Stratabound, chemically precipitated Telfer - type replacement style vein gold was the target of exploration undertaken over an area 25 km north-west of Yunta, which contains good exposures of Neoproterozoic Umberatana Group clastic metasediments that...

Copper and gold exploration comprising outcrop, stream sediment and soil geochemical sampling, and the conduct of ground magnetic and IP surveys, plus RC percussion (67 vertical holes, total 6624 m) and diamond cored tail drilling (in 2 holes, total...

A request was recieved from the Highways and Local Government Department (D.M. 864/50) for a geological survey and estimation of reserves of road metal from Sections 229 and 128 in the Hundred of Nuriootpa. The volume of stone required was 500,000...

The Highways and Local Government Department indicates that this area around Greenock and Daveyston is in a strategic position to supply material for future road construction and maintenance and that large volume of road metal (500,000 cubic yards)...

The present survey was carried out at the request of the Manager of the Building Stone Co. to determine the quantity of stone suitable for cutting with carborundum saws for the production of building stone. The present Company commenced operations at...

The deposit is within Section 250, Hundred of Onkaparinga, on the southern side of the main road between Basket Range and Forest Range, 15 miles easterly from Adelaide. The land is owned by Mr. W. Bishop of Forest Range, to whom royalties on minerals...

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A survey of a sandstone in Section 33, Hundred Macclesfield, was requested by Mr. R.G. Rosser, Eighth Avenue, St, Peters, Adelaide. Mr. Rosser holds a lease on the land from Mr. F. Pfeiffer, c/o Post Office, Macclesfield. The letter also has an...

A geological survey of the "stone reserve opposite Section 2008, Hundred Kondoparinga" was requested by the Highways and Local Government Department. A telephone call to that department failed to obtain information as to the exact area for which a...

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At a meeting of the Chowilla Dam Technical Committee on 9th November, it was requested that the Mines Department prepare a progress statement on the investigations being carried out for the location and proving of rip-rap sources. This report was...

Mapping of the Coober Pedy Opalfield has shown that opal occurrence, although erratic, is not entirely unpredictable. Several groups of workings are present in an area of about 150 square miles. The host rock is a distinctive pink and white...

Rock types mapped in the above area include arkosic ortho quartzites, arkosic sandstones and chloritic quartzite schists of the Stonyfell Quartzite formation in the Torrensian Series. Total available reserves of rock are estimated at over thirty...

A road metal quarry in buff quartzites and micaceous sandstones occurs half a mile east of the township of Nairne. The sediments exposed are basal members of the Kanmantoo Group. The beds strike south-south-east dipping 60 to the east. More than...

For a number of years White Rock Quarries Ltd. have operated on Part Section 1109 and Section 1180, Hundred of Adelaide, which are Government property. The company has now acquired its own deposits of stone on adjoining land, but wishes to continue...

Eight quartzite horizons occur in the area mapped. These are interbedded with micaceous sandstones, siltstones and mica schists in the Sturtian Series of the Adelaide System. Total reserves in four of the quartzite horizons designated Nos. 2, 5, 6 and...

Reserves of feldspathic sandstone in the Aldgate formation in part of Section 155, Hundred Onkaparinga, suitable for dressing with carborundum saws are estimated to exceed 20,000 cubic yards. This figure could probably be increased to exceed 40,000...

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Three samples of waste freestone were evaluated as a source of building aggregate and fine clay. Washed sand produced from each sample appears unsuitable as building aggregate because of the high percentage of composite particles present. The fine...

Materials suitable for concrete aggregate, railway ballast, road base course, protection of salt field sea wails and rock fill will be required should construction of the petrochemical plant and appurtenant works proceed at Redcliff, 25 km...