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Mintaro Slate and Flagstone - more than 150 years of production.
Mintaro Slate is produced from what is believed to be the oldest continuously operating quarry in Australia. The quarry was opened in the early 1850s, after Mintaro farmer Peter Brady discovered outcrops of slate in a creek bed on his property and...-
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/130: Petrographic and geochemical investigations of the Lyndhurst and Mount Coffin Diapirs. Progress reports 1 to 6 and final report for the period.
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Lake Hart. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 5/9/1980 to 4/9/1982.
Airborne magnetic/radiometric surveys and follow-up gravity surveys carried out in a search for possible Olympic Dam type orebodies have indicated depths to magnetic basement in excess of 1000 m in the Lake Hart area of the Stuart Shelf. The...-
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Published: 06 Oct 1982
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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/6/1980 to 2/12/1980.
Thirty-two shallow auger holes up to 2.76 m deep were drilled into the floor of Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, situated 70 km west of William Creek, in a search for possible potash-rich brines trapped by the lake sediments. The lacustrine sediments were...-
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Mount Bayley. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 22/7/1971 to 21/7/1972.
A small area located 15 km north-east of Beltana was explored for possible economic stratabound or epigenetic/hydrothermal base metal deposits associated with Adelaidean and Cambrian calcareous/dolomitic strata and Willouran diapiric structures. Work...-
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Elder Range. Progress reports to licence surrender, for the period 17/2/1972 to 11/4/1972.
Exploration for possible economic fluorite deposits in an area south-west of Wilpena Pound consisted only of a rapid geochemical rock chip sampling programme. No encouraging results were obtained, so the ground was surrendered.-
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Tarlton Knob and Cadnia Hill. Joint progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender for the period 23/3/1973 to 22/3/1974.
A consultant's detailed regional geological study of the northern Willouran Ranges, and then his very close examination of the apparent controls on known diapir-related exposed epigenetic / stratabound copper mineralisation, have identified three...-
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Gambier Basin investigation.
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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Chimpering Rock Hole, Moornaba Rock Hole, Euria Well, Koonibba Mission and Lake Tallacootra (part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Minerals Project). Annual report, January 1990 to January 1991.
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,...-
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Mount Gunson - Pernatty. Quarterly reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/2/1987 to 15/4/1994.
Ongoing copper exploration in the Mount Gunson area was directed primarily at locating economic stratiform mineralisation in the Tapley Hill Formation, which overlies Pandurra Formation and the associated Cattlegrid orebody. New work comprised...-
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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Copperlinka. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1991 to 6/6/1997.
Exploration for possible large, potentially open cut - mineable disseminated quartz vein - type syngenetic gold and base metal deposits within a licence area located near Outalpa, 150 km south-west of Broken Hill, has comprised geological mapping,...-
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RB 36/00085 Sand usage in the cement brick manufacturing industry.
Raw material resources surveys of the Clay Brick and Sand Gravel and Rock Products industries within the Metropolitan Area have shown that considerable production lag exists in relation to the deman for clay bricks, despite eight years post war...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1953
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RB 37/00055 Investigation of road metal deposit near Tarlee.
50,000 cubic yards of stone suitable for use as road metal is required by the Highways and Local Government Department from this deposit (vide D.M. 864/50). There is a quarry, known as Hogan's, on section 339 from which good road metal has been...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1954
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RB 37/00057 Grindability of limestone.
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Published: 24 Mar 1954
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RB 37/00084 Tripoli occurrence, Hundred of Murtho (17/3/1954).
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 37/00077 Petrology of the cores of bores no. 1 and 2, Middleback Ranges.
A representative selection of rock types obtained in the cores of the DDH1 and DDH2 iron ore exploration holes was made with a view to studying the mineralogy, the lithology and any microstructures of interest present in the formations intersected. A...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1954
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RB 37/00092 Report on Poonindie brick clay deposit, section 123, Hundred of Louth.
The investigation which is the subject of this report was carried out in response to a request from Mr. E.L. Mitton, Accountant, on behalf of Millers Lime Ltd. The property is owned by J.Hallett & Son Ltd., freehold, with mineral rights alienated...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1954
