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RB 52/00134 Amdel 00069 Utilization of South Australian phosphate deposits.
Summary of deposits, products, methods of producing phosphorus and phosphoric acid and production costs. All reserves are low grade and unsuitable for super phosphate, but probably amenable to electrothermal reduction for phosphoric acid. Tests on...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1961
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RB 60/00003 Newlands barite deposit.
A geological and topographical survey has been carried out on a number of lenticular barytes bodies which cross-cut schists and dolomites. Open cut mining of the bodies has previously been abandoned. Underground mining to follow the lode appears to be...-
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Published: 04 Jan 1965
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RB 55/00098; Amdel 00206 Phosphate deposits, Kapunda. Beneficiation by flotation.
Sample of phosphatic rock was tested by flotation with anionic and cationic reagents. No significant concentrations of apatite were obtained.-
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Published: 01 Aug 1962
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RB 55/00124; Amdel 00205 Phosphate deposits, Kapunda. Production of phosphoric acid.
At least 90% of the phosphate was leached with either nitric, hydrochloric or sulphuric acids. Products unsuitable for the surface preparation of steel. The most promising outlet would be for upgrading the P2O5 content of super phosphate fertilizer.-
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Published: 01 Oct 1962
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RB 58/00115 Report on breach of regulations - H.A. Schoof.
A serious breach of Section 17 of the Mines and Works Inspection Act 1920-1962, i.e. the employment of an under-age male person in underground working, was the subject of a complaint which was later verified at the Gumeracha Talc Mine owned by John...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 60/00059 Report on Morialta quartzite deposit.
A geological investigation of a deposit of Stonyfell Quartzite has been carried out. One subunit appears to be a suitable source of civil engineering construction aggregate. An area in which quarrying could be commenced is suggested.-
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Published: 18 Mar 1965
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RB 60/00071 (Report on the) Ukaparinga (Unaparinga) copper mine, Williamstown.
Copper carbonates are sporadically distributed throughout steeply dipping mica schist in a zone up to about 70 ft. wide. The host rocks have been regarded as overturned metamorphosed Burra Group (Torrensian) beds resting on the Aldgate Sandstone...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1965
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RB 50/00032 Quartzite deposit diamond drilling.
A bed of quartzite to over 150 feet in thickness situated adjacent to the Clare-Mintaro road has been tested by diamond drilling to prove its suitability for road building. Drilling has confirmed that there are over 2 million cubic yards of good...-
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Published: 11 Feb 1960
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RB 50/00100 Noarlunga limestone deposit diamond drilling.
A deposit of limestone situated adjacent to the south bank of the River Onkaparinga, 4 miles NE of Noarlunga, has been tested by diamond drilling to prove its suitability for road building. The good quality of the stone has been confirmed, although...-
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Published: 22 Mar 1960
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RB 44/00063 Myponga Dam Project - Geological investigation of the tunnel route on the proposed pipeline from the reservoir.
Detailed geological examination of the area in the vicinity of the proposed tunnel has shown that, provided suitable precautions are taken, there are no geological factors which will prevent the successful construction of a tunnel through the ridge...-
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Published: 02 May 1957
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RB 78/00069 Devils Chimney micaceous hematite deposit, sections 45, 46, Hd Minburra, Co. Herbert.
Very tight folding and remobilization of the Sturtian Holowilena Ironstone has produced a massive ironstone blow and small lenses of micaceous haematite. The haematitic quartz rock is not suitable for pigments, and lenses of haematite of pigment...-
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Published: 01 Jan 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 83/00077 Petrography of forty-two specimens from the Wangianna sheet.
Forty-two thin sections collected from the Skillogalee Dolomite are representative of carbonate and non-carbonate facies, and include shales, siltstones, sandstones and conglomerates. Many of the specimens are partly or wholly stromatolitic: two...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1983
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RB 84/00007 Sand and clay resources of the Maslin Beach-Pedlar Creek area.
Evaluates economic potential of all stratigraphic units and recommends modification of Extractive Industry Zone. Contains 115 million tonnes of construction sand predominantly in North Maslin Sand Member and widespread weathered bedrock brick shale....-
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Published: 30 Sep 1985
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RB 84/00012 Clay and sand resources, One Tree Hill.
Drilling has indicated reserves of 166 000 tonnes of white plastic clay and 35 000 tonnes of discoloured plastic clay and inferred reserves of 150 000 tonnes, overlain by 0.9 million tonnes of sand, mostly suitable for fill, but some for concrete or...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1984
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RB 84/00063 Review of Mount Serle barite deposits, northern Flinders Ranges.
Summarises data on 8 separate lodes. White, fine to coarsely crystalline barite, has deleterious quartz and limonite and only minor high grade barite. Barite was formed during Ordovician and Delamerian Orogeny as infillings of open fissures in faults,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 84/00061 Petrography of four specimens of igneous rock from Nairne.
Minor intrusives, of Early to Late Cambrian age, intruding Kanmantoo Group sediments, are strongly amphibolitised.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1984
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RB 85/00004 Kanmantoo Flagstone Quarry, secn 4416, Hd Kanmantoo, Co. Sturt.
Kanmantoo Quarry produces paving and walling stone from fine grained metasiltstone, with lesser biotite schist, belonging to Cambrian Brukunga Formation. Slab thickness is controlled by bedding plane partings 1 to 25 cm apart and slab size by 2 major...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1985
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RB 82/00080 Nilpena barite deposits - Geological investigations 1978-1979. Out of Counties, Flinders Ranges.
Nilpena deposits comprise no. 1 and 2 lodes and Jim Crowe lode on the western flank of the Flinders Ranges. The no. 1 and 2 lodes cross cut Brachina Formation on the western limb of the Nuccaleena Dome, whereas Jim Crowe lode has been emplaced along...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1982
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RB 83/00026 Forreston talc deposits, results of geological investigation and auger drilling, 1982, Adler, Jeanes, Gigante and Western Queen (SA) Pty Ltd - Sections 6109, 6274 and 6380, Hundred Talunga.
Talc deposits in Torrensian Woolshed Flat Shale and Stonyfell Quartzite were investigated by auger drilling of 84 shallow holes and 3 trenches. Inferred reserves total 9 800 tonnes.-
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Published: 01 Apr 1983
