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RB 80/00044 Limestone and dolomite deposits, Port Wakefield area. Report no. 1 - Review and reconnaissance sampling, Hundred of Kulpara - Electricity Trust of SA.
The Electricity Trust of South Australia requires a source of high grade limestone or dolomite to be used in the planned industrial firing process for brown coal from the Wakefield coal deposit. A SADME survey of available literature, supplemented by...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1980
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RB 99/00032 Trial dewatering of the BHP dolomite quarry at Ardrossan, South Australia.
Trial dewatering of the quarry, which is excavated in fractured and well-bedded Cambrian dolomite, took place for at least 56 days during early 1994, but pumping was terminated when a further significant water level drawdown could not be achieved. Ten...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Reports on salt from southern Yorke Peninsula.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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Summary of the salt potential of Yorke Peninsula.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 00763 Report on dolomite deposit, Hundred of Kulpara, County Daly.
In a search for metallurgical dolomite with a specified grade of 45% CaCO3, and 45% MgCO3, an angled diamond drill hole was sunk in examination. The hole was continued into the underlying Cambrian and Proterozoic sediments to test for base metal...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 69/00120 Reconnaissance survey for ballast, southern Yorke Peninsula, Co. Fergusson - South Australian Railways.
Ballast sources on southern Yorke Peninsula are listed and discussed with reference to quality and availability. Further work required to define reserves at each site is indicated. Cambrian limestones are available near Ardrossan and Curramulka but...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 63/00007 Dolomite deposit at Kulpara.
Cambrian, Kulpara Limestone Formation (?) dolomite, overlain by kunkar limestone and red sandy clay has been diamond drilled and mapped by stadia survey. Results of laboratory testing and petrographic analysis are included. Reserves are estimated at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 71/00131 Reconnaissance for railway ballast, Redhill-Bowmans area - SA Railways.
A site in Barunga Sandstone (Tent Hill Formation equivalent) located 2.5 miles south east of Nantawarra Siding has been selected for testing. Previous quarrying operations from this unit in the area have disclosed the presence at many sites of clay in...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1971
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RB 76/00118 Investigation for road rubble, Hds Tickera, Wiltunga, Ninnes and Kulpara, Co. Daly - District Council of Bute.
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Melton. Progress reports to licence surrender, for the period 21/7/1980 to 24/5/1989.
A small area located about 20 km north-west of Port Wakefield was taken under licence by ETSA to try to secure limestone/dolomite material of suitable quality and in sufficient quantity to provide chemical additives for aiding the process of...-
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Published: 20 Apr 1989
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Melton and Kulpara. Progress and technical reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/10/1982 to 24/5/1989.
Minimal field work only was undertaken, in the form of geological mapping of the Kulpara - South Hummocks Range area, plus petrological examination of selected rock chip samples. Envelope also contains a [formerly held confidential] FEAC submission -...-
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Published: 25 Nov 1988
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RB 2000/00013 Australian Clay Minerals Society Inc. 17th Biennial Conference, Adelaide, 10-12 April 2000: Field Guide for post-conference tour, 13-14 April 2000 - Yorke Peninsula clays and carbonates, copper mines, desert loam soils and mangroves.
This tour is concerned with aspects of the soils, geology, landforms, clays and mining on Yorke Peninsula, and likewise for the northern Adelaide Plains which are separated from the Peninsula by Gulf St Vincent. Both of these regions are among the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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Yorke Peninsula palaeochannel - Adelaide's long-term sand source.
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Sampling of Yorke Peninsula stratigraphic bores.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Exploration Licence 253 Ardrossan SA. Final report.
One diamond drillhole tested for dolomite near Ardrossan Quarry. Metallurgical grade dolomite was intersected from 84 metres to end of hole at 91 metres.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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Port Pirie. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/10/1968 to 31/3/1969.
Field inspection and the assaying of 20 drainage samples of possible zinc silicate - bearing Lower Cambrian archaeocyathid limestone outcrops, in a small area located 8-12 miles west and north-west of Wakefield, failed to identify any such deposits or...-
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Published: 28 Jan 1969
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Investigation of the dolomite reservoir of the lower Cambrian Parara-Kulpara Sequence, southern Yorke Peninsula.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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Phosphate spot testing of selected cores and cuttings from bores in South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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Southern Yorke Peninsula. Progress report for the period 1/4/1970 to 30/9/1970 [potential for salt production from brines derived from deep Cambrian source beds].
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