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Port Augusta - Wilkatana area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/10/1969 to 4/8/1972.
An area surrounding the Emeroo Range, and extending from the vicinity of Port Augusta to 30 km west of Hawker, was explored by Utah for possible economic stratabound base metal deposits which it was thought could be associated with certain favourable...-
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Eurelia - Carrieton area. Annual and progress reports to licence amalgamation/renewal for the period 5/8/1971 to 14/2/1972.
Ongoing exploration for possible economic stratiform copper deposits occurring in Late Proterozoic metasediments forming the Eurelia Anticline has concentrated on evaluating mainly the Copper Claim prospect plus four less attractive prospects, after...-
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Arkaroola (part of the Wooltana Joint Venture project). Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/5/1971 to 18/5/1973.
Continuing exploration of the basal Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequence in the north-eastern Flinders Ranges for possible economic stratiform/stratabound Kapunda or Blinman - type copper mineralisation has concentrated on detailed 1:1200 and 1:4800...-
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RB 65/00035 Clare Regional Geochemical Project.
This investigation was a feasibility study, therefore environmental factors are dealt with in much more detail than would be necessary in a routine geochemical report. Apparently these factors has little significant effect on the results. Spot...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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South Australian Magnesium Oxide Project : pre-feasibility study.
This study reports on a project to establish a magnesium oxide derivatives business in South Australia, by exploiting a resource of sedimentary magnesite held by Commercial Minerals Ltd (a member of the Normandy Poseidon Group of companies). Aspects...-
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Published: 04 Aug 1992
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Australia Plains and The Gums Station. Final reports at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 31/5/2010 to ending 30/5/2012.
Exploration for possible economic buried gold and/or copper mineralisation that may have formed in a volcanic or porphyry- related setting, within an area of the Adelaide Geosyncline situated 130-140 km north-northeast of Adelaide, has comprised the...-
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Mount Bryan. Annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/1/2008 to 7/5/2012.
Exploration for gold and copper mineralisation within an area located immediately south of Mount Bryan and 19 km north of Burra was aimed principally at finding deposits of copper oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra...-
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Spalding. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2009 to 7/5/2012.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within a small licence area surrounding Mount Tinline, located approximately 20 km south of Spalding ,was aimed principally at finding deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at...-
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Baroota. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/11/2008 to 9/11/2012.
Exploration conducted over an area of the western Adelaide Fold Belt centred about 15 km east of Port Germein was designed to appraise the subsurface gold and copper potential of a possibly economically mineralised diapir or diatreme present in the...-
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Published: 15 Aug 1912
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Cone (subsequently part of the Burra North Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 6/3/2007 to 5/3/2009.
An area of 300 square km located immediately north and north-east of Burra was taken up because it is considered to be prospective for gold and copper mineralisation related to Cambro-Ordovician sediments and late-stage felsic and mafic intrusives,...-
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Bundey Bore Station (part of the Burra Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 29/3/2011 to 24/12/2015.
Exploration for possible economic buried Burra type copper oxide and copper carbonate mineralisation, that may have formed within metasedimentary country rocks in a volcanic or porphyry- related setting within two small areas of the eastern Adelaide...-
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Collaby Hill. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/1/2011 to 6/1/2014.
An area of the southern Flinders Ranges extending from Crystal Brook northwards to the Mount Remarkable Range has been explored for possible economic stratabound magnesite occurrences that may outcrop within Adelaidean metasediments. The known...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1914
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Hallett (part of the Nackara Gold Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/8/2002 to 4/10/2012.
An area of high country in the far northern Mount Lofty Ranges was taken under licence to try to find the primary source(s) of widely dispersed detrital gold known from Recent and Tertiary cover sediments in the region, while focussing mainly on...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Burra Hill (part of the Burra South Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 1/5/2006 to 30/4/2009.
Within a small licence area centred about 15 km south-south-east of Burra township in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, Copper Range initially targeted near-surface copper oxide mineralisation associated with an altered and brecciated contact zone...-
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Clare, Spalding and Washpool (the Spalding Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for EL 5910/6430 and five related Burra Project licences: joint annual reports for the period 10/11/2009 to 9/11/2019.
Phoenix Copper was attracted to explore the Spalding Inlier region in the Northern Mount Lofty Ranges after earlier work done by the South Australian Department of Mines (SADM) and by Copper Range reported the occurrence of several known sites of...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1920
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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 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 2001/00003 Sandstone dimension stone in South Australia - Results of geological reconnaissance, 1998 and 1999.
Sandstone as a building material was used extensively in Adelaide and regional South Australia from the founding of the colony until the end of World War II. However, since 1945 the industry has declined steadily, with closure of many quarries, until...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2001
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RB 2016/00013 Geological field excursion guide — Rifts, reverse faults and regolith: Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic geology in the Mid-North of South Australia.
The rolling hills, wheat paddocks and vineyards of the Mid-North region of South Australia conceal a geological transition between the Adelaide Hills and the Flinders Ranges. Here the landscape is subtly controlled by the Neoproterozoic bedrock...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2016
