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RB 37/00057 Grindability of limestone.
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Published: 24 Mar 1954
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RB 53/00049 Preliminary report on a survey of the Sugarloaf Hill siliceous limestone deposit (also known as: Jones' quarry, Barmera).
A topographical survey has been carried out to determine the probable extent of a siliceous limestone horizon beneath a mesa, namely Sugarloaf Hill, located 2 miles west of Lake Bonney near Kingston-on-Murray, which on its northern part is worked as a...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1961
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RB 89/00074 Industrial and non metallic minerals - Operations in South Australia.
This data package discusses mining and processing operations of the major non metallic and industrial mineral commodities in South Australia and is of interest to those in the industry and to manufacturers and suppliers of a range of machinery and...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Uley. Annual reports for the period 16/9/2005 to 12/10/2018.
A licence area located 20 km west-southwest of Port Lincoln, which covers the historically worked Uley graphite deposit and environs, was taken up to try to delineate sufficient mineral resources and, eventually, ore reserves of graphite in the Mining...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1919
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RB 00765 Curramulka limestone deposits, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report - Site 2.
2 diamond drillholes (total 518 feet) and 22 air holes (total 1851 feet) have indicated the presence of 28.5 million tons of Lower Cambrian limestone containing over 85% calcium carbonate in a bed dipping at about 10 degrees southwards, and below...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 2010/00019 Hardrock extractive minerals for metropolitan Adelaide - strategic review. [Summary version]
The purpose of the project is to provide essential data on the hardrock extractive (construction material) resources supplying the Adelaide metropolitan area, in order to be able to: - Critically examine current hardrock supplies and resources and how...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2010
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SP 003 Mining in South Australia - A Pictorial History
In recognition of the centenary of Henry Yorke Lyell Brown's appointment as the first Government Geologist for South Australia, and the foundation of the Department of Mines and Energy, aspects of South Australia's colourful and vital mining and...-
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RB 72/00218 Limestone for railway ballast on Murray lands at Pungonda.
A late Cainozoic lacustrine deposit equated with the Bungunnia Limestone crops out near Pungonda and has been investigated as a source of railway ballast by mapping, trenching and laboratory testing of samples. Los Angeles Abrasion and sodium sulphate...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1972
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RB 61/00144 Diamond drilling operations, Klein Point limestone - Adelaide Cement Co. Ltd.
Adelaide Cement Co. Ltd. has operated a Limestone quarry from the cliffs near Klein Point, Yorke Peninsula since 1925. The annual output is about 250,000 tons; production to date exceeds three and a half million tons. A programme of diamond drilling...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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Burnda. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/7/1989 to 2/7/1990.
Reverse air circulation rotary drilling of four outcrops of potentially glass-grade raw material dolomite rock (42 holes for a total penetration of 924 m), carried out 14 km north-west of Mount Gambier in April 1989 on a 50 m grid within pine...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1990
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Waikerie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2005 to 17/1/2010.
Landmark Stone Pty Ltd was approached by David West (Executive Director, Architectural Conservation, International Conservation Services of Sydney) to investigate re-opening one of the three Waikerie Limestone quarries in the Riverland of South...-
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Published: 28 Oct 1909
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Beltana / Copley. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 15/4/1994 to 24/6/2003.
A portion of the central Flinders Ranges covering the Beltana Diapir and its surrounds has been taken up mainly to explore for possible economic buried hydrothermal replacement type or epigenetic stratabound base metal mineralisation, with magnesite...-
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Published: 23 Dec 1914
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RB 2010/00018 Investigation into the use of radon and soil sampling in exploration at the Hillside copper-gold deposit, South Australia.
Copper and gold mineralisation is commonly associated with accessory uranium, and so radon generated from the uranium's decay may provide a tool that is useful in exploration for this style of deposit. As part of an investigation into applying radon...-
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Published: 01 May 2010
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/49 : production of high-grade calcium carbonate products from limestone fines. Progress report nos 1 to 15 plus final report, parts 1 and 2, for the period March 1962 to August 1964.
In South Australia there are a number of limestone occurrences which have been worked for long periods, and a high tonnage of limestones fines has accumulated. These fines are of too low a grade to be used. The Department of Mines (SADM) requested of...-
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Gulf Saint Vincent. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/7/1976 to 22/7/1978.
During a dredging trial conducted by the licensee in the Gulf on 9-10/11/1976, using the dredging vessel "Andrew Wilson" owned by the SA Board of Marine and Harbours, some 200 tonnes of shell were recovered from the open seabed in seven locations...-
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Published: 22 May 1978
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HandBk 006 - Living with Minerals - A South Australian perspective. Armstrong, A.T
This publication highlights how the availability of minerals is crucial to providing the basic requisites of life, or else, to fundamentally contributing for the manufacture of vital requisites such as food, clothing, heat, light and shelter, in order...-
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