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University student thesis : Detailed geological investigation of the Burra open pit, Burra, SA.
Detailed geological and structural mapping of Samin's partly excavated new Burra open cut was performed by the author at a scale of 1:480 during the period December 1972 to end of January 1973. By the latter date the pit had been excavated downwards a...-
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Yudnamutana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/6/1972 to 23/6/1973.
As part of continuing exploration for possible economic buried stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation in the Yudnamutana Mining Field, the target lower Callanna Group strata were geologically mapped, petrologically studied and geochemically...-
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RB 41/00134 Mineral investigations in the Mount Painter region. Progress report.
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Published: 06 Jan 1956
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RB 79/00122 Penrice marble deposit. (Report on the) 1977-1978 drilling programme.
Since 1950, recorded production from ICI's Penrice marble deposit near Angaston has totalled 13,083,395 tonnes. High grade marble is used at the company's Osborne plant, while lower grade stone is sold for cement manufacture and roadstone, and small...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1979
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Mount Olinthus. Annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/3/1995 to 5/3/1996.
Base metal mineralisation, indicated by newly discovered shafts at the historic Atkinson Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine, was the impetus for exploration in the upland area 20 km north-west from Cowell. Grab samples collected from shafts, stockpiles and dumps varied...-
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Warrow. Progress and final relinquishment reports for the period 10/6/83 to 9/12/84.
Extensive geophysical prospecting, an 8 hole percussion drill coring programme (477 m) and a 140 hole RAB drilling programme (1798 m) at the Lady Franklin prospect were not encouraging. Percussion drillhole 83WP2 intersected a zone of primary but...-
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Published: 19 Dec 1984
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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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Reports on the Rapid Bay limestone deposit, for the period 1956 to 1958.
This Cambrian marble deposit, which has been quarried by BHP since August 1942 to supply metallurgical fluxes to its Whyalla Steelworks, has recently been surveyed, mapped at 1:1200 scale and sampled through its entire extent to determine stone grades...-
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Wooltana. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 19/3/1970 to 18/3/1972.
Renewed base metal exploration over part of the historic Yudnamutana Mining Field has targeted base metal anomalies previously found by Australian Selection in the Blue mine area. An area of about 80 square miles was assessed by reconnaissance stream...-
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Terowie. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/11/1976 to 26/6/1978.
In an area of strongly folded, sericitised and silicified lower Adelaidean sedimentary rocks located km north-east of Terowie, an initial four areas of base metal geochemical anomalism were identified on prior EL 158 by surface sampling and geological...-
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RB 22/00009 Mineral resources of South Australia and their utilization.
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Published: 27 May 1946
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RB 25/00013 Report on diamond drilling marble deposits at Penrice near Angaston.
Since June 1945, an extensive programme of diamond drilling has been carried out on the recently acquired property of I.C.I. Alkali (Australia) Pty Ltd at Penrice, with the object of investigating the reserves of high grade marble available for open...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1950
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RB 56/00067 Re-interpretation of the Burra Burra copper deposits.
The Burra Burra (sic) copper mine is located in complexly folded Torrensian dolomites and limestones forming the faulted axial region of a major anticline. The orebody formerly mined was largely of secondary origin and confined between two faults,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1963
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-49, Bird-In-Hand Mine Deeps Project gold mineral prospects. Project final report.
At the historic Bird-In-Hand mining claim, where previous mine exploration drilling beneath the old workings by current licence operator Maximus Resources had delineated an inferred remaining gold resource of 53,000 ounces over the depth extent from...-
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Mount Painter area (Yudnamutana Mining Field and Shamrock Valley). Progress and final relinquishment reports for the period 1/10/1968 to 31/3/1970.
Kennecott took up 3 SMLs in the Mount Painter district during 1968 to evaluate known copper-uranium occurrences and to search for new occurrences. At the same time, they secured the ground surrounding four 40-acre Mineral Claims already in their...-
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Kanappa. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 1/12/1964 to 31/5/1965.
Reconnaissance stream sediment sampling (4000 samples taken over 5 square miles) and follow-up traverse soil sampling (350 samples) have been completed in the vicinity of the historic Kanappa copper mine, 7 miles north-east of Springton, to look for...-
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Yudnamutana Project SML 704. Chalcopyrite mineralization in the Wywyana Formation Yudnamutana district Feb-March 1973.
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports for the period 9/2/2007 to 8/2/2009.
The Boolooroo licence area is 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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Published: 26 Feb 2009
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Worlds End. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/6/2006 to 4/6/2008.
Two historically reported isolated occurrences of hydrothermal uranium mineralisation, found within fractured Adelaidean metasediments in the hilly country east of Burra and north of Robertstown, were investigated for their potential to act as sources...-
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Published: 14 Jul 2008
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Pinerow. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : annual reports for the period 23/5/1996 to 2/10/2004.
As part of a regional search for hydrothermal / epithermal gold and base metals, EL 2167 joint venturer Goldstream Mining over the period October 1996 - March 1999 undertook three phases of regional and detailed geochemical sampling in the poorly...-
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Published: 10 Mar 2005
