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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 58/00147 Report on white clay for aluminium sulphate, Port Pirie district.
Results of sampling of white clay in the Precambrian rocks are recorded and potentially useful deposits are noted. The report relates the deposits to the stratigraphic subdivision of the Adelaide system. The useful clays contain quartz grit and the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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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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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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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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RI 036 The Geology of the 0rroroo 1:250,000 Map Area
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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 69/00057 Road metal in the Port Germein district.
New sources of road metal were sought in three areas of the Council district on a basis of regional stratigraphy and structure. On the Willowie Plains, lime-cemented Telford Gravel forms an excellent road surface, and several new sources of this...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 65/00035 Clare Regional Geochemical Project.
This investigation was a feasibility study, therefore environmental factors are dealt with in much more detail than would be necessary in a routine geochemical report. Apparently these factors has little significant effect on the results. Spot...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 66/00074 Geology of the ORROROO 1:250 000 map area.
An essentially unmetamorphosed sequence of Upper Proterozoic Adelaide System rocks has been folded into a parallel series of north and north-east trending folds on the ORROROO mapsheet area. Rocks of the Adelaide System are up to 50,000 ft thick, and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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RB 62/00034 Geology of the Spalding Willouran Inlier.
The Spalding inlier is a lens-shaped area of tightly-folded Willouran rocks of the Adelaide System (Upper Precambrian), extending north-south for about 10 miles; it is about 100 miles north of Adelaide. The rim of the inlier is marked in most places...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1966
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Apoinga. First partial surrender report for the period 5/11/2007 to 4/11/2009.
EL 3972 - Apoinga occurs within the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, where the exposed bedrock comprises Neoproterozoic rocks of the Adelaide Fold Belt. The main feature of interest to Copper Range within its licence area is the Tarnma Anticline, which is...-
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Published: 19 Apr 1910
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Kapunda North. Second partial surrender report for the period 15/11/2005 to 14/11/2009.
Copper Range is exploring for copper and other economic stratabound / epigenetic base metals within the Kapunda - Burra copper mineralised structural corridor. The company holds a significant portfolio of exploration licences in the region, which are...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1910
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Spalding. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 4/11/2009 to 7/5/2012.
Exploration for copper mineralisation within a small licence area surrounding Mount Tinline, located approximately 20 km south of Spalding ,was aimed principally at finding deposits of oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at...-
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Clare [South]. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/9/2010 to 13/9/2012.
Exploration for possible economic structurally-controlled hydrothermal gold which might have been emplaced within tight fold hinges and cross-cutting faults developed in the Watervale-Auburn area, with a particular focus on the Watervale Sandstone...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1912
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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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Mount Bryan (part of the Burra Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/2010 to 26/4/2015.
Within an area centred ~ 15 km north-west of Burra, Phoenix Copper Limited has been exploring for possible buried, structurally controlled sediment-hosted copper and gold mineralisation within the Skillogalee Dolomite member of the Adelaidean Burra...-
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