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RB 79/00006 Opal at the Stuart Creek, Charlie Swamp and Yarrawurta Cliff diggings. Report no. 12 on geological investigations and Calweld drilling of the Stuart Creek Precious Stones Field.
Small quantities of precious opal have been mined from sediments of the Early Cretaceous Marree Formation at Stuart Creek, 50 km north of Andamooka. These sediments appear to have been unaffected by the Early Tertiary deep weathering and bleaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-14, Pernatty Lagoon area (eastern Gawler Craton) IOCG mineral prospects. Project final report.
PACE proposal DPY3-14 aimed to discover a new iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralised magmatic centre, similar to the Olympic Dam setting, within the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton. The Pernatty Lagoon project is located less than...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1906
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Reedy Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/2/1987 to 2/2/1992.
TARGET: Possible diamondiferous kimberlites subcropping under Cainozoic cover in an area located 110 km north-east of Glendambo. EXPLORATION: Acquisition and interpretation of 6759 line km of airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys, regolith heavy...-
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Bull 041 Geology and Mineral Resources of the Andamooka and Torrens Area
Regional geological mapping of the area was initiated in 1959 and was completed in 1964. All tracks in the area were traversed and detailed mapping confined to critical localities and to areas where this was considered desirable. Geological boundaries...-
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RB 61/00102 Geology and mineral resources of the Andamooka-Torrens area (19/10/1965).
The area embraced by the Andamooka and Torrens 4-mile geological sheets is defined by long 136° 30- long 138° 00 and lat 30° 00- lat 32° 00 and comprises an extensive partially dissected plateau west of Lake Torrens, the Lake Torrens sunkland and part...-
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Published: 19 Oct 1965
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RB 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
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RB 2010/00003 High Resolution Resistivity Test Survey: Andamooka.
A new high-resolution resistivity measurement instrument, developed by ZZ Resistivity Imaging Pty Ltd, was tested within the Andamooka Precious Stones Field, located 640 km by road north of Adelaide, to determine its suitability for assisting in opal...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2010
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Geology of the Stuart Creek - Charlie Swamp area, northern South Australia.
As a B.Sc. Honours project with the Geology Department of the University of Adelaide, which was sponsored by the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy, the author during 1978 carried out geological mapping of a nearly 400 square km area...-
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RB 2007/00015 Geochronology of the Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Geochronology enables us to determine the age of rocks and minerals. The variety of isotopic geochronological techniques give complementary information on, for example, the timing of igneous or metamorphic crystallisation, as is often the case for the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2007
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HandBk 003 - A Guide to the Geology and Mineral Resources of South Australia. Ludbrook, N.H. 1980 South Australia. (reprinted version)
South Australia has had a very long geological history traceable back for over 2000 million years. It has areas of ancient basement rocks and of younger rocks representing most of the geological column, which are exposed at the surface or have been...-
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Price. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 6/12/1978.
Continuation by Aquitaine of its regional appraisal of the mineral potential in the Cambrian carbonate sequence on northern Yorke Peninsula, has recently involved them in acquiring and interpreting ground gravity and magnetic surveys, completing a...-
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Andamooka. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 26/11/1970 to 25/5/1972.
An area situated adjacent to the recently defined Andamooka Opalfield, and located about 20 miles north of Andamooka township centre, has been explored for possible economic occurrences of opal or base metals within Cretaceous and Precambrian strata...-
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Published: 07 Jan 1972