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Nelshaby. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2005.
Bedded deposits of magnesite known to exist within the southern Flinders Ranges, where they outcrop over a considerable strike distance extent in the country approximately 20 km east of Port Pirie, were identified by Magnesium Developments Limited...-
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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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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 72/00152 Recent stromatolites from hydromagnesite and aragonite depositing, lakes near the Coorong Lagoon, South Australia.
Three forms of stromatolites mineralogically composed of hydromagnesite and aragonite occur in two ephemeral lakes near the Coorong Lagoon. None occur in the Lagoon or other lakes. The three forms are stratiform, globular and crenulate. Each is built...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 75/00006 Introduction to laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks.
'Industrial minerals' are those minerals or assemblages of minerals which are economically important because of their physical or chemical properties, rather than their metal or energy content. The term is synonymous with 'non-metallic minerals', and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1974
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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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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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Salt Creek. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 19/11/1996 to 10/3/2008.
A 10 km long saline swampy area bordering The Coorong on the landward side of the Princes Highway, between Salt Creek and Chinaman Wells, has been explored for possible large tonnage deposits of dolomite lime that are suitable for agricultural and...-
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Published: 10 Mar 2008
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Prince Alfred mine. Progress reports and annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 9/4/1998 to 24/6/2001.
Exploration in an area around the historic Prince Alfred mine consisted mainly of detailed geological mapping and compilation of data derived from comprehensive literature searches, together with processing and interpretation of available geophysical...-
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Published: 16 Jun 2001
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Salt Creek, Lochaber, Lake Hawdon, Kingston South-East and Kongorong. Joint annual reports for the period 19/11/1996 to 21/10/2018.
A number of shallow Neogene salt lakes, that extend in chain-like fashion along the length of the inner Coorong and its hinterland as far south as Lacepede Bay, have been investigated for possible economic evaporitic mineral deposits that may have...-
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Published: 19 Nov 2018
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Data release - as updated : Salt Creek. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/2015 to 12/3/2022.
A small area located on the inland side of The Coorong, midway between Salt Creek and Chinaman Wells, has been explored for possible economic evaporitic deposits of dolomitic magnesite which can be used to supply local markets for carbonate minerals....-
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Published: 27 May 2022
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE, SH 54-05.
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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ExpNotes CURDIMURKA: Explanatory Notes CURDIMURKA, SH 53-08.
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Bull 054 Geology of South Australia. Volume 1: The Precambrian.
The geology of South Australia represents over 150 years of geological investigations in South Australia. It is designed to provide the reader with a comprehensive regional account of the products of sedimentation, deformation, metamorphism and...-
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999), SH 54-13.
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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