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Mount Willoughby, Marla, Nicholson Hill, Hope, Manya, Emu, Moorefield, Lake Meramangye, Dingo Claypan and Alinya (Officer Basin). Progress, technical and partial relinquishment reports for the period 20/8/1980 to 19/8/1985.
TRONA EXPLORATION: Of the 9 rotary/diamond holes drilled, only the first, Meramangye 1, intersected a unit equivalent to the Observatory Hill Beds, which was the target horizon for trona. Drillholes Manya nos 2-6 and Marla 7 intersected Cambrian red...-
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RB 78/00019 Petrological descriptions of 60 rocks from the Middle Camp, Narridy Creek and Plug Range areas, eastern Eyre Peninsula.
Describes rocks from 3 areas formerly mapped as Flinders Group. Granites in each area are distinctively different, but metasediments are similar.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 80/00139 Tumby Bay marble EML 3554. T.W. Norton, sections 288, 299, Hundred Hutchison, County Flinders.
EML 3554, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, contains 3 separate marble outcrops, each 40 metres wide, of similar mineralogy, which are isoclinally-folded Katunga Dolomite of the Hutchison Group of Lower Proterozoic age. The marble quarries where mapped, surveyed...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1980
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RB 80/00124 Drilling of dolomite for road sealing aggregate, Lipson, Eyre Peninsula. Sections 413, 414 Hundred Yaranyacka, County Flinders - Highways Department.
160 000 m3 of stone in situ is required to supply crushed rock and sealing aggregate. Diamond drilling of 2 calcrete hard, grey dolomite outcrops 4.5 km NW of Lipson revealed a deep weathering profile in section 413. Inferred reserves at the northern...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 80/00131 Tumby Bay marble quarry, County Flinders.
An abandoned quarry, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, was mapped and surveyed. It is sited on the equivalent of the Katunga Domomite, part of the Hutchison Group of Middle Proterozoic age. The marble was isoclinally folded and metamorphosed to granulite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 91/00095 Recrystallised dolomites from the Tarcoola region.
Progressive alteration through recrystallisation without significant metasomatism or dynamic metamorphism has taken place in 8 specimens of what are assumed to be original sedimentary dolomites. The present paragenesis includes talc and chlorites of...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1991
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RB 99/00031 Assessment of zinc-lead prospectivity on the Murnaroo Platform and in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
The Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic Officer Basin is located on and adjacent to the northwestern margin of the Gawler Craton. Deposition of the basin began in Adelaidean time, before and during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 91/00084 Mineral occurrences of the KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map sheet area.
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Published: 01 Sep 1991
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Bopeechee. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2000 to 27/7/2008.
In on-ground exploration of an area on the Stuart Shelf located 18-46 km north-east of Olympic Dam, possible economic sedex - style, Mount Isa / Nifty type stratabound copper was targeted within Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks as part of multiple...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Giles. Annual report for the period ending 10/8/98.
Reinterpretation of existing aeromagnetic and gravity data from an area 160 km west of Marla identified broad features beneath an unknown but possibly excessive thickness of sedimentary cover.-
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Published: 10 Aug 1998
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Mount Olinthus. Annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1996.
Base metal mineralisation, indicated by newly discovered shafts at the historic Atkinson Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine, was the impetus for exploration in the upland area 20 km north-west from Cowell. Grab samples collected from shafts, stockpiles and dumps varied...-
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Port Hughes. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/11/2010 to 17/8/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate small sub-blocks that cover a large number of freehold broad-acre farms in the Bute - Agery - Moonta South district has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG mineralisation, which may have formed on or...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Ungarra / Triple Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1979 to 7/11/1983.
As part of a regional evaluation of the variably exposed Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence on eastern Eyre Peninsula for possible economic pitchblende mineralisation, portion of a semi-detailed airborne radiometric/magnetic survey was flown...-
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Pernatty Ridge. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/1989 to 12/12/1991.
Possible stratabound, Kupferschiefer - style copper sulphide within the basal sediments of the early Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation was the target of exploration in the Pernatty Ridge area. Aberfoyle's work has comprised a review of existing...-
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Pillaworta Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 22/12/1976 to 4/9/1978.
Investigation of banded iron formation in the Lincoln Uplands of the Tumby Bay district for possible South West African type base metal sulphide deposits consisted of rock chip and soil sampling at potential gossanous outcrops, and limited drilling of...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1978
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Bull 033 The Geology and Iron Ore Resources of the Middleback Range Area
This report deals comprehensively with the physiography, prospect geology, and ore genesis, and includes an assessment of the iron ore reserves and other mineral resources of an area which has been almost the sole source of the iron ore used in...-
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Bull 037 Geology and Mineral Resources of Southern Eyre Peninsula
A regional geological survey covered 15 standard 1-mile map sheets. Detailed mapping established a 50 000 ft sequence of Archaean sedimentation of gneissose, schistose and granitoid rocks, migmatite, quartzite, dolomite and haematitic quartzite. These...-
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RB 61/00120 Dolomite deposit near Cleve, diamond drilling (4/11/1965).
A ferruginous dolomite deposit four miles northwest of Cleve has been tested by diamond drilling for the Highways and Local Government Department. Much of the core recovered was fresh dolomite, but leached dolomite, kunkar capping and low core...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pondooma. Annual and combined annual reports for the period 3/12/2002 to 2/12/2005.
Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, consisting of two separate sub-blocks that are centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, is located immediately west of the Middleback Range and 5 km west of Onesteel’s Iron Duke mine. This licence was granted to SA...-
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