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Mutooroo [Station]. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 11/9/1989 to 6/9/1994.
Exploration for possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits within Tertiary sediments on the northern margin of the Murray Basin comprised aircore drilling (28 holes, total 744 m) in the Mutooroo station area, 50 km south-east of Olary. The...-
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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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RB 51/00090 Gypsum deposit - Blocks Q and N, Hundred of Stuart.
Fourteen power auger holes and three bulldozed cuts have indicated clay containing 45% gypsum under 1m of overburden. Reserves in MLs 661 and 662 on the west margin of a dry lake approach 100 000 t of washed gypsum. Saline water is likely to occur at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 59/00095 Chowilla Dam Project, embankment materials investigation, sand for dam shoulders. Interim geological report.
Stage 1 of this investigation, the location and proving of more than 6 million cubic yards of clean quartz sand for dam shoulder for the proposed Chowilla Dam, is now complete. The investigation included geological mapping of the proposed site and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 59/00124 Chowilla Dam Project: embankment materials, rip-rap investigation. Progress geological report.
At a meeting of the Chowilla Dam Technical Committee on 9th November, it was requested that the Mines Department prepare a progress statement on the investigations being carried out for the location and proving of rip-rap sources. This report was...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1964
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RB 60/00011 Examination of bore samples for sedimentary phosphate (in the) Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin.
In a reconnaissance survey for sedimentary phosphate, sludges and cores were examined from 100 widely-scattered bores in parts of the Murray Basin and the Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin that are located in South Australia. Microscopic inspection...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1965
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RB 60/00026 Chowilla Dam Project, rip-rap investigation, Lowbank quarry site. Progress geological report, February 1965.
A quarry site located near Lowbank on the River Murray, 7 miles east of Waikerie, has been geologically mapped and partly explored by drilling 14 vertical diamond holes with a total depth penetration of 702 feet. Marine sandy limestone and calcareous...-
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Published: 12 Feb 1965
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RB 84/00056 Gluepot gypsum deposits, geological investigation and auger drilling, 1982 - 83, Neldner and Ciancio - Out of Hundreds, Co. Young.
Deposits occur in dunes along margins of gypseous playa lakes, with indicated reserves of 115 000 tonnes, averaging 58% gypsum and inferred reserves of 116 000 tonnes of 50 to 75% gypsum. Grade is suitable for agricultural gypsum usage.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 84/00102 Silica sand deposits near Lake Alexandrina.
4 Quaternary silica sand deposits were assessed by 47 auger holes. The deposits comprise backshore dunes marginal to the lake and are a potential source of replenishment sand for metropolitan beaches. Only 1 deposit is mined at present, Nalpa no. 1...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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RB 86/00052 Sugar Loaf Hill quarry - Geological investigations and machine auger drilling, 1985.
Sugarloaf Hill quarry 18 km NE of Barmera has been operating since 1949. Pleistocene dolomitic Bungunnia Limestone has been the source of aggregate, and underlying bimodal Pliocene Loxton Sands, the source of construction sand. Production has been...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1986
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RB 81/00088 Naracoorte sand deposit. Results of geological investigations and auger drilling, 1981. Block.108, Hd Hynam. EMLs 3394 and 3395 (D.G. and V.A. Pitt).
Coarse construction sand, formed by reworking Pliocene Loxton Sands is part of a beach and foredune of the East Naracoorte Dune of Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation. Production totalled 52 305 tonnes from 1965 - 1980. 210000 tonnes of sand conforming...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 83/00054 Comaum sand deposit - Report no. 1. Reconnaissance auger drilling 1981-1982 and survey of existing pits.
69 auger holes (303 metres) have shown deposit (2.9 km long, 300 x 400 metres wide and 2 x 10 metres thick) of coarse sand in Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation, largely on State Forest Reserve. Of existing pits, Proviss pit was closed and Gartners pit...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 83/00047 Auger drilling Morgan gypsum deposit in 1981. Blocks Q, 77 and 61 Hd Stuart, County Young.
205 auger holes up to 9 metres deep indicate the bulk of the reserves without beneficiation are suitable for agriculture. Reserves of 149 000 tonnes of high grade seed gypsum, suitable for cement and plaster manufacture near present mining...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 98/00022 Review of open file company exploration data from the early 1980s to mid-1997, over the Yunta, Winnininnie, Anabama and Oakvale 1:100 000 map sheets, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 90/00061 Yamba-Noora gypsum deposits - Results of 1989 scout drilling program.
Dunes derived from Yamba Formation gypsiferous beds are mantled with flour gypsum in the Yamba-Noora area. They have been a source of agricultural gypsum for Riverland irrigation areas since the early 1900s. Auger drilling located 6 deposits with good...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1990
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RB 90/00056 Katarapko sand deposit, EML 4901, section 82, Hd Katarapko - K.J. and P.J. Migga.
The Katarapko sand deposit, 10 km SW of Berri has been a source of construction and filling sand since the 1940s. Coarse grained, fluvio-lacustrine Loxton Sands are currently mined for bricklayers sand, while overlying, finer, aeolian Woorinen...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1990
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RB 89/00040 New occurrence of mafic igneous rocks beneath the northern Murray Basin.
SADME Nanyah 1 (hole synonym M154), a Murray Basin hydrogeological observation bore, was extended beneath the sedimentary cover to reach basement in order to investigate the source of a prominent aeromagnetic anomaly. A 3-metre bottomhole core of...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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RB 88/00085 1:250 000 Geological series - Explanatory Notes, OLARY, South Australia. Sheet SI/54-2 International Index.
The OLARY map area includes the SW part of the Willyama Inliers and surrounding Adelaidean (Late Proterozoic) sequences. The Early Proterozoic Willyama Supergroup is separated by NW-trending faults into blocks of metasedimentary rock of upper...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1988
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Lochaber. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 5/7/1999 to 12/6/2006.
A 12-year period of exploration for economic evaporitic carbonate minerals in the Lochaber area, 25 km north-west of Naracoorte, concentrated on investigating ultrafine Recent carbonate deposits under the bed of a 2 km diameter seasonal salt lake...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1906
