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Carrickalinga Hill. Information status at licence expiry, for the period 1/10/2003 to 30/9/2004 : no work performed.
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Mount Olinthus. Annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1996.
Base metal mineralisation, indicated by newly discovered shafts at the historic Atkinson Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine, was the impetus for exploration in the upland area 20 km north-west from Cowell. Grab samples collected from shafts, stockpiles and dumps varied...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Beltana. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1993 to 15/4/1998.
Contains a subset of data compiled by the licensee on the subject of commercial use of coloured iron oxides, plus some progress reports dealing with an assessment of red dolomitic marble from the Ajax Limestone unit for its potential use as an...-
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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/1/1979 to 30/11/1984.
Adelaide Brighton Cement took up tenure of the Moorlands lignite deposit during September 1976 in order to conduct confirmatory drilling of the published coal resource, to prepare a mining study for Lobe 'E', and overall, to assess the coal's...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1984
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Warrow. Progress and final relinquishment reports for the period 10/6/83 to 9/12/84.
Extensive geophysical prospecting, an 8 hole percussion drill coring programme (477 m) and a 140 hole RAB drilling programme (1798 m) at the Lady Franklin prospect were not encouraging. Percussion drillhole 83WP2 intersected a zone of primary but...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1984
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Angaston. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/7/1991 to 21/1/1992.
TARGET: Marble resources in the Angaston area which might be suitable to use as raw material for soda ash manufacture. EXPLORATION: Detailed geological mapping [some scale(s) given] and surface rock chip geochemical sampling (22) of various deposits....-
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Published: 20 Mar 1992
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A gemmological assessment of the nephrite jade deposits near Cowell, South Australia.
Nephrite jade is associated with Lower Proterozoic dolomitic marbles and calc-silicate rocks as part of a sequence of metasedimentary quartzo-feldspathic gneisses, quartzites and mica schists of amphibolite metamorphic facies. These rocks normally...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1980
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Burra Copper [open pit mining] Project. Reports of geological investigations for the period October 1969 to February 1981.
A collection of miscellaneous reports referring to geochemical sampling of costeans and exposed bedrock, drilling, mapping and petrology work that has recently been carried out in the re-developed Burra open cut copper mine. The focus of the work...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1980
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Kia Ora Station. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 20/8/1980.
The target of exploration carried out approximately 60 km north-east of Burra was diamonds, with base metals and coal as secondary interests. Aeromagnetic and radiometric surveys identified several anomalies which were interpreted as possibly due to...-
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Reports on the Rapid Bay limestone deposit, for the period 1956 to 1958.
This Cambrian marble deposit, which has been quarried by BHP since August 1942 to supply metallurgical fluxes to its Whyalla Steelworks, has recently been surveyed, mapped at 1:1200 scale and sampled through its entire extent to determine stone grades...-
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Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/3/1970 to 18/3/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over part of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field has targeted base metal anomalies previously found by Australian Selection in the Blue mine area. An area of about 80 square miles was assessed by reconnaissance stream...-
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Terowie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/11/1976 to 26/6/1978.
In an area of strongly folded, sericitised and silicified lower Adelaidean sedimentary rocks located km north-east of Terowie, an initial four areas of base metal geochemical anomalism were identified on prior EL 158 by surface sampling and geological...-
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Bull 010 The Building Stones of South Australia
In South Australia the abundance of stone suitable for building, and the comparative lack of easily worked local timber, at a very early date determined the choice of building material, so that the use of stone is very general throughout the State....-
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RB 67/00022 Diamond drilling of Penrice marble deposit - 1966 programme.
In a continuing diamond-drill programme designed to define the quality of quarried marble, four inclined holes totalling 1,056.3 feet were drilled for the Company in 1966. The marginal zone of inferior-grade material (below 95% CaCO3) which has been...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 66/00158 Mount Geharty marble and nephritic jade deposit, Cowell district.
Detailed geological mapping has shown that the marble varies from fine-grained yellow and green to a coarse grained white rock. Reserves in the three deposits mapped amount to 18,500 tons, but only about 20% of this is suitable for slabs because of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 62/00090 Report on 1965 programme of diamond drilling of marble deposits at Penrice near Angaston.
Thinning of a bed of low grade marble on the western margin of the Penrlce marble deposit to the south of the quarry has been confirmed by analyses of cores from three diamond drill holes recently completed. Reinterpretation of results obtained from...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 62/00111 Report on diamond drilling at Bald Hill, near Angaston, to investigate the persistence of marble at depth.
Drilling of two vertical diamond drill holes at S.A. Portland Cement’s Bald Hill quarry has confirmed surface geological information, which indicates that the marble beds are steeply dipping, and should extend to depths sufficient to meet the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 74/00011 Cowell aggregate quarry, Co. Jervois, Hd Hawker, secn 385.
Marble, recrystallised arkosic sandstone and gneiss of the cleve Metamorphics of Lower Proterozoic age are quarried periodically for road construction aggregate, 18 kilometres west-northwest of Cowell, Eyre Peninsula. Los Angeles Abrasion and Sodium...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 75/00119 Reconnaissance survey of alternative sources, Warren Gorge dolomite - T.W. Norton.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
