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RB 78/00065 Nephrite jade deposits near Cowell. Report no. 2 - Trial mining and evaluation of the jade.
Cowell jade province contains 100 outcrops. The nephrite jade is associated with isoclinally folded dolomitic marble and calc silicate horizon in the upper Gneiss Complex of the Early Proterozoic Cleve Metamorphics. Discusses mining methods and quality.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00128 Potential sealing aggregate sites for the Stuart Highway.
Aggregate for sealing the Stuart Highway will be required to be sourced from three main areas (localities a-c below) in addition to the existing quarry at Woocalla. Within these areas eleven potential sites have been nominated, from which three or...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00022 Marla-1A, Marla-1B well completion report. Report no. 5 of the Officer Basin study group.
Marla 1A and 1B reached 215.30 metres and 379.40 metres respectively, penetrating aeolian sands overlying the Bulldog Shale, Cadna-owie Formation an d Observatory Hill Beds. In contrast to Byilkaoora 1, oil shows and calcite pseudomorphs after...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 82/00052 Oraparinna barite deposits. Geological investigations at the Oraparinna Bunker Hill mine, Co. Taunton, Flinders Ranges.
Total output from 1940 - 1979 is 180 000 tonnes. The deposits are in folded Marinoan shale and siltstone of the Wilpena Group, within a cone shaped graben, structurally controlled by the Oraparinna Diapir. All lodes are within Brachina Formation,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1982
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RB 84/00062 Petrography of forty two specimens from within and south of the Burra open cut copper mine.
Includes a discussion about probable processes of mobilisation and recrystallisation of the dolomitic sediments, and describes the evidence found for the presence of a pyroclastic component in many of the non-carbonate sedimentary rock samples.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 83/00069 Identification of a mineral from Hamilton Hill, Curdimurka area.
Prismatic pyramidal crystals from a vein in the Cretaceous Bulldog Shale are identified as possible celestite.-
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Published: 01 Aug 1983
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RB 85/00032 Rocks from the Kanmantoo Trough near Sedan Hill including possible equivalents to the Truro Volcanics.
21 specimens of volcanics and felsic gneisses are heterogeneous in both original lithology and the extent of metamorphic and metasomatic alteration. Strong granitic metasomatism may indicate concealed granitoid plutons. Continuation of andesitic...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1985
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RB 76/00142 Nankabunyana barite deposit, Out of Counties, Flinders Ranges.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 04 Nov 1976
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RB 80/00037 Geology of the Montacute dolomite quarry, sections 330, 332, 833, Hundred Onkaparinga. PMs 136, 137 - The Readymix Group (SA).
Reserves of 12.1 million tonnes of dolomite are indicated, but are conditional upon removal of 2.2 million tonnes of waste dumps and of 5.8 million tonnes of phyllite.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 83/00087 Patawarta barite deposit, out of Counties, Flinders Ranges.
2 small vertical lodes which cross cut dolomite, contain inferred reserves of 1100 tonnes of oil drilling grade barite. Selective mining should also yield industrial grade, if deeper barite is less iron stained. Neither lode has been worked.-
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Published: 01 Nov 1983
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RB 84/00005 Petrography of eight rocks from the Wangianna sheet.
Sediments deposited in environment similar to present day inland drainage system.-
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Published: 01 Feb 1984
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RB 76/00130 Barite deposits near Mount John, Out of Counties Flinders Ranges, ML 4319 and 4320 - J.H. Coad.
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Published: 14 Oct 1976
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RB 80/00044 Limestone and dolomite deposits, Port Wakefield area. Report no. 1 - Review and reconnaissance sampling, Hundred of Kulpara - Electricity Trust of SA.
The Electricity Trust of South Australia requires a source of high grade limestone or dolomite to be used in the planned industrial firing process for brown coal from the Wakefield coal deposit. A SADME survey of available literature, supplemented by...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1980
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RB 81/00002 Petrographic descriptions of Willyama Complex rocks and Umberatana Group metasediments, northern Outalpa Inlier, Olary Province.
Petrology of 174 rocks indicate that 5 deformation phases (D1 - D5) are present within this dominantly schistose domain. Describes many samples which contain gneissosity, schistosity or crenulation.-
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Published: 01 Aug 1980
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RB 78/00017 Non metallic minerals and the future.
South Australia has been a traditional source of non metallic minerals. Those minerals currently being mined that offer scope for expansion is – Barite – In pigments, drilling muds, the manufacture of barium chemicals and for medical purposes...-
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Published: 20 Feb 1978
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RB 78/00019 Petrological descriptions of 60 rocks from the Middle Camp, Narridy Creek and Plug Range areas, eastern Eyre Peninsula.
Describes rocks from 3 areas formerly mapped as Flinders Group. Granites in each area are distinctively different, but metasediments are similar.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00157 Cambrian alkali playa-lacustrine sequence in the northeastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Byilkaoora 1, a stratigraphic well drilled in the northeastern part of the Officer Basin in South Australia, intersected aeolian and fluvial sandstones and mudstones overlying 224 m of fine-grained, dolomitic, calcareous and argillaceous sediments...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 80/00079 Lithologies and interpretations of the Observatory Hill Beds, Marla 1A and 1B.
A detailed description and interpretation of the carbonate lithologies present in drill cores recovered from two recently completed SADME stratigraphic wells have revealed that the Observatory Hill Beds in the Marla area were deposited in a shallow...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 80/00139 Tumby Bay marble EML 3554. T.W. Norton, sections 288, 299, Hundred Hutchison, County Flinders.
EML 3554, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, contains 3 separate marble outcrops, each 40 metres wide, of similar mineralogy, which are isoclinally-folded Katunga Dolomite of the Hutchison Group of Lower Proterozoic age. The marble quarries where mapped, surveyed...-
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Published: 12 Nov 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
