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RB 84/00075 Review of phlogopite in kimberlitic rocks as a possible source of vermiculite in South Australia.
Vermiculite is an alteration product of phlogopite. Kimberlitic bodies of sufficient size and phlogopite content for possible exploitation have been discovered in South Australia during past exploration for diamonds and base metals. Sampling is...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1984
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RB 90/00007 Industrial minerals in South Australia. Current operations and future trends.
Established producers have taken advantage of export opportunities for gypsum, salt and dolomite. New developments include a graphite processing plant at the former Uley Graphite Mine and trial mining of micaceous iron oxide for pigments. Proposals...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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Cocunda and Calca (Poochera Kaolin Project). Progress reports, annual reports, and final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 12/5/1986 to 28/3/2002.
Kaolin, derived mainly from deep weathering of Hiltaba Suite granites, was the principal target of exploration in the area south and south-west from Poochera, near Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. Following a review made of historic drillhole...-
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South Australian Diamond Interest Group. Supporting technical documents.
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Published: 01 Jan 1995
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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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Pine Creek. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/5/1987 to 12/11/1987.
Phlogopite micas formed within the Pine Creek kimberlite intrusion, located 37 km east of Terowie and 3.5 km west of Pine Creek Homestead, were investigated for their potential as an economic source of raw material for making the processed mineral...-
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Terowie. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/8/1990 to 13/2/1992.
TARGET: Evaluation of the diamond-bearing potential of known lamprophyre intrusive bodies in the Terowie area. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance loam and drainage indicator mineral bulk sampling and geochemical sampling, petrographic and mineralogical...-
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Kolballa. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1990 to 15/7/1992.
TARGET: (Stockdale) Diamonds in the Elliston region, related to possible kimberlite primary sources that may be associated with the deep-seated Polda Trough structural feature; (BHP) Mineral sands in Tertiary sediments. EXPLORATION: Stockdale...-
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Wudinna and Chilpuddie Hill. Progress reports and partial relinquishment/final reports, respectively, for the period 30/7/1985 to 29/7/1990.
TARGET: Exploration in the Minnipa - Kyancutta region for uranium in Recent lake sediments, heavy mineral sands in Tertiary palaeochannels, base and precious metals in basement rocks, and diamonds associated with possible kimberlitic intrusions....-
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Published: 02 Aug 1990
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Algebuckina. Progress, annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 4/4/1979 to 3/10/1980.
Four photo-interpreted possible buried kimberlite structural targets that were indicated in the Algebuckina area were investigated by a field programme of drainage and soil geochemical sampling (39 samples) and scintillometric surveying. Three areas...-
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Carrieton West. First partial surrender report for the period 7/6/1979 to 6/6/1981.
Exploration for possible diamondiferous kimberlite in an area lying to the west and north of Carrieton began with a resumption of sampling for kimberlitic indicator minerals, this time with some success, when two positive samples were returned from...-
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Published: 13 May 1981
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RB 73/00169 Report on investigations of Mineral Claim 7544, sections 673 and 674 Hundred of Hallett.
Two mica-peridotite dykes with kimberlitic affinities.-
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Published: 16 Jul 1973
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RB 73/00267 Diamonds, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
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Published: 07 Nov 1973
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Diamond provenance studies at Chapel Hill Reserve, Echunga, South Australia. [being work done within one of the "Areas to be reserved under the Mining Act and Regulations 1971"].
The principal aim of Flinders Diamonds Limited’s (FDL) exploration in the Chapel Hill area is to discover a commercial diamond deposit. The source of the "Echunga" diamonds, found in the alluvial gold workings within the Chapel Hill Fossicking Reserve...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Karkarook. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/9/1998 to 16/9/2003.
Holocene lacustrine gypsum beds, believed to have formed around 6000 years ago by the evaporation of saline water in a series of shallow lakes and lagoons that had developed along the ancestral Driver River watercourse, were the objectives of early...-
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The Flinders Ranges Project, Jamestown Group of tenements. Data release at partial surrender of subsequent licences: combined annual reports for the period 18/9/2004 to 31/12/2010.
Ten contiguous exploration licences in the Jamestown - Peterborough - Quorn region are being explored for possible economic diamonds associated with inferred buried kimberlite intrusions. Prior work done in the 1960s by Stockdale Exploration (a de...-
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The Adelaide Hills Project. Data release made at the partial surrenders / full surrender of subsequent licences: annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 27/6/2000 to 15/5/2005.
A diamond exploration project area comprising nine mineral exploration licences located in the central Mount Lofty Ranges was taken up by new public company Flinders Diamonds (FDL) to search for possible commercial accumulations of diamonds, thought...-
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MIS 013 Gemstones of South Australia
GEMSTONES have been the prized possession of man and have constituted an essential material for his personal adornment for countless ages. They are the essentials of good jewellery - the result of fine workmanship and individual skill. Apart from...-
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RB 2012/00006 A review of kimberlites and related rocks in South Australia.
There are currently around 200 primary kimberlitic rock occurrences known in South Australia, located within seven discrete kimberlite provinces. These provinces span a distance of 400 km across the state, from the western side of Eyre Peninsula in...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2012
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Spalding. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/8/1979 to 22/4/1982.
Exploration of Adelaidean age clastic metasediments and derived ?Tertiary alluvial gravels in the Spalding area, seeking possible placer diamond deposits, was initially based on stream gravel sampling and evaluation of magnetic features. Following...-
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