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University student thesis : Detailed geological investigation of the Burra open pit, Burra, SA.
Detailed geological and structural mapping of Samin's partly excavated new Burra open cut was performed by the author at a scale of 1:480 during the period December 1972 to end of January 1973. By the latter date the pit had been excavated downwards a...-
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RB 51/00089 (Report of an inspection made at the undeveloped) Truro talc deposit.
An inspection of an occurrence of talc situated in Section 228, Hundred of Jellicoe, 3¼ miles northeast of Truro, was made on 12/10/1960. The deposit was first noted by D. King (Mining Review 103, 1957, pp. 68-69) when a borehole showed about 4 feet...-
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Published: 20 Oct 1960
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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1906
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Worlds End. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2008.
Two historically reported isolated occurrences of hydrothermal uranium mineralisation, found within fractured Adelaidean metasediments in the hilly country east of Burra and north of Robertstown, were investigated for their potential to act as sources...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Beltana. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1993 to 15/4/1998.
Contains a subset of data compiled by the licensee on the subject of commercial use of coloured iron oxides, plus some progress reports dealing with an assessment of red dolomitic marble from the Ajax Limestone unit for its potential use as an...-
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Mount Craig Copper Project. Final report for June to December 2021 geophysical and drilling program, Project ADI RD02-268 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2021].
An area centred ~28 km east of Hawker is being explored for possible buried epigenetic/hydrothermal, skarn style and sediment-hosted stratabound base and precious metals mineralisation that may have formed within prepared Adelaidean metasedimentary...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1921
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Angaston. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/7/1991 to 21/1/1992.
TARGET: Marble resources in the Angaston area which might be suitable to use as raw material for soda ash manufacture. EXPLORATION: Detailed geological mapping [some scale(s) given] and surface rock chip geochemical sampling (22) of various deposits....-
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Published: 20 Mar 1992
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Kia Ora Station. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 20/8/1980.
The target of exploration carried out approximately 60 km north-east of Burra was diamonds, with base metals and coal as secondary interests. Aeromagnetic and radiometric surveys identified several anomalies which were interpreted as possibly due to...-
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Terowie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/11/1976 to 26/6/1978.
In an area of strongly folded, sericitised and silicified lower Adelaidean sedimentary rocks located km north-east of Terowie, an initial four areas of base metal geochemical anomalism were identified on prior EL 158 by surface sampling and geological...-
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RB 62/00111 Report on diamond drilling at Bald Hill, near Angaston, to investigate the persistence of marble at depth.
Drilling of two vertical diamond drill holes at S.A. Portland Cement’s Bald Hill quarry has confirmed surface geological information, which indicates that the marble beds are steeply dipping, and should extend to depths sufficient to meet the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kate Hill. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period from 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2004.
No field work was done on the subject licence, covering a small area centred ~20 km north-east of Leigh Creek, during the three years of its tenure. As a result, the Minister of Mines cancelled the licence.-
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Published: 25 Feb 1907
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2007 to 8/2/2009.
The Boolooroo licence area is located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1909
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RB 25/00011 Report on diamond drilling marble deposits at Penrice near Angaston.
To support the production of soda ash at its Osborne plant in Adelaide, South Australia, ICI Australia has been obtaining crushed marble from the Barossa Valley region as process raw material. Since June 1945, the South Australian Department of Mines...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1949
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RB 56/00067 Re-interpretation of the Burra Burra copper deposits.
The Burra Burra (sic) copper mine is located in complexly folded Torrensian dolomites and limestones forming the faulted axial region of a major anticline. The orebody formerly mined was largely of secondary origin and confined between two faults,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1963
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-49, Bird-In-Hand Mine Deeps Project gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
At the historic Bird-In-Hand mining claim, where previous mine exploration drilling beneath the old workings by current licence operator Maximus Resources had delineated an inferred remaining gold resource of 53,000 ounces over the depth extent from...-
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The Needles - Sitting Bull area [portion of Arkaroola Station]. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1969.
Numerous small, occasionally high grade occurrences of talc and asbestiform amphibole minerals, barite, vermiculite and sodic feldspar were discovered by prospecting across a wide, often rugged hilly area lying to the north-west of Arkaroola...-
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Angaston - Sedan Hill area. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/11/1975 to 17/11/1976.
Regional stream sediment and rock chip geochemical sampling of an area extending from 15 km north-east to south-east of Angaston was undertaken to search primarily for stratabound Mississippi Valley style Pb-Zn mineralisation in lower Cambrian Hawker...-
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Kanappa. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/12/1964 to 31/5/1965.
Reconnaissance stream sediment sampling (4000 samples taken over 5 square miles) and follow-up traverse soil sampling (350 samples) have been completed in the vicinity of the historic Kanappa copper mine, 7 miles north-east of Springton, to look for...-
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Progress report on [near-mine] exploration activities [performed by the] Burra [Joint] Venture, for the period 10/10/1965 to 28/2/1967.
At the invitation of the South Australian Department of Mines, a mining company consortium has been formed to continue recent SA Government studies at Burra aimed at establishing the economic feasibility of re-opening the historic copper workings to...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1967
