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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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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 81/00013 Nepabunna water supply, 1980 drilling programme.
7 wells were drilled : 2 successful production wells, 1 observation well and 4 scout holes, which were unsuccessful in locating an alternative supply. Wells are prone to reduction in yield within a few years because of clogging of fissures with...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 81/00098 Leigh Creek town water supply groundwater investigation, progress report no. 2.
Fractured rock aquifers were investigated by drilling of 7 vertical holes and 2 angle holes in the Windy Creek area. 1 well was completed as production well with an airlift yield of 12 L/s. The steeply dipping fractured sandstone aquifer responds as a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 84/00099 Nepabunna water supply - 1983 drilling.
Well drilled to 120 metres had airlift yield of 12 L/s from Cambrian limestone aquifer, which has good potential for stream recharge and capable of supplying the 1.2 L/s peak discharge required. Salinity is 950 mg/L. Confirms effectiveness of deep...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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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 89/00089 Nepabunna - Proposed artificial recharge scheme.
Nepabunnas water supply has a salinity of 1300 mg/L and a high carbonate hardness (550 mg/L) which causes severe scaling in pipes. Artificial recharge was suggested as a means of introducing low salinity and hardness floodwaters into the aquifer....-
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Published: 01 Feb 1990
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RB 96/00034 1996 MESA petroleum industry survey.
A consultant to MESA interviewed approximately 30 petroleum industry personnel throughout Australia from April to July, 1996. The aims of the customer feedback poll were to measure the Petroleum Division's performance in promoting and regulating the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1996
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 5 partnership DPY5-64, eastern Torrens Basin / Torrens Hinge Zone, Parachilna geothermal play 2-D reflection seismic survey. Project final report.
As part of Torrens Energy' pioneering hot rock geothermal resource exploration in the central part of the Torrens Hinge Zone, a two-dimensional reflection seismic survey traverse was acquired using low-impact Vibroseis signal source equipment in the...-
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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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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1906
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Ben Lomond (part of Perilya's Flinders Ranges Project). Annual reports and final report to licence surrender for the period 2/3/2000 to 17/11/2007.
Due to the licensee's competing commitments from others of its tenements in the exploration project area, the planned evaluation of geochemical prospects and Landsat Fe-alteration anomalies detected in shelf margin, deep-water carbonate sedimentary...-
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Published: 22 Jan 1908
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Hawker. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2009.
Copper Range has targeted several different styles of base metal mineralisation within the Chace Range district. Initially its focus was on sediment (sandstone)- hosted copper deposits, with exploration being confined to reconnaissance field visits to...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1909
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Hawker. First partial surrender report for the period 2/7/2007 to 1/7/2008.
Exploration of the outcropping Proterozoic/Cambrian stratigraphic boundary in the Chace Range region of the southern Flinders Ranges, in one licence subarea taken out close to Hawker and another a short distance to the north-east, targeted possible...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1908
