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Oakbank Dam (part of the Lodestone Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2010 to 1/8/2016.
An area centred ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for buried mineral sands placer deposits that may have formed within the Cainozoic Murray Basin sedimentary cover, as well as for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences that...-
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1997 to 15/10/2013.
A block comprising 319 square km or ~12.7% of the north-western corner of EL 5223 has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for containing economic heavy mineral sands mineralisation, due to the apparent general absence...-
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Yednalue. Data release made in lieu of making a first partial surrender at licence expiry/renewal : annual reports for the period 24/9/2001 to 12/2/2012.
A small area centred approximately 70 km north of Orroroo is being explored for possible buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform or stratabound epithermal/hydrothermal copper and gold deposits, and for placer gold or magnetite deposits, as well as...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1912
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RB 2004/00002 New palynological data from diamond trench samples-with implication for diamond exploration in South Australia
Palynological analyses of two trench regolith samples obtained from the Pine Creek and Chapel Hill diamond exploration licence areas in South Australia show distinctive microfloristic assemblages. Both samples are dated Late Miocene into Early...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2004
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RB 2002/00024 Sequence analysis and petroleum potential in the Arrowie Basin, South Australia.
Cambrian sediments in the Arrowie Basin were deposited on a rifted continental margin. Four distinct depositional regimes, ranging from a western, tectonically stable shelf, through platform-ramp to eastern slope and trough-synclines, can be...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2003
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RB 2004/00021 Palynostratigraphy of the sediments from Meadows Bore 1, Meadows Basin, and other diamond exploration sites from Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
Palynological analyses of samples from Meadows Bore 1 indicate the presence of Late Miocene to Early Pliocene sediments, correlated with the Monotocidites galeatus Zone. At the base of the Tertiary interval examined it appears that a wet rainforest...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2004
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RB 31/00104 Slates for brick making - One Tree Hill.
A shallow bedrock drilling programme, to assist in the search for suitable brickmaking material close to Salisbury, disclosed somewhat impure and highly weathered clay slates under masking soil cover in the vicinity of One Tree Hill. Laboratory tests...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1951
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RB 2016/00013 Geological field excursion guide — Rifts, reverse faults and regolith: Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic geology in the Mid-North of South Australia.
The rolling hills, wheat paddocks and vineyards of the Mid-North region of South Australia conceal a geological transition between the Adelaide Hills and the Flinders Ranges. Here the landscape is subtly controlled by the Neoproterozoic bedrock...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2016
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RB 2000/00018 Exploring ancient landscapes. Workshop abstracts.
Abstracts to PAPERS: - Baker, A.K.M. - Metal geochemistry of regolith in the Mount Lofty Ranges and associated alluvial fans on the Adelaide Plains. - Belperio, A.P. and Freeman, H. - Exploration using gold and base metal pathfinders in calcareous...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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Willouran Ranges. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/7/1974 to 22/7/1975.
Exploration for possible economic Zambian Copperbelt - type stratabound copper deposits which may have formed within the northern Willouran Ranges has consisted of the acquisition of 1:25,000 scale aerial photographs, the conduct of limited regional...-
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RB 2017/00016 The Adelaide Rift Complex in the Flinders Ranges: geologic history, past investigations and relevant analogues.
The Adelaide Rift Complex, a sedimentary basin in South Australia, has a long history spanning over 300 million years from the Neoproterozoic to the Cambrian. Over 100 individual formations make up the basin fill, documenting its geologic evolution...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2017
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Ninnes. Combined first annual / final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/6/1997 to 18/6/1998.
A 79 m deep RC drillhole sited on an aeromagnetic and calcrete geochemical anomaly located south of Bute returned anomalous zinc from Cambrian limestone over the depth interval 14-26 m (the best grade being 1 m @ 1802 ppm from 16 m depth). No...-
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Beltana - Puttapa region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/8/1972 to 2/8/1974.
Geological mapping and the interpretation of drillhole data from the vicinity of the recently defined Southern orebody extension at Beltana (including 4 new diamond holes totalling 1600 feet) has enabled the licensee to formulate likely parameters of...-
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Published: 13 Feb 1975
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Ediacara. Annual and final reports to licence expiry, for the period 14/7/1992 to 13/7/1997.
Possible Century or Neves-Corvo style stratabound and barite - associated, thinly bedded lead-zinc-copper sulphide/sulphate mineralisation existing in Late Precambrian to Lower Palaeozoic marine sediments of the Adelaide Geosyncline, was the target of...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1999
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Ediacara Range. Partial surrender report for the period ending January 1998.
Relinquished portions of the EL were considered to have low potential for economically viable Mississippi Valley-type lead mineralisation similar to that occurring at the Ediacara Mineral Field, a conclusion based on the outcome of literature...-
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Oulnina Park. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/1/1990 to 14/6/1993.
Auriferous quartz/haematite/manganese oxide veins within fine-grained Upper Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks in the Benda Range area, 15 km south-southeast of Mannahill, were investigated by regional surface rock chip geochemical sampling, costeaning...-
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Warrakimbo. Progress reports and annual reports to licence surrender, for the period 31/10/1995 to 30/1/1999.
Mapping in the vicinity of the Warrakimbo mine and Rainy Day prospect, approximately 30 km west of Hawker, has indicated that altered dolomitic members of the Etina Formation are the most prospective hosts for specular haematite mineralisation, which...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1999
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Willouran Ranges and Leigh Creek North. Joint venture - related individual licence annual reports, partial surrender reports and final reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period June 1998 to 18/11/2003.
A partly defined magnesite resource thought to be of the order of 579 million tonnes in size, consisting of a series of semi-continuously outcropping magnesite beds ranging in thickness from 0.5 m to 9.0 m, is situated within the northern Flinders...-
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