348 reconnaisance air-core drillholes were completed on the subject ELs between 5 July and 3 October 1990. The best heavy mineral sand intersections were found near Immarna (EL 1602), with some zones approaching ore-grade percentages. Unfortunately,...

Samples of rutlie containing 40.5% titanium were submitted from the above locality by Mr. L. Hutchinson of Myponga. Further to this, Mr. Hutchinson requested some assistance from the Department of Mines to investigate the possibility of upgrading this...

Development of cyclic process producing rutile from beach sand ilmenite in a fluid bed reactor. Further experiment on reaction rates required.

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...

Diopside gneiss, pegmatite and hornblende schist outcrop in section 328, Hundred of Jutland. Rutile occurs in the hornblende schist and pegmatite, but the values are too low for them to be mined. Alluvium to the east of the pegmatite was sampled using...

The Radium Hill uranium mine is located approximately 60 miles S.W. of Broken Hill. The deposits are of hypogene metosomatic origin, and represent replacement lode deposits along anticlinal axial plane shears in folded Archean gneisses. Lode...

Brief inspection of uranium occurrences at the East Painter, Shamrock and Commonwealth Mines were carried out during August, 1957. A corundum-monazite occurrence was also visited. Recommendations for further work are made.

Mr. M.L. Norton, private prospector, discovered davidite in association with a narrow pegmatite vein within diopside gneiss on Section 328, Hundred Jutland, some 8 miles east of Mount Pleasant. The area surrounding the claim has been mapped and,...

This report describes the work carried out on the Hanging Wall and Foot Wall ore shoots of the South Hill Lode System since my summary report of 11th July 1958. The area concerned is that lying between coordinates 3600N and 5000N.

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Beach sands, dunes and selected creek sand were sampled. Kanmantoo Group metasediments that underlie most of the island, basalt and granite are favourable source rocks for heavy minerals. They are being actively eroded along most of the coastline but...

Concentrate contained minor tourmaline, zircon and rutile from the shore of Lake Alexandrina.

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...

History from 1884 when silver, lead and copper were discovered in the Rapid Bay area.

Report describes these unusual mineral deposits which are currently the only source in Australia of refractory grade sillimanite and filler grade mica.

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During drilling of construction sand and clay in 1976 and 1977, an accumulation of heavy minerals was discovered in an embayment on the eastern margin of the Tertiary basin. Heavy minerals, mainly ilmenite, rutile,and zircon, with lesser amounts of...

The Cainozoic Eucla Basin has been the focus of recent heavy mineral exploration due to the recognition of Tertiary coastal features including the Ooldea Range. Hypsometric and Landsat data, together with detailed work on the Tertiary stratigraphy of...

The 2 sands are similar in major constituents but differ in rare trace constituents, in grain size and in state of oxidation. They are probably different parts of the same unit.

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...