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Scobie Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
New work undertaken on an area located near Manunda Homestead during the current licence period has been restricted by the need to try to attract a joint venture partner, efforts towards which have proved unsuccessful. A geological inspection of the...-
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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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Jenner Hill, Pearson Hill and Sandy Point (the Stuart Shelf JV Project). Joint progress reports, plus later annual reports and final report to full surrender of remnant licence EL 1808, for the overall period 4/10/1989 to 24/10/1996.
Exploration for Olympic Dam-style mineralisation, undertaken over an area centred ~15 km south-east of Arcoona Homestead on the Stuart Shelf, which includes WMC's formerly partly tested Emmie Bluff prospect, has comprised the acquisition of ground...-
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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 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 37/00077 Petrology of the cores of bores no. 1 and 2, Middleback Ranges.
A representative selection of rock types obtained in the cores of the DDH1 and DDH2 iron ore exploration holes was made with a view to studying the mineralogy, the lithology and any microstructures of interest present in the formations intersected. A...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1954
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RB 38/00059 Drilling Iron Monarch (G 37/19 ). Progress report Iron Monarch Corunna geology and geophysics.
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 38/00061 Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd geophysical survey of Middleback Range, South Australia. Progress report no. 4.
A gravity survey was carried out at Iron Knob, during the period 28th July, to 14th August, in accordance with the recommendations and decisions made after the completion of the geomagnetic survey over the same area (vide progress report No. 3). A...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1953
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RB 39/00053 Rutile deposit, section 52 Hundred of Encounter Bay.
Samples of rutlie containing 40.5% titanium were submitted from the above locality by Mr. L. Hutchinson of Myponga. Further to this, Mr. Hutchinson requested some assistance from the Department of Mines to investigate the possibility of upgrading this...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 41/00048 Diamond drilling of a magnetic anomaly at Balgowan, Yorke Peninsula. Final report.
An aerial magnetometer survey carried out by the BMR in 1952, followed up by SADM during 1953 with detailed ground magnetometer surveys, revealed two prominent magnetic high anomalies located south of Balgowan on Yorke Peninsula (maximum recorded...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1955
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RB 41/00050 Prospecting south of Iron Knob, Katunga Hills (north) area, report no. 2.
Following approval of the proposals for initial stages of sampling outlined in report no. 1 a visit was made to the Katunga Hills area by the writer and Mr. R.C. Mirama (Geologist) during the week ending 19 August 1955 when the following work was...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 41/00073 Iron ore deposits - Koppio area.
Haematite quartzite occurs as a thin bedded formation in the Archaen metasediments of eastern Eyre Peninsula and have been traced intermittently from the Middleback Ranges, near Mangale, west of Tumby Bay, near Koppio southwards to west of Port...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 41/00083 Iron ore deposit near Gladstone, secn 182 Hd Yangya.
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 41/00088 Supplementary report on geophysical investigations for iron ore in the Camel Hill area.
The degree of success achieved by geophysical methods in the search for iron ore north of Iron Knob has prompted a re-appraisal of the results of magnetic and gravity surveys carried out by the writer in an area west of Camel Hill in 1952.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 41/00100 1: Mining industry developments during 1953-54 and prospective developments for 1954-55. 2: Annual report of the Director of Mines, 1953 with appendix, The establishment of an integrated steel industry in South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 41/00109 Iron Knob and Katunga Hills gravity anomalies.
Three gravity traverses have been measured over the Katunga Hills in order to investigate the similarity of the gravity anomaly over them to an anomaly of magnitude 6 mGal just north of Iron Knob. An anomaly of magnitude 3-4 mGal was found centred on...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 53/00133 Geological investigation of an ironstone deposit located 4.5 miles northwest of Blinman.
A chain and compass survey was carried out on the above prospect in September 1961 in order to assess the tonnage of iron ore available. The ore, which is largely haematite is of high grade. It was originally mined as a flux for use in the copper...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 53/00150;Amdel 00156 Beneficiation of low grade iron ores by flotation methods.
The beneficiation of iron ores from Middleback Range, Tarcoola and Braemar by flotation with anion-active reagents has been investigated by Kaiser (1958), Weir and Hosking (1959) and Hosking and Moskovits (I960). The commercial development of cationic...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1961
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RB 54/00055 Summary report on the investigation of the Razorback Ridge deposit (Braemar Iron Formation).
Sturtian glacial sediments south of Yunta contain haematitic and magnetitic siltstones (banded iron formation) and haematitic and magnetitic tillites formed by chemical deposition of magnetite euhedra in a finer grained haematite groundmass. Both...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1962
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RB 54/00073 Summary report on the investigation of the Warramboo aeromagnetic anomaly, central Eyre Peninsula.
As part of the SADM iron exploration programme in South Australia, geophysical and drilling investigations have been undertaken on the Warramboo Anomaly, the largest elongate asymmetrical aeromagnetic anomaly in the State outside of the Middleback...-
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Published: 15 Mar 1962
