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RB 84/00102 Silica sand deposits near Lake Alexandrina.
4 Quaternary silica sand deposits were assessed by 47 auger holes. The deposits comprise backshore dunes marginal to the lake and are a potential source of replenishment sand for metropolitan beaches. Only 1 deposit is mined at present, Nalpa no. 1...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1984
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RB 78/00154 Stuart Creek agate deposit.
Agate or banded chert nodules weather out of the Cambrian Andamooka Limestone over an area of several square kilometres south of the Stuart Creek Opal field. In places the agate nodules are concentrated into extensive deflation lag gravels. Banding is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 87/00119 Dudley pegmatite - Preliminary investigation for kaolin, feldspar, silica and gem tourmaline (section 79, Hundred Dudley).
The Dudley pegmatite, located 10.5 km south-east of Penneshaw, was worked during the 1890s and early 1900s for gem tourmaline, ceramic-grade feldspar and silica, and kaolin for brickmaking. The pegmatite outcrop strikes in a north-easterly direction...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1987
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RB 90/00007 Industrial minerals in South Australia. Current operations and future trends.
Established producers have taken advantage of export opportunities for gypsum, salt and dolomite. New developments include a graphite processing plant at the former Uley Graphite Mine and trial mining of micaceous iron oxide for pigments. Proposals...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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Woomera and Wirrappa. Annual reports and first joint annual report, plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 14/1/2013 to 13/11/2018.
Two adjacent areas located immediately south and east of Woomera township were taken up to search for possible buried economic stratabound deposits of copper or other metals that may have formed in the Neoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic cover sequence...-
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Published: 07 Jan 1919
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Cooltong. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/8/2016 to 3/8/2020.
A very small area centred ~10 km west of Renmark, and adjacent to the River Murray, has been explored for possible extensions to a recently discovered occurrence of high purity (>90% SiO2) semi-consolidated quartz sand that was found in September...-
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Published: 08 Oct 1920
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Antechamber Bay. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/11/1986 to 26/11/1989.
TARGET: Evaluation of the gemstone tourmaline and kaolin clay potential of the Dudley Pegmatite on Kangaroo Island. It is believed that this known occurrence of coloured tourmaline is one of only two locations in Australia which have produced...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Bull 013 Pigment Minerals in South Australia
During the past twenty years attention has been directed to the natural resources of the State in pigment materials, and a considerable body of information, based 011 official reports, has been accumulated, which is now collected into this Bulletin,...-
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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 2020/00001 Mintabie opal resource evaluation: current value of opal resources and projected value of undiscovered resources (second edition, 2020).
The Mintabie Precious Stones Field (MPSF) has, since the early 1920s, produced some of the finest quality opal in the world. This report provides a review for understanding the remaining opal resources likely to exist there. A detailed spatial...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2020
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Mount Crawford [clay deposits]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/3/1970 to 31/8/1970.
Further evaluation of the development potential and marketability of white clay deposits found in the Mount Crawford area, that contain around 12 million tonnes of quartz-kaolin material, has been conducted by a new interested party, Springton Clays,...-
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/157 : production of an [advisory] manual re. laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks. Final report for the period February 1974 to December 1974.
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Mount Crawford clay deposit, South Australia, SML 174. [Development] Feasibility study.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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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
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RB 2008/00016 Review of the Burra Mine Project, 1980-2008 - a progress report.
The Burra (Burra) Mine, situated 150 km north of Adelaide within the Adelaide Geosyncline, produced 2.7 million tonnes of copper ore in two major mining phases - 1845-1877 and 1970-1981. The first phase was initially progressed by underground...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2009
