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University student thesis : Detailed geological investigation of the Burra open pit, Burra, SA.
Detailed geological and structural mapping of Samin's partly excavated new Burra open cut was performed by the author at a scale of 1:480 during the period December 1972 to end of January 1973. By the latter date the pit had been excavated downwards a...-
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RB 37/00091 Clay deposits at Simmonston.
An occurrence of plastic clay exposed in a creek valley located approximately 14 miles east of Wilmington has been inspected and bulk sampled to provide material for laboratory testing of its possible utility to industry. 4 bulk samples were...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1954
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RB 37/00094 Report of examination of clay deposits on Oulnina Station, (near) Manna Hill.
Two small deposits of white to pale-coloured claystone, discovered in creek banks located respectively 10.5 and 12 miles south of Manna Hill township, were inspected for the local station owners. It was found that the beds of clean claystone are very...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1954
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RB 38/00016 Report on a geological survey of the ) Prairie barite mine, Hundred of Talunga.
An occurrence of barite mineralisation located in the eastern valley wall of the River Torrens gorge, 16 miles east-northeast of Adelaide, which lies on freehold property and has been privately mined in the past, was inspected in order to gauge its...-
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Published: 28 Jul 1954
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RB 53/00013 Investigation into raw materials for the manufacture of roofing tiles in South Australia.
Raw materials used in the manufacture of Marseille pattern roofing tiles have been exhaustively examined and an optimum blend suggested. The extrusion moisture content range suitable for repressing tiles has been found to be somewhat limited, namely...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1960
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RB 55/00025 Lightweight aggregate. Laboratory testing of clays and shales.
Results are reported of laboratory firing tests made on 11 shale samples and 4 clay samples, performed in both oxidising and reducing furnace atmospheres for various length heating periods over an extensive fusion temperature range. The bloating...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1962
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RB 52/00157 Reconnaissance sampling, Lightweight Aggregate Project.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 58/00119 Report on reconnaissance sampling, seliceous materials, Klein Point area - Adelaide Cement Company Ltd.
At the request of the Adelaide Cement Company Limited prospecting for argillacious sediment suitable as a raw material for cement manufacture was carried out from 18th to 21st February in the vicinity of the company's limestone quarry at Klein Point,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 58/00148 Report on test firing of shale for lightweight aggregate, section 1056 Hd Adelaide - J.H. Leverington.
Following a request from Mr J.H. Leverington, samples of argillaceous rocks were collected from Greenhill Quarries, Burnside, Section 1056, Hundred of Adelaide, on 13th February 1964. The samples were submitted to the Australian Mineral Development...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 57/00100;Amdel 00297 Lightweight aggregate rotary kiln tests.
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Published: 01 Nov 1963
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RB 79/00132 Dolomite aggregate deposit, Crystal Brook, secn 736 Hd Crystal Brook - Highways Department.
Two deposits comprising gently dipping dolomitic sediments of the Skillogalee Dolomite were located during reconnaissance for construction materials for the Crystal Brook bypass. The southern deposit, 4 km northeast of Crystal Brook, was subsequently...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 83/00055 Lobethal shale pit geological investigations and auger drilling 1983. Secn 135, Hd Talunga.
Weathered shale within the Adelaidean Stonyfell Quartzite has produced in excess of 80 000 tonnes for brick manufacture from 1958 to 1978. Auger drilling of 7 holes (52 metres) and mapping, indicate reserves of 180 000 tonnes of weathered shale.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 83/00090 Low alkali shale investigation Rapid Bay - Delamere area. Results of auger drilling 1983 - Adelaide Brighton Cement Ltd.
Reconnaissance clay sampling and 30 holes have outlined areas of weathered silty shale and greywacke suitable for use in the manufacture of low alkali cement clinker.-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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RB 83/00028 Comments on the petrography of forty two thin sections of samples from the Burra copper mine, SA.
42 rock specimens collected from the open cut at Burra were examined in order to comment on a report received from a consulting organisation. Despite a high degree of alteration evident in the samples, it was possible to distinguish microscopically,...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1983
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RB 78/00056 St Agnes sand, clay and shale deposit PM 68 - Christies Sands Pty Ltd.
Quarry is being considered as potential waste disposal site. Indicated reserves of 1.1 million tonnes of sand and 117 000 tonnes of white semi plastic shale and clay overlie 3.86 million tonnes of brick shale.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 81/00061 Test drilling clay deposit Hancock Road - Golden Grove section 2146, Hundred Yatala, County Adelaide.
51 holes were drilled to assess weathered shale and plastic clay reserves. Tertiary plastic clay and clayey sand overlie red firing weathered Adelaidean shale, and extends eastwards under Hancock Road into Clay and Mineral Sales pit (formerly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 79/00098 Steetley's barite deposit - Linkes Lode, Flinders Ranges, ML 3414, Out of Hundreds, County Taunton.
Since 1962, recorded production from Steetley's barite deposit, which forms part of Linke's lode, has totalled 6,237 tonnes. The deposit is in a Class B Environmental Area within the Flinders Ranges National Park. The steep barite lode has formed in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 89/00076 Mount Barker Golf Club water well testing.
Competing groundwater use is a problem in the vicinity of the Mount Barker Golf Club grounds, which has been recognized by the parties involved and government since late 1985. A well monitoring network for both water level and salinity was set up and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1989
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PACE 2020 Discovery Drilling 2012 : Year 7 Drilling Partnership no. DPY7-21 - Uranium Equities Limited, Marla Project, Proterozoic basement magnetic and gravity anomaly IOCGU targets. Drilling project final report.
Uranium Equities, the licensee parent and operator of the seven Marla Project tenements, is exploring them with the aim of discovering economic iron oxide - associated copper–gold±uranium (IOCGU) deposits, that it considers may have given rise to a...-
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Data release - as updated : Sunset Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 24/11/2008 to 13/4/2017.
An area taken up to comprise the middle member of a block of three tenements located in the Myall Creek region ~ 30 km west-southwest of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic buried stratabound copper sulphide mineralisation as well as...-
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Published: 23 May 1917
