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Red Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/2/1978 to 2/1/1983.
Exploration undertaken on ground situated east of Pernatty Lagoon has included the acquisition of extensive ground magnetic and gravity surveys plus a small aerial magnetic and radiometric survey, and performing many specific gravity and magnetic...-
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RB 83/00010 Petrology of three kaolin-rich rock specimens, Cultana area.
Three specimens of kaolin-rich rocks from the Cultana area were examined. One specimen is distinguished by cross-bedded, highly angular quartz and is probably Adelaidean in age. Identification of the other two specimens is uncertain.-
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Published: 01 Feb 1983
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RB 85/00035 Stratigraphic classification of sediments from inliers in the Curdimurka area.
17 specimens from Proterozoic inliers in Cretaceous sediments were identified as Skillogalee Dolomite, and others tentatively as Witchelina Quartzite, Simmens Quartzite and Corraberra Sandstone.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1985
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RB 79/00006 Opal at the Stuart Creek, Charlie Swamp and Yarrawurta Cliff diggings. Report no. 12 on geological investigations and Calweld drilling of the Stuart Creek Precious Stones Field.
Small quantities of precious opal have been mined from sediments of the Early Cretaceous Marree Formation at Stuart Creek, 50 km north of Andamooka. These sediments appear to have been unaffected by the Early Tertiary deep weathering and bleaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00135 Aquarium rock - Island Lagoon, MC 1254.
MC1254, the northern shore of Island Lagoon, contains weathered Corraberra Sandstone Member of the Tent Hill Formation (Adelaidean). Ferruginuous case hardening along polygonal joint sets results in unusual shaped rock fragments. Cavernous honeycombed...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1980
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RB 80/00134 Aquarium rock - Lake Hart, EML 4554.
Rock with honeycombed cavernous shapes, sold as ornamental stone for aquariums, occurs on the western shore of Lake Hart. The rock has formed by surface weathering of the Corraberra Sandstone Member, part of the Tent Hill Formation of Adelaidean age....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 89/00035 Petrography and interpretation of lower Adelaidean sediments in drillholes near Port Pirie.
Thirty-five thin sections prepared from stored North Broken Hill drill cores indicate that conglomeratic sandstones classified as Emeroo Subgroup, and red siltstones classified as Callanna Group, could alternatively be lateral equivalents of 1 major...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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AMIRA Project P544: Proterozoic sediment-hosted copper deposits. Quarterly progress reports and final report for the period July 2000 to October 2003.
The original objectives of this project were: 1) To understand the processes responsible for transporting, concentrating and fixing copper and other ore constituents during sedimentary basin evolution 2) To document the various stages and paragenesis...-
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Revision of the McLeay Beds, Mount Gunson area, South Australia.
In this report all aspects of the paradoxical McLeay Beds are reviewed. A stratigraphic revision which should eliminate the problems encountered in attempting to classify this formation is herein proposed, whereby two new stratigraphic units, to be...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Oak Dam North-east. Annual reports for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
A relatively large but little-explored area of the central-eastern Stuart Shelf, which is almost wholly covered by scrubby sand dunes and swampy salt lakes, thereby making surface access very difficult despite it being located only ~30 km to 50 km km...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1911
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Woomera and Wirrappa. Annual reports and first joint annual report, plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/11/2018.
Two adjacent areas located immediately south and east of Woomera township were taken up to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence...-
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Published: 07 Jan 1919
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Data release - as updated : Lucas Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/2011 to 30/7/2019.
An area centred ~25 km south-east of Woomera township is being explored for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation that may be related to a poorly defined gravity anomaly and associated magnetic anomaly in the vicinity of Lucas Hill. A...-
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Published: 05 Aug 1919
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Woomera. Second partial surrender report, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/1/2017.
An area located immediately south of Woomera township has been acquired to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence of the Stuart...-
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Uro Bluff [latterly with Cultana and Tregolana]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to the full surrender of EL 1003 Uro Bluff, for the period 13/3/1980 to 15/1/1985.
Exploration which aimed to test the base of the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation for economic sedimentary copper deposits has included 10 rotary drillholes (total 1731.8 m), notably with a successful intersection of 1 metre of chalcocite - bearing...-
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Comparative petrography of rock specimens from the Adelaide Geosyncline with supposed time equivalent specimens from the Stuart Shelf.
7 possible geosynclinal equivalents to the Mount Gunson shelfal rocks were examined (Sturt Tillite - Elizabeth Conglomerate; Tapley Hill Formation - Woocalla Dolomite; Tapley Hill Formation; Seacliff Sandstone - Whyalla Sandstone; Reynella Sandstone -...-
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Pandurra. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1975.
Regional exploration for Mount Gunson type stratabound copper mineralisation over an area extending from Whyalla to near Lake Torrens comprised geological mapping, rock chip geochemical sampling, and the drilling of 157 rotary stratigraphic holes...-
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Cultana [latterly with Uro Bluff, Tregolana and Sugarloaf Hill]. Progress reports, joint progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/6/1984.
In the search for Mount Gunson type sedimentary copper, 4 deep exploratory diamond drillholes (out of 22 totalling over 5000 m) intersected subeconomic mineralisation at the target base of the Sturtian Tapley Hill Formation (best value 3 m @ 1.55% Cu...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1984
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Mount Gunson. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 5/8/1977 to 4/8/1979.
In a search for possible economic repetitions of Cattlegrid and MG14 - style copper sulphide mineralisation, or for any buried analogues to Western Mining Corp.'s recently discovered copper deposits on Roxby Downs Station, ongoing exploratory work...-
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Review of stratigraphic petrography, Pandurra area.
All previously collected rock specimens were reclassified and discussed.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
