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Outalpa. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/6/1972 to 15/4/1973.
Exploration of an area located approximately 10 miles north of Manna Hill, seeking possible economic Zambian Copperbelt style stratabound copper deposits, has consisted only of an orientation geochemical survey followed by field inspection of...-
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RB 51/00089 (Report of an inspection made at the undeveloped) Truro talc deposit.
An inspection of an occurrence of talc situated in Section 228, Hundred of Jellicoe, 3¼ miles northeast of Truro, was made on 12/10/1960. The deposit was first noted by D. King (Mining Review 103, 1957, pp. 68-69) when a borehole showed about 4 feet...-
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Published: 20 Oct 1960
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Mount Fitton Talc Province. Progress, annual and miscellaneous technical summary reports for the period 16/2/79 to 24/11/96.
Talc has been mined at Mount Fitton in the northern Flinders Ranges on a continuous basis since 1945, for industrial use in the manufacture of cosmetics, ceramics and refractory ware. From 1979 to 1996, under authority of a series of Exploration...-
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Report on Stage I exploration programme for Truro Talc Project, SA.
On 19/1/70 Minefields Exploration NL were granted an option over the Truro Talc and Joe's Hill talc deposits situated some 60 miles north-east of Adelaide. Then, during April 1970 a Stage I exploration programme was undertaken, consisting of...-
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Published: 11 May 1970
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Burra - Chinaman Hat Hill area. First partial surrender report, for the period 17/5/1979 to 16/5/1980.
The target was possible diamonds, with base metals and coal as secondary interests. Initially, a 1:25,000 scale colour aerial photographic survey was flown across part of the now relinquished licence area, to assist BHP in mapping geomorphic and...-
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RB 62/00034 Geology of the Spalding Willouran Inlier.
The Spalding inlier is a lens-shaped area of tightly-folded Willouran rocks of the Adelaide System (Upper Precambrian), extending north-south for about 10 miles; it is about 100 miles north of Adelaide. The rim of the inlier is marked in most places...-
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Published: 09 Feb 1966
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Mount Fitton Talc Province. Final report on second, 1984-1985 diamond drilling programme.
Drilling of 27 appraisal NQ diamond cored holes for a total penetration of 1538 m over the period October 1984 to May 1985 (2 holes being abandoned at shallow depth due to having drilling difficulties within broken quartzite) has defined 5 new buried...-
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RB 2007/00003 Petrology of selected kimberlite and related rocks in South Australia - Volume 1.
Detailed petrological descriptions of 16 surface and near surface samples of intrusive ?igneous rocks obtained from nine localities spread around Terowie, Eurelia and Bangor have shown that they are intensely altered and weathered, making confirmation...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2007
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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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SADME/Amdel Project no. 1/1/271 - Petrology and geochemistry of the Burra copper mine. Progress reports for the period November 1981 to March 1982.
157 rock samples taken from the Samin Ltd open cut copper mine at Burra were investigated by Amdel to determine their metallic elemental content, and petrological and mineragraphic features that might be diagnostic of rock and mineral genesis. Host...-
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Published: 31 Mar 1982
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1998 Mount Painter area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by PIRSA during July 2012 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Mount Painter region of SA on 28/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.5 m x 4.5 m, within a surveyed area of...-
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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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Billy Spring. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/1/1968 to 10/7/1969.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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Geological reports on mining leases in the vicinity of Billy Springs, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, for the period 11/3/1968 to October 1968.
The possible economic potential of eight mineral leases held by Mr H.N. Thomas in the greater Billy Springs area were evaluated by hired consultants, who undertook brief lease inspections and related literature reviews, and made recommendations for...-
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Mount Fitton. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/7/1963 to 30/6/1971.
Following a geological survey of the area held under Special Mining Lease 58 by Industrial Rock Mines Pty Ltd in the Mount Fitton area, a detailed reconnaissance of all mineralisation was undertaken by two company prospectors during the period March...-
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Published: 14 Oct 1970
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Magnesite in the Mount Fitton area, South Australia.
Over the past three years crystalline magnesite has been found in the Mount Fitton area in many places, in a 12 miles long belt which follows the lower edge of a dolomite mass of Late Proterozoic age. The Mount Livingston deposit with indicated...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1967
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Note on drilling at the Creek Junction talc deposit, SML 82A, Mount Fitton area.
The Creek Junction talc deposit, located 4 miles south-east of the No. 5 talc deposit and the Mount Fitton mining camp, had been worked on a small scale prior to 1963. In view of the comparatively narrow widths of the exposed talc lenses and their...-
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Published: 13 Oct 1970
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SP 008 Mineral Resources of the Adelaide Geosyncline
This publication has been compiled from a display prepared for the launch of SADME Bulletin 53, held at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 7 December 1987. The importance and diversity of commodities found in the Geosyncline are highlighted in the...-
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE, SH 54-05.
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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kapunda (latterly part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Annual reports for the period 12/3/2007 to 27/4/2013.
During 2007, Luzenac Australia Pty Ltd (Luzenac), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto Pty Limited, entered into an Option Agreement with Flinders Diamonds to explore for commercial grade talc deposits over part of its EL 3064 situated in the...-
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Published: 06 May 2013
