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RB 85/00032 Rocks from the Kanmantoo Trough near Sedan Hill including possible equivalents to the Truro Volcanics.
21 specimens of volcanics and felsic gneisses are heterogeneous in both original lithology and the extent of metamorphic and metasomatic alteration. Strong granitic metasomatism may indicate concealed granitoid plutons. Continuation of andesitic...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1985
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RB 79/00080 Revised lithostratigraphic correlations of Late Adelaidean sequences in the Kimberley region, Western Australia.
Adelaidean (late Precambrian) sequences in the Kimberley Region, Western Australia, contain undisputed evidence of glaciation. In the East and West Kimberleys, only a single major glacial epoch is represented, but in the MOUNT RAMSAY area, there are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 79/00088 Wilkinson 1. Well completion report.
Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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RB 93/00054 Hydrologic change in the Strzelecki Desert from U-series dating of gypsum, celestite and calcite, and an assessment of published radiocarbon dates.
Reassessment of age frequency of published and unpublished radiocarbon dates from the Strzelecki Desert and Lake Frome - Lake Callabonna region in northeastern South Australia has delineated some Late Pleistocene climatic events. These include...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1993
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Reaphook Hill and Mount Frome (a tenement group having amalgamated expenditure commitments, which is part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports for the period 4/8/2001 to 1/7/2015.
During the third year of exploration nominally ending on 1/7/2002 [and subsequent to the starting date of 5/3/2002 for the application of provisions of the Flinders Ranges Project's multi-tenement Amalgamation of Expenditure Agreement (AEA), whence...-
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Published: 07 Aug 1915
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Beltana. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/12/1990 to 6/10/1992.
TARGET: Possible undiscovered willemite mineralisation near the historic Beltana zinc mine. EXPLORATION: A detailed gravity survey of the mine area, and follow-up percussion drilling (2 holes totalling 150 metres) of the largest and highest magnitude...-
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Published: 08 Sep 1992
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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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Early origin of dolomite in Early Cambrian carbonates on Yorke Peninsula, western margin of Stansbury Basin, South Australia.
This study has shown that significant dolomite formation has occurred during early diagenetic stages in the Early Cambrian carbonate sequence of Yorke Peninsula. Relict depositional textures indicate that the sequence consists of tidal flat...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1994
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RB 00731 Hughes-Denman Stratigraphic Drilling Project of Outback Oil Company NL. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study and Outback Oil Hughes and Denman wells. Palynological report.
The four stratigraphic wells completed in the Eucla Basin within 20 miles of the Hughes and Denman Railway Sidings intersected a sequence of Tertiary, Lower Cretaceous, probable Palaeozoic, and possibly some Proterozoic rocks. The ages of the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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Mount Freeling and Wooltana [Station] areas. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/6/2010 to 27/6/2015.
An area of the central far northern Flinders Ranges consisting of two separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic iron ore / manganese mineralisation which could be present within the unconformable contact between Mesozoic and...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1915
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RB 2004/00012 Deposition and chemical composition of Early Cambrian salt in the eastern Officer Basin, South Australia
In South Australia, Cambrian massive salt deposits of the eastern Officer Basin occur in troughs lying along the western and north-western margins of the Gawler Craton, and are considered to have been deposited in marginal to open marine environments....-
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Published: 01 Jul 2004
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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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Burt Hill area, Mount Painter district. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry for the period 6/12/82 to 3/4/86.
Leucogranitic plugs within basement in the south-western part of the Mount Painter Complex were investigated as potential hosts for primary niobium - tantalum, beryllium, titanium and yttrium mineralisation. Aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys...-
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North-eastern Officer Basin area. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/8/1980 to 8/11/1986.
Exploration for trona and base metals was centred on the Marla region. Work included regional gravity and magnetic studies, acquisition of airborne magnetic and multi-channel radiometric data, with follow-up ground magnetic and gravity surveys,...-
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Bunabie. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 200 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and 28 km...-
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Koonalda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 130 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and south of...-
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Nullarbor. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary cored holes totalling 189 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast just west of...-
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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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Punt Hill Project. 3D data package.
South Australia’s Olympic Cu-Au Province hosts some of the world’s great iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) deposits, such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena. The same causative thermal event resulted in variants of this deposit class being...-
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