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RB 84/00031 Appraisal of gold tailings - Mount Grainger Goldfield.
Between 1901 and 1916 gold ore from Mount Grainger Goldfield, 10 km north of Oodla Wirra, was treated by battery amalgamation and cyanidation at the Mount Grainger Mine. Tailings and slimes from this ore processing period still remain on site, and...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 85/00015 Orama Hill gold mine. Geological investigations and diamond drilling, 1983.
Orama Hill gold mine, also known as Koonamore Goldfield or Butlers Claim recorded production since 1930 of 808.89 grams of bullion. The mine is on the steeply dipping, sheared, axial plane of the Orama Hill anticline, in sandstone, siltstone and shale...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1985
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RB 87/00109 Geological investigations and exploration activities, 1982 to 1986, at Mount Grainger gold mine, Hundred Coglin, County Herbert. Volume 1 (of 2).
Investigations consisted of: 1) economic appraisal, mapping and sampling of mineralised structures within mineral leases; 2) regional investigation to east of Mount Grainger mine (report in RB 84/31) - includes details of exploration by Abignano Ltd....-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 86/00092 Historical and geological review of Teetulpa Goldfield. Volume 1 - Background.
Alluvial gold was discovered at Teetulpa in 1886 by Thomas Brady and Thomas Smith. Reef mining soon commenced, but the reefs were narrow and low grade and only worked on very small scale. Teetulpa Goldfield is predominantly alluvial, from erosion of...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1987
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RB 89/00079 Mongolata Gold Battery. Historical review and summary of ore treated and gold recovered, 1923-1954.
From commencement of crushing operations in March 1933 until its closure in March 1954, the South Australian State Government battery at Mongolata Goldfield crushed a total of 7600 tonnes of ore for a recovery of 318.25 kg of gold bullion via onsite...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1989
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RB 98/00022 Review of open file company exploration data from the early 1980s to mid-1997, over the Yunta, Winnininnie, Anabama and Oakvale 1:100 000 map sheets, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 91/00066 Major South Australian gold deposits. Summaries.
This report summarizes information on 10 South Australian mineral deposits with individual aggregate gold resources and/or historic production of 1 tonne or more. By far the largest is the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, with a measured and indicated...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1991
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RB 95/00025 Geological investigation of Mineral Claim 2597, Mount Grainger Goldfield.
An appraisal of Mineral Claim 2597 at the Golden Slope workings on the Mount Grainger Goldfield has revealed gold mineralization associated with hydrothermally altered basal arkosic sandstone of Appila Tillite and the underlying Burra Group shale. A...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1995
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RB 89/00073 Gold occurrences and mines in the Waukaringa area.
This records the history and production of various mines, occurrences and prospects in the Waukaringa area outside the main Waukaringa Goldfield, from 1873 to 1989. Apart from that obtained from the goldfield proper, 83 856 grams of alluvial and reef...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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Carrick Hill. Combined first annual / final report at licence surrender for the period 18/8/2008 to 17/8/2009.
An area located approximately 80 km north-east of Orroroo was assessed for its potential to contain alluvial and hard rock gold deposits. Quartz veins developed within a narrow zone in the Tarcowie Siltstone at the historic Erina prospect have high...-
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Published: 24 Oct 1909
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Princess Royal, Burra West, Burra North, Florieton, Mount Bryan, Burra Central, Mongolata, Redbanks, Hallett Hill and The Gums (the Burra Project tenement group). Joint annual reports for the period 1/5/2009 to 30/4/2017.
A multi-licence project area centred on the historic abandoned Burra copper mine is being explored for possible economic, buried Burra type copper oxide and copper carbonate mineralisation that may have formed within Neoproterozoic metasedimentary...-
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Myponga, Yankalilla and Delamere (the Fleurieu Peninsula Project). Joint second annual report, plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/10/2013 to 24/9/2015.
After the granting by DSD of joint reporting status for the three licences comprising FMG's Fleurieu Peninsula IOCG exploration project, the licensee commenced formal Native Title negotiations with claimant group representatives of the Kaurna People...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1915
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Manna Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/7/1983 to 27/11/1984.
Exploration undertaken to search for Telfer - style Proterozoic stratabound gold, within a large area extending to the north and north-west of Manna Hill township, included an aerial photographic survey of known occurrences, and helicopter-assisted...-
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Manna Hill [not 'Mannahill']. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/10/1987 to 15/1/1990.
TARGET: Possible concealed, saddle-reef type lode developments of inferred Telfer-style gold deposits at the Manna Hill Goldfield. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance inspection of old mine workings, rock chip sampling (79), and shallow RAB bedrock drilling...-
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Tanunda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/7/1989 to 26/7/1990.
Possible epithermal/hydrothermal and shear-related vein style gold, and Proterozoic and Cambrian metasedimentary-hosted industrial minerals, were the targets of reconnaissance exploration over a licence taken up in the Barossa region. 1:2000 scale...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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Terowie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/10/1974 to 20/10/1976.
Known, previously worked anomalous surface copper, lead, zinc and gold occurrences within gossanous basal Burra Group metasediments located on the flanks of the overturned Ulooloo Anticline, have been investigated with 1:2500 scale geological mapping,...-
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Consultants' reports on a geological reconnaissance, subsequent appraisal diamond drilling and the post-drill assessment of work performed at the Manna Hill Goldfield during 1975-76 on behalf of Kingsway Minerals.
Geological mapping (at 1:2000 and 1:5000 scales) and inclined diamond drilling (6 BQ/NQ coreholes totalling 256.1 m of penetration) were undertaken at the abandoned historic Homeward Bound and Westward Ho mine prospects on the Manna Hill Goldfield,...-
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Mongolata. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/3/1980 to 20/6/1981.
Gold exploration undertaken at Mongolata by CRA has consisted of underground mapping and sampling at the principal workings, viz. the Byles mine and the Golden Harp mine, plus the drilling of 7 vertical exploratory diamond holes (aggregate total depth...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1981
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Bull 018 The Pre-Cambrian-Cambrian Succession The General and Economic Geology of these Systems, in portions of South Australia
The correct stratigraphical succession of certain post-glacial formations, having a very limited range, however, can be determined in this southern portion of the Mount Lofty Range. During the previous six years the writer has had an opportunity of...-
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