TARGET: Heavy mineral sands in the Ooldea Range. EXPLORATION: Stream sediment sampling and RC drilling traverses (55 holes totalling 864 m). RESULTS: Low grade heavy mineral values were recorded in several drill holes.

TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey during November...

Diamond exploration over an area located approximately 35 km south-east of Yunta was undertaken to assess an interpreted structural environment that may be similar to one existing nearby to the west close to Terowie, in which shallowly buried,...

Investigates thermodynamics of cyclic process for separating ferric oxide and titanium dioxide by selective chlorination, after oxidation of ilmenite. Major engineering problems for operation on industrial scale.

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,...

Potential of fluidized bed entrained state heater system is limited. Process not economic at current titanium prices and technical difficulties remain.

A process for extracting titanium dioxide from ilmenite by chlorination is described. Fluidising characteristics of ilmenites from various sources have been determined experimentally. A small fluid bed reactor, constructed for investigation described....

Particle size classification, followed by magnetic separation and flotation, respectively extracted 14% and 44% of the TiO2 content of leach residues of Radium Hill ore concentrates sampled from the Port Pirie uranium treatment plant.

The cyclic chlorination process for conversion of rutile produced from beach sand, and of ilmenite, into titanium tetrachloride, has potential for commercial production. Further testing work is recommended.

Experiments were carried out which measured the rates at which chlorine reacts with oxidized ilmenite contained in, and also the rates of heat transfer to, a chlorination reactor set up for extracting titanium dioxide from ilmenite - bearing beach...

A three-stage process has been proposed for producing ferric oxide and titanium dioxide as seperate products from ilmenite. Thermodynamic data avaliable from the literature were insufficient for assessment of the process. This report is an account of...

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Heavy mineral sands are mined at Morrison Beach for their rutile and zircon content, with ilmenite and staurolite recovered as by-products. There appears to have been only one main period of heavy mineral deposition, which occurred during a high...

The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...

A portion of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee is being explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HM) accumulations. Two separate...

A portion of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee is being explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HM) accumulations. Two adjacent...

An area centred ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for buried mineral sands placer deposits that may have formed within the Cainozoic Murray Basin sedimentary cover, as well as for possible economic stratabound iron ore occurrences that...

Two separate licence portions together totalling 270 square km or ~33.5% of the former area of EL 4052 have been partially relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential to contain shallow Tertiary heavy mineral sands occurrences. Licensee...

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In a search for possible economic heavy mineral - bearing buried Tertiary beach sand deposits, similar to the recent Golden Grove discovery made in Eocene fluviatile sediments of an adjacent sub-basin, 20 vertical percussion stratigraphic drillholes...