Talc has been mined at Mount Fitton in the northern Flinders Ranges on a continuous basis since 1945, for industrial use in the manufacture of cosmetics, ceramics and refractory ware. From 1979 to 1996, under authority of a series of Exploration...

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...

Blends from talc and clay for the semi dry press method of production and single fire process were tested. Equipment at the Port Pirie Uranium Plant was assessed with a view to utilizing existing equipment. Further work recommended.

Nephrite jade is associated with Lower Proterozoic dolomitic marbles and calc-silicate rocks as part of a sequence of metasedimentary quartzo-feldspathic gneisses, quartzites and mica schists of amphibolite metamorphic facies. These rocks normally...

The aim of this project was to review Australian production and consumption of talc, including gathering data on such topics as raw material sources, production rates and reserves, specifications, prices, markets and uses. Related minerals having...

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On 19/1/70 Minefields Exploration NL were granted an option over the Truro Talc and Joe's Hill talc deposits situated some 60 miles north-east of Adelaide. Then, during April 1970 a Stage I exploration programme was undertaken, consisting of...

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Preliminary evaluation of deposits was made as a basis for an exploration programme.

A regional geological survey covered 15 standard 1-mile map sheets. Detailed mapping established a 50 000 ft sequence of Archaean sedimentation of gneissose, schistose and granitoid rocks, migmatite, quartzite, dolomite and haematitic quartzite. These...

The demand for talc and other non-metallic minerals in South Australia increased markedly during the Second World-War when overseas sources of supply were severed. Australian manufacturers succeeded in using material from local deposits. In recent...

During the past twenty years attention has been directed to the natural resources of the State in pigment materials, and a considerable body of information, based 011 official reports, has been accumulated, which is now collected into this Bulletin,...

The target was possible diamonds, with base metals and coal as secondary interests. Initially, a 1:25,000 scale colour aerial photographic survey was flown across part of the now relinquished licence area, to assist BHP in mapping geomorphic and...

In recognition of the centenary of Henry Yorke Lyell Brown's appointment as the first Government Geologist for South Australia, and the foundation of the Department of Mines and Energy, aspects of South Australia's colourful and vital mining and...

The northern Flinders Ranges were opened up by pastoralists from about 1850 onwards; mineral discoveries date from about 1860 in the Mount Painter Province. The region has been one of desultory mining activities since that date, principally for...

Properties, uses and specifications, world and Australian consumption, of industrial grades of talc are summarised. In the past the principal demand in Australia has been for high quality cosmetic grade talc but a market survey indicates that national...

Increasing demand for ceramic grade talc may justify reopening of the deposit by open cut mining. Published reports and plans have been used to study production potential. Recent regional mapping has shown an alternative structural setting and...

Firing tests have shown the presence of high quality white clay and talcose clay. The deposit is not well exposed, and exploratory work will be needed before the full economic potential can be assessed.