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RB 88/00050 Volcanic and sedimentary rocks from the Wirrulla region, Gawler Craton, South Australia.
Volcanic rocks from the Wirrulla region include dacites, rhyodacites and rhyolites. They comprise both magmatic and pyroclastic types, and are similar to the Gawler Range Volcanics. Sedimentary rocks from the same region include quartz sandstones...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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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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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 3 partnership DPY3-01, Central Eyre Peninsula (Karkarook area) Mesoproterozoic unconformity - style sedimentary uranium mineral prospects. Project interim and final reports.
Investigation of the potential of a known surface radiometrically-anomalous area 20 km west-southwest of Cleve to contain unconformity - style uranium mineralisation, inferred to occur at and just above the subsurface stratigraphic contact of...-
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Published: 31 Mar 1907
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Pyramid Bore. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/7/2005 to 5/1/2010.
An area located approximately 10 km north of Glendambo has been explored for possible economic buried uranium deposits which might be indicated by aerial radiometric anomalies associated with playa lakes in the region, since these latter mark zones of...-
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Published: 20 May 1910
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wild Horse Plain. Annual reports for the period 8/7/2005 to 23/2/2019, plus partial surrender reports to 23/2/2021.
An upland area located approximately 100 km south-west of Whyalla on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, and with its eastern boundary running parallel to the coast at a distance of 15 km from Cowell and Franklin Harbour, is being explored for uranium,...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1921
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ELs 4653 - 4661 (the Marla Project). Joint annual reports, plus final reports at licences' individual or joint full surrenders, for the period 25/1/2011 to 9/9/2014.
Nine licence areas occupying a 70 km x 30 km region overlying a west-northwest trending structural corridor situated along the northern margin of the Gawler Craton, have been explored for possible buried large-scale deposits of iron oxide - associated...-
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Published: 23 Oct 1914
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-06 - Intercept Hill, Stuart Shelf, Mesoproterozoic IOCGU mineral prospects. Drilling project final report.
EL 5372 Intercept Hill is centrally located in the world class Olympic Dam Iron Oxide Cu-Au-U Province, at the centre of a cluster of iron oxide copper occurrences including Emmie Bluff, Oak Dam and Winjabbie. The Intercept Hill area has available...-
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Published: 19 Jan 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Karkarook. Combined annual and annual reports to licence expiry/renewal/full surrender, for the period 24/6/2004 to 1/9/2014.
A area centred ~ 25 km west of Cleve is being explored for possible buried economic sediment-hosted or basement unconformity - related uranium mineralisation. The tenement covers part of the Driver River and Driver River Pan which contains a...-
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Published: 26 Sep 1914
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Pine Hill. Annual reports ['no work' letters] to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/10/2011 to 18/10/2014.
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Published: 27 Oct 1914
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Midgee. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2014.
A small area centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla and ~37 km north-northeast of Cowell, which lay along the fault scarp at the edge of the western Spencer Gulf coastal plain, has been explored for both primary and secondary uranium deposits. Targets...-
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Published: 14 Jan 1915
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Peake Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/7/2013 to 8/7/2017.
A small area located on and adjacent to the eastern margin of the Denison Range, ~ 60 km south-east of Oodnadatta, has been explored for possible buried economic sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation. During licence Year 1 the licensee reviewed all...-
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Data release - as updated : Lucas Hill. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/8/2011 to 30/7/2019.
An area centred ~25 km south-east of Woomera township is being explored for possible buried economic IOCG style mineralisation that may be related to a poorly defined gravity anomaly and associated magnetic anomaly in the vicinity of Lucas Hill. A...-
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Published: 05 Aug 1919
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RB 00794 Investigation of the basement rocks from Apollo no. 1 and Gemini no. 1 (inter alia).
This student vacational project report, for the Department's Petroleum Exploration Div., aimed to correlate the basement rocks met with in Great Australian Bight area offshore and near onshore petroleum exploration wells with outcropping formations...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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Midgee. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/12/2009 to 9/12/2012.
Within a small relinquished area that is centred about 37 km north-northeast of Cowell, along the fault scarp at the edge of the western Spencer Gulf coastal plain, exploration for uranium has concentrated on identifying possible IOCG type...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ooldea. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 6/12/1989 to 5/1/2000.
An occurrence of primary magnetite mineralisation within buried Archaean magnetic basement, first inferred from a strong northeast-trending linear magnetic anomaly observed at a location 20 km south of Ooldea Siding at the northern edge of the...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1999
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Lake Gairdner North (part of the West Roxby Project). Data release: annual reports for the period 23/7/2007 to 22/7/2012.
An area centred approximately 55 km west-southwest of Woomera was taken up to explore its IOCG mineralisation potential. Early field work consisted of the acquisition of infill gravity coverage over an irregular outline regional gravity low anomaly...-
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RB 2001/00003 Sandstone dimension stone in South Australia - Results of geological reconnaissance, 1998 and 1999.
Sandstone as a building material was used extensively in Adelaide and regional South Australia from the founding of the colony until the end of World War II. However, since 1945 the industry has declined steadily, with closure of many quarries, until...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2001
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Amdel Ltd project - Fluid inclusion studies of South Australian ores, rocks and minerals. Progress reports nos 1 to 6 for the period 7/5/1976 to 3/4/1980.
In September 1975 the South Australian Department of Mines accepted a proposal from Amdel Ltd to purchase and set up some microthermometry apparatus, in order to commence fluid inclusion studies of selected rock types and minerals in South Australia....-
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Mineral Resource Potential Map Series - Corraberra.
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Rudall, central Eyre Peninsula. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 1/11/1969 to 31/10/1971.
Exploration for possible sedimentary uranium deposits formed within the Cainozoic basin located south-west of the Darke Range on central Eyre Peninsula has entailed reconnaissance groundwater sampling, acquisition of part of a regional aerial...-
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