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RB 92/00001 Geological and geomorphological framework of Kangaroo Island.
The framework of Kangaroo Island was largely established during the Cambrian, when widespread marine sedimentation resulted in thick accumulations of shallow shelf to deep marine terrigenous sediments. Orogenesis has deformed the strata into an...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1992
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RB 92/00002 Geophysical appraisal of northern Kangaroo Island.
Crystalline basement of the Gawler Craton continues further southwards than previously interpreted, extending under northern Kangaroo Island. Depths to basement range from 200 metres near Emu Bay, and approximately 250-750 metres inland from Cape...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1992
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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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RB 96/00040 Resources '96 Convention. Kanmantoo tectonics, sedimentology and metallogeny excursion. Field guide.
An integrated scientific research program addressing structural, sedimentological and metallogenic aspects of basin evolution has been conducted in the Kanmantoo Trough for the past three years. Joint collaboration in this program involved MESA, the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1996
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RB 88/00047 Milendella Limestone Member (Early Cambrian, Kanmantoo Group), a stratigraphic marker horizon in the Karinya Syncline.
The description, formal definition and correlation of a prominent limestone marker unit, Milendella Limestone Member, that characterises the Early Cambrian Carrickalinga Head Formation (Kanmantoo Group) in the Karinya Syncline, NE of Adelaide is...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1988
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RB 89/00074 Industrial and non metallic minerals - Operations in South Australia.
This data package discusses mining and processing operations of the major non metallic and industrial mineral commodities in South Australia and is of interest to those in the industry and to manufacturers and suppliers of a range of machinery and...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 90/00043 Rocks from the area of lamproite intrusion near Truro, SA.
Rocks which in the field appear to be emplaced as dykes or lava flows have been found to be altered and weathered, and include metasediments and laterites or gossans. Rocks of probable igneous origin include basaltic and doleritic types. Only one...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1990
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RB 95/00020 Coomandook bedrock drilling programme, 1994.
The Cambro-Ordovician basement underlying Murray Basin sediments in the Cooke Plains and Coomandook areas was sampled by a reverse circulation drilling programme as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative. Greenschist to low amphibolite...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1995
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RB 96/00032 Mount Barker Creek 1. Well completion report.
Mount Barker Creek 1 was drilled by MESA Mineral Provinces Branch at a location 30 km southeast of Adelaide during May 1994 to test a model of stratiform lead-zinc mineralisation within the Kanmantoo Trough, and to confirm the composition and...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1996
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RB 90/00067 Brief exploratory survey of lithological variation in part of the Kanmantoo Group in the south of Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia.
The Madigan Inlet Member of the Kanmantoo Group at Carrickalinga Head and Myponga contains angular clasts of quartz, fresh feldspar and muscovite, altered feldspar and a range of lithic grains in a micaceous matrix. Grain sizes are unsorted below 0.2...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1990
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RB 91/00110 Mafic dykes in the eastern Mount Lofty Ranges and Barossa Valley, South Australia. An excursion guide.
Mafic dykes and granitoid intrusions were emplaced around the southeastern margins of the Adelaide Foldbelt immediately prior to, during and following the Cambro-Ordovician (ca 500 Ma) Delamerian Orogeny, but are relatively uncommon elsewhere within...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1990
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RB 93/00030 Lamprophyres and inclusions from the Truro-Frankton area.
Two specimens of lamproite from the Truro-Frankton area were examined for possible indicator minerals. A specimen from Schneiders Gossan contains apatite and one from Truro itself contains sparse rutile. Both minerals will be analysed by microprobe...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1993
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Mount Mary and Swan Reach (the Coonalpyn Project). Joint final report at licences' full surrender, for the period 8/7/2005 to 16/8/2005.
Exploration for possible buried volcanosedimentary - hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) or sedimentary - exhalative (sedex) type metallic mineral deposits, within Cambrian metasedimentary and igneous extrusive strata of the Kanmantoo Trough underlying...-
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Coonalpyn (part of the Coonalpyn Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/10/2006 to 15/10/2008.
To investigate the possible Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide mineralisation potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, as well as exploring for base metal mineralisation...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1908
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-50, Black Hill JV Project area mafic/ultramafic intrusion - hosted nickel sulphide mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
In the area of the Black Hill Cambro-Ordovician layered basic intrusive complex located between Cambrai, Swan Reach and Florieton, Inco Resources identified six geophysical (density contrast and magnetic) anomalies, interpreted as being closely...-
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Published: 06 Dec 1906
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Koonunga limestone prospect (near Nuriootpa). Final technical and rehabilitation report on exploration drilling, for the period 6/6/2005 to 5/4/2006.
The Koonunga limestone prospect occurs within the Cambrian Kapunda Marble, which forms part of the Kanmantoo Trough metasedimentary sequence deposited on the eastern side of the Adelaide Geosyncline. The limestone outcrop of interest is located...-
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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal [part]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 28/4/1992 to 31/7/1999. [Index Part 2 of 3].
When a third joint venture was entered into with Aberfoyle Resources Limited who assumed management of the tenement, the exploration targets changed to syngenetic, stratiform base metal sulphides hosted by gahnite-garnet meta-exhalatives. The...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1996
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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal [part] : progress reports for the period 28/4/1989 to 27/4/1992. [Index Part 1 of 3].
Exploration for gold in the eastern Adelaide Hills, in an area of Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments stretching from Kanmantoo in the south to Mount Rhine in the north, was undertaken initially by licence farminee East West Minerals utilising regional...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1992
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Tintinara. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2005 to 17/1/2009.
Exploration of an area located in the south-eastern Kanmantoo Trough aimed to discover a giant stratabound sedex, skarn or sandstone-hosted silver-lead-zinc-copper deposit by drilling into previously untested stratiform and low amplitude or reversely...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1909
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Ki Ki (part of the Coonalpyn Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 17/1/2009.
To investigate the possible Cu-Ni-PGE mineral sulphide mineralisation potential of a known buried mafic / ultramafic layered igneous intrusive complex situated within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Trough near Ki Ki in the upper South-East, the licensee and...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1909
