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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 21/10/1974.
A re-investigation of base metal geochemical anomalies detected during Electrolytic Zinc Co.'s former stream sediment and rock chip sampling programme conducted near an historic copper-lead mine prospect at Mount Chambers in the eastern Flinders...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1974
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RB 55/00050 Geology of Yorke Peninsula.
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 58/00130 Report on site investigation for SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd railway yards, Bute.
The site of a proposed silo at Bute was investigated by drilling two cable tool holes 15 m and 9 m deep. The drilling encountered surficial soil and red/green mottled clay of the Hindmarsh Clay overlying inferred Cambrian Parara Limestone which has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 58/00158 Lower Cambrian stratigraphy of the Flinders Ranges.
The distribution and relationships of Lower Cambrian units in the Flinders Ranges are illustrated by a panel diagram and sketch maps. A new rock name, Hawker Group, is introduced for six formations of Lower Cambrian age which represent a phase of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 79/00147 Cambrian Biostratigraphy Project. A preliminary report.
The Cambrian succession in South Australia is richly fossiliferous, but relatively little studied biostratigraphically. The Cambrian Biostratigraphy Project aims to provide a biostratigraphic framework similar to that available for the Cretaceous and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 89/00053 Investigation of the Early Cambrian Parara Limestone - Yorke Peninsula SA.
Around Pavy Creek, the Parara Limestone disconformably overlies the Kulpara Formation and comprises dark blue-grey argillaceous limestone, with buff dolomite and skeletal packstone. Phosphate, pyrite, glauconite, and some fluorite occur in the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1989
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RB 89/00089 Nepabunna - Proposed artificial recharge scheme.
Nepabunnas water supply has a salinity of 1300 mg/L and a high carbonate hardness (550 mg/L) which causes severe scaling in pipes. Artificial recharge was suggested as a means of introducing low salinity and hardness floodwaters into the aquifer....-
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Published: 01 Feb 1990
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Beltana mine and Aroona zinc mine mining leases and retention leases (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Option period first annual report, for the period 1/1/2000 to 30/12/2000.
During the first year of its evaluation of the Beltana and Aroona mining properties on which it has taken out an option, Perilya undertook the following intensive work programme aimed at locating buried extensions and repetitions of the willemite...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 26/2/1988.
Economic deposits of Mississippi Valley type stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation within in Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration undertaken on and near the Wirrealpa Diapir. A preliminary field reconnaissance had shown that surface...-
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Beltana mine area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 27/9/1982 to 8/12/1987.
Renewed exploration by E-Z of the area surrounding the Beltana zinc mine has investigated the possibility for finding deep, unweathered Cambrian or Proterozoic carbonate-hosted zinc-lead sulphide mineralisation. It was considered that this target had...-
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Mount Aleck - Arkaba Station areas. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 18/9/1986.
Possible Cambrian carbonate-hosted Mississippi Valley style Pb-Zn deposits were the targets of exploration in the Chace and Druid Ranges, located north of Hawker, and also nearby at Mount Aleck. Following geological reconnaissance mapping at 1:20,000...-
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Wirrealpa. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
Possible economic stratabound or epigenetic lead-zinc or copper deposits, formed in altered carbonate rocks lying marginal to the Wirrealpa Diapir, were the targets of new exploration centred on the area of the old Wirrealpa lead-silver mine....-
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Published: 06 Nov 1989
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Mount Chambers. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
TARGET: Downdip extensions of known Cambrian stratabound mineralisation occurring at the Eric lead-zinc prospect, principally along a mineralised, disconformable interpreted syn-depositional palaeosurface developed within the Wilkawillina Limestone....-
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Published: 14 Nov 1989
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Mount Aleck. Partial surrender report for the period 19/11/1982 to 18/11/1983.
Exploration for Mississippi Valley - type stratabound base metal deposits in the relinquished area covering the eastern flank of the Mernmerna Syncline, 10 km south-west of Wilpena Pound, has proved to be unsuccessful. At the Vanessa prospect, 28...-
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Maitland [second JV programme]. Progress reports for the period 17/8/81 to 14/5/84.
Continuing mineral exploration work over central Yorke Peninsula under a new joint venture arrangement with a different company, now targetting possible Phanerozoic sedimentary uranium in Cambrian and Tertiary strata, has consisted of investigations...-
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Stansbury Basin, South Australia. The Marsden Trend and Investigator prospect.
The Stansbury Basin is a relatively unexplored Cambrian sedimentary basin in South Australia. Good quality seismic data has defined a large untested prospect, the Investigator prospect, which has the potential to contain 200 to 300 mmbbl of oil, or...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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1981 and 1982 seismic surveys, Wertaloona and Christmas Creek-ARR, final report.
Wertaloona Seismic Survey - AIM:The 1981 Wertaloona Seismic Survey programme was designed by the PELs 5 and 6 Arrowie Block partners to provide the first high quality, multifold seismic reflection data in the area of likely preserved thick Cambrian...-
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Early origin of dolomite in Early Cambrian carbonates on Yorke Peninsula, western margin of Stansbury Basin, South Australia.
This study has shown that significant dolomite formation has occurred during early diagenetic stages in the Early Cambrian carbonate sequence of Yorke Peninsula. Relict depositional textures indicate that the sequence consists of tidal flat...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1994
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Biomarker geochemistry of the Early Cambrian oil show in Wilkatana 1 - Implications for oil generation in the Stansbury Basin.
This report critically reassesses the biomarker geochemistry of the crude oil show encountered in the Wilkatana 1 well, using new analytical data, then compares its molecular composition with that of other Australian Cambrian oils, and discusses the...-
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Thermal history from apatite fission track analysis of Early Cambrian samples.
AFTA palaeotemperature analyses of 7 selected Early Cambrian outcrop samples taken from potential hydrocarbon source beds occurring within PELs 53 and 59, were conducted by a Melbourne University consultant for Canyon Australia. The data and...-
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Published: 21 Dec 1994
