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Minbrie. Progress reports for the period 28/6/1973 to 27/6/1975.
Reports describe the ongoing field prospecting and downstream jade marketing activities associated with the Cowell nephrite jade discovery. Black nephrite blocky material extracted from the operating company's new mining leases (MLs 4130-4132) was...-
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Published: 09 Aug 1975
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RB 57/00047A Mineral fillers and pigments. Progress report 25th to 30th June, 1963.
At the request of the South Australian Department of Mines a survey of current Australian usage of mineral fillers and pigments was made. The survey was intended to determine the consumptions and specifications typical of various industries and to...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1963
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RB 57/00047;Amdel 00266 Fillers and pigments. Survey of industry.
At the request of the South Australian Government Department of Mines a survey was made of current Australian usage of mineral fillers and pigments. The survey was intended to determine the consumption and specification typical of various industries...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1963
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RB 50/00056 Review of the uses and beneficiation of talc.
Talc is a hydrated silicate of magnesium having the theoretical formula H2Mg3 (SiO3)4, corresponding to 63.5 per cent SiO2, 31.7 per cent MgO. The ratios of these constituents may vary between rather wide limits, the magnesia/silica ratio ranging...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 80/00055 Talc production in South Australia, 1900-1979.
Deposits in the Mount Lofty Ranges are subdivided into the Gumeracha-Lobethal region and deposits north of Gumeracha which include the Lyndoch deposits. On Eyre Peninsula, deposits are concentrated near Tumby Bay, with smaller deposits associated with...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1980
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RB 79/00152;Amdel 01300 Uses of talc / albite rock.
Background: Extensive deposits of talc exist in the Gumeracha-Lyndoch region of South Australia, located between 50-100 km north-east of Adelaide. Much of the talc rock contains a significant (5-30%) feldspar content. Project investigations have...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Lipson Cove - Tumby Bay area. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/9/2004 to 1/9/2008.
Geological mapping of an historically worked lamellar talc occurrence in the Tumby Bay area showed that snow white, finely flaky talc is present over a 2 km strike length within two beds of isoclinally folded schistose dolomitic limestone, but is of...-
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Interim report on a geological survey of Special Mining Lease no. 58, Mount Fitton area, South Australia.
Talc occurs in the Mount Fitton area in a massive recrystallized dolomite of Proterozoic age. The larger talc deposits are concentrated on its margins. This massive dolomite cuts through bedding and formation boundaries, and available evidence...-
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Published: 29 Jun 1964
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Mount Fitton Talc Province. Progress, annual and miscellaneous technical summary reports for the period 16/2/79 to 24/11/96.
Talc has been mined at Mount Fitton in the northern Flinders Ranges on a continuous basis since 1945, for industrial use in the manufacture of cosmetics, ceramics and refractory ware. From 1979 to 1996, under authority of a series of Exploration...-
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A gemmological assessment of the nephrite jade deposits near Cowell, South Australia.
Nephrite jade is associated with Lower Proterozoic dolomitic marbles and calc-silicate rocks as part of a sequence of metasedimentary quartzo-feldspathic gneisses, quartzites and mica schists of amphibolite metamorphic facies. These rocks normally...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1980
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/206 (part) : commodity survey, talc. Final report for the period August 1977 to May 1978.
The aim of this project was to review Australian production and consumption of talc, including gathering data on such topics as raw material sources, production rates and reserves, specifications, prices, markets and uses. Related minerals having...-
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RB 69/00053 Talc resources of South Australia.
Properties, uses and specifications, world and Australian consumption, of industrial grades of talc are summarised. In the past the principal demand in Australia has been for high quality cosmetic grade talc but a market survey indicates that national...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 72/00203;Amdel 00877 Laboratory evaluation of South Australian talcs for industrial purposes.
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 75/00006 Introduction to laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks.
'Industrial minerals' are those minerals or assemblages of minerals which are economically important because of their physical or chemical properties, rather than their metal or energy content. The term is synonymous with 'non-metallic minerals', and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1974
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RB 2007/00022 [South Australian earth] resources production [statistics] for the 6 month [period] ended [30] June 2007.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2007, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2007
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RB 2012/00011 South Australian mineral resources production statistics for the six month [period] ended 31st December 2011.
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Published: 01 May 2012
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RB 2010/00009 [South Australian mineral] resources production statistics for the 6 month [period] ended 31 December 2009.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 31 December 2009, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 07 May 2010
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RB 2000/00047 [South Australian earth] resources production statistics for [the half-yearly] period ended 30 June 2000.
This report presents a detailed statistical record of the State's output and sales values for petroleum, minerals and materials during the six monthly period ended 30 June 2000. The first part of the report details the production sales figures for...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2000
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RB 2009/00021 [South Australian] mineral resources production statistics for the 6 month [period] ended 30 June 2009.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2009, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 03 Nov 2009
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RB 2009/00006 Alteration mapping - HyLogger workshop, course manual, ASEG 09.
HyLogging systems, and the PIMA and ASD field spectrometers (Terraspec, Labspec and Fieldspec), are a generation of analysis instruments which provide rapid and cost effective data on sample mineralogy and on mineral characteristics. Spectral...-
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Published: 26 Feb 2009
