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Mount Frome. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/10/1973 to 21/10/1974.
A re-investigation of base metal geochemical anomalies detected during Electrolytic Zinc Co.'s former stream sediment and rock chip sampling programme conducted near an historic copper-lead mine prospect at Mount Chambers in the eastern Flinders...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1974
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Warraweena. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/6/1973 to 21/9/1974.
Geological mapping, further surface geochemical sampling, test IP surveys and limited shallow diamond drilling (2 holes, total 201.3 m, including 147 m of NQ/BQ wireline coring) were done over a previously identified stream sediment zinc anomaly at...-
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Klein Point. Limestone exploration. Progress reports for the period 19/1/1982 to August 1982.
14 rotary percussion holes were drilled to test for extensions of the Klein Point limestone deposit. In the area drilled, Tertiary bryozoan limestone horizons were found to have an average vertical thickness of 28 m; their quality is comparable to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 54/00001 Limestone dolomite and magnesite resources of South Australia.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 51/00147 Report on manganese deposit, Mineral Claim 1621, Narina Station, Outside Counties - Mrs V.M.M. Lyford.
Small rich lenses of manganiferous minerals occur in Cambrian sediments near the northern boundary of Mineral Claim 1621. Reserves in the lenses are limited to a few tons. Because of lack of reserves, the isolated position of the claim, the rugged...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 55/00145 Amdel 00212 Polyzoal limestone investigation. Entrained bed calcination.
Deposits of limestone at Mount Gambier have for some time attracted attention as a possible source of lime. The limestone is a soft polyzoal material which can be readily mined and is also of high purity, containing about 97 per cent CaCO3, so that...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1962
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RB 56/00027 Occurrence of activable clay in South Australia. Second report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 60/00051 Stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of three deep bores, Hd Port Gawler.
Three relatively deep bores, drilled recently on the northern Adelaide Plains in the Hundred of Port Gawler, about 20 miles north of Adelaide, have intersected useful complementary sections of the Cainozoic succession, ranging from 560 feet to 1148...-
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Published: 15 Mar 1965
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RB 87/00035 Overland Corner Limestone (Cornerstone) Quarry mineral tenure, production and geology, sections 33, 73, 75, Hd Parcoola, Co. Young.
Cornerstone quarry, 180 km NE of Adelaide, was excavated in Miocene Morgan Limestone in the northern bank of the Murray River for building stone to construct the Overland Corner Hotel in 1858. From 1945 to 1958, 6 000 tonnes of ashlars were produced...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1987
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RB 84/00053 Petrographic description of ten samples from mound springs of the Great Artesian Basin.
Detailed description of mound spring tufa, formed by nucleation of calcium carbonate upon gastropod shells, reeds, sand grains and opaque minerals.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 80/00044 Limestone and dolomite deposits, Port Wakefield area. Report no. 1 - Review and reconnaissance sampling, Hundred of Kulpara - Electricity Trust of SA.
The Electricity Trust of South Australia requires a source of high grade limestone or dolomite to be used in the planned industrial firing process for brown coal from the Wakefield coal deposit. A SADME survey of available literature, supplemented by...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1980
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RB 93/00017 Physical properties of South Australian building stones.
A program of testing of physical properties of South Australian building stones has been carried out on 30 samples representing: - Seven granite samples from four localities - One marble sample - Thirteen slate and flagstone samples from nine...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1993
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RB 98/00025 Hydrochemistry of groundwaters in the South Australian-Victorian Designated Area - Groundwater Border Agreement Act.
Hydrochemical data from a total of 165 bores along the 40 kilometre wide strip of the South Australian - Victorian Border Designated Area were used to provide a spatial, and temporal, hydrochemical framework of the groundwaters from the three main...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1998
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RB 90/00007 Industrial minerals in South Australia. Current operations and future trends.
Established producers have taken advantage of export opportunities for gypsum, salt and dolomite. New developments include a graphite processing plant at the former Uley Graphite Mine and trial mining of micaceous iron oxide for pigments. Proposals...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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RB 90/00044 Petrography and chemistry of three rocks selected as geochemical standards.
A trachyandesite from the Gawler Range Volcanics at Buckleboo and an alkali basalt from the main quarry at Mount Schank are suitable for Departmental geochemical standards. A sample from an outcrop of Heatherdale Shale at Carrickalinga Head is a...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1990
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Koonunga limestone prospect (near Nuriootpa). Final technical and rehabilitation report on exploration drilling, for the period 6/6/2005 to 5/4/2006.
The Koonunga limestone prospect occurs within the Cambrian Kapunda Marble, which forms part of the Kanmantoo Trough metasedimentary sequence deposited on the eastern side of the Adelaide Geosyncline. The limestone outcrop of interest is located...-
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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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Natural building stones of South Australia. Progress reports 1 to 14 for the period July 1975 to September 1989.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Mount Deception (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 14/10/1999 to 27/4/2017.
The surrendered two remnant portions EL 5725 Mount Deception formerly were part of a much larger multi-tenement package which is currently still being explored by Perilya, primarily looking for economic stratabound zinc silicate mineralisation similar...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1917
