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Pualco West. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 26/10/1972 to 25/10/1973.
Reconnaissance and detailed bulk loam sampling undertaken to look for diamonds or kimberlite indicator minerals in the vicinity of the Pualco Anticline, plus spectrographic analyses of the derived heavy mineral concentrates for gold and base metals...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1973
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RB 37/00006 Extraction of manganese oxide from low-grade manganese ore at Pernatty Lagoon. Metallurgical report no. 63, 18/1/1954.
The ore consists of clay, limonite pyrolusite and psilomelane, thoroughly mixed and carried quartz, barytes and gypsum crystallised in cavities. The average grade is 24 per cent manganese. 2. Beneficiation by gravity methods, by flotation or magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 54/00121 Summary report on known iron ore deposits, Central Province.
The accompanying resume of current knowledge of ironstone deposits in the Central Province has been prepared for general distribution. It is based on recent field work, and supersedes that previously recorded by the writer in Summary Report, RB...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1962
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RB 51/00033;Amdel 00017 Manganese. First report. Beneficiation review.
A survey of the literature covering methods of beneficiation for low grade manganese minerals has been made to determine world trends. As well as being a review of beneficiation methods this report contains a summary of world production arid...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1960
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RB 53/00066 Geological investigation of manganese workings on two mineral claims located 15 miles east of Blinman.
This mine, situated 10 miles east of Blinman, was previously the subject of a detailed report by S.B Dickinson (Mining Review 76, Pages 72-79), a copy of which is included in this report. This reader is referred to this earlier report for information...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 59/00018 Artipena manganese prospect, Martins Well Station (27/7/1964).
Small deposits of manganite and pyrolusite occur within oolitic Etina limestone (Marinoan) on opposite limbs of a syncline south of Artipena Hill. The ore was probably found under oxidising conditions by secondary concentration of colloidal solution...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 59/00121 Arrowie Gorge manganese prospects.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 57/00014 Report on visit to Western Australian iron and manganese deposits in May 1963.
A comparison of known iron deposits in Western Australia and South Australia suggests that large, high grade iron orebodies occur in flatly dipping favourable horizons which have a leached and oxidised appearance: siliceous, steeply dipping iron...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1963
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RB 60/00064 O'Donoghues Castle copper prospect, Balcanoona Station.
Irregular oxidised orebodies up to about 3 feet thick, containing copper carbonates, quartz, sphaerocobaltite (cobalt carbonate) and wad (hydrated manganese oxide), occupy both shear zones aligned parallel with bedding, and crush zones developed...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1965
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RB 41/00128 Mount Arden mine.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 45/00118 Final report on iron ore prospecting, Corunna area, Iron Knob district.
In an area of limited basement outcrop located between 2 and 5 miles north-northwest of Iron Knob township, the Department's surface traverse channel sampling (969'), percussion boring (643’) and diamond drilling (1270’) tested a low grade...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1957
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RB 48/00149 Wheal Barton copper mine, secns 404, 442 Hd Jellicoe - W. Smith.
Greywacke sediments of Cambrian age predominate at and around the Wheal Barton mine. Copper mineralisation, together with varieties of manganese mineralisation, occur along a shear zone in bleached greywackes, which in places have been mined...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 84/00028 Petrography of 25 specimens from Mount Grainger Goldfield.
Specimens from the Mt Grainger Goldfield include quartzites, sandstones in which kaolinite is believed to represent earlier feldspar, siltstones, shales, diamictites of probable glaciogene origin, granitoids and andesites. Low to moderate temperature...-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 80/00083 Mines and mineral occurrences prospected during 1979, in the Flinders Ranges.
Old mines and prospects were located, sketch mapped and photographed. Ultra- violet lamp was used to search for scheelite in Mt McTaggart area and west of Mt Fitton. Scintillometer was used to search for radioactive minerals.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1980
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RB 79/00061 Geochemical exploration for gold, Orama Hill area.
Gold mineralisation occurs near Orama Hill, situated north of Koonamore Station Homestead, and at Kirkeek?s Treasure gold mine on the Nillinghoo Goldfield. These two localities are about 25 km apart, and lie along the axis of the Orama Hill Anticline....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00015 Mineral resources and mineral potential of the proposed Balcanoona National Park.
The mines and mineral deposits in the proposed park are summarized from departmental records with list of references and plans available on microfilm.-
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Published: 01 Feb 1980
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RB 98/00008 Geochemical studies of the regolith at the Mount Gunson copper deposits, Stuart Shelf, South Australia.
The principal objective of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) Shields Program and the Primary Industry and Resources of South Australia (PIRSA) Regolith Terranes Group in South Australia is to...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1998
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Mount Miccollo, Tin Hut Hill, Eurilla Dam, Wilcherry Hill, Uno, Peterlumbo and Mount Double (the Wilcherry Hill Project). Joint annual reports for the period 1/11/2002 to 31/10/2018.
During Year 6 of the project, Trafford Resources designed their drilling program to test the extent of the Pb/Zn/Ag/U mineralisation at the Telephone Dam Prospect, while JV partners Ironclad Mining’s drilling program was designed to define the Direct...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ketchowla. Annual reports for the period 15/6/2009 to 14/6/2019 and Partial Surrender Report to 22/09/2023.
An area located in the Worlds End detrital alluvial goldfield district of the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, and centred ~20 km north-east of Burra, is being explored mainly for possible economic stratiform/replacement manganese oxide...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1919
