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RB 2013/00019 Characteristics of porphyry Cu deposits and their potential as exploration targets in South Australia.
Porphyry Cu-(Au-Mo) deposits are typically large tonnage (>150 Mt) and low grade (<1% Cu) deposits which tend to occur in clusters, and the potential for discovering giant-sized such deposits makes them valuable exploration targets. Worldwide,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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RB 2013/00010 Sm-Nd and Hf isotopic data of the Tieyon (5645) 1:100 000 mapsheet.
This report presents whole rock Sm-Nd and Hf in zircon results for 31 samples from the Tieyon 1:100 000 mapsheet area of the Musgrave Province, South Australia, acquired over the period 2007–2012 as part of the Musgrave Province mapping program. It is...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2013
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RB 2014/00005 WINTINNA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SG53-14. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The WINTINNA 1:250 000 mapsheet area lies between latitudes 27° to 28° South and longitudes 133°30’ to 135°00’ East. This ~16 400 square km area includes the Marla and Cadney Park settlements, and is crossed by the Stuart Highway and Adelaide to...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2015
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RB 2012/00012 PACE Geochronology: Results of collaborative geochronology projects, 2011-2012.
This report presents the results of geochronology from projects completed during 2011 and 2012, which addressed rock samples collected from a number of different geological provinces within South Australia. The Musgrave Province in northern South...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2012
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RB 2013/00011 Geology of the Tieyon 1:100 000 map sheet (5645).
The Tieyon 1:100 000 mapsheet area is located on the South Australia – Northern Territory border in the central Far North of South Australia. It covers rock units of the Mesoproterozoic Musgrave Province, the Mesozoic Eromanga Basin and the Neogene...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2013
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RB 2016/00021 Investigating the potential for bedrock aquifers in the APY Lands.
Water is a valuable commodity in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, which has traditionally been sourced from palaeovalley sands, calcrete, and alluvial and aeolian sediments, as well as from the onlapping sediments of the Officer...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2016
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RB 2013/00016 A user's guide to migmatites.
Migmatites are complex, high-grade crystalline rocks that have formed by partial melting. They have been recognised within the crustal rock record across most of geological time, are seen to be developed in various tectonic settings, and can affect a...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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RB 2000/00006 Indulkana town water supply drilling and discharge testing, 1998.
Aerial photography, satellite imagery, geological maps and on-ground geological and geophysical (transient electromagnetic) investigations were used in early 1998 to select drilling sites for additional water wells to supply Indulkana township in the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2000
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Australian Mineral Development Laboratories' investigation of the Mount Davies nickel deposits. Progress reports nos 1 to 4 for the period June-December 1966, and subsequent activity reports for the period January-December 1967.
Reports deal with the start of a complex laboratory investigation to trace the petrological development of possibly economic supergene nickel deposits discovered in the Mount Davies area, and to study the unusual mineralogy of the ferruginous ochres...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1967
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RB 2008/00001 Primary Industries and Resources SA, the University of Adelaide, and Monash University - Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Programme : 2007 Reporting Day (Adelaide, SA, 23 January 2008). Presentation abstracts volume.
Includes abstracts with the following titles: 1) Deep crustal architecture and Moho depth offset beneath the Musgrave Province defined by a high resolution gravity survey (Alan Aitken - presenter, Peter Betts and Daniel Gray) 2) Palaeoproterozoic...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2008
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RB 2013/00006 SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of the Tieyon (5645) 1:100 000 mapsheet.
This report presents SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology results for 21 samples from the Musgrave Province, South Australia, acquired over the period 2007-2012 as part of the Tieyon 1:100 000 mapsheet (5645) mapping program. Some of the work (done on all...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2013
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Mount Treloar (NW of Oodnadatta). Progress and final reports for the period 30/6/80 to 29/12/80.
Follow-up investigations of possible buried channel redox front uranium mineralization on the edge of the Eromanga Basin, in the vicinity of the SA-NT border, included a geophysical and structural interpretation of available data, the drilling and...-
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Published: 23 Feb 1981
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Improvement in groundwater supplies at the communities of Kalka, Amata, Mimili and Kenmore Park, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands, South Australia.
The community water supplies at Kalka, Mimili and Kenmore Park in recent times were insufficient for emergencies, while the wells at Amata were in poor condition. In this remedial work program, drilling of three new wells at Kalka has doubled the...-
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Mount Willoughby. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/7/1997 to 17/7/2000.
An airborne geophysical survey carried out over an area spanning the Stuart Highway environs, 60-80 km south of Marla, searching for possible buried outliers of the Musgrave Block, revealed a few weak uranium radiometric and inferred deep (> 400 m)...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1900
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Bitchera Hill (part of Abminga Diamond Project). Partial surrender report for the period 8/7/1996 to February 2002.
Reprocessing and reinterpretation of regional aeromagnetic data indicate that much of the tenement, located approximately 90 km north-east of Marla, does not contain targets of interest.-
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Published: 19 Feb 1902
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Mount Howe, Mount Mead and Tieyon areas (East Musgrave Project). Annual and final report for the period 15/1/98 to 9/9/99.
As part of a search for possible concealed nickel-copper-cobalt sulphide mineralisation of Voisey Bay type buried within the Giles Complex at the eastern end of the Musgrave Ranges, Landsat and aeromagnetic interpretation of the mid-Proterozoic...-
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North Deering Hills (Yalukula and Palatu). Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 20/10/1995 to 6/9/2003.
Mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Proterozoic Giles Complex, which have intruded highly metamorphosed basement units of the Musgrave Block in an area 380 km WNW of Marla, were considered to have potential to host massive Ni sulphide mineralisation,...-
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Warrataddy Hill and Eringa areas (part of Abminga Diamond Project). First partial surrender reports for the period 8/7/1996 to 7/7/2001.
Re-processing of regional aeromagnetic data from certain areas of licences located approximately 100 km north-east of Marla did not reveal any anomalies of interest for locating possible buried kimberlite or lamproite bodies.-
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Published: 09 Oct 1901
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Mount Dutton (part of Abminga Diamond Project). Annual and final reports for the period 9/11/99 to 8/11/2001.
No new work - description of regional geology of project area only.-
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Published: 02 Oct 1901
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Mount Howe. First partial surrender report, for the period 26/9/1994 to 15/4/1997.
Exploration over the eastern flank of the Musgrave Block to the north of De Rose Hill, for potential buried Giles Complex layered intrusive bodies, comprised SAEI data interpretation, airborne magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic surveys, ground...-
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