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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 83/00026 Forreston talc deposits, results of geological investigation and auger drilling, 1982, Adler, Jeanes, Gigante and Western Queen (SA) Pty Ltd - Sections 6109, 6274 and 6380, Hundred Talunga.
Talc deposits in Torrensian Woolshed Flat Shale and Stonyfell Quartzite were investigated by auger drilling of 84 shallow holes and 3 trenches. Inferred reserves total 9 800 tonnes.-
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Published: 01 Apr 1983
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RB 78/00099 Drilling of John Road sand and shale deposit, pt sections 2147, 2148, Hd Yatala.
Auger drilling has proved reserves of 630 000 tonnes of washed sand, 450 000 tonnes of cream shale and 730 000 tonnes of coloured shale.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 81/00061 Test drilling clay deposit Hancock Road - Golden Grove section 2146, Hundred Yatala, County Adelaide.
51 holes were drilled to assess weathered shale and plastic clay reserves. Tertiary plastic clay and clayey sand overlie red firing weathered Adelaidean shale, and extends eastwards under Hancock Road into Clay and Mineral Sales pit (formerly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 79/00040 Fullerville amethyst deposit, secn 51W, Hd Booleroo, Co. Frome - PM 69, R.G. Collins.
Amethystine and clear crystalline quartz infills fractures and cavities in quartzite of the Belair Subgroup of Proterozoic age, near Fullerville in the Mid-North of South Australia. The quartz crystals range in colour from milky to clear, through...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 88/00085 1:250 000 Geological series - Explanatory Notes, OLARY, South Australia. Sheet SI/54-2 International Index.
The OLARY map area includes the SW part of the Willyama Inliers and surrounding Adelaidean (Late Proterozoic) sequences. The Early Proterozoic Willyama Supergroup is separated by NW-trending faults into blocks of metasedimentary rock of upper...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1988
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Nelshaby. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2005.
Bedded deposits of magnesite known to exist within the southern Flinders Ranges, where they outcrop over a considerable strike distance extent in the country approximately 20 km east of Port Pirie, were identified by Magnesium Developments Limited...-
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Nelshaby. First partial relinquishment report, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2003.
Magnesite beds formed within the Late Proterozoic Skillogalee Dolomite were the targets of exploration in the southern Flinders Ranges, 15 km east of Port Pirie. Field mapping and sampling, together with the acquisition and image processing of an...-
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Willouran Ranges (part of the SAMAG Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/1998 to 18/11/2003.
Known magnesite beds existing within the Adelaidean Skillogalee Dolomite in the far north-western Flinders Ranges, and extending into the Willouran Ranges over a strike distance of 120 km heading north-westwards from Leigh Creek South township, have...-
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North Well Creek. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/1994 to 14/11/1999.
Exploration, initially for rare metal elements, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village and Umberatana Homestead. Work comprising petrography, rock chip sampling, stream...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1900
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Parry (part of the Northern Flinders Ranges Magnesite Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2004.
Exploration Licence (EL) 2570 Mt Parry was granted to Magnesium Developments Limited on the 4 January 1999. Exploration within EL 2570 focussed on magnesite (MgCO3), which occurs within a sequence of interbeds with the Neoproterozoic, Skillogalee...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1904
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Grainger (part of the Mount Grainger JV Project). Annual reports for the period 25/10/1996 to 24/10/2000.
Exploration over a structurally complex part of the Nackara Arc region centred ~30 km north-east of Peterborough has sought economic Telfer-type gold deposits hosted within folded domal structures in Adelaidean strata, which have been intruded during...-
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Walparuta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2010 to 20/6/2019.
A small area centred ~30 km west of Olary has been explored for possible economic buried primary stratiform base metal sulphide mineralisation, vein barite mineralisation and also for epithermal copper-gold deposits that may have formed in...-
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Williamstown. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 28/3/1983 to 29/3/1984.
In a search for possible extensions to existing, almost worked-out poddy deposits of damourite mica and kaolinised sillimanite, that may occur within an area of prospective Barossa Complex Proterozoic basement inlier rocks located south-east of...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1984
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Geological investigations of clay, mica and sillimanite occurrences at Williamstown, and evolving mine development plans and alternatives. Progress reports for the period 6/10/1976 to July 1984.
Dataset contains Amdel - derived mineralogical and petrological data on the ore and host rocks, plus the mine operator's reports on its plans to resume and optimize production of the unique ore types known to exist in four current mine pits and their...-
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Ulooloo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/7/1986 to 6/3/1989.
TARGET: Economic fine-grained, Telfer style gold mineralisation occurring as syngenetic stratabound deposits formed in sedimentary basins during or soon after periods of basin subsidence and instability. The eastern limb of the large, overturned...-
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Published: 22 Feb 1989
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Interpretation of sequence of events - Central Flinders Zone.
A synopsis of the possible pre-tectonic structural setting and sequence of geological events which has resulted in the observed development of faulted domes and diapirs within Neoproterozoic sediments of the central Flinders Ranges, and the related...-
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Published: 26 May 1993
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Resource potential of the Central Flinders Zone, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia.
Since 1990 Frontier Exploration Ltd has explored in the Central Flinders Zone of the Adelaide Geosyncline in order to assess its hydrocarbon and mineral potential, and the relationship of diapirs to these resources. The basic concepts used have not...-
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RB 70/00001 Reconnaissance for road metal, Hundreds of Moorooroo and Nuriootpa, County Light - District Council of Tanunda.
2 main areas are outlined as likely sources, high quality marble to the N of the Penrice quarries and quartzite from many localities NW and close to Tanunda, but of lower quality.-
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Published: 02 Jan 1970
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RB 70/00069 White clay deposit, section 64 Hundred of Booleroo - Lordan Ceramics Pty Ltd.
White, kaolinitic clay suitable as paper filler occurs in bleached shale. Drilling programme of 97 holes (7 000 feet) aims to define the body and prove reserves. Washing is necessary.-
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Published: 08 May 1970
