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RB 00794 Investigation of the basement rocks from Apollo no. 1 and Gemini no. 1 (inter alia).
This student vacational project report, for the Department's Petroleum Exploration Div., aimed to correlate the basement rocks met with in Great Australian Bight area offshore and near onshore petroleum exploration wells with outcropping formations...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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RB 67/00025 Preliminary report on earthwork conditions and ballast sites, Cockburn - Broken Hill section, Port Pirie - Broken Hill standard gauge railway.
Geological conditions affecting the construction programme are discussed, and recommendations made for detailed exploration.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 61/00058 Geological report no. 2 on the Oolanta anomaly, Hd Stokes, southern Eyre Peninsula (Cummins and Tumby 1-mile sheets).
A syncline containing regionally metamorphosed Precambrian magnetite-jaspilite and amphibolite beds was tested by two inclined diamond drill holes. OD 1, drilled 365 ft. to test the eastern flank, intersected four beds of jaspilite aggregating 86 ft....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 61/00096 Amphibolite deposit, Tumby Bay district. Second report - Highways and Local Government Department.
Mapping of amphibolite outcrop and float indicates that there is in excess of 100,000 cubic yards of material possibly suitable for screenings. Gravels and clays may obscure material which would substantially increase these reserves. Two diamond...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 70/00185 Bute aeromagnetic anomaly.
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Published: 30 Nov 1970
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RB 61/00080 Geological report no. 2 on Brennand Anomaly, Hd Koppio, southern Eyre Peninsula, Cummins 1-mile sheet.
Regionally metamorphosed Precambrian jaspilites and amphibolites, thickened by dragfolding and with an associated aeromagnetic anomaly, were tested by diamond drilling. BD 1 drilled 549', intersected 150' of jaspilite estimated to contain 5-10% iron...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 62/00072 Petrology of certain iron formations on Eyre Peninsula Eastern Coast Plain, central Eyre Peninsula, Lincoln Uplands.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 74/00230 Trinity mine - King Dam geochemical survey.
Systematic soil sampling, plus ground magnetic traversing and some IP surveying, were carried out in the Trinity mine - King Dam area to investigate anomalous copper values in the shallow subsurface, previously reported in 1968 by Mines Administration...-
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Published: 18 Mar 1975
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RB 74/00111 Amphibolite deposit near Tailem Bend.
Railway ballast was sought from amphibolite of the Kanmantoo Group of Cambrian age which subcrops on a bedrock ridge in the Murray Basin near Tailem Bend. A surface sample of amphibolite returned low Los Angelese Abrasion and Sodium Sulphate Soundness...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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Wildingi Claypan (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/10/2005 to 13/1/2015.
Two separate small areas located just north of Comet Outstation, that were originally taken up to explore for possible diamonds and Triassic-Jurassic kimberlite intrusions that could be associated with intensely faulted shallow basement, have also...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : the Adelaide Hills Project. Joint annual reports for the period 16/5/2005 to 31/12/2013.
The Adelaide Hills Project consists of 3419 square km of land covered by eight contiguous exploration licences, ELs 3057, 3064, 3141, 3215, 3239, 3277, 3425 and 3534, which are owned by or joint ventured to Flinders Diamonds Limited (FDL). By an...-
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Wanilla (originally part of the Wanilla JV Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of licences' joint reporting for the Gum Flat Iron Ore Project, for the period 13/2/2007 to 12/2/2010.
A large north-south orientated area centred ~45 km north-west of Port Lincoln was taken up to explore for possible buried Archaean komatiite-hosted nickel, volcanic hosted massive sulphides (base metals), orogenic lode gold, BIF-hosted iron ores and...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1910
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Blyth Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 2/1/2007 to 30/9/2013.
Exploration for possible economic IOCG type base and precious metal deposits in buried basement rocks, and for possible roll front style sedimentary uranium mineralisation in overlying Jurassic-Cretaceous Eromanga Basin sediments, within an area...-
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Sandstone [Outstation] (part of the Gawler Joint Venture Project's Central Tenement Block). Data release made in lieu of submitting a second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 9/9/1994 to 13/10/2004.
An area located 140 km north-west of Tarcoola was taken up to explore for possible economic high grade occurrences of palygorskite clays formed in Tertiary palaeochannels and associated playa lakes. This was a response to a discovery of palygorskite...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1904
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Verran. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint venture project joint reporting, for the period 29/1/2010 to 28/1/2014.
An area located in the Cowell Hills is being explored for possible economic buried iron ore deposits. The desired commodity is DSO (Direct Shipping Ore) haematite mineralisation similar to that of the Middleback Range iron deposits, where pods of...-
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Published: 23 May 1914
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-26 - Energia Minerals Limited Gawler Craton Project, IOCG-prospective Blyth Creek BC4 gravity anomaly. Drilling project final report.
During July 2012, at a location approximately 90 km south-east of Oodnadatta, EL 3680 licensee Energia Minerals completed the drilling at the BC4 gravity anomaly target of a single vertical rotary mud/diamond tailed hole to a total depth of 144.3 m...-
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RB 25/00011 Report on diamond drilling marble deposits at Penrice near Angaston.
To support the production of soda ash at its Osborne plant in Adelaide, South Australia, ICI Australia has been obtaining crushed marble from the Barossa Valley region as process raw material. Since June 1945, the South Australian Department of Mines...-
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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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Uno (synonym Aroha). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1978 to 5/3/1980.
Exploration for uranium in the vicinity of Lake Gilles targeted the Lower Proterozoic Cleve Metamorphics and the unconformably overlying sandstone, conglomerate and rhyolite units of Carpentarian age, searching initially for analogues to the deposits...-
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RB 2009/00001 Explanatory Notes for [the] CALLABONNA 1:250 000 Geological Map, sheet SH 54-6.
The CALLABONNA map area includes the southern end of the Strzelecki Desert and the north- eastern Flinders Ranges, between latitudes 29° to 30° S and longitudes 139° 30' to 141° E. Cameron Corner adjoins New South Wales and Queensland in the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2009
