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University student thesis : Detailed geological investigation of the Burra open pit, Burra, SA.
Detailed geological and structural mapping of Samin's partly excavated new Burra open cut was performed by the author at a scale of 1:480 during the period December 1972 to end of January 1973. By the latter date the pit had been excavated downwards a...-
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RB 84/00065 Draft report, Williamstown industrial mineral deposits. Geology of kaolin sillimanite muscovite deposits, near Williamstown, Hd Barossa, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Aust.
This report presents a comprehensive summary of the results of considerable geological, survey and beneficiation work which has been carried out at four mines. The mined deposits have been formed in Burra Group schists and gneisses that constitute the...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 87/00079 Quorn town water supply.
In 1985 1 production well and 4 scout wells were drilled around Quorn. Pump testing shows the production well has a low long term yield and none of the scout wells show any potential for town water supply. Deeper wells should be drilled in the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1987
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ketchowla. Annual reports for the period 15/6/2009 to 14/6/2019 and Partial Surrender Report to 22/09/2023.
An area located in the Worlds End detrital alluvial goldfield district of the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, and centred ~20 km north-east of Burra, is being explored mainly for possible economic stratiform/replacement manganese oxide...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Clare (part of the Spalding Project). Annual reports for the period 2/1/2007 to 1/1/2010.
In Phoenix Copper's opinion, although several previous explorers had investigated the Spalding Inlier area, many targets remained insufficiently tested. The principal structural target the company wished to explore is the intersection between an...-
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Kybunga (latterly a part of the Balaklava HMS Project - Iluka tenements Group 9). First annual report 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2013, plus a joint annual report and final report for Group 9 submitted at the five project licences' full surrender on 24/9/2015.
Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1915
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Annual report to Nov 1971 on the exploration programme for SML 614.
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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Port Augusta - Wilkatana area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/10/1969 to 4/8/1972.
An area surrounding the Emeroo Range, and extending from the vicinity of Port Augusta to 30 km west of Hawker, was explored by Utah for possible economic stratabound base metal deposits which it was thought could be associated with certain favourable...-
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Eurelia - Carrieton area. Annual and progress reports to licence amalgamation/renewal for the period 5/8/1971 to 14/2/1972.
Ongoing exploration for possible economic stratiform copper deposits occurring in Late Proterozoic metasediments forming the Eurelia Anticline has concentrated on evaluating mainly the Copper Claim prospect plus four less attractive prospects, after...-
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RB 73/00271 Barossa Dam, secn 1 Hd Barossa, geological investigation - EWS Department.
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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Clare, Spalding and Washpool (the Spalding Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports for EL 5910/6430 and five related Burra Project licences: joint annual reports for the period 10/11/2009 to 9/11/2019.
Phoenix Copper was attracted to explore the Spalding Inlier region in the Northern Mount Lofty Ranges after earlier work done by the South Australian Department of Mines (SADM) and by Copper Range reported the occurrence of several known sites of...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1920
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Mongolata. Third partial surrender report, for the period 13/2/2004 to 9/3/2014.
Exploration for copper and gold mineralisation within a now wholly relinquished 213 square km licence eastern sub-block, located 18-30 km north-east of Burra, has utilised geochemical and geophysical methods to assess the potential of buried...-
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Port Pirie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/4/1977 to 19/4/1979.
Concerted exploration for possible stratiform Mount Gunson type or epithermal Olympic Dam type base metal deposits, on the south-eastern edge of the Stuart Shelf near Port Pirie, was begun by North Broken Hill Ltd in response to the public release by...-
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Report on appraisal and assessment of Robinsons Prospect SMLs 346 and 613 1970, 1971.
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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Clare. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/3/1971.
In a search for possible economic stratiform / hydrothermal base metal occurrences and stratabound phosphate mineral deposits in the Clare Hills district, an initial reconnaissance visit and literature search was followed by the conduct of a regional...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1971
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Spring Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/7/1968 to 14/7/1970.
Appraisal of the historic Spring Creek copper mine area, located approximately 8 miles south-southeast of the township of Wilmington, commenced with an IP survey of the immediate mine site, where the lode outcrops over some 20 feet in weathered...-
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Matt Whim. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/6/1972 to 24/6/1973.
Exploration for stratabound copper deposits within potentially prospective Late Proterozoic host sedimentary rocks over an area of the southern Flinders Ranges comprised regional geochemical sampling and detailed (1:10,000 scale) geological mapping,...-
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Wandearah. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/7/1975 to 27/7/1976.
During a search for possible Stuart Shelf - type Proterozoic or Cambrian stratiform base metal deposits within an area lying to the south of Port Pirie, exploratory percussion drilling of 5 vertical holes totalling 443 m was undertaken. Three of the...-
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Published: 15 May 1976
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Spring Creek. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 23/7/1970 to 22/7/1971.
SML 214A was a one-year period of extended exploration tenure by licensee RMC Minerals at the Spring Creek copper mine and environs to allow a new farminee, Base Minerals Ltd, to conduct further work aimed at delineating extensions to the known...-
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Published: 12 Jul 1971
