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RB 83/00082 Proterozoic intrusives, Streaky Bay area.
The intrusives are dominated by granite, N - S oriented diorite dykes up to 50 metres wide, and late stage aplitic and pegmatitic veins with variable orientation. A Middle Proterozoic age is indicated for some of the granitoids, which were probably...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1983
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RB 84/00016 Stuart Shelf drillhole data base.
Summarises Middle - Late Proterozoic stratigraphy from 256 holes and some details of basement indicating areal distribution and thickness of Adelaidean sequences and depths to basement. Computerized data is presented in both printed and plan (1:250000...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1984
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RB 86/00084 Petrography of mylonitic lithologies from the Karari Fault Zone in SADME Ooldea 3, DDH.
Stratigraphic diamond drillhole Ooldea 3 was sited on an aeromagnetic anomaly within the Karari Fault Zone, and cored into buried Pre-Palaeozoic basement rocks that include paragneisses, iron formation, amphibolite and pegmatite. All lithologies...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1986
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RB 79/00121 Uranno microgranite deposit for road sealing aggregate and rail ballast.
A quarry plan, designed to yield 100,000 cubic m of in-situ material, has been outlined in a microgranite outcrop on Eyre Peninsula which is located 15 km east of Cummins and 10 km south-east of the Uranno railway siding. Diamond drilling (3 inclined...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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RB 84/00075 Review of phlogopite in kimberlitic rocks as a possible source of vermiculite in South Australia.
Vermiculite is an alteration product of phlogopite. Kimberlitic bodies of sufficient size and phlogopite content for possible exploitation have been discovered in South Australia during past exploration for diamonds and base metals. Sampling is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1984
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RB 87/00110 Miscellaneous thin sections from the Proterozoic and Cambrian of South Australia.
Rocks from Saint Francis Island include trachyte, trachyandesite and rhyolite. Drill core from Dampier DDH1 includes 2 types of dolerite, and from Afmeco KGB3 fresh dolerite or basalt. Other specimens examined include basalt and gneiss from the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 78/00014 Lake Hart Proterozoic Basin in the Gawler Platform.
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Published: 31 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00059 Tectonic evolution of the Precambrian Gawler Province in southern Australia. In: Hunter. The Precambrian geology of the southern continents.
In South Australia the Gawler Province displays a history of early Proterozoic orogenic evolution and transitional tectonism leading to deposition of the Gawler Range Volcanics (ca 1500 Ma) on a relatively stable platform. A fragmentary record of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00073 Precambrian geology and geophysics of the COOBER PEDY 1:250 000 sheet.
The crystalline basement of COOBER PEDY comprises portion of the northern part of the Gawler Craton. Outcrop is scattered and is generally intensely weathered. Sediments, including sandstone, arkose and banded iron formation, were deposited on an...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 91/00040 Wattleton - Coomunga drilling traverse, Port Lincoln. Well completion report.
Eighteen rotary drillholes with bottom-hole core and one diamond drillhole were completed northwest of Port Lincoln and intersected quartzite, schist, calcsilicate, graphitic schist and marble attributed to the Hutchison Group. These drillholes were...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1991
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RB 91/00100 Sirotem survey for freshwater lenses, Penong, South Australia.
There is an acute shortage of potable water, for both human and stock consumption, west of Ceduna. Various schemes have been suggested to alleviate this situation, one of which is to find additional low salinity groundwater lenses like those which...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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RB 92/00037 Review of mineral exploration, KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map area.
This report was prepared as a summary of all open file mineral exploration data from the KINGOONYA 1:250000 mapsheet area that are held in the SADME records management Envelope system. The aim of the holdings review was to describe past exploration,...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1991
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RB 97/00053 Identification of a single wood fragment from the Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Analysis of a single wood sample from a silicified low energy, poorly sorted, sandy, fluvial horizon within an apparent palaeovalley on the Gawler Craton is identified as a member of the botanical family Podocarpaceae, with a possible affinity to the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 97/00057 Gawler Craton excursion guide - September 21-26, 1997.
This 5-day field excursion was mounted by the GSSA to inform government and industry participants about significant newly identified geological features within the central Gawler Craton which are the subjects of ongoing study. The itinerary chosen...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1997
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RB 99/00006 Adelaide Geosyncline of South Australia and its significance in Neoproterozoic continental reconstruction.
The Adelaide Geosyncline is a deeply subsident Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian basin complex in South Australia with a record of at least five major successive rift cycles. Each rift system has its own locus and orientation. Although the rift...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1999
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RB 94/00019 BARTON Bedrock Drilling Project, 1993.
Between June and December 1993, 184 vertical RC stratigraphic drillholes totalling 10,126.2 m (average hole depth 55 m) were drilled by Mines and Energy South Australia at 2 km spacing along roadsides traversing much of the BARTON 1:250k map sheet...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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RB 97/00051 Poona copper mine, Moonta, South Australia - Investigation of alteration mineralogy using short-wave infrared analysis.
The Poona Copper Mine on northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, was worked from 1988-92 on an extension of the original Poona lode, a narrow, shear-hosted copper sulphide vein deposit in Moonta Porphyry of Mesoproterozoic age. The orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 97/00011 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Hawks Nest prospect.
As part of the South Australian Steel and Energy Project, MESA targeted Palaeoproterozoic banded iron formation (BIF) at Hawks Nest as a possible iron ore resource. Detailed ground magnetic, gravity and drilling programmes identified seven deposits;...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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RB 99/00027 Report on a water search program over the Yalata-Ooldea Road.
A Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) survey was used to prospect for groundwater at three locations on the road between Yalata and Ooldea, on the thesis that water would be available in either deeper overburden or fractured basement. Overburden targets...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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RB 90/00030 Duntroon geophysical study.
The Duntroon Basin is located in the centre of the Southern Rift System between the Bight and the Otway Basins, west and SW of Kangaroo Island. It is limited to the north by the Proterozoic Gawler Craton. The formation of the basin is related to the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
