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Lake Hart. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/9/1980 to 4/9/1982.
Airborne magnetic/radiometric surveys and follow-up gravity surveys carried out in a search for possible Olympic Dam type orebodies have indicated depths to magnetic basement in excess of 1000 m in the Lake Hart area of the Stuart Shelf. The...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1982
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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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The MIM-Peko Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project. Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender and their re-issue as a single replacement tenement, for the period 15/2/1983 to 20/10/1989.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, undertaken over areas to the south-east of Arcoona Homestead and in the vicinity of Woomera township, has comprised numerous reconnaissance and then detailed gravity, ground magnetic and CSAMT...-
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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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RB 38/00016 Report on a geological survey of the ) Prairie barite mine, Hundred of Talunga.
An occurrence of barite mineralisation located in the eastern valley wall of the River Torrens gorge, 16 miles east-northeast of Adelaide, which lies on freehold property and has been privately mined in the past, was inspected in order to gauge its...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1954
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RB 54/00054 Diamond drilling operations, Maralinga - Roadside (Quarry) dolomite.
Ten diamond drill holes were drilled to assess the reserves available for quarrying at the Roadside (Maralinga) Quarry and to test its suitability for concrete and road aggregate. Drilling revealed dolomite reserves of 190,000 cubic yards. Large...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 55/00025 Lightweight aggregate. Laboratory testing of clays and shales.
Results are reported of laboratory firing tests made on 11 shale samples and 4 clay samples, performed in both oxidising and reducing furnace atmospheres for various length heating periods over an extensive fusion temperature range. The bloating...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1962
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RB 57/00100;Amdel 00297 Lightweight aggregate rotary kiln tests.
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Published: 01 Nov 1963
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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 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 82/00080 Nilpena barite deposits - Geological investigations 1978-1979. Out of Counties, Flinders Ranges.
Nilpena deposits comprise no. 1 and 2 lodes and Jim Crowe lode on the western flank of the Flinders Ranges. The no. 1 and 2 lodes cross cut Brachina Formation on the western limb of the Nuccaleena Dome, whereas Jim Crowe lode has been emplaced along...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1982
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RB 76/00142 Nankabunyana barite deposit, Out of Counties, Flinders Ranges.
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Published: 04 Nov 1976
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RB 81/00086 Nankabunyana barite deposit, report no. 2 - Geological investigations in 1979. Out of Counties, Flinders Ranges.
Production was 125 tonnes in 1987 from 2 open cuts. Barite formed in steep fracture zones which cut the bedding of the enclosed siltstone and carbonate rocks of the Wonoka Formation. The white coarsely crystalline barite is iron rich, siliceous and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 83/00087 Patawarta barite deposit, out of Counties, Flinders Ranges.
2 small vertical lodes which cross cut dolomite, contain inferred reserves of 1100 tonnes of oil drilling grade barite. Selective mining should also yield industrial grade, if deeper barite is less iron stained. Neither lode has been worked.-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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RB 80/00146 Oraparinna barite deposits, Howard Lode, Flinders Ranges.
At Howard Lode, adjacent to the extreme SE corner of the Oraparinna Diapir, barite infills steeply dipping fractures within Sturtian Yudnamutana Subgroup. Sediments have been folded around the diapir, and barite veins are parallel to the axial plane...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 81/00079 Oraparinna barite deposits, Bowering Lodes, Flinders Ranges. ML 4321, out of Hundreds, County Taunton.
Over 12 000 tonnes of barite have been produced, 11 km SSW of Oraparinna Barite Mine in Class B Environmental area. 4000 tonnes remain in blocks, fragmented sheets and shallow dipping veins + 10 000 tonnes if deepened, and 2500 tonnes inferred east of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 76/00130 Barite deposits near Mount John, Out of Counties Flinders Ranges, ML 4319 and 4320 - J.H. Coad.
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Published: 14 Oct 1976
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RB 80/00138 Oraparinna barite deposits, Bairstow and Tom Hill lodes, Flinders Ranges, ML 4305, Out of Hundreds, County Taunton.
From 1973 - 1978, 2000 tonnes of barite were produced from Bairstow Lodes and 16 tonnes in 1966 from nearby Tom Hill Lode. The lodes were mapped, surveyed and sampled. The steep barite lodes have formed in a fractured zone which cuts the enclosing...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
