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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 82/00053 Geological assessment of proposed Penneshaw Harbour for Philanderer ferry service.
Well cemented slightly wrathered metasandstone (Kanmantoo Group) occurs at the site of the proposed harbour. Fracture spacings are such that when blasted the rock would form blocks of a suitable size for a breakwater. The rock is considered to be...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1982
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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal [part] : progress reports for the period 28/4/1989 to 27/4/1992. [Index Part 1 of 3].
Exploration for gold in the eastern Adelaide Hills, in an area of Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments stretching from Kanmantoo in the south to Mount Rhine in the north, was undertaken initially by licence farminee East West Minerals utilising regional...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1992
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Dudley East areas 1 and 2 (the Dudley Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/8/2018 to 2/8/2020, plus respective licence's final reports to 2/8/2020 and 27/10/2021 upon their successive full surrender.
Two very small areas bordering the coastline of the Dudley Peninsula on the eastern end of Kangaroo Island have been explored for possible economic, felsic igneous intrusive late-stage pegmatitic vein - hosted, lithium, tantalum, tin, REE and kaolin...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1921
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Kanmantoo. Final report on drill testing of a deep magnetotelluric (MT) conductive zone having inferred monzonite related Cu-Au mineral potential, Project ADI RD02-281 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Hillgrove Resources Limited (Hillgrove) was granted ADI Round 2 programme subsidy funds to allow it to undertake diamond drill testing of a combined MT - gravity - magnetic anomaly located near its Kanmantoo mine, which it has termed the Stella...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1922
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Tanunda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1989 to 26/7/1990.
Possible epithermal/hydrothermal and shear-related vein style gold, and Proterozoic and Cambrian metasedimentary-hosted industrial minerals, were the targets of reconnaissance exploration over a licence taken up in the Barossa region. 1:2000 scale...-
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Starvation Creek, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/5/1978 to 18/5/1980.
A programme of rotary drilling on Kangaroo Island of 56 shallow exploratory holes for 191 m, conjointly carried out by Comalco on its ELs 396 and 408, was designed to test for possible economic bauxite and low iron bauxite claystone occurrences...-
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Callington stone deposit (under lease by the Readymix Group). Notice of Intent to extract material [road sealing aggregates] by quarrying.
The site of the Callington greywacke deposit, located 2 km south of Callington township, was leased from the landowners by the Readymix Group in 1972 when preliminary geological investigations indicated that it contained unusually massive bedrock that...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1978
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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 74/00105 City of Monarto. Preliminary geotechnical investigations.
A geotechnical investigation of the proposed Monarto City site has been carried out by photogeological interpretation and a rapid shallow drilling programme. As a result of this a preliminary assessment of engineering conditions to be expected on the...-
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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 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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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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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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Birdwood - Mount Pleasant - Tungkillo district. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/4/1984 to 8/4/1985.
To establish the geochemical fingerprint for proven metallic mineralisation that is known to be associated with the Bremer Fault breccia zone, 8 rock chip and gossan samples were taken for analysis from good exposures of this zone found in a road...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1984
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Talisker prospect. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 21/4/1969 to 20/4/1970.
IP and resistivity surveys, 1:200 scale geological mapping, and soil and rock chip sampling were carried out over exploration grids covering bleached metasedimentary outcrops that might indicate possible buried lode extensions in the vicinity of the...-
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Kanappa. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/12/1964 to 31/5/1965.
Reconnaissance stream sediment sampling (4000 samples taken over 5 square miles) and follow-up traverse soil sampling (350 samples) have been completed in the vicinity of the historic Kanappa copper mine, 7 miles north-east of Springton, to look for...-
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