Ceramic white ware bodies have been developed successfully on a laboratory scale using samples of local clays, talc and silica. Proposals are being examined to manufacture wall tiles and other ceramic products at Port Pirie. Aspects of the occurrence,...

A comprehensive review of mineral deposits and their geological setting is presented to guide planning decisions relating to the mineral industry. The report also provides basic geological, data and literature references useful to mineral exploration...

A recently formed syndicate has extracted 2,000 tons of material containing 3.8 per cent copper, 12,000 tons of talcose clay suitable for brickmaking and a small amount of gold from a 50 foot deep quarry in part of the old Gomersal goldfield....

In response to a verbal request by Mr R Good, Designing Engineer, Engineering and Water Supply Department, geological investigations were carried out to locate and determine the strike and dip of a possibly permeable metasandstone layer, which was...

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An inspection of a deposit of marble located on Part Section 116 (formerly Section 2C) Hundred of Minbrie, County of Jervois, about 12 miles due north of Cowell and four miles west of the main highway to Port Lincoln, was made on the 5th August, 1965...

The Spalding inlier is a lens-shaped area of tightly-folded Willouran rocks of the Adelaide System (Upper Precambrian), extending north-south for about 10 miles; it is about 100 miles north of Adelaide. The rim of the inlier is marked in most places...

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'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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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...

Drilling of 27 appraisal NQ diamond cored holes for a total penetration of 1538 m over the period October 1984 to May 1985 (2 holes being abandoned at shallow depth due to having drilling difficulties within broken quartzite) has defined 5 new buried...

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The Mount Fitton talc deposits lie in an area of regionally metamorphosed Adelaide System sediments, flanked to the north and east by granite complexes. The talc deposits occur in an extensive tremolite marble formation interbedded with a series of...