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South Australian Magnesium Metal Project.
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RB 77/00105 Carpa graphite deposit.
Near Carpa, on eastern Eyre Peninsula, a quartz graphite schist within metasediments of the Cleve Metamorphics of Lower Proterozoic age, is a potential source of graphite dust. Preliminary evaluation in 1974 was followed by auger drilling by the...-
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Nelshaby. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2005.
Bedded deposits of magnesite known to exist within the southern Flinders Ranges, where they outcrop over a considerable strike distance extent in the country approximately 20 km east of Port Pirie, were identified by Magnesium Developments Limited...-
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Nelshaby. First partial relinquishment report, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2003.
Magnesite beds formed within the Late Proterozoic Skillogalee Dolomite were the targets of exploration in the southern Flinders Ranges, 15 km east of Port Pirie. Field mapping and sampling, together with the acquisition and image processing of an...-
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Mineralogical data on SAMAG magnesite project - targeted deposits in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
Outcrop and drill core samples of magnesite-rich strata obtained from the Myrtle Springs and Witchelina deposits were examined petrographically to characterise the mode of occurrence and sedimentary history of the contained magnesitic material. A...-
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Published: 04 Aug 1999
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Willouran Ranges (part of the SAMAG Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/1998 to 18/11/2003.
Known magnesite beds existing within the Adelaidean Skillogalee Dolomite in the far north-western Flinders Ranges, and extending into the Willouran Ranges over a strike distance of 120 km heading north-westwards from Leigh Creek South township, have...-
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Mount Fitton Talc Province. Progress, annual and miscellaneous technical summary reports for the period 16/2/79 to 24/11/96.
Talc has been mined at Mount Fitton in the northern Flinders Ranges on a continuous basis since 1945, for industrial use in the manufacture of cosmetics, ceramics and refractory ware. From 1979 to 1996, under authority of a series of Exploration...-
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Germein Gorge. Annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 17/5/2002 to 16/5/2004.
Known magnesite beds within the Adelaidean Skillogalee Dolomite were the targets of exploration in the southern Flinders Ranges, 20 km north-east of Port Pirie, to determine their viability for mining as potential feedstock for a planned magnesium...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Bend Hut. Annual reports for the period 2/5/2011 to 1/5/2019.
A known, undeveloped stratabound Neoproterozoic magnesite deposit at Witchelina, for which resources and reserves have historically been defined, has been taken up afresh in anticipation that a beneficiation procedure can be developed that will result...-
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Published: 05 May 1919
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Yadlakina Hut. Annual reports for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2018.
An area of outcropping magnesite-bearing metasediments extending from 10 km west of to 55 km north-west of Leigh Creek township is being explored to re-assess its commercial potential for magnesia and magnesium metal production, following other...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1918
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Alberrie Creek (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/7/2012 to 22/11/2019.
An area centred ~55 km west of Marree has been explored for possible buried economic stratiform copper and magnesite mineralisation. During the first licence year, no work occurred while Native Title land access negotiations were in progress. During...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1919
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Eucla Basin Stratigraphic Drilling Project. Well sample test reports.
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RB 00659A [Review of] Nickel exploration [potential] on Special Mining Lease 33, Tomkinson Ranges.
This report reviews the available information on the region, and presents a preliminary appraisal of the data supplied by South-western Mining Co. Ltd. Current field and laboratory information has also been included. New geological and geochemical...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1961
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Bull 054 Geology of South Australia. Volume 1: The Precambrian.
The geology of South Australia represents over 150 years of geological investigations in South Australia. It is designed to provide the reader with a comprehensive regional account of the products of sedimentation, deformation, metamorphism and...-
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RB 65/00080 Amdel 00556 Mount Davies nickel deposits.
Low grade, nickel bearing, weathered ultrabasic rocks that form a part of the Giles Complex in the North-West Province of South Australia were first discovered by a SA Mines Department field party in 1953. Since their discovery the weathered rocks,...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1967
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RB 72/00152 Recent stromatolites from hydromagnesite and aragonite depositing, lakes near the Coorong Lagoon, South Australia.
Three forms of stromatolites mineralogically composed of hydromagnesite and aragonite occur in two ephemeral lakes near the Coorong Lagoon. None occur in the Lagoon or other lakes. The three forms are stratiform, globular and crenulate. Each is built...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Salt Creek, Lochaber, Lake Hawdon, Kingston South-East and Kongorong. Joint annual reports for the period 19/11/1996 to 21/10/2018.
A number of shallow Neogene salt lakes, that extend in chain-like fashion along the length of the inner Coorong and its hinterland as far south as Lacepede Bay, have been investigated for possible economic evaporitic mineral deposits that may have...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1918
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Mount Norwest (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2013.
A search primarily directed at assessing the stratiform copper and magnesite potential of an area centred 50 km south-west of Marree has consisted mainly of office studies comprising the collection and review of open file geoscientific data. Early in...-
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Collaby Hill. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/1/2011 to 6/1/2014.
An area of the southern Flinders Ranges extending from Crystal Brook northwards to the Mount Remarkable Range has been explored for possible economic stratabound magnesite occurrences that may outcrop within Adelaidean metasediments. The known...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1914
