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Barton. Second partial surrender report, for the period 18/1/2006 to 28/9/2018.
A further ~24.3% of a licence located 130 km north of Fowlers Bay and immediately south of the Trans Australia Railway, in the vicinity of Barton Siding, has been relinquished due to its perceived diminished potential for finding economic deposits of...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1918
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Warramboo (part of the Eyre Peninsula Project). Diamond exploration farminee's final report for the period July 1997 to 31/10/1998.
Investigations of the likely diamond potential of a part of the central Eyre Peninsula were conducted under a farm-in joint venture agreement which was in place for about fifteen months. Work comprised the collection of six drill cuttings bulk...-
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Ifould Lake. Progress and relinquishment reports for the period 20/8/86 to 19/8/88.
TARGET: Heavy mineral sands in the Ooldea Range. EXPLORATION: Stream sediment sampling and RC drilling traverses (55 holes totalling 864 m). RESULTS: Low grade heavy mineral values were recorded in several drill holes.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Alawoona. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/4/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey during November...-
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Published: 13 May 1991
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Manunda Homestead. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/6/1979 to 24/6/1980.
Diamond exploration over an area located approximately 35 km south-east of Yunta was undertaken to assess an interpreted structural environment that may be similar to one existing nearby to the west close to Terowie, in which shallowly buried,...-
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Strzelecki 3. Test reports.
Investigates thermodynamics of cyclic process for separating ferric oxide and titanium dioxide by selective chlorination, after oxidation of ilmenite. Major engineering problems for operation on industrial scale.-
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Bull 013 Pigment Minerals in South Australia
During the past twenty years attention has been directed to the natural resources of the State in pigment materials, and a considerable body of information, based 011 official reports, has been accumulated, which is now collected into this Bulletin,...-
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RB 00722 Entrained state heater for chlorination of ilmenite.
Potential of fluidized bed entrained state heater system is limited. Process not economic at current titanium prices and technical difficulties remain.-
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RB 00585 Chlorination of ilmenite for production of rutile. Part 1. Evaluation of fluid bed characteristics and preliminary cost estimates.
A process for extracting titanium dioxide from ilmenite by chlorination is described. Fluidising characteristics of ilmenites from various sources have been determined experimentally. A small fluid bed reactor, constructed for investigation described....-
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RB 00560 Extraction of rutile from leach residues of Radium Hill concentrate.
Particle size classification, followed by magnetic separation and flotation, respectively extracted 14% and 44% of the TiO2 content of leach residues of Radium Hill ore concentrates sampled from the Port Pirie uranium treatment plant.-
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RB 00676 Chlorination of ilmenite. Review of project, and economic assessment.
The cyclic chlorination process for conversion of rutile produced from beach sand, and of ilmenite, into titanium tetrachloride, has potential for commercial production. Further testing work is recommended.-
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RB 00698 Chlorination of ilmenite. Reaction kinetics and reactor design.
Experiments were carried out which measured the rates at which chlorine reacts with oxidized ilmenite contained in, and also the rates of heat transfer to, a chlorination reactor set up for extracting titanium dioxide from ilmenite - bearing beach...-
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RB 00688 Chlorination of ilmenite. A thermodynamic study.
A three-stage process has been proposed for producing ferric oxide and titanium dioxide as seperate products from ilmenite. Thermodynamic data avaliable from the literature were insufficient for assessment of the process. This report is an account of...-
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RB 76/00110 Investigation of heavy mineral sands, Morrison Beach, Kangaroo Island.
Heavy mineral sands are mined at Morrison Beach for their rutile and zircon content, with ilmenite and staurolite recovered as by-products. There appears to have been only one main period of heavy mineral deposition, which occurred during a high...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Billa Kalina, Welcome Creek, Millers Creek, Margaret Creek and Francis Swamp (the Billa Kalina G2 Diamond Project). Data release made at remaining licences' joint partial surrender: joint annual reports for the period 25/2/2006 to 29/8/2012.
As part of continuing diamond exploration on the subject five licences, more of the first pass sampling program was completed by Flinders Diamonds in August 2006 via aircore drilling of 47 vertical holes for an aggregate 1852 m aimed at penetrating to...-
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Published: 10 May 1912
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Mineralogy of heavy mineral separates from sediments of Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
35 surface samples of various clastic sediments deposited on Kangaroo Island were studied microscopically to see if the respective abundances, composition and mineralogical features of their heavy mineral grain components might shed light on possible...-
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Published: 07 Jun 1902
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Eucla Basin Area J (part of tenement reporting Group 4). First partial surrender report for the period 19/10/2012 to 12/11/2013.
A group of exploration licences located on the northern margin of the Eucla Basin, and situated north of the Trans Australian Railway, which cover ground extending into the Eocene to Miocene marginal marine depositional hinterland behind the Barton...-
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Published: 11 Dec 1913
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Florieton. Combined first annual / final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/5/2013 to 20/12/2013.
An area consisting of two separate sub-blocks located ~50 km north-east and east of Burra has been explored for possible economic buried marine placer heavy mineral (HM) sand deposits. The target strata comprised littoral marine sediments of the...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1913
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Mount Mary. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 15/3/2010 to 24/1/2014.
An area centred ~7 km west-southwest of Morgan has been explored since 8/7/2013 by Iluka Resources (Iluka) for possible economic buried Tertiary heavy mineral sands deposits. The company was targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand (LPS)...-
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Published: 22 Mar 1914
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Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 5/3/2002 to 28/2/2009.
The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...-
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