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RB 00729 Report on Paratoo copper deposit, Hundred of Paratoo, County Herbert.
At the Paratoo mine, copper is present in a zone at least 1000 feet wide, possibly over a strike length of about 1350 feet. It is not yet known over what proportion of this area copper occurs in workable amounts. Opencuts have exposed two main lines...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1900
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SP 011 Minerals of the Burra Mine South Australia
Burra, discovered in 1845, was Australia's first great mine, and at the time was one of the largest and richest in the world, producing nearly 5% of the total world output of copper. Today the mine is still famous for the beautiful specimens of...-
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RB 68/00050 Drilling Completion Report - White Clay Deposit - Birdwood - Section 6397 Hundred Talunga County Adelaide.
Burra Group argillaceous and arenaceous slates have been converted into white clay, and sandstone partly into quartzite. Seven diamond drill holes were put down through the clay and sandstone for a total of 540ft, the core recovery being 83 per cent....-
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Published: 16 Apr 1969
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RB 68/00001 Report on Copper - Montacute Mine and Adelaide Mine - Sections 5584 and 5526 - Hundred Onkaparinga.
Copper, iron and quartz mineralisation occur in near longitudinal vertical shears and faults in Burra Group rocks at the Montacute and Adelaide Copper Mines. The vein deposits average 1½ feet in width, and were probably formed during a Lower Paleozoic...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1969
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RB 61/00094 Paratoo copper deposit.
The Paratoo copper deposit occurs in a sequence of laminated siltstones dipping steeply towards the east and striking northerly. The main copper ore mineral exposed at the surface is malachite. Thin sections of mineralised rock showed that malachite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 71/00025 Copper Clay and Talc Prospect - Section 682 - Hundred Nuriootpa.
A recently formed syndicate has extracted 2,000 tons of material containing 3.8 per cent copper, 12,000 tons of talcose clay suitable for brickmaking and a small amount of gold from a 50 foot deep quarry in part of the old Gomersal goldfield....-
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Published: 22 Feb 1971
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RB 72/00082 Report on Investigations of Mineral Claims 7310 and 7311 Section 1G, Hundred Bright - Burra Florienton (inspected 8/5/1972).
The two mineral claims no's. 7310 and 7311 lie 6 miles miles (9.6 km) northeast of Robertstown in the Hundred of Bright, Section 1G, some 86 miles (138 km) by road northeast of Adelaide (Fig. 1). The investigation was undertaken at the request of the...-
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Published: 08 May 1977
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RB 73/00236 Fluorite deposit, Mutooroo - Mrs T.V. Alfonzi.
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 76/00057 Report on Deloraine mine.
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Burra. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/1/2004 to 26/1/2009.
An area of 160 square km surrounding the abandoned historic Burra mine and open cut was taken up to conduct step-out exploration for a distance of 10 km distant from this location, to try to discover similar shallowly buried copper resources and/or...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bagot Well North, Tarnma, Bagot Well and Australia Plains (the Eudunda Group of tenements). Joint annual reports for the period 5/10/2009 to 4/8/2017.
As part of a renewed search for possible buried economic volcanogenic or epigenetic stratiform copper oxide or copper carbonate deposits, thought to be associated with poorly exposed fault structures and related hydrothermal alteration of Adelaidean...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1917
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RB 2006/00002 Identification of fibrous mineral from Rowland Flat area, Barossa Valley, South Australia
Identification of a fibrous mineral, two samples of which were retrieved from a small open pit at abandoned mine workings located 2.5 km west of Rowland Flat in the Barossa Valley, on the bank of the North Para River, was made using X-ray diffraction...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2006
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Prince Alfred mine. First partial surrender report, for the period 9/4/1998 to 8/4/1999.
It was concluded from mapping, sampling and a review of previous work that areas in the vicinity of the Prince Alfred Mine, 30 km east of Cradock, were of low potential for significant copper mineralisation within the Tapley Hill Formation.-
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Mirra Bore. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/5/1988 to 16/11/1989.
Exploration for gold and base metals in the Willouran Ranges, conducted over an area located approximately 26 km south-west of Marree, was aimed at evaluating known quartz-limonite vein stockwork - type gold mineralisation on four prospects, plus...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1989
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South of Burra area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/6/1964 to 25/2/1966.
Exploration reconnaissance work has been carried out over many old copper mines and prospects situated within a 172 square mile area located south of the town of Burra [the impetus being that recently the South Australian Department of Mines had...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1966
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Mount Victor, Waukaringa Goldfield, Yunta, Paratoo and Baratta (the Mawson-Lynas Olary Joint Venture Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/4/1997 to 2/4/1998.
Reconnaissance geological mapping and limited surface geochemical sampling of exposed, thrust faulted quartz-carbonate veins evident in the Adelaidean cover sequence to the western Olary Domain Palaeoproterozoic basement did not generate any gold or...-
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Montacute. Annual report to licence surrender for the period 21/2/2003 to 2/8/2004.
In a search for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation associated with historic mines located on shear zones in Adelaidean strata, exploration comprising rock chip, soil and stream sediment sampling in the Montacute - Forest Range...-
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Radium Hill copper prospect, Olary area, SA. Progress and technical reports for the period 1/12/1965 to 30/11/1967.
Evaluation of the subsurface potential of the abandoned Dalkey mine copper workings at Radium Hill was carried out through surface investigations, IP surveying and percussion and diamond drilling (2162 feet, including 989 feet of wireline coring) of...-
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