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Lake Greenly area [Mount Hope kaolin deposit]. Progress and final reports to licence renewal for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/9/1974.
Appraisal of a newly discovered large deposit of kaolin, found in the near surface regolith to Archaean basement on two farms situated 7 km south of Mount Hope on southern Eyre Peninsula, has consisted of further air/rotary drilling (35 holes, total...-
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RB 60/00055 Auger boring of Hackham clay deposit.
Near horizontally bedded Upper Eocene sediments comprising Blanche Point Marls, Tortachilla Limestone and South Maslin Sands, have been test bored at Hackham in the Noarlunga Basin, in the search for a bentonite - type clay deposit which might provide...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1965
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RB 84/00065 Draft report, Williamstown industrial mineral deposits. Geology of kaolin sillimanite muscovite deposits, near Williamstown, Hd Barossa, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Aust.
This report presents a comprehensive summary of the results of considerable geological, survey and beneficiation work which has been carried out at four mines. The mined deposits have been formed in Burra Group schists and gneisses that constitute the...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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Giddi Giddinna Creek. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/lapse of tenure, for the period 16/6/1983 to 23/9/1987.
In early 1983, mineral prospector Peter Tayler discovered a near-surface secondary occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a creek-bank exposure of Mesozoic shales, deposited at the base of the Lower Cretaceous Bulldog Shale near the western...-
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Published: 23 Jun 1987
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Garford Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 12/4/1983 to 11/4/1984.
After a regional review of the absorbent clay mineral potential of known palygorskite and attapulgite - bearing Middle Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in an area centred 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, a possibly economic partly-exposed attapulgite...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1984
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Mount Sturt clay deposit. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/10/1971 to 20/10/1972.
A large tonnage (~10-50 Mt), easily mined deposit of white kaolin found by the landowner on a property at Mount Sturt has been partly evaluated by auger drilling 44 shallow holes totalling 707 feet, to obtain samples for materials testing and to...-
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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 2007/00022 [South Australian earth] resources production [statistics] for the 6 month [period] ended [30] June 2007.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2007, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2007
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RB 2012/00011 South Australian mineral resources production statistics for the six month [period] ended 31st December 2011.
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Published: 01 May 2012
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RB 2010/00009 [South Australian mineral] resources production statistics for the 6 month [period] ended 31 December 2009.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 31 December 2009, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 07 May 2010
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RB 2009/00021 [South Australian] mineral resources production statistics for the 6 month [period] ended 30 June 2009.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2009, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 03 Nov 2009
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Marree. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1977 to 10/2/1979.
Exploration conducted over an area stretching westwards and eastwards from Marree, along the south-western margin of the Great Artesian Basin, addressed the potential for possible economic sedimentary deposits of trona, sodium bentonite, chlorite,...-
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Curdimurka. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/4/1979.
An area located along the Marree - Alice Springs Railway in the region of Curdimurka was selected to be explored on the basis of its potential to contain deposits of bedded trona in closed basins, and to have sodium carbonate brines present in near...-
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Mount Crawford. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 29/1/1970 to 28/1/1971.
61 shallow exploratory drillholes were completed in two of nine areas within the lease where it was considered that drilling might uncover additional shallowly buried resources of good quality kaolin. Nine of these holes encountered useable kaolin.-
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1998 Mount Painter area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by PIRSA during July 2012 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Mount Painter region of SA on 28/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.5 m x 4.5 m, within a surveyed area of...-
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2008 Uno [Range] area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by Mega Hindmarsh during April-May 2008 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Uno Range - Lake Gilles North area of SA on 16/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.7 m x 4.7 m,...-
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Poondana Rock. Progress reports for the period 11/12/1974 to 10/6/1976.
Seven core holes were drilled for a total penetration of 90 m, to test the Mount Sturt kaolin occurrence. Composite drill core samples were analysed to determine the clay's suitability for paper coating.-
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Published: 04 Apr 1976
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Poondana Rock. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/5/1973 to 22/11/1974.
Reports present drilling logs and laboratory testing analytical data for clay samples taken from the occurrences near Mount Sturt, aimed at finding material of commercial paper coating grade in economic quantities. No firm conclusions have been...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1974
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Review of exploration in the Caralue Bluff area, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, for the period 1/11/1970 to 31/10/1972.
As part of a larger ongoing exploration programme occurring in adjoining SMLs across central Eyre Peninsula, the SML 645 licensee carried out reconnaisance groundwater sampling and analysis, airborne radiometric surveying, studies of existing drill...-
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Geological report on the Birdwood clay and silica quarry.
Burra Group metasedimentary argillite and quartzite beds outcropping 3 km north of Birdwood, which have been altered during a Tertiary deep weathering event, are excavated by the licensee to produce refractory and other industrial raw materials....-
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Published: 20 Oct 1975
