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RB 88/00038 Bulgunnia 1 and 2. Well completion report.
Bulgunnia 1 tested acid and basic volcanics, extruded from an adjacent major fracture, that are interbedded with a probable coarse-grained breccia. Bulgunnia 2 tested a sedimentary breccia with possible volcanic interbeds. The project aimed to...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1988
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RB 88/00040 Earea Dam Goldfield, historical review and production records.
Earea Dam Goldfield is 38 km ESE of Tarcoola, on section 1007, out of hundreds. Since discovery in 1899, 1 869.63 tonnes of ore have yielded 59 237.59 grams of gold bullion, during several periods of operation. Ore has been treated at Tarcoola,...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1988
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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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 91/00041 Geology of the KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map sheet area.
Extensive field geological mapping, augmented by petrological and geochemical studies, reinterpretation of company drilling and water-bore logs and a nine-hole drilling programme has detailed the geology of the KINGOONYA area. The stratigraphy spans...-
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Published: 01 Apr 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 93/00018 Review of exploration for kaolin near Poochera, northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
The kaolin deposits located south-west of Poochera on northern Eyre Peninsula have formed by deep weathering of early to mid-Proterozoic crystalline basement rocks, which are now blanketed by late Tertiary to Quaternary terrestrial sediments. During...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1993
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RB 94/00044 Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen as a guide to oxidising sulphide concealed beneath shallow cover. Soil air CO2/O2 project: review report 1.
A joint project between Dr I.G. Watmuff (consultant) and the Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, to appraise the soil air CO2/O2 technique as a guide to concealed oxidising sulphides, has been completed. Testing was conducted over known...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1994
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RB 96/00012 Dryland salinity investigation, Toolillie Gully. Progress report no. 1 - Drilling programme.
Dryland salinisation is degrading land and water resources of Lower Eyre Peninsula. It decreases land production capabilities, water quality, and the general aesthetics of the environment. Interdepartmental investigations into the occurrence and...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1996
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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 98/00010 Regolith studies related to the Challenger gold deposit, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Challenger gold deposit - Volume 1: text, and Volume 2: appendices.
The Challenger gold deposit lies in the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, 750 km NW of Adelaide, and 140 km NW of Tarcoola. A 1.5 km traverse (the regolith line) was chosen for the study of geochemical dispersion and regolith stratigraphy...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 99/00031 Assessment of zinc-lead prospectivity on the Murnaroo Platform and in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
The Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic Officer Basin is located on and adjacent to the northwestern margin of the Gawler Craton. Deposition of the basin began in Adelaidean time, before and during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 98/00019 Spencer Regions strategic water management study.
The availability of adequate water supplies is crucial to future development, particularly in the arid areas of the State. Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), as part of the Spencer Regions Strategic Water Management Study, has...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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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
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RB 92/00016 Image processing over the northwest Gawler Craton.
Image processing of Landsat Thematic Mapper data and their subsequent interpretation have highlighted a zone of potential hydrothermal alteration. A diamond drillhole, Gibraltar 1, tested the western margin of the altered zone, which underlies an...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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RB 94/00014 Soil Air CO2/O2 Project: progress report VIII. Wheal Hughes mine, Moonta.
The soil air CO2/O2 project aims to test the technique over areas of known mineralization in a variety of geological and geographical settings. Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements were made around the south- western end of Wheal Hughes...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1994
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RB 94/00021 Transient electromagnetic survey at Tumby Bay, South Australia.
A transient electromagnetic survey was done over several salina locations at Tumby Bay to assist in evaluating dryland salinity problems. The survey findings were useful in mapping subsurface saline groundwater and basement topography, and clearly...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1994
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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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RB 97/00012 South Australian Steel and Energy Project. Coober Pedy iron ore investigation. Review of previous company exploration on the BILLA KALINA and COOBER PEDY 1:250 000 map sheets.
This report is a summary of company exploration of the Coober Pedy Ridge and Mount Woods Inlier, northern Gawler Craton, for the period until 1993, being information extracted from data on open file with the emphasis on data referring to the iron ore...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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RB 89/00005 Tallaringa Block - Potential for subsurface resources.
Relatively little exploration has been carried out due to the areas remoteness and the cost of exploration and because younger basin sediments have masked craton rocks more prospective for minerals. Recent work by SADME, COMALCO and others, has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989