February 1989.
The Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia contain well exposed late Proterozoic and early to middle Cambrian dominantly sedimentary rocks, deposited in the Adelaide Geosyncline and deformed during the Cambro-Ordovician Delamerian Orogeny;...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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RB 93/00010 Explanatory Notes for the WARRINA 1:250 000 geological map.
The oldest rocks on WARRINA outcrop in the Peake and Denison Inliers, which comprise the Davenport and Denison Ranges and small inliers to the east. Basement in this area consists of Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic rocks which were intruded by...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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RB 98/00015 Clare Valley groundwater resources. Progress report 1 - Hydrogeology, drilling and groundwater monitoring.
A fundamental question remains to be answered in the Clare Valley. How much water can be safely extracted without causing depletion of the groundwater resources? This question is being addressed by a major investigation into the groundwater...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1998
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RB 98/00014 Clare Drilling. Phase 2 - June 1997.
Phase Two of a drilling program at Clare, South Australia was undertaken in June, 1997. A total of 6 bores were drilled, 4 of these at existing locations established during Phase One drilling in January, 1996, and a further 2 at Watervale Oval as...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 99/00019 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Portions of Torrens Rural Catchment.
The Torrens Rural Catchment can be divided into three zones where groundwater extraction from fractured rock aquifers is significant - the Fourth and Sixth Creek catchments, and the Birdwood - Gumeracha area. The Fourth Creek Catchment, which is...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
