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RB 60/00064 O'Donoghues Castle copper prospect, Balcanoona Station.
Irregular oxidised orebodies up to about 3 feet thick, containing copper carbonates, quartz, sphaerocobaltite (cobalt carbonate) and wad (hydrated manganese oxide), occupy both shear zones aligned parallel with bedding, and crush zones developed...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1965
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RB 60/00071 (Report on the) Ukaparinga (Unaparinga) copper mine, Williamstown.
Copper carbonates are sporadically distributed throughout steeply dipping mica schist in a zone up to about 70 ft. wide. The host rocks have been regarded as overturned metamorphosed Burra Group (Torrensian) beds resting on the Aldgate Sandstone...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1965
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RB 60/00090 Middle River Dam, Kangaroo Island. Proposed quarry for concrete aggregate. Geological investigation, 4th May 1965, report.
A possible quarrying site for concrete aggregate, within Upper Cambrian quartzites exposed in a cliff located half a mile downstream from the Middle River Dam site, was previously described briefly in the progress report on Middle River Dam dated...-
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Published: 07 May 1965
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RB 60/00101 Reconnaissance for scheelite deposits in the Sir Joseph Banks Group of islands (undertaken during January and March 1964).
In the Sir Joseph Banks Group of southern Spencer Gulf offshore islands, outcropping Archaean arenaceous, arkosic and calcareous sedimentary rocks appear to have been folded and granitised prior to the deposition of the Adelaidean System sedimentary...-
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Published: 21 May 1965
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RB 42/00116 Availability of large stone for breakwater at Outer Harbour.
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 44/00019 Diamond drilling for road making materials - Mount Compass.
Three diamond holes drilled on the southern slopes of Mt Compass in a search for road-making aggregate encountered variably banded calc-silicate rocks, syenitic types and pegmatites of the Lower Proterozoic Barossa Complex. The required volume of fair...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 41/00134 Mineral investigations in the Mount Painter region. Progress report.
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Published: 06 Jan 1956
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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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RB 47/00020 Subsurface stratigraphy of the Maralinga area, South Australia
Logging of sludge samples taken from 18 water bores drilled in an area of previously unknown stratigraphy located between Watson and Maralinga has established a sequence of about 1000 feet of Marinoan shales and sandstones resting on diorite. These...-
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Published: 23 Jul 1958
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RB 77/00015 Oodla Wirra palygorskite deposit, MC 789, Rocla Industries Ltd, secn 132 Hd Coglin, Co. Herbert.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 78/00117 Bumbarlow 1 - Well completion report.
Bumbarlow 1 (TD 720.33 m) aimed to test the lithology and petroleum potential of the Cambrian section in the central part of the eastern Arrowie Basin. It continuously cored a sequence over 300 m thick of flat-lying Proterozoic sediments interbedded...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1978
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RB 78/00109 Geophysical study of the Broughton area in Wallaroo and Blyth 1:100 000 sheet areas.
An interpretation of the results of detailed gravity surveys and of drilling data obtained from stratigraphic drillholes Tickera DDH 1 and 2 and Wokurna DDH 1 - 3 indicates that basement consisting of metamorphic rocks subcrops shallowly west of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00136 Geochronological investigations of the Willyama Complex, South Australia.
Attempts to date granites and metamorphics within the Outalpa (Willyaman) Inlier of South Australia were made in order to determine isotopic ages of events within the Proterozoic Olarian Orogeny. Two conformable adamellitic to granodioritic gneisses...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 79/00128 Potential sealing aggregate sites for the Stuart Highway.
Aggregate for sealing the Stuart Highway will be required to be sourced from three main areas (localities a-c below) in addition to the existing quarry at Woocalla. Within these areas eleven potential sites have been nominated, from which three or...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00021 Geochemical reconnaissance of the Gawler Range Volcanics (YARDEA, GAIRDNER, TARCOOLA and PORT AUGUSTA).
The Gawler Range Volcanics show only trace amounts of molybdenum, silver and tin. In the Tarcoola area, significant amounts of tin in altered granite near Warna Rock Hole and high silver and lead values at Pinding Rocks are worthy of follow up....-
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Published: 01 Apr 1980
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RB 81/00100 Geology of Hart, Fenelon and Masillon Islands of the Nuyts Archipelago NUYTS 1:250 000 map sheet.
Flow banded, porphyritic acid volcanics (similar in age to the Gawler Range Volcanics) occur on Hart Island. Xenolithic within the volcanics is pink leucogranite, about 1550 Ma. Synchronous with the volcanics are grey, leucocratic alkali granites....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 83/00082 Proterozoic intrusives, Streaky Bay area.
The intrusives are dominated by granite, N - S oriented diorite dykes up to 50 metres wide, and late stage aplitic and pegmatitic veins with variable orientation. A Middle Proterozoic age is indicated for some of the granitoids, which were probably...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1983
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RB 84/00013 Wilgena 1. Well completion report.
Wilgena 1 (TD 973 m) penetrated 964 m into Tarcoola Formation within the Wilgena Sub-basin, without encountering magnetic basement. Thin dacitic to basaltic tuffs and basaltic flows, interbedded with carbonaceous siltstones, indicate contemporaneous...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1984
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RB 84/00061 Petrography of four specimens of igneous rock from Nairne.
Minor intrusives, of Early to Late Cambrian age, intruding Kanmantoo Group sediments, are strongly amphibolitised.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1984
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RB 86/00030 Petrography and properties as a building stone of the Long Ridge granite.
The Long Ridge granite (informal names Sienna Granite, Sienna Brown and Sedan Granite) is fine to medium grained, probably crystallized under shallow cover. 15 samples are described to illustrate false variation, weathering alteration, fracturing,...-
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Published: 01 May 1986
