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RB 41/00022 Geological survey of limestone deposit, Point Turton (2/8/1955).
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited is interested in deposits of hard limestone or marble with low phosphorous content close to or within Spencers Gulf. It is presumed that the hard limestone is required for use as a flux. The Point Turton...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 55/00131 Fossiliferous limestone of Quaternary age from Nauru.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 58/00100 Tertiary limestones of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.
The foraminiferal faunas of the Upper Eocene and Lower Miocene Limestones of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean are described. Except for the fringing reefs, no rocks younger than Burdigalian were identified.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 60/00051 Stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of three deep bores, Hd Port Gawler.
Three relatively deep bores, drilled recently on the northern Adelaide Plains in the Hundred of Port Gawler, about 20 miles north of Adelaide, have intersected useful complementary sections of the Cainozoic succession, ranging from 560 feet to 1148...-
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Published: 15 Mar 1965
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RB 81/00008 Biostratigraphic examination of sample from Permit Bore 7955, Seacliff, southern Adelaide Plains (Marion Golf Course water supply).
A bottomhole drill cuttings sample obtained from a newly drilled water bore at Seacliff has been examined for the purpose of biostratigraphic correlation of the limestone aquifer sediments. It was determined from foraminiferal species assemblage...-
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Published: 03 Feb 1981
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RB 84/00053 Petrographic description of ten samples from mound springs of the Great Artesian Basin.
Detailed description of mound spring tufa, formed by nucleation of calcium carbonate upon gastropod shells, reeds, sand grains and opaque minerals.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 86/00066 New record and tectonic implications of a high-level Lepidocyclina-bearing limestone, Bremer Valley, eastern Mount Lofty Ranges.
The distinctive large, benthonic, shallow marine foraminifer Lepidocyclina howchini has been identified, with an associated benthonic microfauna, in limestone in a borrow pit located in the Bremer Valley 3 km east of Kanmantoo. The limestone is a...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1986
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RB 78/00006 Progress report on the geology of part of the Worumba Anticline.
The Worumba Anticline is a regional fold in the gradational zone between the Olary Arc and the broader folding of the central Flinders Ranges. The limbs of the anticline comprise complete upper Adelaidean successions, of which the Holowilena...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 82/00036 Oligo-Miocene transgressive Mannum Formation near Mannum, Murray Basin.
Analyses of key benthonic and planktonic foraminifera from this thin transgressive deposit, and of boundary criteria, indicate a date close to the Janjukian / Longfordian Australian Stage boundary, and close to the international Oligocene / Miocene...-
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Published: 01 May 1982
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RB 93/00023 Palaeontological analysis of limestone samples from Saudi Arabia.
Eighty-eight limestone samples from twenty profiles approximately 50 km east of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are examined and named according to Dunhams 1962 classification of carbonate rocks. Ten main fossil groups are identified, namely: echinoderm...-
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Published: 01 May 1993
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Maitland. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
As part of an ongoing search for MVT style base metal mineralisation within Lower Cambrian strata of the southern part of the Torrens Hinge Zone on Yorke Peninsula, in September 1975 112 RC holes for 1730 m were drilled at 500 m spacings along...-
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Price. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
In continuing regional exploration conducted over north-eastern Yorke Peninsula, further reconnaissance stratigraphic drilling and wireline geophysical logging (in 3 vertical rotary percussion holes totalling 373 m) was carried out in May 1976 to test...-
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RB 00492 Report on a reconnaissance geological survey of the Proterozoic - Cambrian succession of Yorke Peninsula, with reference to oil exploration in the Cambrian system.
In order to better assess the oil prospects of the Cambrian rocks of Yorke Peninsula, the Fuel Section of the Geological Survey of South Australia undertook during 1956 a detailed investigation of the Proterozoic - Cambrian stratigraphic succession...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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RB 64/00109 First geological and geochemical report on the Sellicks Hill area for the period January to May 1967.
The Lower Cambrian rocks of South Australia contain a number of stratiform lead, zinc and copper deposits. Work at Sellick Hill has indicated that a massive Archaeocyatha-bearing limestone carries anomalous amounts of lead and zinc. Basal...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 66/00118 Limestone for railway ballast on the Nullarbor Plain (with appendix on palaeontology).
Samples obtained from five quarry faces and one outcrop on the Transcontinental Railway are classified into 6 types of material, probably representing at least four generations ranging from Nullarbor Limestone to superficial material from the surface.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 61/00144 Diamond drilling operations, Klein Point limestone - Adelaide Cement Co. Ltd.
Adelaide Cement Co. Ltd. has operated a Limestone quarry from the cliffs near Klein Point, Yorke Peninsula since 1925. The annual output is about 250,000 tons; production to date exceeds three and a half million tons. A programme of diamond drilling...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 61/00038 Diamond-drill testing of Brachina limestone deposits.
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 75/00006 Introduction to laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks.
'Industrial minerals' are those minerals or assemblages of minerals which are economically important because of their physical or chemical properties, rather than their metal or energy content. The term is synonymous with 'non-metallic minerals', and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1974
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Alerumba Creek - Mount Roberts. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/9/1979 to 15/11/1986.
Exploration for possible Mississippi Valley style stratabound lead-zinc deposits hosted by Lower Cambrian carbonates in the Angepena area, 70 km north-east of Blinman, comprised regional and detailed geological mapping, reconnaissance stream sediment...-
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The Adelaide Hills Project. Data release made at the partial surrenders / full surrender of subsequent licences: annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 27/6/2000 to 15/5/2005.
A diamond exploration project area comprising nine mineral exploration licences located in the central Mount Lofty Ranges was taken up by new public company Flinders Diamonds (FDL) to search for possible commercial accumulations of diamonds, thought...-
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