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Marne River. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 17/6/1971 to 16/6/1972.
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Pualco West. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/10/1973.
Reconnaissance and detailed bulk loam sampling undertaken to look for diamonds or kimberlite indicator minerals in the vicinity of the Pualco Anticline, plus spectrographic analyses of the derived heavy mineral concentrates for gold and base metals...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1973
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RB 54/00055 Summary report on the investigation of the Razorback Ridge deposit (Braemar Iron Formation).
Sturtian glacial sediments south of Yunta contain haematitic and magnetitic siltstones (banded iron formation) and haematitic and magnetitic tillites formed by chemical deposition of magnetite euhedra in a finer grained haematite groundmass. Both...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1962
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RB 51/00017 Diamond drilling, Prince Alfred copper mine.
Sediments in the area consist of blue dolomitic flaggy and laminated slates and grits, and are equated with the Sturtian Series of the Adelaide System. Copper lodes occur parallel to the beds, which dip between 50-70°W. During the period March to July...-
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Published: 08 Aug 1960
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RB 44/00063 Myponga Dam Project - Geological investigation of the tunnel route on the proposed pipeline from the reservoir.
Detailed geological examination of the area in the vicinity of the proposed tunnel has shown that, provided suitable precautions are taken, there are no geological factors which will prevent the successful construction of a tunnel through the ridge...-
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Published: 02 May 1957
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RB 79/00138 Late Proterozoic (Adelaidean) tillites of the Adelaide Geosyncline. In: Earths, pre-Pleistocene glacial records. Hambrey, M. and Harland, W.B. (Eds).
Two major Late Proterozoic glaciations, separated by a thick interglacial interval of the order of 3000 m, are recorded in the Adelaide Geosyncline of South Australia. The earlier, Sturtian, succession includes two major glacial phases according to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 85/00042 Shallow refraction seismic survey Christmas Cove, Kangaroo Island.
In the construction of marina, the results suggest that, apart from small areas, blasting should not be required if the material to be excavated is similar to that removed for the deepening of the cove at Cape Jervis.-
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Published: 01 Aug 1985
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RB 83/00037 Excursion guides B1, B2 and B4, geology of the Adelaide region. Reprinted from Fourth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Adelaide, August 1982.
Excursions focussing on the Precambrian, Cambrian and Permian geology were designed to cover the range of time when it is believed that South Australia and Antarctica were in juxtaposition.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 79/00087 Geochemical sampling of the Sturtian tillite and basal Tapley Hill Formation, Copley.
In a sampling programme carried out over the Sturtian Merinjina Tillite and basal Tapley Hill Formation strata on parts of the COPLEY 1:250 000 mapsheet area, 684 soil samples and 71 rock samples were collected at 25 m and 12.5 m intervals along 24...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 99/00018 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Tookayerta Catchment.
The Tookayerta Catchment is an area which is increasingly coming under pressure from its landowners for the development of local groundwater resources to irrigate dairy pastures, berry plantations and vineyards. The catchment encompasses two...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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RB 89/00023 Excursion guide for Willyama Supergroup and related rocks, Olary District, SA.
This 4-day field trip demonstrates :- Willyama Complex (basement) stratigraphy,- deformation and metamorphic style of the Olarian, Orogeny (including possible recumbent folds), - large blocks of granite and migmatite, up to 800 metres, long, within...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1989
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RB 91/00052 Ruby Hill 1. Well completion report.
SADME stratigraphic drillhole Ruby Hill 1 was sited 10.4 km east of William Creek, and was designed to penetrate Early Cretaceous rocks of the Eromanga Basin and to sample pre-Mesozoic basement. It intersected 191 m of the Eromanga Basin sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1991
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Manunda. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting on the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, for the period 10/12/2007 to 9/12/2009.
The banded iron formations associated with various tillite in South Australia have been recognised as being potential sources for iron however the low-grade nature of these bands has been one of the limiting factors in why they have not been...-
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Bindyi South. Annual reports to licence forfeiture/cancellation, for the period 30/4/2015 to 24/11/2017.
An area located immediately south of Bindyi Homestead on Koonamore Station was taken up to explore for possible economic stratabound iron ore (magnetite) hosted by metamorphosed Adelaidean glacial sedimentary strata of the Yudnamutana Subgroup....-
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Published: 24 Nov 1917
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Mount Compass. First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2001 to 5/2/2003.
Buried Tertiary sand in the Mount Compass area, ~50 km south of Adelaide, was the target of exploration performed adjacent to the existing Glenshera sand pit. Aircore drilling (31 vertical holes, total 1269 m) defined an area containing a deposit of...-
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Mergenia. Information status at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/5/2011 to 1/5/2016 : no work performed.
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Iron Peak. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 12/11/2003 to 11/11/2008.
The banded iron formations associated with various Neoproterozoic tillites in South Australia have for some time been recognised as being potential sources for iron ore, however, the low grade nature of the iron mineralisation within these bands has...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Olary (part of the Braemar Iron Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2015.
A licence area in the Olary district comprising three separate sub-blocks has been explored for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences within partly concealed Neoproterozoic bedrock. The subject ground was taken up by Wentworth Metals...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Braemar. Annual reports plus third partial surrender report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/12/2007 to 9/12/2018.
The subject EL 3998 Braemar, in its eastern part, covers a 20 km long, high amplitude aeromagnetic anomaly located within the northern part of the Adelaide Fold Belt, that overlies a large antiformal fold in the Adelaidean metasedimentary cover which...-
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Manunda, Tiverton Outstation, Iron Peak and Pualco Range (the Razorback Ridge Iron Ore Project, later the Mawson Iron Project). Joint annual reports for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2016.
Three adjoining licence areas in the Baratta Trough within the northern Nackara Arc have been taken up to explore for possible economic buried Neoproterozoic metasedimentary semi-stratabound iron ore. Central EL 4267 covers ~3 km strike length of the...-
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