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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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RB 84/00071 Keyneton banded calc-silicate deposit - Geological investigation - Hd Jellicoe, section 531.
Compositionally banded calc-silicate comprising epidote, plagioclase and hornblende in zone of tight folding shows attractive fold patterns, suitable for decorative and ornamental purposes. Close jointing precludes use as dimension stone. Inferred...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1985
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RB 79/00122 Penrice marble deposit. (Report on the) 1977-1978 drilling programme.
Since 1950, recorded production from ICI's Penrice marble deposit near Angaston has totalled 13,083,395 tonnes. High grade marble is used at the company's Osborne plant, while lower grade stone is sold for cement manufacture and roadstone, and small...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1979
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RB 87/00119 Dudley pegmatite - Preliminary investigation for kaolin, feldspar, silica and gem tourmaline (section 79, Hundred Dudley).
The Dudley pegmatite, located 10.5 km south-east of Penneshaw, was worked during the 1890s and early 1900s for gem tourmaline, ceramic-grade feldspar and silica, and kaolin for brickmaking. The pegmatite outcrop strikes in a north-easterly direction...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 81/00049 Victor Harbor Quarry, sections 157, 174 and 656 Hundred Encounter Bay, County Hindmarsh.
Relatively hard bed of Kanmantoo Group schist has been source of road stone and aggregate in quarry 3 km west of Victor Harbor since 1958, and previously as source of rubble. Crushed rock and rubble meet specifications, but the quality of chippings...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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RB 90/00047 Rocks from a possible lamproite diatreme near Truro, South Australia.
Specimens collected from a circular geomorphological feature near Truro are interpreted as products of the alkali metasomatism of syenite, gabbro and dolerite. It is suggested that they may be xenoliths in a lamproitic diatreme.-
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Published: 01 May 1990
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RB 89/00074 Industrial and non metallic minerals - Operations in South Australia.
This data package discusses mining and processing operations of the major non metallic and industrial mineral commodities in South Australia and is of interest to those in the industry and to manufacturers and suppliers of a range of machinery and...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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Koonunga limestone prospect (near Nuriootpa). Final technical and rehabilitation report on exploration drilling, for the period 6/6/2005 to 5/4/2006.
The Koonunga limestone prospect occurs within the Cambrian Kapunda Marble, which forms part of the Kanmantoo Trough metasedimentary sequence deposited on the eastern side of the Adelaide Geosyncline. The limestone outcrop of interest is located...-
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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal [part] : progress reports for the period 28/4/1989 to 27/4/1992. [Index Part 1 of 3].
Exploration for gold in the eastern Adelaide Hills, in an area of Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments stretching from Kanmantoo in the south to Mount Rhine in the north, was undertaken initially by licence farminee East West Minerals utilising regional...-
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Published: 02 Oct 1992
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Kanmantoo. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report at licence renewal : progress reports, annual reports and technical reports for the period 28/4/1989 to 31/7/1999.
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Published: 11 Mar 1904
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Dudley Peninsula. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/9/2014 to 7/9/2016.
The Dudley pegmatite, located a short distance inland near the eastern tip of Kangaroo Island, ~10.5 km south-east of Penneshaw township, was worked historically during the 1890s and early 1900s for gem tourmaline, ceramic-grade feldspar and silica,...-
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Vivonne Bay (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/5/2017 to 8/5/2019.
A small area located immediately west and north-west of Vivonne Bay on Kangaroo Island has been explored for possible economic occurrences of the lithium, tantalum and rare earth element (REE) - bearing accessory minerals lepidolite, zinnwaldite and...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1919
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Dudley East area 2 (part of the Dudley Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/8/2018 to 2/8/2020.
A small area which was centred on the eastern end of Kangaroo Island, ~10 km south-east of Penneshaw, has been explored for exploitable quantities of lithium or tantalum-bearing minerals, specifically spodumene, zinnwaldite and lepidolite, because...-
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Published: 14 Sep 1920
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Dudley East areas 1 and 2 (the Dudley Project). Joint annual reports for the period 3/8/2018 to 2/8/2020, plus respective licence's final reports to 2/8/2020 and 27/10/2021 upon their successive full surrender.
Two very small areas bordering the coastline of the Dudley Peninsula on the eastern end of Kangaroo Island have been explored for possible economic, felsic igneous intrusive late-stage pegmatitic vein - hosted, lithium, tantalum, tin, REE and kaolin...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1921
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Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek (formerly part of the Fleurieu JV Project, then part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/6/1992 to 18/10/2016.
Two slightly separated areas located in the west-central Kanmantoo Trough geological region have been explored for possible economic buried metalliferous deposits by successive licence owners over an almost 25 year - long tenure. The subject report...-
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Wattle Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/1/1984 to 4/1/1985.
15 vertical exploratory auger holes totalling 348.4 m were drilled in a search for shallowly buried deposits of aluminous clays or claystone located close to the licensee's Rapid Bay limestone quarry and coatal shipment facility, that might be of use...-
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Published: 15 Jan 1985
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Kanmantoo. Final report on drill testing of a deep magnetotelluric (MT) conductive zone having inferred monzonite related Cu-Au mineral potential, Project ADI RD02-281 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
Hillgrove Resources Limited (Hillgrove) was granted ADI Round 2 programme subsidy funds to allow it to undertake diamond drill testing of a combined MT - gravity - magnetic anomaly located near its Kanmantoo mine, which it has termed the Stella...-
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Published: 28 Feb 1922
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Antechamber Bay. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/11/1986 to 26/11/1989.
TARGET: Evaluation of the gemstone tourmaline and kaolin clay potential of the Dudley Pegmatite on Kangaroo Island. It is believed that this known occurrence of coloured tourmaline is one of only two locations in Australia which have produced...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
