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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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RB 50/00017 Report on road metal quarry, quartzite, secn 5299 Hd Kanmantoo - Mount Barker Quarries.
A road metal quarry in buff quartzites and micaceous sandstones occurs half a mile east of the township of Nairne. The sediments exposed are basal members of the Kanmantoo Group. The beds strike south-south-east dipping 60 to the east. More than...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal : progress reports, annual reports and technical reports for the period 28/4/1989 to 31/7/1999.
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Published: 11 Mar 1904
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Woolpunda (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/11/2000 to 3/7/2017.
An area located immediately south of the Sturt Highway that connects between Swan Reach and Loxton, in the vicinity of the Woolpunda Irrigation Area, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have...-
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 14/10/1997 to 8/8/2017.
An area located in the northern SA Murray Mallee region, and centred ~ 35 km south-west of Loxton, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have formed in the sedimentary cover. In total, 513 square...-
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Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek (formerly part of the Fleurieu JV Project, then part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/6/1992 to 18/10/2016.
Two slightly separated areas located in the west-central Kanmantoo Trough geological region have been explored for possible economic buried metalliferous deposits by successive licence owners over an almost 25 year - long tenure. The subject report...-
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Provenance study of the Kangaroo Island and Fleurieu Peninsula areas.
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 72/00140 Monarto town area - Construction materials and foundation conditions.
A proposed new city referred to as Murray New Town, with a possible population of 250 000, is to be built in the Murray Bridge area, west of the Murray River. The city will-occupy an area of approximately 175 sq miles; (450 km2). This report has been...-
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Published: 27 Jul 1972
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RB 64/00115 Clay deposit, Springton, secn 166 Hd Para Wirra, Co. Adelaide - Australian Industrial Minerals NL.
Geological and topographical mapping of a white kaolin clay claim on section 166, Hundred Para Wirra, and laboratory ceramic investigation of representative borehole samples has been conducted. White clay, formed by intense leaching of Kanmantoo...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 74/00023 Interim report on Guerin's aggregate quarry, County of Sturt, Hundred of Mobilong, section 533.
Coarse aggregate for construction purposes is produced from migmatites of the Kanmantoo Group of Cambrian age at Guerins’ quarry within the Monarto designated site, 5 kilometres west of Murray Bridge. Additional material suitable for extraction...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 75/00041 Monarto new town - Paragum stratigraphic bore completion report, section 1972-17.
A stratigraphic bore was completed by cable tool drilling to a depth of 48m at Paragum Station, monarto South, in connection with the Regional Hydrological Survey. The hole intersected Blanchetown Clay, Parilla Sand and Mannum Limestone over phyllite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 75/00076 Guerins aggregate quarry.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 74/00111 Amphibolite deposit near Tailem Bend.
Railway ballast was sought from amphibolite of the Kanmantoo Group of Cambrian age which subcrops on a bedrock ridge in the Murray Basin near Tailem Bend. A surface sample of amphibolite returned low Los Angelese Abrasion and Sodium Sulphate Soundness...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 75/00143 Monarto coarse aggregate investigation limestone and gneiss drilling and testing. Client - Monarto Development Commission.
Sources of coarse aggregate were investigated for the Monarto Development Commission. Recrystallised limestone near Murray Bridge was tested by four diamond drill holes, and gneisses near Pallamana were tested by 8 holes. Large quantities of suitable...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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The Adelaide Hills Project. Data release made at the partial surrenders / full surrender of subsequent licences: annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 27/6/2000 to 15/5/2005.
A diamond exploration project area comprising nine mineral exploration licences located in the central Mount Lofty Ranges was taken up by new public company Flinders Diamonds (FDL) to search for possible commercial accumulations of diamonds, thought...-
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Morgan and Waikerie (part of the Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project and later the Murray Basin Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 30/4/1998 to 24/9/2015.
In the last phase of exploration for possible buried economic heavy mineral (HM) sands marine placer deposits in the district extending between Waikerie, Blanchetown and parts of the north-western Murray Mallee, the only field work undertaken was...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports, plus individual licence final reports at their respective full surrender, for the period 19/12/1997 to 30/6/2018.
Previous investigations of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine littoral zone clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand (HM) placer accumulations have discovered numerous occurrences of economic to...-
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The Mindarie Heavy Mineral Sands Project. Joint and combined annual reports, for the period 19/12/1997 to 31/12/2010.
An assessment of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand accumulations has discovered numerous occurrences of economic to sub-economic amounts of heavy minerals...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1911
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Mount Crawford clay deposits. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/3/1968 to 28/2/1970.
As part of the evaluation of a known occurrence of possibly pegmatite-related, kaolinised Cambrian talcose sandstone in the Mount Crawford area, located about 35 miles north-east of Adelaide, 74 scout auger drillholes were sunk, 25 separated clay...-
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Published: 15 Jan 1969
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Mount Crawford kaolin/silica deposit. Mining feasibility study and related technical appraisal reports for the period 1/3/1968 to 28/2/1970.
The white clay deposit examined at Mount Crawford appears to be an attractive prospect for producing paper-coating grade raw kaolin material, but it has been inadequately tested to date. Although at least 239 drillholes aggregating 7395 feet have been...-
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