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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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RB 35/00042 Nairne pyrite milled on a pilot scale. Iron sulphides concentrated in a flotation pilot plant operated by the South Australian Department of Mines.
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Published: 01 Jan 1953
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RB 51/00003 Final report on groundwater prospects, southeast portion of the Hundred of Haines and the southwest portion of the Hundred of Dudley.
Good quality water with a salinity of below 500 grains per gallon is required for the washing of gypsum, a minimum supply of 1,500 gallons per hour being needed. In the Salt Lake District supplies of probably not more than 100 to 200 gallons per hour...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1960
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RB 79/00007 Gravity survey at Callington dump.
A gravity survey was conducted adjacent to a dump for industrial waste near Callington, to determine basement topography and its effect on the flow of contaminated water from the dump. The results indicate that the most probable flow direction near...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 94/00043 Brukunga drilling, 1993-1994.
This report details drilling programs carried out by MESA at and near the Brukunga open-cut pyrite mine and tailings dam areas in the period 6/5/93 to 14/4/94. A total of 29 wells were drilled within the tailings dam, the spoil heaps and on the hills...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1994
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RB 98/00017 Callington Bremer mine potential heavy metal contamination site. Preliminary site investigation report.
Recently, residents from the SA township of Callington contacted authorities regarding anomalous levels of copper found in soils at their town properties. Subsequently, the State Environment Protection Agency, the Mount Barker Council and the SA...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 99/00020 National land and water resources audit. Mount Lofty Ranges pilot implementation project. Sustainable yield of groundwater.
This project has developed an innovative method to determine the sustainable yield of groundwater resources in fractured rock aquifers of the Mount Lofty Ranges, using new and existing geographic information system (GIS) datasets. Groundwater...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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RB 99/00018 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Tookayerta Catchment.
The Tookayerta Catchment is an area which is increasingly coming under pressure from its landowners for the development of local groundwater resources to irrigate dairy pastures, berry plantations and vineyards. The catchment encompasses two...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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RB 91/00026 Lake Alexandrina groundwater investigation and basement core project. Well completion report.
Nine observation wells were drilled in the SW Murray Basin between Goolwa and Salt Creek to monitor groundwater levels and salinity in the confined Renmark Group / Buccleuch Group aquifer. The area of interest is underlain by the Padthaway Ridge of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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RB 92/00041 Dryland salinisation, southern Mount Lofty Ranges. Progress report 1 drilling programme.
Between February and April 1991, 7 deep investigation wells were drilled at 4 separate sites in the southern Mt Lofty Ranges. Each well was constructed with either single, dual or triple completion piezometers, depending upon the groundwater...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1994
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RB 96/00032 Mount Barker Creek 1. Well completion report.
Mount Barker Creek 1 was drilled by MESA Mineral Provinces Branch at a location 30 km southeast of Adelaide during May 1994 to test a model of stratiform lead-zinc mineralisation within the Kanmantoo Trough, and to confirm the composition and...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1996
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RB 92/00050 Soil Air CO2 / O2 Project. Progress report 1, Mount Lofty Ranges.
Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements as a guide to oxidizing sulphide have been assessed at 6 sites within Kanmantoo Group metasediments.-
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Published: 01 Aug 1992
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo. Progress reports, annual reports and technical reports for the period 1/1/1998 to 2/11/2008.
Exploration Licence (EL) 2663 Kanmantoo is located on the eastern flank of the Adelaide Hills, and exists as two separate blocks forming a belt up to 10 km wide and approximately 75 km long that covers an area dominated by outcropping and subcropping...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1908
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Rehabilitation of the Nairne Pyrites Ltd quarry area and treatment of acidic effluent. Progress and final reports on investigations for the period March 1973 to June 1975.
A chemical survey of Dawesley Creek in the Brukunga Mine area has concluded that seepages from the southern mine waste dumps located alongside the creek contribute the greater proportion of pollutants (acidity, iron, aluminium, manganese, zinc,...-
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Brukunga neutralisation pilot plant. Progress and final reports on laboratory studies and continuous operating performance under test conditions, for the period February 1975 to February 1976.
The objective of the present investigation was to obtain, by means of a continuous pilot plant, operating data for the appraisal and design of a full-scale neutralization plant for the treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD) at Brukunga. Laboratory...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kanmantoo (mine prospect). Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 18/1/2005 to 17/1/2010.
Three small adjacent licence sub-blocks, that together cover ~1.5 square km of inferred prospective brownfields ground immediately surrounding Mining Lease ML 5776 held over the former Kanmantoo open pit copper mine (which peripheral ground is herein...-
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Published: 14 Jan 1910
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Black Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/8/2003 to 25/8/2008.
Inco Resources ('Inco') has been exploring the outcropping portion of the Ordovician Black Hill Intrusive Complex for possible Voisey's Bay style nickel, copper and platinum group element (PGE) mineralisation. This work commenced on 30/9/2004, when it...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : The North-western Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2012.
Twelve licence areas owned and operated by Gold Fields Australasia (GFA), comprising two subareas respectively located approximately 50 km east of Burra and 15 km south-east of the Benda Range, on the eastern edge of the Adelaide Fold Belt, are being...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1912
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Meningie. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 27/8/1980 to 5/4/1984.
Ongoing evaluation of the stratiform base metal potential of the Cambrian metasedimentary bedrock sequence, in an area located just to the east and north-east of Meningie, addressed a regional north-south trending, sinuous zone containing a number of...-
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Published: 08 Feb 1984
