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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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RB 79/00132 Dolomite aggregate deposit, Crystal Brook, secn 736 Hd Crystal Brook - Highways Department.
Two deposits comprising gently dipping dolomitic sediments of the Skillogalee Dolomite were located during reconnaissance for construction materials for the Crystal Brook bypass. The southern deposit, 4 km northeast of Crystal Brook, was subsequently...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00037 Geology of the Montacute dolomite quarry, sections 330, 332, 833, Hundred Onkaparinga. PMs 136, 137 - The Readymix Group (SA).
Reserves of 12.1 million tonnes of dolomite are indicated, but are conditional upon removal of 2.2 million tonnes of waste dumps and of 5.8 million tonnes of phyllite.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 79/00064 Dolomite aggregate deposit, Warnertown, sections 307 and 308, Hd Napperby.
Two deposits comprising gently dipping dolomitic sediments of the Skillogalee Dolomite formation were located during a reconnaissance for construction materials for the Crystal Brook bypass. The southern deposit near Crystal Brook was subsequently...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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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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Mineralogical data on SAMAG magnesite project - targeted deposits in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
Outcrop and drill core samples of magnesite-rich strata obtained from the Myrtle Springs and Witchelina deposits were examined petrographically to characterise the mode of occurrence and sedimentary history of the contained magnesitic material. A...-
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Published: 04 Aug 1999
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Willouran Ranges (part of the SAMAG Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/1998 to 18/11/2003.
Known magnesite beds existing within the Adelaidean Skillogalee Dolomite in the far north-western Flinders Ranges, and extending into the Willouran Ranges over a strike distance of 120 km heading north-westwards from Leigh Creek South township, have...-
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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 - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Rose. Annual reports for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2018.
An area centred ~70 km east of Leigh Creek is being explored for possible economic buried hydrothermal copper-gold mineralisation that may be associated with local diapiric breccias and nearby semi-permeable stratigraphic boundaries/disconformities....-
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Published: 17 Nov 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Yadlakina Hut. Annual reports for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2018.
An area of outcropping magnesite-bearing metasediments extending from 10 km west of to 55 km north-west of Leigh Creek township is being explored to re-assess its commercial potential for magnesia and magnesium metal production, following other...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1918
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Mount Craig Copper Project. Final report for June to December 2021 geophysical and drilling program, Project ADI RD02-268 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2021].
An area centred ~28 km east of Hawker is being explored for possible buried epigenetic/hydrothermal, skarn style and sediment-hosted stratabound base and precious metals mineralisation that may have formed within prepared Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1921
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Paratoo. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/2/1984 to 23/2/1987.
Rotary percussion drilling (61 vertical holes totalling 2895 m), which was designed to try to delineate possible remnant oxidised copper ore reserves at the Paratoo copper mine, 20 km south-west of Yunta, has defined an Inferred mineral resource of...-
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Published: 03 Jul 1987
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Mount Parry (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Sixth partial surrender report, for the period 4/1/1999 to 2/6/2015.
EL 5520 is being explored as part of a regional search for possible economic Beltana-style zinc silicate hydrothermal replacement mineralisation hosted by brecciated Cambrian or Neoproterozoic bedrock carbonates. No field work was completed by licence...-
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Published: 11 Dec 1915
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Myrtle Springs. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 26/2/1985 to 25/2/1986.
Exploration for magnesite in the Myrtle Springs - Copley region was confined to sampling (167 samples, both of outcrop and crushed ore) and analysing 30 known magnesite occurrences held under mining lease, to determine the distribution of silica...-
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Finniss Springs. Progress reports for the period 27/5/80 to 26/1/83.
Base metal exploration carried out 70 km west and south-west of Marree, to investigate the potential for Olympic Dam - type mineralisation in concealed pre-Adelaidean rocks, has included geochemical rock chip and water sampling, an aerial radiometric...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1983
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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RB 2008/00016 Review of the Burra Mine Project, 1980-2008 - a progress report.
The Burra (Burra) Mine, situated 150 km north of Adelaide within the Adelaide Geosyncline, produced 2.7 million tonnes of copper ore in two major mining phases - 1845-1877 and 1970-1981. The first phase was initially progressed by underground...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Burra mine 3D model (3D pdf version).
The Burra mine 3D model was constructed using a georeferenced version of the original hand-drafted base map, which included elevation data points surveyed during the final phase of mining. These elevation locations and associated height data were...-
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Published: 27 Jan 1909
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Burra mine 3D model. Data package.
The SADME 1980-1981 Burra mine field mapping project was undertaken at short notice, in order to collect unique geological data and location survey information from the lower benches of the then actively worked open pit mine, before the newly exposed...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1912
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