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Beneficiation of monazite ore.
Beneficiation of a bulk sample of monazite ore taken from Monazite Hill, from an orebody containing in excess of 5 million tons of ore with a monazite content of 5-6%, yielded poor results.-
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RB 38/00052 Report on an inspection of monazite occurrence, Section 60, Hundred of Myponga.
A second occurrence of outcropping monazite on the northern side of Myponga Hill, which is situated about 2 miles south of Myponga township, was inspected and advice given to a prospector concerning how best to further develop the existing small-scale...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1954
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RB 41/00134 Mineral investigations in the Mount Painter region. Progress report.
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Published: 06 Jan 1956
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Data release - as updated : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2008 to 11/11/2018.
Reedy Lagoon Corp. (RLC) has continued to look for minerals other than diamond, operating as the manager of exploration work for base metals (mainly copper) and uranium that was undertaken by the Edward Creek Base Metal Joint Venture (“ECBMJV”) during...-
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Mt Craig Critical Minerals Project. Final report, Project ADI RD03-411 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 3, 2022]. Morgan Creek Prospect Drilling and Geophysics Programs, April 2023.
This ADI funded programme consisted of exploration drilling, geophysics programs and aboriginal employment relating to critical mineral exploration conducted over the Mt Craig Project in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. ADI funded activities...-
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Freeling Heights (part of Gunsight Project). Progress and partial surrender reports for the period 7/1/1983 to 6/1/1984.
Evaluation of previous investigations, and geochemical sampling of an Ordovician granite intrusion in the Valley Bore area, particularly for pegmatitic tin-tantalum mineralization, has located only low order anomalous values. Some restricted...-
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Victory Downs. Progress and final reports for the period 10/6/1968 to 9/6/1970.
Government-prompted company exploration for orthite and related rare earth and other minerals in an area of the eastern Musgrave Ranges included an aerial inspection of quartz pegmatites, plus ground studies and sampling. Geochemical and detrital...-
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Granite Downs. Progress and final reports for the period 28/8/1969 to 22/10/1970.
Field reconnaissance and assessment of surface mineralisation, regional geological mapping and geochemical sampling, detailed ground magnetic and radiometric surveying, and shallow vertical percussion drilling (5 holes, total 491 feet) were carried...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1970
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Kalkaroo and Benagerie. Final report on an investigation of rare earth element mineralisation in the Benagerie Dome, Project ADI RD01-105 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 1, 2021].
The primary objective of the subject successful Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) project proposal has been to determine the nature, extent and economic potential of rare earth elements (REE) mineralisation in the Benagerie Ridge portion of the...-
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Mount Gee. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/5/1990 to 10/12/1993.
Exploration for uranium and associated copper, gold and rare earth elements undertaken in the Mount Painter area comprised the acquisition of a helicopter-borne magnetic and radiometric survey during July 1990, plus the conduct of a stream sediment...-
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Mount Effie. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/8/1977 to 15/8/1979.
Exploration for possible Precambrian hydrothermal vein-style or unconformity type uranium deposits, and for any other economic metalliferous minerals, was carried out over several small inliers of Palaeoproterozoic rocks that crop out poorly through...-
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Kalabity - Old Boolcoomata area [= Olary 'A' Farmin Block]. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 14/1/1971 to 13/1/1972.
As part of exploration for economic metallic mineral deposits within an area of partly outcropping Precambrian calcsilicate rocks present on Kalabity Station, a field reconnaissance of all known mineralised areas was carried out initially. The...-
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RB 00107 Absite, a new mineral related to brannerite.
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Published: 01 Jan 1952
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RB 68/00026 Sedimentary phosphate exploration, Summary Report, Part 1, the Cambrian of the Flinders Ranges.
No sedimentary phosphorate has been found in commercial quantities in outcropping Cambrian rocks of the Flinders Ranges. Two types of minor occurrences were defined: - 1.Those in ferruginous glauconitic limestone (consisting of pelletal apatite)....-
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Published: 03 Apr 1969
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Mount Norwest (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2013.
A search primarily directed at assessing the stratiform copper and magnesite potential of an area centred 50 km south-west of Marree has consisted mainly of office studies comprising the collection and review of open file geoscientific data. Early in...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Andamooka (part of the Stuart Shelf Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 2/5/1977 to 10/8/1979.
At the commencement of the term of the subject licence, exploratory/appraisal diamond drilling using a single rig was continued on the Olympic Dam gravity anomaly by the licensee for gathering more geological information to use to try to understand...-
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Mount Norwest (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). First partial surrender report for the period 19/6/2014 to 18/6/2016.
61% of a subsequent licence area located in the southern Willouran Ranges has been surrendered due to its perceived diminished prospectivity for buried economic Neoproterozoic stratiform copper mineralisation and inferred MVT, replacement or...-
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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North Well Creek area. Quarterly progress reports and final report for the period 7/3/90 to 6/3/94.
Exploration, initially looking for rare metal elements within beryl, tantalite and ilmenorutile suite mineral occurrences, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric breccia structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village...-
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Krystal (part of Edward Creek Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 14/2/2002 to 13/2/2005.
Diamond exploration carried out within an area lying to the south-southwest of the Peake and Denison Ranges has aimed to find potential kimberlite sources for nine diamonds, previously recovered by De Beers from surface bulk samples, that were...-
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