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RB 99/00028 Sand resources of the Mount Compass area. Reconnaissance drilling and testing.
Mount Compass is an important sand resource area. The ACI Glenshera sand pit, which supplies Australia's largest container glass plant at West Croydon with over 100 000 tonnes per year of glass sand, is also a major source of foundry sand. Four...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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RB 99/00011 Physical properties of construction sands from the Adelaide area.
In response to a request for assistance from the State Heritage Branch, a suite of 56 sand samples has been collected from all major currently producing sand pits in the outer metropolitan area. Physical properties including grain size, grain...-
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Published: 01 May 1999
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Mount Compass. First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2001 to 5/2/2003.
Buried Tertiary sand in the Mount Compass area, ~50 km south of Adelaide, was the target of exploration performed adjacent to the existing Glenshera sand pit. Aircore drilling (31 vertical holes, total 1269 m) defined an area containing a deposit of...-
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Meningie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration for possible Cambrian stratabound base metal sulphide deposits over an area in the vicinity of Meningie has targeted a number of N-S strike-elongated intense aeromagnetic and gravity anomalies presumed to originate in Kanmantoo Group...-
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Stansbury Basin thermal history modelling.
Geothermal modelling has been carried out at 9 locations in or around the Stansbury Basin, at the request of Canyon Australia, with the aim of examining the basin's thermal history and deducing a likely time of petroleum generation. A total of 20...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1994
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1993 Scientific Investigation Permit [for a Marine Seismic Survey], Encounter Bay. Reports for the period March 1993 to February 1995.
AIM: The survey was conducted to provide information on the geology of the virtually unexplored sub-sea region between Backstairs Passage and the offshore Robe Trough of the State's South-East, with a focus on the Kanmantoo Group and Encounter Bay...-
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1992 Scientific Investigation Permit [for a marine seismic survey], Backstairs Passage. Reports for the period April 1992 to February 1995.
AIM:To provide critical structural information on the relationships between major structural provinces (viz. Stansbury Basin / Adelaide Geosyncline / Kanmantoo Trough / Murray Basin) and, in particular, test an hypothesis that folded rocks from the...-
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RB 2018/00026 Sedimentology of the late Palaeozoic Cape Jervis Formation, Troubridge Basin, South Australia.
The late Palaeozoic Cape Jervis Formation of the Troubridge Basin in southern South Australia provides a sedimentological record of the glacial environment during the Permo-Carboniferous glaciation. The sedimentary sequence is divided into five...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2018
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Currency Creek (part of the Fleurieu Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 4/6/1992 to 20/9/2013.
A number of peripheral parts of the subject licence, in all comprising 54% of the originally granted area, have recently been relinquished by current holder Terramin, as part of the management conditions applying to the company's multi-licence...-
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RB 2019/00006 Sedimentology of the late Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of the Arckaringa Basin, South Australia
Late Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of the Arckaringa Basin in northern South Australia include diamictite and sandstone units of the Boorthanna Formation that were deposited as lodgement till under fluvioglacial conditions. The clast size and matrix...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2019
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RB 2004/00021 Palynostratigraphy of the sediments from Meadows Bore 1, Meadows Basin, and other diamond exploration sites from Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
Palynological analyses of samples from Meadows Bore 1 indicate the presence of Late Miocene to Early Pliocene sediments, correlated with the Monotocidites galeatus Zone. At the base of the Tertiary interval examined it appears that a wet rainforest...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2004
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South-East SA [coal and oil shale] Project. Data release : relinquishment report at licences' joint partial surrenders, for the period 3/11/1978 to 15/12/1982.
In a rationalisation of its extensive exploration acreage formerly held in the upper South-east of South Australia for the purpose of coal exploration, Western Mining Corp. (WMC) has partially relinquished most of the ground that it previously held...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1983
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Saint Vincent Gulf gravity survey, OEL 24, South Australia. [Final report].
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A new geological map of Hallett Cove.
Hallett Cove is one of South Australia’s foremost natural science treasures. Exposed examples for prime geological concepts of superposition of strata, depositional unconformities (representing time breaks), and folding and faulting of sedimentary...-
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Data release - as updated : Maitland (the Yorke Peninsula Copper Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/8/2008 to 24/8/2017.
An area of the western Yorke Peninsula, comprising three separate sub-blocks, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG-U deposits similar to those at Hillside (located 25 km to the east of sub-block 'B'), Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill...-
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Published: 18 Oct 2017
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ExpNotes MAITLAND: Explanatory Notes MAITLAND, SI 53-12.
The MAITLAND Special 1:250,000 scale geological map covers the greater part of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The rocks in the map area comprise deformed Palaeoproterozoic and early Mesoproterozoic basement of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2006
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Maitland. First partial surrender report, for the period 25/8/2008 to 24/8/2015.
58 square km of the Area C southernmost sub-block of EL 5320 have been relinquished to compensate for a shortfall in exploration spending against commitments. During the past seven years, the only work performed on the relinquished ground was the...-
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Published: 20 Mar 2016
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Coonarie. Second partial surrender report for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2010.
An area located near Stansbury on southern Yorke Peninsula is being explored for possible buried sandstone-hosted sedimentary uranium deposits that may have been formed in the Tertiary and Permian strata, and also for possible unconformity-related...-
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Published: 14 Dec 2010
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Coonarie. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2009.
No new work - office review of existing data to weigh up evidence to support exploration models for possible Tertiary / Permian sandstone-hosted uranium deposits and basal Cambrian unconformity style uranium mineralisation associated with regional...-
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Published: 20 Oct 2010
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Stansbury and Southern Yorke Peninsula areas (the Coonarie JV Project). Joint first annual plus subsequent annual (re. EL 3907) reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2011.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation within early Tertiary or underlying middle Permian palaeochannel sediments of the western Saint Vincent and central Troubridge Basins, and for possible unformity style uranium...-
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Published: 15 Nov 2011
