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RB 73/00125 Photogeological interpretation of the islands of the western Continental Shelf, SA.
Photogeological interpretation of the islands of the continental shelf of the western coastline of South Australia indicates that all islands are crystalline basement. The larger islands have a thin cover of calcareous aeolianite and more recent...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 72/00190 Two Cainozoic fossiliferous sands from Waterloo Bay, Yorke Peninsula, SA, Hd Melville, Co. Fergusson.
One sand has benthonic foraminifera of Upper Eocene age, and is referred to Rogue Formation, correlating also with basal Port Willunga Beds. The other sand is from a Pleistocene "aeolianite" sequence, Bridgewater formation. Its microfauna, mostly...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1972
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RB 74/00132 Lucindale town water supply test hole no. 1 completion report.
Lucindale Test Hole No. 1 was drilled to test the yield and salinity of the Knight Group pressure aquifer. A supply of 18 litres/sec with a salinity of 1129 mg/1 was obtained. A transmissivity of 42 metre3/day/metre was calculated for a bore...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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The Padthaway Ridge Sedimentary Uranium Project. Joint annual technical reports to licences' combined full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 3/9/2013.
A package of fourteen mineral exploration tenements were taken up that straddled the north-eastern and south-western sides of the Padthaway Ridge, to allow the licensee to explore both the Tertiary Murray Basin and Gambier Basin sediments where they...-
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Published: 16 Jul 1913
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sceale Bay. Annual reports for the period 17/11/2008 to 16/11/2015.
A review of past SADM and company technical reports concerning surficial gypsum deposits delineated near Sceale Bay showed that the gypsum resource is substantial, with a historical total proven resource of 50 Mt of gypsum at an average grade of...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1915
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Mount Hope, Moorlands and Brimpton Lake (the Mount Hope Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2005 to 4/6/2010.
Monax Mining has been exploring the subsurface geology of three licences in the Mount Hope region of south-western Eyre Peninsula, seeking possible economic komatiite - hosted nickel deposits and also any felsic volcanic sediment - hosted massive...-
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Published: 27 Oct 1910
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RB 2005/00004 Palynological evidence for late Eocene and late Miocene early Pliocene sediments of Flinders Island, South Australia
Palynological analysis and dating of 45 sediment core samples, obtained from several rotary drillholes that have recently been drilled to explore for buried diamonds and kimberlite indicator minerals on Flinders Island, South Australia, has indicated...-
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Published: 01 May 2005
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RB 2000/00015 Groundwater resources on Kangaroo Island.
Despite good rainfall, the groundwater resources on Kangaroo Island are limited, with localised good quality groundwater available only in small supplies. Just over 75% of all wells drilled on the island have a salinity of over 2000 mg/L, with 95% of...-
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Published: 01 May 2000
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RB 2009/00005 Tintinara sand resource, Hundred of Lewis.
It has been estimated that an inferred resource of about 40,000 t of sand may be realised by quarrying from the area covered by Mineral Claim 3742 (now Extractive Mineral Lease 6269), located about 18 km north-northwest of Tintinara. The sand,...-
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Published: 25 May 2009
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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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Venus Bay. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/7/1994 to 26/1/1998.
Diamond and gold exploration undertaken on the two relinquished ground portions located north-west and east of Venus Bay on Eyre Peninsula, which total 530 square km in area, have comprised heavy mineral sampling, heavy mineral grain microprobing,...-
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Marion Bay. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 18/3/1997 to 17/9/2000.
Calcrete was sampled over the entire foot of Yorke Peninsula, approximately 200 km by road from Adelaide, to follow up aeromagnetic structures and anomalous base metals in groundwater. Several samples returned slightly elevated base metals, from...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1900
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Tailem Bend - Bordertown - Mount Gambier area (South-Eastern Coastal Plains Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/7/1974 to 19/7/1975.
Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1975
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Coffin Bay. Combined first progress/final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/12/1965 to 30/11/1967.
An area near Coffin Bay was taken up to search for exposures of surficial sedimentary material which might be useful to BHP for preparing flux additives to incorporate in the charges of its Whyalla blast furnaces or basic oxygen steelmaking plant...-
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Regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin (300 dpi & 600 dpi pdf formats).
This inaugural regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin provides a valuable regional overview of the main regolith types and their associated landforms, plus a general outline of the major areas of bedrock or regolith-dominated terrain, as...-
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Published: 14 Jul 2016
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Robe - Naracoorte coastal survey. Stratigraphic drilling of Quaternary sequence - sedimentological data.
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Port Lincoln South. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 19/11/1973 to 12/8/1975.
In 1975 Blue Circle Cement undertook an assessment of the reserves and quality of deposits of Recent limesand, aeolianite limestone and ferruginous clay which form an active dunefield lying adjacent to BHP's Coffin Bay Tramway in the Port Lincoln...-
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Gip Gip. Final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/5/1975 to 12/8/1975.
Early-stage exploration of the State's South-East coastal region for possible economic heavy mineral sand placer deposits in ancient raised beaches has comprised an assessment of favourable geology, historical depositional conditions and...-
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South Australian Beach Sands Project. Final report for the period 25/8/1975 to 11/11/1975.
Three, or possibly four, raised beach ridge deposits were located along the coastline of the western Eyre Peninsula region during a reconnaissance survey of potential fossil strandline and foredune trapsites looking for economic heavy mineral sand...-
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RB 90/00001 Explanatory Notes for the KIMBA 1:250 000 geological map.
The KIMBA 1:250 000 geological map sheet (hereafter referred to as KIMBA) lies in central Eyre Peninsula, extending between latitudes 33° to 34° S and longitudes 135° to 136°30'E (Fig 1). The principal towns are Kimba and Cleve, with smaller towns at...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1989
