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Mount Sabine. Partial surrender report for the period 12/2/1981 to 22/1/1986.
As part of a regional diamond and kimberlite exploration programme, 50 drainage and loam samples were collected for heavy mineral analysis from within the two areas being relinquished, which lie respectively 50 km NW and 40 km NE of Kingoonya. No...-
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RB 81/00099 Stuart Highway, Baker Well to Gosses section. Drilling for construction water.
13 of 38 wells were completed as production wells. Pump testing showed that 6 were capable of yielding 50 kl/day or more for 2 year period. Salinity was in excess of 10 000 mg/L TDS except near Glendambo where water from 4000 to 8000 mg/L was...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 84/00006 Potential of the Cambrian for Mississippi Valley type lead-zinc mineralisation.
Description of 16 visual presentation slides. Recent exploration emphasises the potential within SA for epigenetic sulphide mineralisation precipitated as open space fillings in shallow water carbonate sediments formed on the margins of large basins,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1984
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RB 76/00146 Geology of Mount Laura, Whyalla, South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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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 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 79/00114 Palaeodrainage systems in western South Australia. Their detection by Landsat imagery, stratigraphic significance and economic potential.
Two major palaeodrainage systems of Tertiary age, with watersheds of up to 35 000 square km and channel lengths of 200-250 km, have been recognised and delineated using LANDSAT imagery, during 1:250 000 scale geological mapping in western South...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 94/00044 Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen as a guide to oxidising sulphide concealed beneath shallow cover. Soil air CO2/O2 project: review report 1.
A joint project between Dr I.G. Watmuff (consultant) and the Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, to appraise the soil air CO2/O2 technique as a guide to concealed oxidising sulphides, has been completed. Testing was conducted over known...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1994
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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 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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RB 90/00055 Explanatory Notes (Phanerozoic) for the CURDIMURKA 1:250 000 geological map.
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Published: 01 Aug 1990
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RB 96/00039 Report on a test TEM survey over a haematite orebody at Hawks Nest, SA.
A newly-discovered, small, non-outcropping haematite orebody has been outlined at Hawks Nest on the Stuart Shelf by MESA scout drilling. As a trial procedure a Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) survey was conducted over the known subcrop limits, the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1996
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RB 90/00016 Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation of the eastern Gawler Craton.
Beda Volcanics and Backy Point Formation crop out in only a few localities on northeastern Eyre Peninsula, north of Whyalla, but drilling has shown them to extend for approximately 170 km to the north below younger cover. The Beda Volcanics comprise...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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Yeltacowie (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/8/2005 to 19/2/2010.
Two licence subareas located in the north-eastern Cariewerloo Basin were taken up to explore for possible economic Athabasca Basin style, unconformity - related uranium deposits of potentially high grade (>25% U), similar to the McArthur River...-
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Published: 29 Nov 1910
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South Vivian [Homestead]. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/6/2007 to 11/6/2009.
An area located on the northern Stuart Shelf between Olympic Dam and Prominent Hill, approx. 50 km south-southwest of the latter, has been explored for possible Olympic Dam type iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits and for Canadian...-
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Published: 17 Oct 1909
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Porter Hill. Annual reports for the period 26/8/1998 to 26/5/2000 (the commencement of the Lake Torrens Project joint reporting period) : part of a data release made on 31/12/2006 upon a subsequent partial surrender.
Following the detection in late 1997, by reconnaissance mobile metal ion partial leach analytical methods, of anomalous base and precious metal concentrations in the soil above several low amplitude magnetic anomalies on Tasman Resources' EL 2340, the...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1999
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Pernatty Quarry. Reports on site investigations for the period September 1986 - March 1989, re. Pernatty Crushing Contract no. 1 [let to McMahon Construction Pty Ltd].
Geoscientific information on quarry materials, copied from former Highways Department files. The subject quarry site was chosen in order to provide crushed rock products for the reconstruction of the Pimba - Wirrappa section of the Stuart Highway....-
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Published: 17 Mar 1989
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Olympic Dam Project - Hydrogeology of the Olympic Dam mine site.
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Published: 07 Sep 1999
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Screech-Owl Creek (part of Lake Torrens Project). Final report at licence surrender for the period 14/6/2000 to 20/4/2006.
Possible economic Neoproterozoic stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation hidden under Mesozoic and Recent sedimentary cover was targeted in an area located approximately 95 km north-east of Andamooka. Aeromagnetic data interpretation of some...-
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Stuart Creek. Annual reports for the period 9/4/1998 to 26/5/2000 (the commencement of the Lake Torrens Project joint reporting period) : part of a data release made on 31/12/2006 upon a subsequent partial surrender.
In exploration carried out over an area located 60 km north of the Olympic Dam mine, Adelaidean Wilpena Group metasediments extending northwestwards along strike from gold-anomalous strata previously identified on Tasman Resources' Mulgaria EL 2340...-
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Published: 07 May 1900
