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...

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...

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...

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...

City Bricks Ltd. have requested a geological examination of a shale deposit on Section 961, Hundred of Adelaide, with a view to using the material for the manufacture of bricks at the Company's Works at Glen Osmond. The Company at present has a two...

The Auditor General requested urgent assistance for City Bricks Ltd in connection with a potential brick clay deposit near Crafers, over which the company had an option to purchase. Verbal permission to anticipate the authority to do this work was...

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City Bricks Limited have opened up a new quarry at Crafers to supply shale for its brick-making plant. Its old quarry at Glen Osmond has been closed. As is quite usual in new undertakings of this nature there are difficulties in connection with the...

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...

Considerable reserves of flagstone from the Mintaro Shale horizon and similar to the stone quarried near Mintaro township are available in the property examined. Depth of soil overburden and the presence of sandstone layers in the shale need to be...

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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A previously worked dolomitic shale deposit near Yongala was investigated with a view to extending the existing quarry. Geological and topographical surveys, and the completion of one diamond drill hole 58m deep, indicate that the quarry cannot be...

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,...

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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In company with Mr. John Roetman an inspection was made of part section 80, Hundred Willunga on 2nd June, 1965. Samples of weathered shale which are exposed in a gully tributary to the River Onkaparinga immediately south of the township of Noarlunga...

Following geological mapping by C.J.R. Kingsbury (1954) and purchase of the property by the company (1955), 9 diamond drill holes proposed by the writer have indicated 4,000,000+ tons of Shale, suitable physically for cement manufacture.