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Wallaroo and Moonta mines and smelters, Yorke's [sic] Peninsula, South Australia. History, nature and methods.
A detailed account of the large scale copper mining and processing operations occurring in the 'Copper Triangle' region of South Australia in the few years following the end of the First World War. The included metrics and pictorial coverage of many...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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Hawks Nest. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 29/12/1982.
An area 100 km north of Kingoonya which exhibits a strong regional gravity high and other, intersecting pronounced crustal geophysical features was acquired to search for an Olympic Dam type of base/precious metals deposit. Semi-detailed and detailed...-
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Glenloth Well. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/3/1974.
Two inclined percussion holes were drilled at the Mount Mitchell tin prospect for a total penetration of 504 feet. The aim was to test a discrepancy between subsurface sample negative tin assay results obtained by the Department of Mines, and good...-
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Published: 21 Feb 1974
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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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The MIM-Peko Stuart Shelf Joint Venture Project. Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender and their re-issue as a single replacement tenement, for the period 15/2/1983 to 20/10/1989.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style Cu-Au-U mineralisation, undertaken over areas to the south-east of Arcoona Homestead and in the vicinity of Woomera township, has comprised numerous reconnaissance and then detailed gravity, ground magnetic and CSAMT...-
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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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Emu Hill. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/4/1991 to 21/4/1996.
Diamond exploration undertaken north-west of Moolawatana included the acquisition of airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground magnetic surveys, plus soil, stream sediment, gravel, loam and rock chip sampling, and aircore/diamond drilling (25 holes,...-
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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 88/00013 Appraisal of gold tailings Homeward Bound gold mine, Mannahill Goldfield.
Mineral Lease 5316, covering workings of Homeward Bound mine, is traversed by a stratabound quartz, ironstone, calcite, pyrite lode in thinly laminated grey calcareous siltstones of Umberatana Group, Enorama Shale.Homeward Bound reef has been explored...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1988
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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 86/00003 Treatment of gold tailings - Waukaringa Goldfield. A review of operations and metallurgical investigations, 1983-1985.
Alma and Victoria and Alma Extended, reportedly treated 60 000 and 2 834 tonnes of gold ore respectively. Tailings remaining on site contain minimum 37 710 tonnes grading 2.71 g/t gold and 1 080 tonnes grading 1.94 g/t gold respectively. Attempts in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1986
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RB 87/00037 Re-evaluation of gold tailings at Alma-Victoria and Alma extended mines Waukaringa Goldfield.
These 2 largest mines on the goldfield, reportedly treated 54 810 and 2 302 tonnes of ore on site during the late nineteenth century, and 3 789 tonnes of ore from the Alma battery. Based on survey and sampling programme in 1983 a minimum 37 710 tonnes...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1987
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RB 82/00083 Baratta silver-lead field. Summary of mineral investigations and mining activity, 1969-1981.
An intensive search for a large low grade silver lead zinc deposit was unsuccessful, although widespread low grade mineralization is present. Associated gold values over 26 metre interval at Eukaby Hill are too low grade to support large scale...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1982
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RB 84/00051 Peterborough State Battery, historical report no. 1 - Commencement and production figures for the period 1/7/1897 to 31/12/1902.
2 889.7 tonnes of ore treated and 61 693.58 grams of gold bullion recovered. Detailed statistics include locality and mine name of each parcel of ore.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 87/00045 Appraisal of gold tailings, Westward Ho gold mine, Mannahill Goldfield.
Discovered in 1886, Westward Ho mine has a recorded production of 3 765.5 tonnes which yielded 34 729.48 grams of gold bullion. 4 000 tonnes were treated at a stamp battery at the mine and tailings were later cyanided. Remaining on site is an...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 86/00095 Appraisal of gold tailings - Countess of Jersey battery - Mineral Claim 1906 - Wadnaminga Goldfield.
In mid 1892, a 10 head stamp battery was constructed about 4 km NE of the Countess of Jersey gold mine. Reportedly 300 tonnes of ore from the mine was treated at the battery, but no records are available. Recent hand auger sampling and surveying of...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1986
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RB 79/00150 Evaluation of gold tailings and slimes, Government Stamp Battery, Peterborough.
Tonnages and gold content of tailings and slimes stockpiled at the Government Stamp Battery at Peterborough were calculated from hand auger drilling and mining return records. The amount of recoverable gold was determined by mineralogical and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 89/00050 Evaluation of previously cyanided tailings and slimes, Peterborough state battery.
Cyanidation of tailings from ore crushed at the Government Stamp Battery at Peterborough ceased in 1964. Previously cyanided tailings stockpiled between 1897 and 1964 contain 5 020 tonnes averaging 3.2 g/t gold (total gold content 16 162 grams). No...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1989
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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 92/00037 Review of mineral exploration, KINGOONYA 1:250 000 map area.
This report was prepared as a summary of all open file mineral exploration data from the KINGOONYA 1:250000 mapsheet area that are held in the SADME records management Envelope system. The aim of the holdings review was to describe past exploration,...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1991
