Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...

Hitherto untried exploration for heavy mineral sands on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, conducted by the Ceduna Joint Venture partners since 1989 over ten contiguous licence areas in the Ooldea - Barton area centred 150 km north-west of Ceduna,...

Two adjoining exploration Licences 2840 “Colona North” and 2841 “Barton” were acquired by Adelaide Exploration Limited to search principally for nickel, copper and platinum group precious metals (PGM) mineralisation within Proterozoic and Archaean...

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...

An assessment was carried out by SADM of the feasibility of mining the extensive sand dunes in the Morrison Beach area, which it was thought could contain large quantities of low grade heavy minerals that might now prove economical to extract because...

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...

TARGET: Diamonds in the region north and east of Carrieton. EXPLORATION: Following some early positive results from limited reconnaissance sampling, numerous 20 kg stream sediment samples and several bulk loam samples were collected, processed and...

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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,...

The discovery in July 1970 of a strong surface radioactive thorium anomaly emanating from outcrop near Uno Homestead, 48 km north-west of Iron Knob, which was made by a Japanese company's geophysical prospecting party, prompted the leasing of the...

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The Mount McTaggart prospect is located 15 miles south-west of Arkaroola Base Camp and 3 miles west of the Arkaroola-Balcanoona Road. A programme of ten rotary percussion holes totalling 3457 feet commenced on 11/10/1971 and was completed on...

The dielectric separation effect has been studied. A small continuous separator has given some concentration of sillimanite in a sillimanite-rutile mixture.

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.

Results of experimental work carried out on a' sample of mineral bearing sand from Moana are presented in this report. Market grade concentrates were not produced.Possible treatment methods of producing saleable products are outlined and further...

A sample from a sand dune at Moana, South Australia, has been tested for extraction of heavy minerals. Good recoveries of rutile and zircon were obtained, but products were below market grade. Possible treatment methods of producing saleable products...

A concentrate of heavy minerals was made from the beach sand deposit at Moana, South Australia. This concentrate was treated by magnetic and electrostatic methods to recover monazite, rutile and zircon. The valuable mineral product was in each case...