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RB 78/00006 Progress report on the geology of part of the Worumba Anticline.
The Worumba Anticline is a regional fold in the gradational zone between the Olary Arc and the broader folding of the central Flinders Ranges. The limbs of the anticline comprise complete upper Adelaidean successions, of which the Holowilena...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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Mount Grainger (Oodla Wirra). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/10/1970 to 7/10/1971.
Extensive literature and geological and geochemical field investigations of historic mines and prospects at the Mount Grainger and Oodla Wirra Goldfields have failed to disclose any remaining economic gold occurrences. The sparse native gold occurs...-
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Published: 12 Oct 1971
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RB 00729 Report on Paratoo copper deposit, Hundred of Paratoo, County Herbert.
At the Paratoo mine, copper is present in a zone at least 1000 feet wide, possibly over a strike length of about 1350 feet. It is not yet known over what proportion of this area copper occurs in workable amounts. Opencuts have exposed two main lines...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1900
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RB 65/00035 Clare Regional Geochemical Project.
This investigation was a feasibility study, therefore environmental factors are dealt with in much more detail than would be necessary in a routine geochemical report. Apparently these factors has little significant effect on the results. Spot...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 61/00047 Progress report no. 1, (SADM) Burra mines investigation.
A government investigation of the economic potential of the abandoned historic Burra Burra copper mine was started in December 1961. The SA Department of Mines (SADM) initial work comprised 1:1200 scale geological mapping of the old mine area,...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1965
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RB 62/00034 Geology of the Spalding Willouran Inlier.
The Spalding inlier is a lens-shaped area of tightly-folded Willouran rocks of the Adelaide System (Upper Precambrian), extending north-south for about 10 miles; it is about 100 miles north of Adelaide. The rim of the inlier is marked in most places...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1966
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Burra Hill (part of the Burra South Project). Annual reports submitted until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, for the period 1/5/2006 to 30/4/2009.
Within a small licence area centred about 15 km south-south-east of Burra township in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, Copper Range initially targeted near-surface copper oxide mineralisation associated with an altered and brecciated contact zone...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bald Hill North. Annual reports for the period 25/7/2006 to 24/7/2009.
A small area centred ~5 km west of Burra township is being explored for possible buried economic, Monster mine type stratiform copper oxide or copper carbonate deposits, thought to be associated with poorly exposed fault structures and related...-
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RB 2016/00013 Geological field excursion guide — Rifts, reverse faults and regolith: Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic geology in the Mid-North of South Australia.
The rolling hills, wheat paddocks and vineyards of the Mid-North region of South Australia conceal a geological transition between the Adelaide Hills and the Flinders Ranges. Here the landscape is subtly controlled by the Neoproterozoic bedrock...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2016
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Paratoo. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/9/1965 to 31/8/1966.
Examination of potentially economic stratiform copper mineralisation recorded in the Paratoo area, located approximately 60 km north-east of Peterborough, has found that it occurs within Adelaidean shales and siltstones over the apical hinge zone of a...-
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Paratoo. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/9/1966 to 28/6/1967.
To implement its plan to deepen Paratoo DD1 to a total depth of approximately 2000 feet, in order to try to intersect economic copper mineralisation in unweathered rocks below the water table at 500 feet vertical depth, Kennecott recommenced inclined...-
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Oladdie Prospect. First and final progress report for the period 1/7/1968 to 31/12/1968.
Exploration for possible stratabound or hydrothermal copper deposits in an area between Johnburg and Orroroo consisted of detailed 1:12,000 scale geological mapping and a stream sediment geochemical survey. This work failed to locate any copper of...-
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Published: 02 Jan 1969
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999), SH 54-13.
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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