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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 97/00015 Angas Strathburn prospects. Comparison of mobile metal ion versus standard soil geochemistry.
A Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) geochemical survey was conducted over known Pb-Zn-Ag-Au mineralisation within Cambrian Kanmantoo Group metasediments of the Tapanappa Formation at the Angas prospect near Strathalbyn, South Australia. A similar survey was...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1997
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RB 91/00023 Geological investigations and drilling, Parndana area Kangaroo Island, 1989- 1990.
During the period December 1989 to March 1990, exploratory drilling undertaken by SADME Mineral Resources Branch over the northern part of Kangaroo Island investigated the potential for base and precious metal mineralisation within rocks of the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 91/00025 Mount Rufus 1. Well completion report.
Fully HQ/NQ cored SADME stratigraphic drillhole Mount Rufus 1 was sited on the western margin of the Karinya Syncline to investigate the nature of the Adelaidean - Early Cambrian Normanville Group contact, and the mineral potential of the area. It...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 91/00029 Kanmantoo Trough geological investigations, Karinya Syncline, Truro lamprophyres.
A lamprophyre province has been identified in the Truro area comprising numerous dykes and at least one diatreme. The regional extent of the province has not been determined. The lamprophyre dykes, of the calc-alkaline suite and classed as minette,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 92/00069 Kanmantoo Trough investigations. Lady Jane mine.
The Lady Jane Gold Mine, located 8 km NE of Callington, consists of an arsenic and gold rich quartz vein lode, within the Cambrian Tapanappa Formation. Arsenopyrite was reported to be the principal ore mineral, with supergene copper in places. The...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1992
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RB 93/00053 South Australian resources. Technical sessions. Abstracts.
Abstracts include: Conference presentation summary for the 1993 MESA BARTON and Colona drilling programmes (both forming part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative) - [technical rationale, planned drillholes and preliminary results]....-
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Published: 03 Dec 1993
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RB 91/00092 Metallic mineral occurrence trends on Kangaroo Island - An interpretation of MINDEP data.
Metallic mineral occurrence summaries entered into the MINDEP data base were reviewed to determine whether sufficient detail is being entered to categorise the occurrences and define mineral trends. Four distinct mineral assemblages were identified...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1991
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RB 92/00006 Southeastern margin of the Gawler Craton.
The Cygnet-Snelling Fault Zone on Kangaroo Island is a fundamental structure that both influenced sedimentation during the Cambrian, and refined the boundary between major tectonic provinces during the Delamerian Orogeny. It is coincident with the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1992
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RB 92/00003 Field guide to stratigraphy and structure of Early Palaeozoic rocks in eastern South Australia and western Victoria.
The SA excursion is designed to illustrate the stratigraphy, sedimentology and, to a lesser extent, because of time constraints, structure of the Kanmantoo Group. The Victorian excursion traverses the Glenelg and Stawell geological zones. The eastern...-
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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 95/00041 Commodity review. Copper and gold in South Australia.
The giant Olympic Dam deposit has a total resource of about 2 200 million tonnes grading 1.4% Cu, 0.5 kg/t U3O8, 0.5 g/t Au and 3.1 g/t Ag. Development of Olympic Dam, with current annual production of 67 000 t of copper and further expansion...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1995
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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 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 91/00033 Preliminary investigation of Landsat satellite and aerial photography Karinya Syncline, Kanmantoo Trough, South Australia.
Two structural regimes have been identified from Landsat Multi Spectral Scanner imagery covering Adelaide and the Mount Lofty Ranges: - a thrust terrain in the Adelaidean metasedimentary sequence; - the major Kanmantoo Shear Zone affecting the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 91/00034 Mineral occurrences of Kangaroo Island - A MINDEP database pilot project.
MINDEP, an ORACLE-based mineral deposit database system, was procured from the BMR and substantially modified. A pilot project was undertaken to trial the revised system. Forty three mineral occurrences, both metallic and non-metallic, have been...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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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 90/00068 Geological investigations and drilling on Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, 1989.
In 1989, drilling investigated the potential for base metals within the Cambrian Kanmantoo Group and Late Proterozoic Sturt Group and Marino Group. On mainland, SA, Kanmantoo Group metasediments host Ag As Cu Pb Zn mineralization which has been...-
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Published: 01 Jan 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
