The output of phosphate rock since discovery in 1903 has been maintained at a steady rate and to 1972 recorded production totals 316 127 tonnes, valued at $946 206. Output during the past decade has averaged 8 000 tonnes per year. The local product...

'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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The Coober Pedy 1:250 000 sheet area (COOBER PEDY) is bounded by latitudes 29°S and 30°S and by longitudes 133°E and 135°E in the arid north of South Australia. The only town is the opal mining town of Coober Pedy on the northeastern margin of the...

The State is well endowed with deposits of limestone in sedimentary rocks of Precambrian to Recent age and showing a wide range of chemical purity and physical form. High quality materials that are situated in proximity to the seaboard or to...

Dolomites grading into magnesian limestones and limestones are widely distributed throughout South. Australia. They form thin beds in the Cleve Metamorphics on Eyre Peninsula; they are common in the Adelaidean and Lower Cambrian of the Flinders...

An attempt has been made to measure the rate of movement of the groundwater in the limestone aquifer of the lower south-east of South Australia using an electrical resistivity method of following a salt slug dumped into Caroline Sink Hole. The...

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Background At the request of Mr. R. Adam, South Australian Department of Mines, Amdel undertook an investigation of possible uses for Coffin Bay limesand. This was done as the result of greatly reduced consumption of limesand by the current operator,...

Sediments overlying marine deposits in South Australia dated Late Pliocene by Ludbrook (1963, 1967, 1969, 1973) are referred to the Pleistocene by Firman (1967 and 1969a and b). The Burnham Limestone occurs at the base of the Pleistocene sequence.

Sources of coarse aggregate were investigated for the Monarto Development Commission. Recrystallised limestone near Murray Bridge was tested by four diamond drill holes, and gneisses near Pallamana were tested by 8 holes. Large quantities of suitable...

A seismic refraction survey north of Redcliff Point on Spencer Gulf obtained records with first arrival times characteristic of a near-surface layer which has a higher seismic velocity than layers immediately below it. Profiles calculated using this...

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Exploration for possible Mississippi Valley style stratabound lead-zinc deposits hosted by Lower Cambrian carbonates in the Angepena area, 70 km north-east of Blinman, comprised regional and detailed geological mapping, reconnaissance stream sediment...

Reverse air circulation rotary drilling of four outcrops of potentially glass-grade raw material dolomite rock (42 holes for a total penetration of 924 m), carried out 14 km north-west of Mount Gambier in April 1989 on a 50 m grid within pine...

Surficial sedimentary uranium deposits are estimated to comprise about 4% of world uranium resources. Calcrete deposits form approximately 5% of Australia's total uranium reserves and resources. Exploration for calcrete - hosted uranium of Neogene age...

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Landmark Stone Pty Ltd was approached by David West (Executive Director, Architectural Conservation, International Conservation Services of Sydney) to investigate re-opening one of the three Waikerie Limestone quarries in the Riverland of South...

Assessment of the economic potential of a historically worked manganese mineral occurrence located just north of Mount Boothby, near Coonalpyn, initially comprised a field inspection of two remnant infilled costeans during October 2009, plus the...

EL 3961 lying 10 km north-west of Quorn forms part of the Hawker Project tenement package within the Adelaide Fold Belt that is being explored for sediment-hosted copper deposits. Licensee Copper Range has been looking for bleached, altered sandstone...