250 samples of sand recovered from a 1997 SA Government glass-making sand exploration programme undertaken in the Mount Compass area of the southern Mount Lofty Ranges were subjected to [grain] size analysis determinations. The samples were derived...

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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...

XRF analyses of 25 selected samples of halite interbedded with Early Cambrian strata, which had been taken from stored Wilkinson 1 drill core and cuttings, returned a maximum value for contained bromine of 470 ppm Br. This result was not of enough...

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As part of continuing exploration for possible economic buried stratiform / hydrothermal copper mineralisation in the Yudnamutana Mining Field, the target lower Callanna Group strata were geologically mapped, petrologically studied and geochemically...

To evaluate potash potential, brine samples were collected from below the dry bed of Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, and analysed for Ca, Mg, Na, K, B, HCO3, C1, total phosphate and sulphate. Potassium contents were too low to be of interest.

Outcropping Wywyana Formation in the Mount McDonnell Valley, which had been shown by past work to be highly anomalous in copper, with attendant gold enrichment, was targetted by 50 m by 20 m grid-based geological, geochemical and ground geophysical...

Appraisal of a newly discovered large deposit of kaolin, found in the near surface regolith to Archaean basement on two farms situated 7 km south of Mount Hope on southern Eyre Peninsula, has consisted of further air/rotary drilling (35 holes, total...

Reports describe the ongoing field prospecting and downstream jade marketing activities associated with the Cowell nephrite jade discovery. Black nephrite blocky material extracted from the operating company's new mining leases (MLs 4130-4132) was...

14 rotary percussion holes were drilled to test for extensions of the Klein Point limestone deposit. In the area drilled, Tertiary bryozoan limestone horizons were found to have an average vertical thickness of 28 m; their quality is comparable to...

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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...

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.

10 secns. 7 holes, TD 3516 ft.

TRONA EXPLORATION: Of the 9 rotary/diamond holes drilled, only the first, Meramangye 1, intersected a unit equivalent to the Observatory Hill Beds, which was the target horizon for trona. Drillholes Manya nos 2-6 and Marla 7 intersected Cambrian red...

Exploration for possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits within Tertiary sediments on the northern margin of the Murray Basin comprised aircore drilling (28 holes, total 744 m) in the Mutooroo station area, 50 km south-east of Olary. The...

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...