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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 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 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 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 89/00021 Geophysical appraisal of potential field data and exploration potential for base metals in the Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island.
This is a combined study of the regional geochemical stream sediment, regional aeromagnetic and Bouguer gravity data with special reference to possible Pb-Zn mineralised zones. The original Asarco geochemical data was statistically reprocessed and the...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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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 90/00041 Possible lamprophyric rocks from the Truro district, South Australia.
Interpreted sodic madupite and fitzroyite extrusive rock specimens sampled from east of Truro contain phlogopite phenocrysts of lamprophyric type in a felsic groundmass. The groundmass is composed of alkaline minerals, both saturated feldspars and...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1990
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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 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 92/00041 Dryland salinisation, southern Mount Lofty Ranges. Progress report 1 drilling programme.
Between February and April 1991, 7 deep investigation wells were drilled at 4 separate sites in the southern Mt Lofty Ranges. Each well was constructed with either single, dual or triple completion piezometers, depending upon the groundwater...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1994
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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 88/00024 Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Carrickalinga Head Formation, Kanmantoo Group in South Australia.
This paper is the first detailed study of the nature, origin and depositional setting of the Early Cambrian Carrickalinga Head Formation, the basal unit of the Kanmantoo Group. It is a study of a submarine delta fan system. The unit rests conformably...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1988
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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 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
