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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 21/10/1974.
A re-investigation of base metal geochemical anomalies detected during Electrolytic Zinc Co.'s former stream sediment and rock chip sampling programme conducted near an historic copper-lead mine prospect at Mount Chambers in the eastern Flinders...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1974
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Warraweena. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/9/1974.
Geological mapping, further surface geochemical sampling, test IP surveys and limited shallow diamond drilling (2 holes, total 201.3 m, including 147 m of NQ/BQ wireline coring) were done over a previously identified stream sediment zinc anomaly at...-
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Mount Bayley. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/7/1971 to 21/7/1972.
A small area located 15 km north-east of Beltana was explored for possible economic stratabound or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metal deposits associated with Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous/dolomitic strata and Willouran diapiric structures. Work...-
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Ediacara. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1971 to 12/11/1972.
During June-July 1972, 35 shallow vertical rotary percussion drillholes for a total penetration of 877 m were completed within the Ediacara Fault Zone to test for economic base metal mineralisation, the majority of the holes being sited at locations...-
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Frome Downs and Curnamona. Respective progress reports, annual reports and JV partner's final report to licences' joint expiry/renewal, for the period 11/2/1971 to 12/2/1973.
77 rotary / diamond holes drilled by Pacminex (total 9385 m, including 196 m cored) plus another 53 holes drilled within SML 544 by joint venturer Esso (total 7029 m) indicate that a highly prospective radioactive mineralised zone occurs within...-
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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 54/00075 Ediacara silver-lead-copper Mineral Field. (Mineralisation investigation) Progress report no. 1.
Lead and copper mineralisation occurs in rocks of Cambrian age in the Ediacara Mineral Field. Rich pockets of ore minerals of limited extent occur in the Transition beds and in the overlying carbonates, associated with breccias or turbidites....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1962
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RB 60/00004 Source and distribution of heavy metals in Cambrian and Marinoan shelf sediments in South Australia.
The sedimentary environment of Cambrian and Marinoan shelf sediments in South Australia is outlined. Tables are presented showing the distribution of Cu and Pb in the various facies of these sediments. Low grade copper mineralisation in some Marinoan...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1965
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RB 60/00009 Brachina dolomite deposit, central Flinders Ranges, Hd Bunyeroo.
Mapping and sampling have confirmed high grade dolomite at the base of the Lower Cambrian Wilkawillina Limestone at Brachina Gorge. The dolomite appears chemically suitable for refractory and other industrial purposes, with an average grade of 54%...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1965
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RB 84/00063 Review of Mount Serle barite deposits, northern Flinders Ranges.
Summarises data on 8 separate lodes. White, fine to coarsely crystalline barite, has deleterious quartz and limonite and only minor high grade barite. Barite was formed during Ordovician and Delamerian Orogeny as infillings of open fissures in faults,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 81/00024 Progress report, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 sheet - Platform rocks, Benagerie Ridge and their Mesozoic and Cainozoic cover.
The Benagerie Ridge is a basement high which has been actively shedding detritus since Adelaidean times. It includes porphyry, with thin cover of Adelaidean rocks, flanked by Cambrian and possible Adelaidean sediments. The Cainozoic blankets the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 88/00020 1:250 000 geological series - Explanatory Notes CURNAMONA - South Australia.
The area mapped includes most of the area south of Lake Frome between the Flinders and Barrier Ranges, and part of the Olary Hills. Basin nomenclature has been revised for the Cainozoic. Drilling by CSR, Minad and Petromin NL has been used in the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1988
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RB 79/00058 Reaphook Hill scholzite deposit. MLs 4114, 4368 - C.W. Johnston.
The rare zinc phosphate mineral, scholzite, has been found in gossans developed on Early Cambrian Parachilna Formation siltstone and sandstone near Reaphook Hill in the Flinders Ranges. Other rare phosphate minerals, including tarbuttite,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 91/00102 Mississippi Valley type lead-zinc mineralization, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Recent advances in the understanding of the target Cambrian stratigraphy and its palaeogeographic setting, in combination with a realistic mineralization model, have established that the southern Arrowie Basin platform margin could be host to a...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1992
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RB 99/00032 Trial dewatering of the BHP dolomite quarry at Ardrossan, South Australia.
Trial dewatering of the quarry, which is excavated in fractured and well-bedded Cambrian dolomite, took place for at least 56 days during early 1994, but pumping was terminated when a further significant water level drawdown could not be achieved. Ten...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 88/00096 Proterozoic Ediacara fauna and Cambrian archaeocyatha of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
This paper describes the type fossil occurrences, their present-day geological setting and, as deduced from properties of the host sediments, their interpreted palaeogeographic locations and palaeoenvironmental depositional facies which probably...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1988
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RB 96/00022 Possible presence of petroleum prospective Adelaidean and Cambrian section beneath Lake Torrens: indications from aeromagnetic data from SAEI areas B15 and B17.
A study of aeromagnetic data, geology maps and drilling results from the vicinity of Lake Torrens indicates an area of buried, interconnected and possibly thick sediments which may be of Cambrian and/or Adelaidean age. This area extends for...-
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Published: 12 Feb 1996
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AR93 - ARROWIE BASIN AREA INVITATION FOR APPLICATIONS.
The Cambrian Arrowie Basin lies about 400 kms north of Adelaide, capital of South Australia. The broadly east-west basin is transected by the modern Flinders Rangers, where outcrops supplement scattered drillhole intersections to aid basin mapping....-
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EXPLORATION OPPORTUNITY - ARROWIE BASIN DATA PACKAGE.
An Area of 13857 square kilometres in the eastern part of the State was voluntarily surrendered on 27th February, 1986 from Petroleum Exploration Licences (PELs) 5 and 6 Arrowie Sector (Figs. 1 & 2). A data package has been compiled to provide an...-
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Bopeechee. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2000 to 27/7/2008.
In on-ground exploration of an area on the Stuart Shelf located 18-46 km north-east of Olympic Dam, possible economic sedex - style, Mount Isa / Nifty type stratabound copper was targeted within Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks as part of multiple...-
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