Exploration for possible economic fluorite deposits in an area south-west of Wilpena Pound consisted only of a rapid geochemical rock chip sampling programme. No encouraging results were obtained, so the ground was surrendered.

High grade fluorite outcrops as a vein averaging 2-3 feet wide for a distance of 40 feet. This deposit would yield approximately 10 tons of fluorite per vertical foot of depth, of a quality suitable for use in the steel industry as a flux, or for...

Mr M. Von Berg, the holder of Mineral Claim No 1969, has applied for Departmental assistance to work the deposit of fluorite occurring on his claim. He asks that mining equipment be made available at concessional rates of hire, and that financial...

The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...

Known occurrences of fluorite have been examined for a source of low grade fluorite - quartz ore for chemical manufacture at Port Adelaide. No suitable deposits were found. Further enquiries of a possible source from the Broken Hill Lodes is suggested.

A request was made by Mr. Armstrong of the Mining Branch to inspect the workings and inquire about the future mining plans of Mr. Vom Berg, on mineral claim number 1969 registered 11th June 1955.

Marla 1A and 1B reached 215.30 metres and 379.40 metres respectively, penetrating aeolian sands overlying the Bulldog Shale, Cadna-owie Formation an d Observatory Hill Beds. In contrast to Byilkaoora 1, oil shows and calcite pseudomorphs after...

For a project to determine the base metal potential of known copper-mineralised igneous rocks which outcrop in an area located approximately 59 km south-west of Olary, the South Australian Government has completed detailed mapping, geochemical...

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A feasibility study was undertaken for producing hydrofluoric acid from fluorite - bearing ores and the exhaust gases of phosphate fertiliser plants, this acid to then be used in the production of uranium hexafluoride as a feed material for a future...

South Australia has been a traditional source of non metallic minerals. Those minerals currently being mined that offer scope for expansion is – Barite – In pigments, drilling muds, the manufacture of barium chemicals and for medical purposes...

Geological data indicates deposits have similar Cu - U mineralization. The Mount Painter deposits occur in Radium Ridge Beds of Sturtian age unconformably overlying Radium Creek Metamorphics and underlying Mount Gee Beds. Recent work suggests these...

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South Australia has been proposed as a possible location for a uranium enrichment plant. The process considered most attractive for enrichment is the centrifuge process, which uses uranium hexafluoride, UF, as a feed material. Existing technology...

A detailed description and interpretation of the carbonate lithologies present in drill cores recovered from two recently completed SADME stratigraphic wells have revealed that the Observatory Hill Beds in the Marla area were deposited in a shallow...

Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...

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The Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics - Hiltaba Granite Suite - related Olympic Dam style Cu-U-Au mineralisation, and Menninnie Dam replacement style Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation, have served to raise the prospectivity of rocks in and underlying the...

Continued investigation of a probable porphyry - type complex tin and base metal occurrence in the Prospect Hill area, at the far northern end of the Mount Babbage Inlier, has involved additional drilling and structural/petrogenetic studies of outcrop...

Continued evaluation of possible economic primary tin oxide mineralisation in the Prospect Hill area, 20 km north-west of Moolawatana Homestead, concentrated on infill channel geochemical sampling and mineragraphic/petrogenetic sampling of costeans...