Two parts comprising 50% of a licence located 130 km north of Fowlers Bay and immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway, in the vicinity of Barton Siding, have been relinquished due to their perceived diminished potential for finding economic...

Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...

Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...

During Year 7 of the project, Goldfields did no more field work, but undertook office-based analyses of bedrock geochemical and geological data obtained in its 2012 aircore drilling campaign. Image processing and interpretation of the Canegrass...

A further ~24.3% of a licence located 130 km north of Fowlers Bay and immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway, in the vicinity of Barton Siding, has been relinquished due to its perceived diminished potential for finding economic deposits of...

Investigations of the likely diamond potential of a part of the central Eyre Peninsula were conducted under a farm-in joint venture agreement which was in place for about fifteen months. Work comprised the collection of six drill cuttings bulk...

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...

As part of continuing diamond exploration on the subject five licences, more of the first pass sampling program was completed by Flinders Diamonds in August 2006 via aircore drilling of 47 vertical holes for an aggregate 1852 m aimed at penetrating to...