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RB 38/00076 Explanatory Notes for the ALBERGA 1:250 000 geological map.
The Alberga 4 mile Military Sheet, situated in the north-west of South Australia is bounded by latitudes 26° and 27°S and longitudes 132° and 133° 30'E. It embodies the following 1 miles sheets - Giles, Ernabella, Indulkana, Kenmore, Alcurra,...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1955
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RB 79/00118 Chrysoprase and moss agate deposits Mount Davies, North West Province. Report no. 3 - Mining activity, 1975-1978.
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 91/00103 Geology and mineral potential of the Pitjantjatjara Lands - South Australia.
The Pitjantjatjara Lands cover crystalline basement rocks of the Middle Proterozoic Musgrave Block, fringed by relatively unaltered sediments of the late Proterozoic and Palaeozoic Officer Basin, the late Palaeozoic Arckaringa Basin and the Mesozoic...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1991
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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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Abminga Diamond Project. Data release made at licence renewal [and project cessation]: progress reports and annual reports for the period 25/10/1993 to 17/3/2004.
The Abminga Diamond Project, undertaken by Caldera Resources NL, was granted exploration project status, including permission for EL joint reporting, in July 1996. This event followed up to two years of work by other operators on a number of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Claude Hills. Annual reports for the period 31/5/2006 to 19/6/2017.
An area comprising three adjacent but separate sub-blocks in the Mount Davies district of the central Musgrave Ranges within South Australia was taken up afresh by the Metals X Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary Austral Nickel Pty Ltd, because...-
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Published: 15 Aug 1917
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Mount Parlue (part of the Alcurra Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 25/6/2013 to 31/8/2017.
An area in Far North SA, centred ~75 km east-southeast of Kulgera on the Stuart Highway, and abutting the SA-NT State border, has been explored for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits associated with mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks...-
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Published: 31 Aug 1917
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Mount Irwin (part of the Alcurra Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 25/6/2013 to 30/11/2017.
An area in Far North SA, centred near Mount Irwin on Tieyon Station, is being explored for possible buried economic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits associated with mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks of the Proterozoic Giles Complex. Another newly recognised...-
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Published: 08 Mar 1918
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Victory Downs. Progress and final reports for the period 10/6/1968 to 9/6/1970.
Government-prompted company exploration for orthite and related rare earth and other minerals in an area of the eastern Musgrave Ranges included an aerial inspection of quartz pegmatites, plus ground studies and sampling. Geochemical and detrital...-
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Granite Downs. Progress and final reports for the period 28/8/1969 to 22/10/1970.
Field reconnaissance and assessment of surface mineralisation, regional geological mapping and geochemical sampling, detailed ground magnetic and radiometric surveying, and shallow vertical percussion drilling (5 holes, total 491 feet) were carried...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1970
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Granite Downs. Final report for the period 29/10/1970 to 28/10/1971.
Exploration for multiple base and precious metal commodities, possibly associated with magnetic anomalies in the De Rose Hill and Indulkana Range areas, has there identified a substantial Precambrian volcanic and intrusive complex, with rock types...-
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RB 2018/00004 Optically stimulated luminescence dating revealing new insights into the age of major regolith units of the eastern Musgrave Province, South Australia.
Today's landscape in the eastern Musgrave Province, South Australia, comprises vast alluvial and sand plains, aeolian dunes and dunefields. These features formed as a result of episodes of variable alluvial and aeolian activity following the onset of...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2018
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RB 05/00011 Preliminary report on the exploration to the Musgrave and Everard Ranges.
An expedition carried out to scientifically inspect the Musgrave Ranges and Everard Range region indicates poor prospects for discovering minerals, but, with care in accessing and maintaining underground water supplies, the country appears to hold...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1914
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RB 71/00183 Progress report on nickel exploration, Kenmore Park, Alberga 1-mile sheet.
Seven serpentinite bodies were located on Kenmore in the 1970 field season and a ground magnetic survey was carried out over the area that contained most of them. Induced polarization surveys were carried out over the South Bank and Eremophila...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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RB 72/00052 Report on geophysical investigations over mineral prospects at Marryat 1 and 2, Eromphila, Alcurra, Electra, Kenmore 2 and Eateringinna.
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 72/00007 Reconnaissance survey of ballast sources Tarcoola Alice Springs standard gauge railway Mount Willoughby, Northern Territory - Commonwealth Rail.
This report describes potential ballast sites on the Mount Willoughby - Northern Territory Border section of the proposed Tarcoola -Alice Springs standard gauge railway. Sedimentary rocks of Mesozoic and Tertiary age south of Marla Bore do not provide...-
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Published: 18 Jan 1972
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RB 71/00023 Report on allanite occurrences near Amata, North-West Aboriginal Reserve.
Small amounts of allanite (cerium bearing epidote) from pegmatites, collected by Aboriginal prospectors, are not economic source of rare earth minerals, but any crystalline mineral specimens might be a source of income for local Aboriginals.-
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Published: 19 Feb 1971
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RB 73/00192 Utah Bore dolerite deposit - Second report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 72/00184 Utah Bore dolerite deposit.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 73/00295 Rare earths, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
Rare earth minerals have been found in numerous localities in South Australia, but most deposits are small or are low in grade. There has been no production on a commercial scale. The most abundant minerals are those containing variable amounts of...-
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Published: 11 Dec 1973
