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Minbrie. Progress reports for the period 28/6/1973 to 27/6/1975.
Reports describe the ongoing field prospecting and downstream jade marketing activities associated with the Cowell nephrite jade discovery. Black nephrite blocky material extracted from the operating company's new mining leases (MLs 4130-4132) was...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1975
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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 89/00051 Cowell Jade Province: Detailed geological mapping and diamond drilling of jade and ornamental marble outcrops, 1982-1987. Volume 1.
Detailed mapping undertaken between 1982 and 1987 of 48 known jade outcrops located in the Cowell - Cleve area, and diamond drilling of 3 jade outcrops and 2 ornamental marble prospects, has identified many factors controlling nephrite formation. The...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1992
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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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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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Warrow. Progress and final relinquishment reports for the period 10/6/83 to 9/12/84.
Extensive geophysical prospecting, an 8 hole percussion drill coring programme (477 m) and a 140 hole RAB drilling programme (1798 m) at the Lady Franklin prospect were not encouraging. Percussion drillhole 83WP2 intersected a zone of primary but...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1984
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A gemmological assessment of the nephrite jade deposits near Cowell, South Australia.
Nephrite jade is associated with Lower Proterozoic dolomitic marbles and calc-silicate rocks as part of a sequence of metasedimentary quartzo-feldspathic gneisses, quartzites and mica schists of amphibolite metamorphic facies. These rocks normally...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1980
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RB 06/00285 Report on asbestos, section 13 Hundred of Miltalie.
A newly found, up to 2 inch wide vein of asbestos occurring within a magnesian marble bed in the Mount Olinthus district was inspected and qualitatively assessed from a single shallow trench exposure.-
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Published: 15 Apr 1919
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Cowell nephrite deposit. Consultant's geological appraisal reports (including a progress report about detailed mapping of nephrite pods on Schiller's leases), compiled over the period June to November 1970.
A mining consultant was engaged by mineral claim option holder Murumba Minerals to assess the commercial potential of a rare (for Australia) grouping of lens style nephrite deposits located about 20 km north of Cowell, which had only been mined on a...-
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Published: 11 Nov 1970
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Mungerowie. Progress and final reports for the period 8/11/82 to 7/11/86.
Exploration for base metals associated with iron formations, and also for deposits of graphite or uranium, over the southern part of Eyre Peninsula west and north-west of Port Lincoln, included compilation of a Tertiary isopach and basement geology...-
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Published: 05 Nov 1986
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Pinerow. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : annual reports for the period 23/5/1996 to 2/10/2004.
As part of a regional search for hydrothermal / epithermal gold and base metals, EL 2167 joint venturer Goldstream Mining over the period October 1996 - March 1999 undertook three phases of regional and detailed geochemical sampling in the poorly...-
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Published: 10 Mar 1905
