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RB 80/00104 Discovery of Early Cretaceous sediments at Mintabie Opalfield.
Published: 01 Sep 1980 Created: 06 Nov 2024 Revised: 06 Nov 2024
Author: Townsend, I.J.

This note records the discovery of previously unrecognised Early Cretaceous fossiliferous sediments unconformably overlying Palaeozoic rocks at the Mintabie opal field. Following renewed mining activity at Mintabie in 1977-78, the Mineral...

This note records the discovery of previously unrecognised Early Cretaceous fossiliferous sediments unconformably overlying Palaeozoic rocks at the Mintabie opal field. Following renewed mining activity at Mintabie in 1977-78, the Mineral Resources Section of SADME carried out detailed mapping in 1979 (Townsend, in prep). As part of this investigation, opal miners were asked to report any fossil finds to the Area Officer, which has led to this age identification.

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Record No rb8000104
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
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Document Type Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication
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Tenement
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Geological Province Eromanga Basin
Mine Name Mintabie Opal Field
Stratigraphy Marree Subgroup
Commodity gemstone
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Notes: Published in Quarterly Geological Notes, 77, 1981.
Geographic Locality: Mintabie
Doc No: RB 80/00104
Notes: Published in Quarterly Geological Notes, 77, 1981.
Geographic Locality: Mintabie
Doc No: RB 80/00104
Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb8000104
Citation Townsend, I.J. 1980. RB 80/00104 Discovery of Early Cretaceous sediments at Mintabie Opalfield. Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication. Government of South Australia.
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb8000104

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