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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 60/00037 Geology of the Clare 1-mile military sheet.
The Clare 1-mile mapsheet area is situated about 70 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia, in partly hilly agricultural and pastoral country. The oldest Adelaide System (Proterozoic) rocks are the phyllites, quartzites and dolomites of the River...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1965
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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 77/00084;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 98/00014 Clare Drilling. Phase 2 - June 1997.
Phase Two of a drilling program at Clare, South Australia was undertaken in June, 1997. A total of 6 bores were drilled, 4 of these at existing locations established during Phase One drilling in January, 1996, and a further 2 at Watervale Oval as...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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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
