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Annual report on exploration activities, Mount Neill and Mount Fitton areas, EL 871, 1982.
A reassessment of Marathon Petroleum's 1979 regional stream sediment sampling programme led to the decision to resample a number of areas within EL 871. The Mt Neill and Mt Fitton areas were chosen, as a result of possible similarities with the...-
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Blue Gum Hill, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/4/1973 to 29/1/1974.
In ongoing exploration of the base metal potential of a small licence area located 34 km west of Kingscote, 5 inclined shallow diamond drillholes totalling 399 m were put down on significant anomalies located by IP surveys and/or geochemical soil...-
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Published: 29 Jan 1974
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Pichi Richi Pass [south of Quorn]. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/12/1992 to 1/12/1997.
Diamond exploration undertaken over a much dissected 460 square km area of the south-central Flinders Ranges between Stirling North and Mount Arden comprised aeromagnetic interpretation and heavy mineral processing of a regional suite of 170+ stream...-
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Emu Hill. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/4/1991 to 21/4/1996.
Diamond exploration undertaken north-west of Moolawatana included the acquisition of airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground magnetic surveys, plus soil, stream sediment, gravel, loam and rock chip sampling, and aircore/diamond drilling (25 holes,...-
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RB 60/00082 Coober Pedy Opalfield.
Mapping of the Coober Pedy Opalfield has shown that opal occurrence, although erratic, is not entirely unpredictable. Several groups of workings are present in an area of about 150 square miles. The host rock is a distinctive pink and white...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1965
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RB 60/00130 Opal occurrence, Myall Creek Station (inspected on 25/6/1965).
Common opal occurs in bleached (pallid zone) Precambrian sediments beneath a porcellanite capping. The workings are not extensive, and no precious opal is known to have been found. The deposit is significant because the opal is associated with the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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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 80/00026 Opal in South Australia.
Enlarged written version of a talk on the geology of opal, its occurrence and mining methods prepared for public presentation.-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 86/00031 Reconnaissance sampling for heavy mineral sands, Kangaroo Island.
Beach sands, dunes and selected creek sand were sampled. Kanmantoo Group metasediments that underlie most of the island, basalt and granite are favourable source rocks for heavy minerals. They are being actively eroded along most of the coastline but...-
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Published: 01 May 1986
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RB 78/00154 Stuart Creek agate deposit.
Agate or banded chert nodules weather out of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone over an area of several square kilometres south of the Stuart Creek Opal field. In places the agate nodules are concentrated into extensive deflation lag gravels. Banding is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 80/00038 Vesuvius opal diggings.
Small quantities were mined from 1977 to 1978. The opal infills joints in leached and weathered Cretaceous shale. Considerable potential exists for further small finds of opal.-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 79/00006 Opal at the Stuart Creek, Charlie Swamp and Yarrawurta Cliff diggings. Report no. 12 on geological investigations and Calweld drilling of the Stuart Creek Precious Stones Field.
Small quantities of precious opal have been mined from sediments of the Early Cretaceous Marree Formation at Stuart Creek, 50 km north of Andamooka. These sediments appear to have been unaffected by the Early Tertiary deep weathering and bleaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 76/00119 Silcrete sediments and stratigraphy.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 79/00118 Chrysoprase and moss agate deposits Mount Davies, North West Province. Report no. 3 - Mining activity, 1975-1978.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 82/00061 Late Tertiary grey billy, and the age and origin of surficial silicifications (silcrete) in South Australia.
Age demonstrated by stratigraphic relationships with palynologically dated sequences, and evidence of erosion of silcretes.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 98/00010 Regolith studies related to the Challenger gold deposit, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Challenger gold deposit - Volume 1: text, and Volume 2: appendices.
The Challenger gold deposit lies in the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, 750 km NW of Adelaide, and 140 km NW of Tarcoola. A 1.5 km traverse (the regolith line) was chosen for the study of geochemical dispersion and regolith stratigraphy...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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RB 97/00051 Poona copper mine, Moonta, South Australia - Investigation of alteration mineralogy using short-wave infrared analysis.
The Poona Copper Mine on northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, was worked from 1988-92 on an extension of the original Poona lode, a narrow, shear-hosted copper sulphide vein deposit in Moonta Porphyry of Mesoproterozoic age. The orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 99/00022 Water wells, AP Lands, 1998. Site selection, drilling and testing.
Twenty-six sites for water wells to supply isolated homelands and small settlements were selected within the northwest Aboriginal lands of South Australia. Satellite imagery, aerial photography, viewing of the sites from a light aircraft, on-ground...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1999
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Ferguson [Siding]. Data release made in lieu of submitting a third partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal: annual reports for the period 6/9/2000 to 5/9/2005.
Exploration of an area located about 50 km west of Kingoonya, looking for possible Archaean to Proterozoic mafic intrusive and shear-related economic gold and base metal mineralisation, has lately been hampered financially by the exit of Mount Isa...-
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Published: 09 Sep 1905
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Mabel Creek. Annual and final progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/12/1999 to 2/12/2003.
As part of an exploration project targeting possible large-scale opal occurrences hidden at depth beneath marine shale outcrops in the Stuart Range 'Breakaway' country, the subject licence was taken up to cover certain ground lying adjacent to the...-
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Published: 25 Jun 1903
