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RB 2001/00002 Early Cambrian acritarchs, trilobites and archaeocyaths from Yalkalpo 2, eastern Arrowie Basin, South Australia.
Early Cambrian marine sediments in the Arrowie Basin, South Australia, were deposited on a continental margin platform, and have been divided into five unconformity bounded depositional sequences and subsequences, ranging in age from basal Cambrian to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2001
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RB 2014/00002 Carbonate hosted Pb-Zn-Ag deposits. exploration using light hydrocarbons as pathfinders.
Surveys recently conducted in England, Ireland and Australia have shown that there are major spatial variations in the 'light' [molecular weight] hydrocarbon gas content of rocks which are closely related to the presence of underlying mineralisation....-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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RB 2000/00010 Investigation of the potential for rainwater harvesting at Nepabunna, North Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
The availability of rainwater, and possible harvesting techniques and storage media are investigated. Reasonable amounts of rainfall occur, but falls are interspersed by long droughts. There are problems with silting up of dams, and with protecting...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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Pinda Springs. Annual reports for the period 4/11/1996 to 3/11/2001.
Base and precious metal exploration near Pinda Springs mine in the north-central Flinders Ranges, 50 km south-east of Copley, initially comprised geological mapping and rock chip sampling. Several vein samples returned values up to 1.2 kg/t Ag, 10.5%...-
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Published: 06 Feb 1902
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Kanyaka Mines prospect [near Quorn]. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 9/6/1969 to 8/6/1971.
Evaluation of the base metal potential of minor historical copper workings within folded lower Cambrian strata, in an area located 25 km north of Quorn, failed to identify significant geochemical or geophysical evidence for shallowly buried...-
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Diapir-base metal association in the northern Flinders Ranges.
A number of base metal occurrences in the northern Flinders Ranges, previously classified as syngenetic, diagenetic and epigenetic in nature, appear to have resulted from metalliferous brine-sediment interaction with autochthonous and allochthonous...-
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Warraweena. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/3/1983 to 28/3/1985.
Exploration of an area located approximately 30 km south-east of Copley was aimed at finding possible Irish-type stratiform lead-zinc(-silver) sulphide mineralisation in localised sub-basin environments associated with growth faulting and brecciation....-
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Published: 27 Jun 1985
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Teatree Well. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1986.
Exploration for possible fault-related epigenetic lead-zinc deposits formed in calcareous rocks outcropping along the Mount John - Arrowie fault system, to the south-east of the Moro mine, has included extensive stream sediment and rock chip sampling...-
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Mount Lyall. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/5/1969 to 24/3/1971.
The Third Plain zinc silicate (willemite) deposit, located 14 miles south-east of Blinman, has been newly assessed by North Flinders Mines for its economic potential. Originally discovered by Kennecott Explorations in late 1966, and evaluated by them...-
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Mount Jeffrey. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 22/9/80 to 21/9/81.
In a search for Mississippi Valley - type Pb-Zn deposits within the Angepena Syncline, 35 km east of Copley, helicopter-assisted geological mapping at 1:25,000 scale, photogeological studies and reconnaissance stream sediment geochemical sampling were...-
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Edeowie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 8/5/1969 to 7/5/1971.
Exploration undertaken by Electrolytic Zinc Co. (E-Z) looking for possible economic primary stratabound lead-zinc sulphide deposits in the ABC Range area has followed on from the earlier work of Mines Exploration done on SMLs 115, 131 and 131A, which...-
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Geology of the Upper Proterozoic and Lower Cambrian of the Reaphook Hill area, eastern Flinders Ranges, SA.
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Willochra. Progress report to licence surrender for the period 1/12/1965 to 31/5/1966.
As part of a regional investigation of the stratiform base metal mineral potential of Cambrian strata in South Australia, Kennecott has undertaken a geochemical reconnaissance of the Parachilna Formation and Wilkawillina Limestone strata present in...-
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Published: 23 May 1966
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Mount McKinlay. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/2/1972 to 23/2/1973.
Possible hydrothermally - deposited native mercury metal associated with the Mount John Fault zone, perhaps in a quartz splinter vein setting similar to that of the mercury occurrence previously found nearby at the Moro mine, plus elsewhere, economic...-
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Balcanoona North. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1966 to 31/10/1967.
Continued evaluation of the Balcanoona anticlinal structure as a potential host to economic copper sulphide deposits has focussed on the eastern side limb, where similar metalliferous gossans exists as those which have been explored previously on the...-
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Kanyaka. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/1966 to 31/10/1967.
As part of a regional search for possible economic stratabound Early Palaeozoic base metal deposits, Kennecott Explorations carried out stream sediment sampling and geological mapping of the Kanyaka Syncline, plus more intensive near-mine exploration...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1967
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Reaphook Hill. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/10/1969 to 15/4/1971.
Exploration undertaken in the vicinity of Reaphook Hill addressed the potential of previously reported anomalous stream sediment zinc and manganese values found in the Wilkawillina Limestone at locations a few miles north of the hill, and also...-
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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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RB 2002/00033 Correlation within Early Palaeozoic basins of eastern South Australia.
The great majority of lower Palaeozoic rocks in the Stansbury, Arrowie and Warburton Basins are of Cambrian age, although a few Early Ordovician fossils have been reported from drillholes in the sub-surface Warburton Basin. The Cambrian is the only...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2002
