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RB 44/00091 Lake Fowler gypsum deposit (29/5/1957).
A programme of 39 hand auger holes was carried out for CSR Limited, of Sydney, to define a reported bed of gypsum occuring below the level of the base of the gypsum dunes. The grade of gypsum found was generally lower than that in the dunes and is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 42/00062 Summary of the gypsum industry in South Australia, as at March 1956.
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 45/00032 Diamond Lake gypsum deposits.
Gypsum deposits occurring at Diamond Lake are at present being worked at the rate of 200 tons per week by Mr. C.D. Bartsch of Nuriootpa. The area of the deposits is private property owned by Mr. E.W. Wilson of Whitwarta, with minerals alienated from...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 45/00110 Report on bulk sampling procedure, 5000 ton shipment of gypsum ex. Thevenard.
At the request of Waratah Gypsum Pty. Ltd. bulk sampling of a 5000 ton shipment of Gypsum for export overseas from the Lake Macdonnell deposit, was carried out by Department of Mines officers, Messrs. C. R. Sandman, Metallurgist, and C. M. Willington,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 47/00150 Scout drilling of gypsum occurrences, Hd Haines and other localities, Kangaroo Island (RB 617).
Scout drilling undertaken by hand, on a number of salt lakes in the hundred of Haines, and isolated lakes in the hundreds of Newland and Dudley on Kangaroo Island, indicates that no gypsum occurs in these lakes. Without exception, mud and clay overlie...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 48/00148 Gypsum deposits near Streaky Bay and some other localities on Eyre Peninsula.
A survey of gypsum-bearing lakes on Eyre Peninsula has indicated a promising deposit about 10 miles SSE of Streaky Bay. Other deposits examined, namely those near Charra, Point De Mole, Lake Yaninee, Kopi, Lake Malata and Lake Greenly suffer from one...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 48/00005 Testing of marginal gypsum and estimates of gypsum reserves - Lake MacDonnell.
Three small areas (total about 0.8 sq. miles) outside existing gypsum leases near Lake MacDonnell have been tested by Proline auger and found to contain gypsum reserves estimated at about 2,850,000 tons. It is estimated that 29,000,000 tons of gypsum...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 48/00013 Gypsum deposits, near Maninee and Kopi.
A short survey of gypsum deposits at Lake Yaninee and Kopi indicates that the best gypsum is at Kopi. Here a large dune immediately west of the rail siding contains an estimated minimum of 44,000 tons. The dune is composed largely of pale brown seed...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 47/00004 Gypsum deposit, sections 72-74 and 78 Hundred of Melville.
On March 18 - 19th, 1958, samples were taken by means of a post hole auger from the floor of a saline lake situated in Hundred Melville, sections 72,73, 74 and 78 3½ miles by road west south west of Yorketown on Southern Yorke Peninsula. The samples...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 47/00137 Treatment of overburden from Kangaroo Island gypsum deposit (RD 85).
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 86/00069 Precious opal and the weathered profile at Coober Pedy.
The Coober Pedy Precious Stones Field is the largest producer of precious opal in the world. The opal is the product of weathering processes and is localised within the weathered profile. It occurs in early Cretaceous marine claystone of the Bulldog...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1986
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RB 76/00120 Stenhouse Bay gypsum deposits, core sampling of Snow Lake and Spider Lake.
Gypsum reserves in Snow Lake and Spider Lake within Innes National Park on southern Yorke Peninsula have been delineated by core sampling and auger drilling. Snow Lake contains indicated geological reserves of 2.8 million tonnes of gypsum to an...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 84/00080 Reappraisal of gypsum reserves, Streaky Bay Lakes, Eyre Peninsula.
Based on 112 drill holes in 1959 and 32 in 1969, proved reserves were recalculated as 44 million tonnes in Lake Purdilla, 1 metre or more thick at average grade of 88.4% gypsum and 6 million tonnes in Lake Toorna, 1 metre or more thick at average...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1985
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RB 83/00007 Coober Pedy Opalfields - Results of the subsidised exploration programme, 1981.
221 shafts were drilled. Precious opal or potch was found in 11 shafts and good sandstone prospective for opal in 34 shafts. A new field, Southern Cross, was established subsequent to the discovery of potch in subsidised shaft 85.-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 88/00020 1:250 000 geological series - Explanatory Notes CURNAMONA - South Australia.
The area mapped includes most of the area south of Lake Frome between the Flinders and Barrier Ranges, and part of the Olary Hills. Basin nomenclature has been revised for the Cainozoic. Drilling by CSR, Minad and Petromin NL has been used in the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1988
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RB 76/00119 Silcrete sediments and stratigraphy.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 79/00159 Three sections measured in Lower Adelaidean (Proterozoic) rocks, southeastern Curdimurka area.
Stratigraphic sections were measured through the Callanna Beds and lower Burra Group, by tape and air photo enlargement, at the following localities: (1) north-east of Kingston Dam, (2) south-east of Dome Hill and (3) west of Callanna Homestead. At...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 79/00055 Petrographic study of the sediments in seven Officer Basin stratigraphic wells.
Core and cuttings from 7 stratigraphic wells in the Officer Basin were examined principally to develop a depositional model for sediments of pre-Permian age. Evidence from 6 of the wells suggests that an epeiric environment prevailed during ?Cambrian...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00092 Petrophysical data on Wilkinson stratigraphic drillhole no. 1.
Various petrophysical property measurements (total count radiometric, mag susceptibility and specific gravity) were made at 1-metre intervals on samples of stored drill core recovered from the hole depth range 210 m to 710 m (TD) in SADME Wilkinson 1...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 90/00074 Explanatory Notes for the ELLISTON 1:250 000 map sheet.
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Published: 01 Nov 1990
