HyVista Corporation was contracted by PIRSA during July 2012 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Mount Painter region of SA on 28/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.5 m x 4.5 m, within a surveyed area of...

This publication highlights how the availability of minerals is crucial to providing the basic requisites of life, or else, to fundamentally contributing for the manufacture of vital requisites such as food, clothing, heat, light and shelter, in order...

Tale is one of the most widely known and used mineral substances. In the form of various talcum powders it is probably familiar to most people, and in one form or another its special characteristics make it useful in a number of different industries....

Numerous small, occasionally high grade occurrences of talc and asbestiform amphibole minerals, barite, vermiculite and sodic feldspar were discovered by prospecting across a wide, often rugged hilly area lying to the north-west of Arkaroola...

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Samples of talc taken from various currently worked deposits in South Australia were tested to determine the mineral's suitability for inclusion in raw material blends used for glazed tile manufacture. The test results showed that up to 35% of any of...

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The applicability of prospecting methods based on lithological variations and structural controls have been investigated for locating the talc deposits which occur dispersed in the Mount Fitton region. Emplacement of these deposits is thought to have...

The possible economic potential of eight mineral leases held by Mr H.N. Thomas in the greater Billy Springs area were evaluated by hired consultants, who undertook brief lease inspections and related literature reviews, and made recommendations for...

Seven talc occurrences containing an estimated 63,000 in situ tons of potentially commercial grade talc have been discovered in the area between Billy Springs and Mount Livingston. Further prospecting of the host dolomite outcrop, and shallow...

Following a geological survey of the area held under Special Mining Lease 58 by Industrial Rock Mines Pty Ltd in the Mount Fitton area, a detailed reconnaissance of all mineralisation was undertaken by two company prospectors during the period March...

Evaluation of the Mount Fitton No. 19 talc prospect discovered in 1964, and situated some 3 miles south-east of the current main talc workings and company camp, has included a topographical survey, the wagon drilling of 49 vertical holes, and the...

Over the past three years crystalline magnesite has been found in the Mount Fitton area in many places, in a 12 miles long belt which follows the lower edge of a dolomite mass of Late Proterozoic age. The Mount Livingston deposit with indicated...

The Creek Junction talc deposit, located 4 miles south-east of the No. 5 talc deposit and the Mount Fitton mining camp, had been worked on a small scale prior to 1963. In view of the comparatively narrow widths of the exposed talc lenses and their...

This handbook is a selection of shortened reports by geologists of the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy dealing with some of the semiprecious and ornamental stones in this State. It is not intended to be a comprehensive review of these...

Exploration for magnesite in the Myrtle Springs - Copley region was confined to sampling (167 samples, both of outcrop and crushed ore) and analysing 30 known magnesite occurrences held under mining lease, to determine the distribution of silica...

During 2007, Luzenac Australia Pty Ltd (Luzenac), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto Pty Limited, entered into an Option Agreement with Flinders Diamonds to explore for commercial grade talc deposits over part of its EL 3064 situated in the...

An area in the Cowell Hills centred ~20 km north of Tumby Bay on eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up primarily to explore and evaluate known talc and graphite occurrences, but the grant licensee's initial review of previous exploration data revealed...

This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2008, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...