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Garford Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 12/4/1983 to 11/4/1984.
After a regional review of the absorbent clay mineral potential of known palygorskite and attapulgite - bearing Middle Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in an area centred 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, a possibly economic partly-exposed attapulgite...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1984
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Mount Sturt clay deposit. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/10/1971 to 20/10/1972.
A large tonnage (~10-50 Mt), easily mined deposit of white kaolin found by the landowner on a property at Mount Sturt has been partly evaluated by auger drilling 44 shallow holes totalling 707 feet, to obtain samples for materials testing and to...-
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Petrology and diagenesis of the Tirrawarra Sandstone in the Tirrawarra Field, Cooper Basin.
57 selected drill core plug samples from the Permian Tirrawarra Sandstone in 6 wells on the Tirrawarra Field were examined petrographically using thin section, XRD and SEM techniques. The contract brief was to try to establish reasons for observed...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1981
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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 2007/00022 [South Australian earth] resources production [statistics] for the 6 month [period] ended [30] June 2007.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2007, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2007
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RB 2012/00011 South Australian mineral resources production statistics for the six month [period] ended 31st December 2011.
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Published: 01 May 2012
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RB 2010/00009 [South Australian mineral] resources production statistics for the 6 month [period] ended 31 December 2009.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 31 December 2009, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 07 May 2010
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SADM/Amdel Project CE 1/1/104 : Investigation of the properties of an imported clay refractory brick, and of the possible scope for its local manufacture using South Australian clay. Progress reports 1 and 2 for the period January-April 1968.
A lightweight insulating refractory brick designed for electric furnace linings, made by the firm Babcox and Wilcocks in the United States, was examined by Amdel to determine its physical and chemical properties, with a view to reproducing an...-
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Published: 26 Apr 1968
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RB 2009/00021 [South Australian] mineral resources production statistics for the 6 month [period] ended 30 June 2009.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2009, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 03 Nov 2009
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RB 33/00082 Williamstown clay mine - report on a further inspection of the Warren refractory shale.
The mine was visited on Wednesday May 21st to select sites for drilling the cream clay shale known as the Warren Refractory Shale, so that a better estimation or reserves of this material might be calculated.-
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Published: 22 May 1952
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Marree. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1977 to 10/2/1979.
Exploration conducted over an area stretching westwards and eastwards from Marree, along the south-western margin of the Great Artesian Basin, addressed the potential for possible economic sedimentary deposits of trona, sodium bentonite, chlorite,...-
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Curdimurka. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/4/1979.
An area located along the Marree - Alice Springs Railway in the region of Curdimurka was selected to be explored on the basis of its potential to contain deposits of bedded trona in closed basins, and to have sodium carbonate brines present in near...-
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Mount Crawford. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 29/1/1970 to 28/1/1971.
61 shallow exploratory drillholes were completed in two of nine areas within the lease where it was considered that drilling might uncover additional shallowly buried resources of good quality kaolin. Nine of these holes encountered useable kaolin.-
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Mount Crawford [clay deposits]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/3/1970 to 31/8/1970.
Further evaluation of the development potential and marketability of white clay deposits found in the Mount Crawford area, that contain around 12 million tonnes of quartz-kaolin material, has been conducted by a new interested party, Springton Clays,...-
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1998 Mount Painter area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by PIRSA during July 2012 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Mount Painter region of SA on 28/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.5 m x 4.5 m, within a surveyed area of...-
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2008 Uno [Range] area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by Mega Hindmarsh during April-May 2008 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Uno Range - Lake Gilles North area of SA on 16/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.7 m x 4.7 m,...-
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Giddi Giddinna Creek. Progress reports for the period 7/12/1987 to 6/6/1988.
Investigation of the economic potential of magnesium sulphate and sodium sulphate secondary mineralisation discovered within the Early Cretaceous Bulldog Shale, 20 km north of Coober Pedy, was terminated following heap leaching trials.-
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/157 : production of an [advisory] manual re. laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks. Final report for the period February 1974 to December 1974.
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Poondana Rock. Progress reports for the period 11/12/1974 to 10/6/1976.
Seven core holes were drilled for a total penetration of 90 m, to test the Mount Sturt kaolin occurrence. Composite drill core samples were analysed to determine the clay's suitability for paper coating.-
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Published: 04 Apr 1976
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Poondana Rock. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/5/1973 to 22/11/1974.
Reports present drilling logs and laboratory testing analytical data for clay samples taken from the occurrences near Mount Sturt, aimed at finding material of commercial paper coating grade in economic quantities. No firm conclusions have been...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1974
