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South Australian Magnesium Metal Project.
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RB 77/00105 Carpa graphite deposit.
Near Carpa, on eastern Eyre Peninsula, a quartz graphite schist within metasediments of the Cleve Metamorphics of Lower Proterozoic age, is a potential source of graphite dust. Preliminary evaluation in 1974 was followed by auger drilling by the...-
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Mineralogical data on SAMAG magnesite project - targeted deposits in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
Outcrop and drill core samples of magnesite-rich strata obtained from the Myrtle Springs and Witchelina deposits were examined petrographically to characterise the mode of occurrence and sedimentary history of the contained magnesitic material. A...-
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Published: 04 Aug 1999
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Willouran Ranges (part of the SAMAG Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/1998 to 18/11/2003.
Known magnesite beds existing within the Adelaidean Skillogalee Dolomite in the far north-western Flinders Ranges, and extending into the Willouran Ranges over a strike distance of 120 km heading north-westwards from Leigh Creek South township, have...-
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Mount Fitton Talc Province. Progress, annual and miscellaneous technical summary reports for the period 16/2/79 to 24/11/96.
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...-
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Germein Gorge. Annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 17/5/2002 to 16/5/2004.
Known magnesite beds within the Adelaidean Skillogalee Dolomite were the targets of exploration in the southern Flinders Ranges, 20 km north-east of Port Pirie, to determine their viability for mining as potential feedstock for a planned magnesium...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Broken Range. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/8/1995 to 7/11/2002.
For earlier reports on its base metal exploration that were submitted by BHP Minerals covering the three licence reporting years 4/8/1995-3/8/1998, see the separate index record for Env 09983. Exploration undertaken within a large licence area...-
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Tarlton Knob. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 4/3/1984 to 4/12/1987.
TARGET: The Willouran Ranges south-west of Marree were investigated for possible Olympic Dam type base metal occurrences which might have formed within the Precambrian Callanna, Burra and Umberatana Group sediments, and the area was also concurrently...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1987
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Eucla Basin Stratigraphic Drilling Project. Well sample test reports.
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RB 00659 Regional geology and nickel exploration in the MANN 4-mile sheet and adjoining areas. Preliminary report. combined with RB 00659A - Nickel exploration on Special Mining Lease 33, Tomkinson Ranges.
This report reviews the available information on the region and presents a preliminary appraisal of the past nickel exploration data supplied by South Western Mining Co. Ltd. Current field and laboratory information has also been included. The study...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00659A [Review of] Nickel exploration [potential] on Special Mining Lease 33, Tomkinson Ranges.
This report reviews the available information on the region, and presents a preliminary appraisal of the data supplied by South-western Mining Co. Ltd. Current field and laboratory information has also been included. New geological and geochemical...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1961
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RB 65/00080 Amdel 00556 Mount Davies nickel deposits.
Low grade, nickel bearing, weathered ultrabasic rocks that form a part of the Giles Complex in the North-West Province of South Australia were first discovered by a SA Mines Department field party in 1953. Since their discovery the weathered rocks,...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1967
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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RB 2009/00006 Alteration mapping - HyLogger workshop, course manual, ASEG 09.
HyLogging systems, and the PIMA and ASD field spectrometers (Terraspec, Labspec and Fieldspec), are a generation of analysis instruments which provide rapid and cost effective data on sample mineralogy and on mineral characteristics. Spectral...-
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Published: 26 Feb 2009
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Salt Creek. First partial surrender report, for the period 19/11/1996 to 18/11/2000.
Push tube sampling of lakebed sediments was carried out in two separate salt lake areas at the northern and southern extremities of a large dolomitic magnesite deposit located south-east of Salt Creek, adjacent to the Coorong. The northern area lake...-
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Willouran Ranges and Leigh Creek North. Joint venture - related individual licence annual reports, partial surrender reports and final reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period June 1998 to 18/11/2003.
A partly defined magnesite resource thought to be of the order of 579 million tonnes in size, consisting of a series of semi-continuously outcropping magnesite beds ranging in thickness from 0.5 m to 9.0 m, is situated within the northern Flinders...-
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Mulgathing. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/8/1969 to 27/2/1970.
Continuing exploration of the geochemically anomalous (35-210 ppm Ni) Lower Proterozoic basement rocks previously identified by Kennecott at Blackfellow Hill has consisted of first laying out a 10,000' x 7200' prospect grid, before conducting soil...-
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SADM / Amdel Project 1/1/87 : Investigations into the future utilisation of the Port Pirie uranium plant - feasibility study on the production of magnesia from local magnesite ore. Progress and final reports for the period 20/8/1965 to 30/6/1966.
A study has been made on the feasibility of using magnesite ore mined from BHP leases in the Port Germein Gorge to produce up to 50 tons per day of high grade magnesia (MgO) using the Bicarbonate Process (ref. US Bureau of Mines, 1946) at the...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Yadlakina Hut. Annual reports for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2018.
An area of outcropping magnesite-bearing metasediments extending from 10 km west of to 55 km north-west of Leigh Creek township is being explored to re-assess its commercial potential for magnesia and magnesium metal production, following other...-
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Published: 09 Oct 2018
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Myrtle Springs. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 26/2/1985 to 25/2/1986.
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...-
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