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Cocunda and Calca (Poochera Kaolin Project). Progress reports, annual reports, and final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 12/5/1986 to 28/3/2002.
Kaolin, derived mainly from deep weathering of Hiltaba Suite granites, was the principal target of exploration in the area south and south-west from Poochera, near Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. Following a review made of historic drillhole...-
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Economic geology and mineralogy of Birdwood kaolin, South Australia.
White clay is won from 5 pits operated by 3 companies for use in white cement and cream brick manufacture with some as a filler / extender. White clay formed by intensive kaolinization of mica schist and fine grained micaceous quartzite. Irregular...-
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Lake Gilles, Moonabie. Progress reports for the period 26/1/89 to 30/11/89.
TARGET: Broken Hill-type silver-lead-zinc mineralization in Lower to Middle Proterozoic Hutchison Group metasediments. EXPLORATION: Soil sampling, ground magnetic and IP surveys, and RAB drilling (162 holes totalling 3092 metres). RESULTS: Some weakly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Ulooloo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/7/1986 to 6/3/1989.
TARGET: Economic fine-grained, Telfer style gold mineralisation occurring as syngenetic stratabound deposits formed in sedimentary basins during or soon after periods of basin subsidence and instability. The eastern limb of the large, overturned...-
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Published: 22 Feb 1989
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RB 73/00004 Investigation of the Anabama copper and molybdenum prospect, Olary Wadnaminga.
Stream sediment sampling, induced polarization surveys and a 44 drill hole rotary drilling program were undertaken over the Anabama Granite. The granite was found to be unmineralized except for greisened portions containing anomalous copper and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] due to licence expiry and pending approval of its subsequent re-grant : Pine Ridge (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 25/2/1999 to 29/3/2007.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 140 km north-west of Marla, has been explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) as part of work planned for a larger set of project exploration licences currently...-
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Hallett (part of the Nackara Gold Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/8/2002 to 4/10/2012.
An area of high country in the far northern Mount Lofty Ranges was taken under licence to try to find the primary source(s) of widely dispersed detrital gold known from Recent and Tertiary cover sediments in the region, while focussing mainly on...-
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RB 2000/00013 Australian Clay Minerals Society Inc. 17th Biennial Conference, Adelaide, 10-12 April 2000: Field Guide for post-conference tour, 13-14 April 2000 - Yorke Peninsula clays and carbonates, copper mines, desert loam soils and mangroves.
This tour is concerned with aspects of the soils, geology, landforms, clays and mining on Yorke Peninsula, and likewise for the northern Adelaide Plains which are separated from the Peninsula by Gulf St Vincent. Both of these regions are among the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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Streaky Bay. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/7/1980 to 27/5/1982.
In an area located east-southeast of Streaky Bay township, the target mineral commodities were uranium, base metals, gold, tin, tungsten, tantalum and lignite; kaolinite was recognised as a secondary target later during the exploration programme. 25...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1982
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Tumby Bay. Progress and final reports for the period 20/11/1969 to 19/11/1971.
Exploration conducted primarily for base metals, over an area extending for 5-50 km north of Port Lincoln, has consisted of reconnaissance and detailed stream sediment surveys followed by soil and rock chip sampling, plus limited geological mapping....-
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Calca [part of CML's Poochera Project]. First partial surrender report, for the period 12/7/1993 to 11/7/1997.
Exploration for kaolin, gold and base metals in the Colley Hill - Witera area, centred 40 km south-east of Streaky Bay, comprised aircore drilling (23 holes, total 379 m) and calcrete geochemical sampling on a regional 1 km x 1 km grid. Despite the...-
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Published: 08 Aug 1997
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Kimba. Final progress/summary report to licence surrender, for the period October 1969 to April 1972.
In an area located immediately south of Kimba, continued exploration of strongly kaolinised metasediments and igneous rocks for deposits of kaolin that could possibly be suitable as paper fillers and coaters has comprised drilling, costeaning,...-
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Lincoln Uplands area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 9/12/1971 to 8/12/1972.
Exploration conducted primarily for base metals, over an area extending for 5-50 km north of Port Lincoln, has consisted of soil sampling on a 1/4 mile grid spacing along a line 5000 feet west of the Butler Tanks magnetic trend, check geological...-
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Kimba. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 6/11/1969 to 5/11/1971.
Investigations previously carried out by Pechiney had indicated the presence of substantial reserves of kaolin clays in the Kelly Tank and Bunora - Balumbah areas located near and to the south of Kimba, which might have a potential for paper-coating...-
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Published: 17 Dec 1971
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Cockburn. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 8/10/1970 to 16/9/1971.
Possible economic buried Tertiary sedimentary uranium, plus any Palaeoproterozoic basement - hosted base metal deposits, were targeted in the region to the west of Cockburn by conducting an airborne radiometric survey (700 line miles at 0.5-1 mile...-
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