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RB 60/00003 Newlands barite deposit.
A geological and topographical survey has been carried out on a number of lenticular barytes bodies which cross-cut schists and dolomites. Open cut mining of the bodies has previously been abandoned. Underground mining to follow the lode appears to be...-
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Published: 04 Jan 1965
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RB 82/00052 Oraparinna barite deposits. Geological investigations at the Oraparinna Bunker Hill mine, Co. Taunton, Flinders Ranges.
Total output from 1940 - 1979 is 180 000 tonnes. The deposits are in folded Marinoan shale and siltstone of the Wilpena Group, within a cone shaped graben, structurally controlled by the Oraparinna Diapir. All lodes are within Brachina Formation,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1982
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RB 84/00054 Nilpena barite deposits, geological investigations 1983. Out of Counties, Flinders Ranges - Steetley Industries Ltd.
Production totals 9 581 tonnes to end of 1983. Remaining barite is ferruginous or thin requiring extensive mine development.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1984
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RB 84/00039 Beltana barite deposits - No. 2 lode. Geological investigations 1983. Out of Hundreds - Flinders Ranges. Steetley Industries Ltd.
Barite with abundant botryoidal goethite and quartz formed during Ordovician Delamerian Orogeny as infillings of fissure near regional northwesterly fault. Largely mined for oil drilling grade barite. Uneconomic tonnages remain.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1984
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RB 81/00079 Oraparinna barite deposits, Bowering Lodes, Flinders Ranges. ML 4321, out of Hundreds, County Taunton.
Over 12 000 tonnes of barite have been produced, 11 km SSW of Oraparinna Barite Mine in Class B Environmental area. 4000 tonnes remain in blocks, fragmented sheets and shallow dipping veins + 10 000 tonnes if deepened, and 2500 tonnes inferred east of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 79/00016 Far Western barite occurrences, Oraparinna, Out of Hds, Co. Taunton, Flinders Ranges.
At Oraparinna, in the Flinders Ranges, barite has formed in fracture zones cross-cutting an Elatina Formation siltstone, within the Umberatana Group of Marinoan age. The occurrences are in a Class B Environmental Area as defined in the Flinders...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00071 Statement of ore reserves, Oraparinna barite mine, Co. Taunton, Flinders Ranges.
Australian Barytes Pty Ltd mines high quality barite from steeply dipping lodes in the Brachina Formation siltstone and shale at Oraparinna in the Flinders Ranges. The barite lodes within the mine comprise the Oraparinna No. 1 Lode System as first...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00098 Steetley's barite deposit - Linkes Lode, Flinders Ranges, ML 3414, Out of Hundreds, County Taunton.
Since 1962, recorded production from Steetley's barite deposit, which forms part of Linke's lode, has totalled 6,237 tonnes. The deposit is in a Class B Environmental Area within the Flinders Ranges National Park. The steep barite lode has formed in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Willow Springs. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/12/2011 to 30/11/2016.
An area centred ~65 km north-east of Hawker in the Central Flinders Ranges, and located adjacent to the eastern side of the Oraparinna Diapir, has been explored for possible buried economic epigenetic copper, gold and uranium mineralisation. During...-
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Published: 03 Jan 1917
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Mount Neville. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 17/3/1969 to 16/3/1970.
Inspection of an area showing diapiric and fault disturbance within upper Adelaidean and Lower Cambrian metasediments in the vicinity of Mount Neville sought to find barite deposits of sufficiently high grade and quantity to resemble those of the...-
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Mount Arden. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1970.
Assays of 21 geochemical samples taken from within Donnelly's iron ore deposits on Mineral Claim 4573 indicate that they have a significant anomalous trace metal content, with up to 0.25% Cu occurring in wallrocks consisting of manganiferous quartzite...-
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Published: 04 May 1970
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Interpretation of sequence of events - Central Flinders Zone.
A synopsis of the possible pre-tectonic structural setting and sequence of geological events which has resulted in the observed development of faulted domes and diapirs within Neoproterozoic sediments of the central Flinders Ranges, and the related...-
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Published: 26 May 1993
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Resource potential of the Central Flinders Zone, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia.
Since 1990 Frontier Exploration Ltd has explored in the Central Flinders Zone of the Adelaide Geosyncline in order to assess its hydrocarbon and mineral potential, and the relationship of diapirs to these resources. The basic concepts used have not...-
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Report on Oraparinna barite mine.
This report summarises the results of recent surface and underground mine stadia surveys and of a geological and reserves appraisal of the Oraparinna barite mine. The results have been incorporated into a comprehensive set of mine plans, and a 3-D...-
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RB 76/00012 Mount Chambers barite deposit.
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Published: 12 Feb 1976
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Beltana - Aroona region. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/7/1971 to 15/7/1972.
Continuing prospect exploration work at the Beltana zinc orebody discovery has consisted of detailed geological mapping at 1:4 800 scale, rock chip sampling of outcropping Adelaidean and Cambrian sediments, field investigation of microgravity...-
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Domes and diapirs, mineral exploration, Central Flinders Zone, Adelaide Geosyncline.
This paper synthesizes the findings of Frontier's exploratory efforts over the past three years, and makes recommendations for an ongoing exploration programme following and consequent to the economically unsuccessful outcome of drilling Blinman nos 1...-
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Amdel Ltd project - Fluid inclusion studies of South Australian ores, rocks and minerals. Progress reports nos 1 to 6 for the period 7/5/1976 to 3/4/1980.
In September 1975 the South Australian Department of Mines accepted a proposal from Amdel Ltd to purchase and set up some microthermometry apparatus, in order to commence fluid inclusion studies of selected rock types and minerals in South Australia....-
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Blinman, Maggie Hill, Martins Well, Willippa, Bibliando, Upalinna and Mount Hemming. Quarterly, annual and final reports for the period 14/1/90 to 27/4/96.
Possible intrusive Proterozoic salt bodies beneath the Blinman, Upalinna, Martins Well, Mt Hemming, Willippa and Bibliando Domes were investigated by field mapping, including the construction of measured outcrop stratigraphic sections, seismic...-
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