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Pontifex report no. 8684 : Petrology of one drill core sample from hole 02CDDH0049 located at the Challenger gold mine.
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Published: 23 Jun 2005
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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Hawks Nest. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 29/12/1982.
An area 100 km north of Kingoonya which exhibits a strong regional gravity high and other, intersecting pronounced crustal geophysical features was acquired to search for an Olympic Dam type of base/precious metals deposit. Semi-detailed and detailed...-
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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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The MIM-Peko Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project. Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender and their re-issue as a single replacement tenement, for the period 15/2/1983 to 20/10/1989.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, undertaken over areas to the south-east of Arcoona Homestead and in the vicinity of Woomera township, has comprised numerous reconnaissance and then detailed gravity, ground magnetic and CSAMT...-
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Emmie Bluff. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1978 to 11/2/1983.
Ongoing exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead, during this period comprised 3D geophysical modelling of possible source geometries for, and RC drilling (10 holes, total...-
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Mount Allalone. Progress and annual reports for the period 14/6/89 to 31/7/95.
Base metal exploration of two lead-zinc mineralized areas previously discovered by Billiton and WMC within Hutchison Group metasediments near Mt Allalone, northwest of Buckleboo on central Eyre Peninsula, comprised ground magnetic and EM surveys, RAB...-
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Published: 02 Nov 1995
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RB 59/00128 First report on geophysical investigation in the vicinity of the Tarcoola mine area.
Originally confined to the Cornish Copper line, the geophysical investigation was extended to cover the Tarcoola Blocks, Afghan Camp and also Brown Hill areas of workings. Resistivity contours supply some information as to the structure in the areas...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 61/00002 Second report on geophysical investigations in the vicinity of the Tarcoola mine area.
Further electromagnetic and induced polarization work has been carried out in the Tarcoola Blocks mine and Brown Hill areas at Tarcoola to extend and substantiate previous investigations (ref. RB 59/128, 23 November 1964). The latest results...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1965
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RB 83/00011 Moonta Wallaroo mining field - Production statistics 1860 to 1938.
9.1 million tonnes of crude ore and 2.5 million tonnes of dressed ore, averaging 3.39 and 3.61% copper respectively, were produced from 1890 to 1923. Output totalled 336 000 tonnes of copper and 1682 kg of fine gold. Some of the gold was purchased...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1983
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RB 84/00064 Glenloth Gold Battery. Ore treated and gold bullion recovered, 1904 - 1963.
13 869 tonnes of ore were treated, with recovery of 260 080 g of gold bullion by amalgamation and cyanidation. 34 500 g of gold remain in tailings at the site.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1984
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RB 86/00045 Review of gold tailings in South Australia.
Stockpiles of tailings from abandoned gold mines are small and probably do not warrant retreatment individually. Total of 71 000 tonnes of tailings are at Government Battery sites at Mount Torrens, Peterborough, Glenloth, Tarcoola and Mongolata. The...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1986
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RB 85/00041 Appraisal of gold tailings at Tarcoola Blocks mine.
An indicated 29 100 tonnes of tailings containing 1.88 g/t Au, 2 g/t Ag, 70 ppm Cu, 1200 ppm Pb, 350 ppm Zn, and 80 ppm As in 2 separate dumps remain on site. Cyanidation leach tests show that about 60% of Au in the truck dumps and up to 50% of the Au...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1985
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RB 87/00107 Appraisal of gold tailings, Glenloth Goldfield.
Gold ore was treated by 5 head stamp battery between 1904 and 1924, then by 10 head stamp battery between 1935 and 1963 on adjacent sites. Tailings are stored on both sites and an indicated total of 13 620 tonnes containing 15.8 kg of gold at an...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 88/00040 Earea Dam Goldfield, historical review and production records.
Earea Dam Goldfield is 38 km ESE of Tarcoola, on section 1007, out of hundreds. Since discovery in 1899, 1 869.63 tonnes of ore have yielded 59 237.59 grams of gold bullion, during several periods of operation. Ore has been treated at Tarcoola,...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1988
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RB 92/00037 Review of mineral exploration, KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map area.
This report was prepared as a summary of all open file mineral exploration data from the KINGOONYA 1:250000 mapsheet area that are held in the SADME records management Envelope system. The aim of the holdings review was to describe past exploration,...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1991
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RB 94/00019 BARTON Bedrock Drilling Project, 1993.
Between June and December 1993, 184 vertical RC stratigraphic drillholes totalling 10,126.2 m (average hole depth 55 m) were drilled by Mines and Energy South Australia at 2 km spacing along roadsides traversing much of the BARTON 1:250k map sheet...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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RB 98/00010 Regolith studies related to the Challenger gold deposit, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Challenger gold deposit - Volume 1: text, and Volume 2: appendices.
The Challenger gold deposit lies in the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, 750 km NW of Adelaide, and 140 km NW of Tarcoola. A 1.5 km traverse (the regolith line) was chosen for the study of geochemical dispersion and regolith stratigraphy...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 97/00051 Poona copper mine, Moonta, South Australia - Investigation of alteration mineralogy using short-wave infrared analysis.
The Poona Copper Mine on northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, was worked from 1988-92 on an extension of the original Poona lode, a narrow, shear-hosted copper sulphide vein deposit in Moonta Porphyry of Mesoproterozoic age. The orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 98/00008 Geochemical studies of the regolith at the Mount Gunson copper deposits, Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
The principal objective of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) Shields Program and the Primary Industry and Resources of South Australia (PIRSA) Regolith Terranes Group in South Australia is to...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1998