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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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South Australian Magnesium Metal Project.
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Source-rock analysis of Skillogalee Dolomite, Burra Group, Adelaide Geosyncline.
6 selected drill core samples and 2 fossiliferous outcrop samples of Neoproterozoic Burra Group carbonate/dolomitic sediments from the Willouran Ranges were subjected to laboratory source rock analysis to determine their organic richness, kerogen type...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1986
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Tarlton Knob and Cadnia Hill. Joint progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
A consultant's detailed regional geological study of the northern Willouran Ranges, and then his very close examination of the apparent controls on known diapir-related exposed epigenetic / stratabound copper mineralisation, have identified three...-
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RB 83/00077 Petrography of forty-two specimens from the Wangianna sheet.
Forty-two thin sections collected from the Skillogalee Dolomite are representative of carbonate and non-carbonate facies, and include shales, siltstones, sandstones and conglomerates. Many of the specimens are partly or wholly stromatolitic: two...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1983
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RB 84/00062 Petrography of forty two specimens from within and south of the Burra open cut copper mine.
Includes a discussion about probable processes of mobilisation and recrystallisation of the dolomitic sediments, and describes the evidence found for the presence of a pyroclastic component in many of the non-carbonate sedimentary rock samples.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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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 84/00033 Progress in mapping the Precambrian of the Curdimurka area.
Summarises information gathered during mapping since 1981, particularly work by Utah Development Company. Covers fault - bounded structural complexes in the Callanna Group and sections measured through upper Burra Group, overlying glacial beds and...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 83/00028 Comments on the petrography of forty two thin sections of samples from the Burra copper mine, SA.
42 rock specimens collected from the open cut at Burra were examined in order to comment on a report received from a consulting organisation. Despite a high degree of alteration evident in the samples, it was possible to distinguish microscopically,...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1983
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RB 78/00006 Progress report on the geology of part of the Worumba Anticline.
The Worumba Anticline is a regional fold in the gradational zone between the Olary Arc and the broader folding of the central Flinders Ranges. The limbs of the anticline comprise complete upper Adelaidean successions, of which the Holowilena...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00102 Megabreccia in Burra Group, Worumba Anticline.
Reconnaissance and regional mapping (Spry, 1952; Dalgarno and Johnson, 1966; Binks, 1968) have demonstrated a series of outcrops of Skillogalee Dolomite (Burra Group) on the west limb of the Worumba Anticline (about 20 km east of Hawker), between...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1979
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RB 93/00010 Explanatory Notes for the WARRINA 1:250 000 geological map.
The oldest rocks on WARRINA outcrop in the Peake and Denison Inliers, which comprise the Davenport and Denison Ranges and small inliers to the east. Basement in this area consists of Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic rocks which were intruded by...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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RB 98/00015 Clare Valley groundwater resources. Progress report 1 - Hydrogeology, drilling and groundwater monitoring.
A fundamental question remains to be answered in the Clare Valley. How much water can be safely extracted without causing depletion of the groundwater resources? This question is being addressed by a major investigation into the groundwater...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1998
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RB 98/00014 Clare Drilling. Phase 2 - June 1997.
Phase Two of a drilling program at Clare, South Australia was undertaken in June, 1997. A total of 6 bores were drilled, 4 of these at existing locations established during Phase One drilling in January, 1996, and a further 2 at Watervale Oval as...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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Nelshaby. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2005.
Bedded deposits of magnesite known to exist within the southern Flinders Ranges, where they outcrop over a considerable strike distance extent in the country approximately 20 km east of Port Pirie, were identified by Magnesium Developments Limited...-
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Nelshaby. First partial relinquishment report, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2003.
Magnesite beds formed within the Late Proterozoic Skillogalee Dolomite were the targets of exploration in the southern Flinders Ranges, 15 km east of Port Pirie. Field mapping and sampling, together with the acquisition and image processing of an...-
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AMIRA Project P544: Proterozoic sediment-hosted copper deposits. Quarterly progress reports and final report for the period July 2000 to October 2003.
The original objectives of this project were: 1) To understand the processes responsible for transporting, concentrating and fixing copper and other ore constituents during sedimentary basin evolution 2) To document the various stages and paragenesis...-
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Princess Royal, Burra West, Burra North, Florieton, Mount Bryan, Burra Central, Mongolata, Redbanks, Hallett Hill and The Gums (the Burra Project tenement group). Joint annual reports for the period 1/5/2009 to 30/4/2017.
A multi-licence project area centred on the historic abandoned Burra copper mine is being explored for possible economic, buried Burra type copper oxide and copper carbonate mineralisation that may have formed within Neoproterozoic metasedimentary...-
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Paratoo (was formerly part of the Grainger Project; recently made part of the Flinders Ranges JV Project). Annual reports from the time of cessation of previous joint venture(s) reporting, for the period 20/7/2007 to 1/11/2016.
During 2007-2008, the first year of the diamond exploration joint venture with the Filsell brothers in the Paratoo area, Flinders Mines' activities comprised: • acquiring part of a detailed helicopter-borne infill aerial magnetic ('helimag') survey,...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1919
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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