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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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RB 35/00042 Nairne pyrite milled on a pilot scale. Iron sulphides concentrated in a flotation pilot plant operated by the South Australian Department of Mines.
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Published: 01 Jan 1953
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RB 99/00020 National land and water resources audit. Mount Lofty Ranges pilot implementation project. Sustainable yield of groundwater.
This project has developed an innovative method to determine the sustainable yield of groundwater resources in fractured rock aquifers of the Mount Lofty Ranges, using new and existing geographic information system (GIS) datasets. Groundwater...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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RB 89/00074 Industrial and non metallic minerals - Operations in South Australia.
This data package discusses mining and processing operations of the major non metallic and industrial mineral commodities in South Australia and is of interest to those in the industry and to manufacturers and suppliers of a range of machinery and...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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Data release at first partial surrender on 20/8/1989 : report on investigations into the platinoid potential of the Black Hill Norite, EL 1419, Sedan, SA.
TARGET: Possible primary magmatic platinoid and/or other precious metals deposited at or near the base of expected cumulate layered rock sequences within the Black Hill Norite. EXPLORATION: After making preliminary regional geophysical and drillhole...-
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1993 Scientific Investigation Permit [for a Marine Seismic Survey], Encounter Bay. Reports for the period March 1993 to February 1995.
AIM: The survey was conducted to provide information on the geology of the virtually unexplored sub-sea region between Backstairs Passage and the offshore Robe Trough of the State's South-East, with a focus on the Kanmantoo Group and Encounter Bay...-
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1992 Scientific Investigation Permit [for a marine seismic survey], Backstairs Passage. Reports for the period April 1992 to February 1995.
AIM:To provide critical structural information on the relationships between major structural provinces (viz. Stansbury Basin / Adelaide Geosyncline / Kanmantoo Trough / Murray Basin) and, in particular, test an hypothesis that folded rocks from the...-
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Kingston (South-East). Progress reports [until the commencement of WMC's Kingston Coal Project multi-licence joint reporting, approved from 1/5/1980] for the period 21/8/1979 to 20/2/1980.
Continuing reconnaissance and evaluation of potentially economic Tertiary or Jurassic age coal seams, both known to be present in the Naracoorte and Kingston areas, has consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 92 open rotary holes...-
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RB 2010/00019 Hardrock extractive minerals for metropolitan Adelaide - strategic review. [Summary version]
The purpose of the project is to provide essential data on the hardrock extractive (construction material) resources supplying the Adelaide metropolitan area, in order to be able to: - Critically examine current hardrock supplies and resources and how...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2010
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RB 76/00079 Monarto construction sand investigation, Reedy Creek sand deposit - Monarto Development Commission.
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Published: 10 Jun 1976
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Australia's earliest mining era : Mount Lofty Ranges, 1841-1851. Proceedings of the AMHA 17th Annual Conference, Hahndorf, South Australia, 12-18 September 2011.
During the period 1841-1851, the Mount Lofty Ranges region was the locus of Australia's first mining era. This was the decade prior to the discovery of gold in the eastern States, when virtually all of the metalliferous mines in Australia were located...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bremer. Progress and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/3/1991 to 7/3/1995. [ Index Part 2 of 3 ].
In May 1992 six traverses of shallow RAB drilling were completed at the Angas prospect (222 holes for a total penetration of 1550 m). The objective was to test the Cambrian bedrock geochemistry beneath shallow Tertiary and Recent sediments that cover...-
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RB 26/00118 Gibraltar pyrite deposit near Nairne, SA.
Ideal location - 26 miles from Adelaide - good climate. 3½ miles from Nairne on Adelaide-Melbourne railway line. Electric supply to Nairne-Power requirements could probably be obtained from supply company. Small flow permanent water beside deposit,...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1949
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RB 2014/00001 Geology of the dimension stone quarries at Black Hill, South Australia.
Black Hill, located 85 km to the east of Adelaide, is an important source of black "granite". The gabbro and norite exposed on the hill over an area of 4 km by 3 km represent the outcropping top of a much larger Cambro - Ordovician gabbroic intrusion....-
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Published: 01 Apr 2014
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RB 2015/00019 Manual of geochemical leaching trials, 2010–2014; Brukunga Mine Remediation Program - Phase 3.
The Brukunga mine site is a former open pit iron sulfide mine that continues to contribute to Acid and Metalliferous Drainage (AMD) into downstream waterways. Mine-based sources of AMD include the waste rock dumps and tailings storage facility. In...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2015
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RB 2013/00016 A user's guide to migmatites.
Migmatites are complex, high-grade crystalline rocks that have formed by partial melting. They have been recognised within the crustal rock record across most of geological time, are seen to be developed in various tectonic settings, and can affect a...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2013
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Kangaroo Island Project. Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 1/10/1996 to 30/9/1998.
Diamond exploration which was undertaken across practically the whole of Kangaroo Island, barring national and conservation parks and reserves, sought to test the potential of the island to contain kimberlite pipes and / or associated rock types, and...-
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Truro talc prospect. Evaluation progress reports for the period December 1975 to November 1978.
Exhaustive beneficiation and quality testing of bulk samples of talc taken from the Truro prospect, which lies 1 mile north of Truro township, followed by widespread canvassing of potential customers both locally and abroad, failed to find buyers for...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1978
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RB 2020/00023 Delamerian project area magnetic source depth models
The results of a study undertaken to produce depth estimates to the top of magnetic anomaly sources are presented within this report. The area of interest is located within the present-day preserved footprint of the ~500 Ma Delamerian Orogenic Belt,...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2020
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RB 2020/00024 The South Australian Atlas of Geoscience and Mineral Exploration Data – Delamerian basement to the Murray Basin
The Delamerian basement to the Murray Basin has been selected as the focus region for a major Geological Survey of South Australia project being conducted as part of the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2020
