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Mintaro Slate and Flagstone - more than 150 years of production.
Mintaro Slate is produced from what is believed to be the oldest continuously operating quarry in Australia. The quarry was opened in the early 1850s, after Mintaro farmer Peter Brady discovered outcrops of slate in a creek bed on his property and...-
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RB 54/00160 Flagstone deposit, near Watervale.
Considerable reserves of flagstone from the Mintaro Shale horizon and similar to the stone quarried near Mintaro township are available in the property examined. Depth of soil overburden and the presence of sandstone layers in the shale need to be...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 55/00082 Geological survey of road building material, portions of Counties Light and Stanley.
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 47/00046 Mintaro slate quarries.
The slate deposit owned by the Mintaro Slate and Flagstone Co. has been known for about 100 years and since 1891 has been a steady producer of high quality flagstones.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 77/00030 Glen Osmond shale quarry, secn 1079 Hd Adelaide, PM 58 - PGH Industries Pty Ltd.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 77/00084;Amdel 01174 SADM/Amdel Project no. 1/1/198. Mintaro slate.
Late in 1976, the Mintaro Slate and Flagstone Company approached the South Australian Department of Mines seeking assistance to enable it to improve the efficiency of its operation and so enable it to operate more profitably in the face of competition...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1977
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RB 81/00037 South Eastern Freeway - Glen Osmond to Crafers re-alignment. Proposed Wylie Ridge tunnel, geological summary report.
A double tunnel is proposed through Wylie Ridge to carry the southeastern freeway into Adelaide thus by-passing the Devil's Elbow. The tunnel would pass through a fault block containing the Mitcham Quartzite and the underlying siltstones (Glen Osmond...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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SADME/Amdel mineral research project : [petrological/mineralogical and geochemical] investigation of Mintaro slate. Progress reports nos 1 and 2 for the period August 1978 to January 1979.
24 samples of quarried 'slate' (fine-grained dolomitic siltstone) from Mintaro were examined to determine microscopic reasons for the observed variability in their physical properties.-
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Published: 25 Jan 1979
