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Mount Sabine. Partial surrender report for the period 12/2/1981 to 22/1/1986.
As part of a regional diamond and kimberlite exploration programme, 50 drainage and loam samples were collected for heavy mineral analysis from within the two areas being relinquished, which lie respectively 50 km NW and 40 km NE of Kingoonya. No...-
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RB 60/00116 Water supply, Andamooka Opalfield. Report on recent drilling.
The drilling of four bores was undertaken by SADM during April 1965 in an attempt to augment the limited supplies of potable water presently available for the residents of the Andamooka Opalfield. The existing supplies of such water are drawn from...-
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Published: 08 Jun 1965
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RB 78/00154 Stuart Creek agate deposit.
Agate or banded chert nodules weather out of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone over an area of several square kilometres south of the Stuart Creek Opal field. In places the agate nodules are concentrated into extensive deflation lag gravels. Banding is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 92/00073 Soil Air CO2/O2 Project. Progress report 4, Wirrda Well prospect, Stuart Shelf.
Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements as a guide to oxidising sulphide have been assessed by several researchers and government geological surveys in the United States, Ireland, Africa and Saudi Arabia over the period 1983-1990. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1992
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RB 89/00035 Petrography and interpretation of lower Adelaidean sediments in drillholes near Port Pirie.
Thirty-five thin sections prepared from stored North Broken Hill drill cores indicate that conglomeratic sandstones classified as Emeroo Subgroup, and red siltstones classified as Callanna Group, could alternatively be lateral equivalents of 1 major...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Oak Dam North-east. Annual reports for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
A relatively large but little-explored area of the central-eastern Stuart Shelf, which is almost wholly covered by scrubby sand dunes and swampy salt lakes, thereby making surface access very difficult despite it being located only ~30 km to 50 km km...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1911
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Island Lagoon (part of the Island Lagoon Potash Project). Combined first annual / final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/2/2016 to 30/11/2016.
An area covering most of Island Lagoon, a large playa lake which is centred ~30 km south-west of Pimba township and the Stuart Highway, has been explored for possible economic deposits of potash in the form of potassium sulphate, that it was thought...-
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Woomera. Second partial surrender report, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/1/2017.
An area located immediately south of Woomera township has been acquired to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence of the Stuart...-
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Mount Gunson district. Geological mapping data, 1971-1972.
A mapping programme was undertaken by the licensees to test the possibility of the near-mine area to Mount Gunson being a suitable host environment for stratiform copper mineralisation. The exploration hypothesis used was that such mineralisation...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1972
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Structures and mineralization in the Cattlegrid ore body, and speculation on the genesis of the Mount Gunson copper deposits.
Discusses the influence of sedimentary structures, weathering and mild tectonism on the development of breccia types, the relationship of mineralization to faulting and fracture systems, possible sources of base metals and sulphur and consequent...-
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Summary report on the Pandurra copper prospect, SML 204, South Australia.
Near Pandurra Homestead on eastern Eyre Peninsula, dispersed secondary copper mineralisation occurs in faulted Upper Proterozoic sediments, along which some 30 shallow pits, probably dating back to the late 1800s, have been sunk. In an effort to...-
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RB 62/00117 Report on groundwater prospects, Special Mining Lease 96, Mount Gunson.
Water for the treatment of copper ore may possibly be obtained by trenching or drilling into unconsolidated lake sediments, or by drilling deeper wells to look for supplies within the Pernatty Grit or Woolcalla Dolomite Member.-
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Published: 31 May 1966
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White Cliff (part of the Lake Torrens Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 24/7/2003 to 7/4/2016.
Only minimal work has been conducted on the small area comprising all of the now surrendered remaining part of EL 5366, which is centred 20 km north-northeast of Roxby Downs township. That work began with Tasman Resources' generation of a conceptual...-
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RB 2002/00024 Sequence analysis and petroleum potential in the Arrowie Basin, South Australia.
Cambrian sediments in the Arrowie Basin were deposited on a rifted continental margin. Four distinct depositional regimes, ranging from a western, tectonically stable shelf, through platform-ramp to eastern slope and trough-synclines, can be...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2003
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RB 2016/00014 Geology of the Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Special Edition Map Sheet.
The Six Mile Hill 1:75 000 Map Sheet was produced as part of a mapping program integrated into the Mineral Systems Drilling Program (MSDP) along the southern margin of the Gawler Ranges. The objective of the mapping program was to provide a regional...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2016
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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Ediacara Range. Partial surrender report for the period ending January 1998.
Relinquished portions of the EL were considered to have low potential for economically viable Mississippi Valley-type lead mineralisation similar to that occurring at the Ediacara Mineral Field, a conclusion based on the outcome of literature...-
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Pernatty Lagoon [East]. First partial surrender report, for the period 27/6/1997 to 26/6/2001.
No work performed. Relinquished portions of the licence were considered to have low potential for economically viable Olympic Dam and Tunkillia style copper mineralisation, a conclusion based on the outcome of literature research, reconnaisance field...-
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Cultana basement regional geology 3D Model.
The Cultana basement 3D Geological Model covers a region which includes the Roopena, and western half of the Cultana, 1:100,000 mapsheet areas. The subsurface geology that has been modelled comprises a succession of deformed Palaeoproterozoic...-
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Regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin (300 dpi & 600 dpi pdf formats).
This inaugural regolith map of the southern Gawler Ranges margin provides a valuable regional overview of the main regolith types and their associated landforms, plus a general outline of the major areas of bedrock or regolith-dominated terrain, as...-
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Published: 14 Jul 2016
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