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Lake Gairdner. Progress reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 12/9/1979 to January 1980.
Very limited reconnaissance sampling of Cainozoic marginal lakebed sediments in northern Lake Gairdner has suggested that little chance exists there for discovering deposits of soluble sodium carbonate minerals.-
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Published: 31 Mar 1980
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Streaky Bay. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/ full surrender, for the period 2/11/1987 to 1/11/1989.
TARGET: Gypsum in dune and salt lake deposits; groundwater for possible water supply. EXPLORATION: Auger drilling of aeolian dunes and 7 salt lakes, reverse circulation drilling (16 holes totalling 410 m) for water. RESULTS: A resource of 4 Mt @ 88%...-
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Published: 03 Oct 1990
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RB 1700300 Kingscote and Bordertown water supplies
Report describes in detail the execution of two water supply engineering projects recently completed in South Australian rural towns.-
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Published: 12 Jan 1940
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RB 00036 Wild Dog uranium prospect, section 75 Hundred of Myponga. Progress geological report.
During the period reported, test excavations were started on both the No. 1 and the No. 2 lodes, and two diamond drill holes totalling 156 feet 9 inches, one vertical, one inclined, were completed during February 1954, with another in progress. A...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1900
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RB 66/00033 SAG Cootanoorina no. 1 well. Upper Palaeozoic and Lower Cretaceous micropalaeontology. Grid G/3.
Microfossils from the section intersected in Cootanoorina 1 were analysed to enable correlation and age determination of the various rock units and interpretation of the Permian depositional environments. Age determinations include: Unit 3 (2925-3111...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1968
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RB 70/00121 Port Kenny groundwater basin (11/8/1970).
Investigations into the occurrence of fresh groundwater near Port Kenny, in an area now referred to as the Port Kenny Basin, commenced in August, 1967 and were continued during April 1968 with the drilling of 8 exploratory bores. Subsequently, further...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 72/00231 Currency Creek Dam catchment area. Hydrogeological investigations - EWS Department.
Geological mapping shows that the catchment consists of two roughly equal areas. One comprises Cambrian arkose overlain by Permian glacial sands, and the other is composed of Cambrian phyllite and greywacke with thin slopewash cover. Salinity...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1972
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RB 72/00227 Completion report and pump test, Fort Largs Police Academy bore, secn 72 Hd Port Adelaide.
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Published: 24 Nov 1972
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RB 62/00077 Groundwater prospects, secns 29, 32-34 and 46 Hd Haslam - A.F. Beinke.
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 62/00137 Report on groundwater prospects, secns 32, 33 Hd Smeaton - I.W. and A.M. Elson.
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 75/00079 South-East water resources, Mount Gambier area. Investigation hydrogeological progress report to April 1975.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Snowtown. Annual report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/12/2009 to 8/12/2010.
Site investigations on spring-fed salt lakes in an area north of Snowtown were undertaken to assess their potential for inclusion in artificial pan - confined solar salt production to add to the output of an existing local, seasonal salt harvesting...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] due to licence expiry and pending approval of its subsequent re-grant : Pine Ridge (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 25/2/1999 to 29/3/2007.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 140 km north-west of Marla, has been explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) as part of work planned for a larger set of project exploration licences currently...-
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Barton Range Central, Barton Range North and Paling Range, north-eastern Eucla Basin (Rio Tinto's Barton Range Project). Joint annual reports for work completed before the sale of these licences, for the period 15/3/2005 to 31/12/2009.
A sizeable part of the north-eastern Tertiary Eucla Basin marine palaeomargin is being explored for possible economic buried raised beach strandline deposits of detrital rutile, zircon and ilmenite-rich heavy mineral sands (HM) that may have formed...-
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2, Lake Torrens South and Lake Torrens North (the Lake Torrens Brine Potash Project). First joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 16/6/2016.
Much of the eastern side of the very large, 5,745 square km saline playa Lake Torrens, which occupies one of the most arid parts of Australia, was taken under licence by a Northern Territory - based company with the intent of systematically sampling...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1916
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RB 28/00037 Underground water survey. Port Lincoln aerodrome, Hd Louth, sections 112, 113 and 114.
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Published: 12 Jul 1950
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RB 26/00100 Report on the underground water survey, section 44, Hd O'Loughlin for S.A. Trewartha.
The block is about 5 miles east of Koonibba Mission, and 6 miles north east of Koonibba Railway siding. An investigation was carried out on the 13th October 1949.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1949
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RB 2012/00008 Abminga bedrock drilling program 2001.
The Abminga bedrock drilling program was initiated in 1999 as part of the Targeted Exploration Initiative of South Australia (TEISA) strategy conceived by the SA Government and implemented through PIRSA's Mineral Resources Group. Drilling was proposed...-
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Published: 01 May 2012
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Streaky Bay. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/7/1980 to 27/5/1982.
In an area located east-southeast of Streaky Bay township, the target mineral commodities were uranium, base metals, gold, tin, tungsten, tantalum and lignite; kaolinite was recognised as a secondary target later during the exploration programme. 25...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1982
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Amdel Ltd project - Fluid inclusion studies of South Australian ores, rocks and minerals. Progress reports nos 1 to 6 for the period 7/5/1976 to 3/4/1980.
In September 1975 the South Australian Department of Mines accepted a proposal from Amdel Ltd to purchase and set up some microthermometry apparatus, in order to commence fluid inclusion studies of selected rock types and minerals in South Australia....-
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