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Lake Bring. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 710) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium associated with high order radiometric anomalies over lakes on the edge of the sand dune country, east of the Nullarbor Plain. EXPLORATION: Closely spaced (300-500 m), low level (65 m altitude) aerial scintillometer...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Aeromagnetic survey interim reports 1 and 2. Dip evaluation of possible dome structure, and tectonic interpretation. (Appendix 1 to progress report for period ending 1/7/1980.).
Magnetic profiles above dyke feature indicate the eastern flank dips to the W. The northern area has very high gradient, large amplitude magnetic linears caused by 5 dipping haematite quartzite horizons in sequence of folds while the southern half has...-
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RB 87/00076 Mid-Proterozoic stromatolites and stromatolite-like chert concretions from the Tarcoola Formation near Mount Eba. KINGOONYA 1:250 000 area.
The Tarcoola Formation contains partially silicified specimens which are dolomitic and occur as clasts in a conglomerate, and totally silicified in situ forms. Although short sections of the latter stromatolites are columnar, none shows sufficient...-
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Published: 01 May 1987
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RB 77/00068 Palynological examination of material from Tarcoola diamond drillhole no. 5.
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Published: 28 Jun 1977
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RB 97/00053 Identification of a single wood fragment from the Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Analysis of a single wood sample from a silicified low energy, poorly sorted, sandy, fluvial horizon within an apparent palaeovalley on the Gawler Craton is identified as a member of the botanical family Podocarpaceae, with a possible affinity to the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 99/00006 Adelaide Geosyncline of South Australia and its significance in Neoproterozoic continental reconstruction.
The Adelaide Geosyncline is a deeply subsident Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian basin complex in South Australia with a record of at least five major successive rift cycles. Each rift system has its own locus and orientation. Although the rift...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1999
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RB 88/00050 Volcanic and sedimentary rocks from the Wirrulla region, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Volcanic rocks from the Wirrulla region include dacites, rhyodacites and rhyolites. They comprise both magmatic and pyroclastic types, and are similar to the Gawler Range Volcanics. Sedimentary rocks from the same region include quartz sandstones...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Annual, joint annual and combined annual reports for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2009.
A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1909
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Yumbarra (part of Gawler Joint Venture Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/1/2000 to 4/1/2003.
A prominent (> 7000 nT), multi-featured, and also geomorphically expressed aeromagnetic anomaly of undoubted prime exploration potential was discovered within the Yumbarra Conservation Park as a result of detailed low level aeromagnetic surveys...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Midgee (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 26/11/2003 to 24/3/2019.
An area of the northern Cowell Hills was taken up to explore for possible economic basement-hosted copper-gold mineralisation of epigenetic style, analogous to that found at the Ernest Henry deposit, which may be associated with magnetic anomalies and...-
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Published: 08 May 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ardrossan, Minlaton and Ardrossan coast areas (the Pine Point Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/8/2008 to 1/8/2014.
Rex Mineral’s ('Rex') primary objective in the Pine Point Project area is to determine the potential for economic basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold mineralisation such as that found at Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Ernest Henry and...-
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Lake Anthony. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 711) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
An area located just to the east of the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, occupied by many scattered large and small salt lakes surrounded by sand dunes, with Precambrian basement [of the western Gawler Craton] subcropping near the surface, has been...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Venus Bay. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/1/1991 to 9/7/1992.
TARGET: Diamonds in 3 areas, one west of Lock, another east of Elliston, and the third surrounding Venus Bay. EXPLORATION: Heavy mineral sampling, airborne magnetic and multichannel radiometric surveys, ground magnetic surveys, and selected anomaly...-
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Tarcoola and Malbooma. Data release made in lieu of a partial relinquishment at licences' expiry/renewal: progress reports for the period 7/6/1978 to 19/1/1983.
Exploration work included geophysical surveys, reprocessing of airborne radiometric data, and rotary and diamond drilling (237 holes totalling 5975 m; total depths from 3-55 m) in a search for sedimentary uranium in Tertiary palaeochannels, and gold...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Joint annual reports for the period 4/1/2009 to 3/1/2019.
During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1919
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Gemini 1. Test reports.
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Published: 06 Dec 1978
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Kolballa. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1990 to 15/7/1992.
TARGET: (Stockdale) Diamonds in the Elliston region, related to possible kimberlite primary sources that may be associated with the deep-seated Polda Trough structural feature; (BHP) Mineral sands in Tertiary sediments. EXPLORATION: Stockdale...-
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EPP SA-15, offshore Polda Basin, South Australia. Progress, permit review, technical and surrender reports for the period 17/10/75 to 3/5/83.
During their 7 year tenure of EPP 15, which comprised an area of 200 offshore graticular blocks covering the portion of the Polda Basin underlying the continental shelf, the permit operator(s) carried out the following major exploratory work: (1)...-
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Mount Hope. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/9/1988 to 11/6/1992.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Mount Hope area on western Eyre Peninsula. EXPLORATION: An airborne magnetic-radiometric survey (SADME / BMR / Stockdale 1988), heavy mineral sampling, follow-up ground magnetic surveying, and RAB drilling (91 holes totalling...-
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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
