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RB 90/00073 Mintabie Opalfield mining and geology.
Mintabie Opalfield, one of the most important production centres in Australia, was discovered in the early 1920s but mining only began in earnest in 1976. Precious opal is confined to Mintabie beds, a kaolinitic sandstone of presumed Ordovician Age,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1990
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ExpNotes BARTON: Explanatory Notes BARTON, SH 53-09.
Shallow Precambrian crystalline basement underlies the greater part of the BARTON 1:250 000 map area. Thicker Neoproterozoic, Cambrian and Carboniferous Permian sediments occur in the northwest, with the southern margin bounded by the Karari Fault...-
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RB 2007/00011 Original full content version of] OOLDEA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH52-12. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The OOLDEA 1:250 000 map area, in the far west of SA, includes portions of the Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Lands, Maralinga Prohibited Area, and Nullarbor Regional Reserve. It is traversed by the Trans-Australian Railway. There is no significant...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Aston Hill (part of the Nawa Domain Project). Annual report and final report to licence surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 4/6/2015.
No work - reports only contain comments about the Project area's perceived prospectivity.-
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Published: 07 Sep 2015
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Noorina - Area 2. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 11/10/2012 to 3/10/2014.
An area centred ~200 km north of Cook has been explored for possible buried heavy mineral sands (HM) marine placer accumulations that may have formed along a topographic high that is geographically situated immediately north of the Ooldea Range, and...-
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Published: 19 Aug 2014
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Interpreted [solid] geology of the eastern Coompana Province, 1:500 000 scale.
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Published: 01 Nov 2018
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Northern Gawler Province regional geology 3D Model (GOCAD version 1).
Large potential field anomalies can be observed in the Marla region of northern South Australia, and have been used to define the northern limit of the Gawler Craton. The subject project’s aim was to model the plausible source(s) for each of those...-
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Northern Gawler Province regional geology 3D Model (3D pdf version 1)
Large potential field anomalies can be observed in the Marla region of northern South Australia, and have been used to define the northern limit of the Gawler Craton. The subject project’s aim was to model the plausible source(s) for each of those...-
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3D cover map for the eastern Gawler Craton IOCG province (including Emmie Bluff area detailed map). (3D pdf version).
The eastern Gawler Craton hosts the giant Olympic Dam iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposit, as well as several other world class IOCG deposits (i.e. Prominent Hill and Carrapateena). The region is covered by a thick sequence of...-
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3D cover map for the eastern Gawler Craton IOCG province (including Emmie Bluff area detailed map). (GOCAD version).
The eastern Gawler Craton hosts the giant Olympic Dam iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposit, as well as several other world class IOCG deposits (i.e. Prominent Hill and Carrapateena). The region is covered by a thick sequence of...-
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RB 2022/00011 Eucla Basin and peripheral paleovalleys.
The Cenozoic Eucla Basin is located on the southern margin of the Australian continent, with a present-day basin onshore edge which extends for over 2,000 km from Western Australia into South Australia. The basin’s sediment fill comprises a thin...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2022
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Tallaringa North - Manya Bore area (part of the Nawa Domain Project). Annual report and final report to licence surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 4/6/2015.
No work - reports only contain comments about the Project area's perceived prospectivity.-
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Published: 07 Sep 2015
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Great Victoria Desert - Alinya area (part of the Nawa Domain Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 24/6/2016.
An area centred ~145 km west-northwest of Coober Pedy, and extending northwards for ~40 km from near the Anne Beadell Highway, has been explored for possible buried economic mineralisation that may occur in basement rocks of the Gawler Craton and the...-
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Published: 05 Oct 2016
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Observatory Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/1/1982.
Possible diamondiferous kimberlite intrusions, and also economic base metals in the Cambrian bedrock strata, were the targets of exploration carried out in the Observatory Hill area, located approximately 250 km west of Coober Pedy. Initially, a 6200...-
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RB 2003/00021 Musgrave Province - Geological summary and exploration history.
The Musgrave Province is largely incorporated within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands and includes cratonic crystalline middle Proterozoic basement rocks of the Musgrave Province proper, as well as mantling younger sedimentary rock successions...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2003
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RB 2004/00012 Deposition and chemical composition of Early Cambrian salt in the eastern Officer Basin, South Australia
In South Australia, Cambrian massive salt deposits of the eastern Officer Basin occur in troughs lying along the western and north-western margins of the Gawler Craton, and are considered to have been deposited in marginal to open marine environments....-
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Published: 01 Jul 2004
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RB 2018/00025 Mintabie opal resource evaluation: Current value of opal resources and projected value of undiscovered resources.
A detailed spatial analysis recently performed by the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) shows that at Mintabie, after approximately 40 years of mining carried out to look for opal, an area totalling less than 2 square km has been...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2018
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RB 2018/00036 Regional geochemistry of the Coompana area.
The Coompana area is characterised by several thick basin cover sequences dominantly composed of limestone, and forms the topographically flat Nullarbor Plain. Consequently, this region was previously considered too challenging for mineral...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2018
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RB 2019/00012 Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 4A, Barton – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models
This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2019
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RB 2019/00013 Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 4B, Fowler – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models
This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2019
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