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RB 38/00053 Report on an inspection of an asbestos deposit located on Mount Lyndhurst Station.
A minor outcropping occurrence of blue-grey ?tremolite asbestos found in a fault crush zone located near the head of Mount Lyndhurst Creek was visited to assess its economic viability. Because of the largely narrow and unpredictable development of the...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1954
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RB 41/00112 Investigation of asbestos deposits in the Robertstown and Truro districts.
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 57/00014 Report on visit to Western Australian iron and manganese deposits in May 1963.
A comparison of known iron deposits in Western Australia and South Australia suggests that large, high grade iron orebodies occur in flatly dipping favourable horizons which have a leached and oxidised appearance: siliceous, steeply dipping iron...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1963
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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 43/00078 Robertstown asbestos, preparation of a marketable product.
A low grade sample of asbestos bearing material from the Robertstown district was treated by wet classification and flotation to yield asbestos for industrial tests. The product appears to be suitable for heat insulation and as a paint filler. An...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 47/00067 Robertstown crocidolite. Report of diamond drilling results at the Blue Hole deposit.
Three diamond drillholes recently completed at the Blue Hole crocidolite deposits, located 3 miles north-west of Robertstown, indicate the limited nature of the mineralisation. Boring proved that the asbestos-bearing biotite-albite-hornblende veins...-
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Published: 03 Sep 1958
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RB 47/00021 Robertstown asbestos - Preparation of a marketable product, examination of drill core.
A sample of low grade asbestos-bearing material from the Robertstown district was treated by flotation, and hydraulic classification. The results were not encouraging and no further work is warranted on this sample.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Verran and Malbrom (the Verran Project, then the Arno Graphite Project). Joint annual reports plus annual report, for the period 29/1/2014 to 28/1/2019.
Two licence areas together covering the hinterland to Arno Bay and Port Gibbon on eastern Eyre Peninsula, and extending as far north-westwards as Rudall, are being explored for economic buried graphite deposits that may have formed in deformed high...-
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Bull 037 Geology and Mineral Resources of Southern Eyre Peninsula
A regional geological survey covered 15 standard 1-mile map sheets. Detailed mapping established a 50 000 ft sequence of Archaean sedimentation of gneissose, schistose and granitoid rocks, migmatite, quartzite, dolomite and haematitic quartzite. These...-
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Burra - Chinaman Hat Hill area. First partial surrender report, for the period 17/5/1979 to 16/5/1980.
The target was possible diamonds, with base metals and coal as secondary interests. Initially, a 1:25,000 scale colour aerial photographic survey was flown across part of the now relinquished licence area, to assist BHP in mapping geomorphic and...-
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RB 00656 Recovery of asbestos from mill tailings. First report.
A request dated 19th January, 1959, was received from Australian Blue Asbestos Limited, Wittenoom Gorge, Western Australia, initiating an investigation for recovering the asbestos fibre not being recovered by the existing treatment methods. The...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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RB 68/00054 Mineral resources extractive industries potential of the Mid-North of South Australia - State Planning Office.
To assist the State Planning Office "examine and assess the future development of a defined area in the Mid-North of the State in anticipation of the area being declared a planning area under the provisions of the Planning and Development Act,...-
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Published: 22 Apr 1969
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RB 61/00083 Serpentinized marble deposit, near Cowell - H.A. Schiller.
An inspection of a deposit of marble located on Part Section 116 (formerly Section 2C) Hundred of Minbrie, County of Jervois, about 12 miles due north of Cowell and four miles west of the main highway to Port Lincoln, was made on the 5th August, 1965...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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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 2006/00002 Identification of fibrous mineral from Rowland Flat area, Barossa Valley, South Australia
Identification of a fibrous mineral, two samples of which were retrieved from a small open pit at abandoned mine workings located 2.5 km west of Rowland Flat in the Barossa Valley, on the bank of the North Para River, was made using X-ray diffraction...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2006
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SADME/Amdel Project no. 1/1/271 - Petrology and geochemistry of the Burra copper mine. Progress reports for the period November 1981 to March 1982.
157 rock samples taken from the Samin Ltd open cut copper mine at Burra were investigated by Amdel to determine their metallic elemental content, and petrological and mineragraphic features that might be diagnostic of rock and mineral genesis. Host...-
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Published: 31 Mar 1982
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SML 270 Peake and Denison Ranges. Six monthly report to 19/2/1971.
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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The Needles - Sitting Bull area [portion of Arkaroola Station]. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1969.
Numerous small, occasionally high grade occurrences of talc and asbestiform amphibole minerals, barite, vermiculite and sodic feldspar were discovered by prospecting across a wide, often rugged hilly area lying to the north-west of Arkaroola...-
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