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RB 64/00098 Halcotrack track mounted air drilling orientation programme, Brukunga, Hd Kanmantoo.
Use of the Halcotrack track-mounted air drill is confined to easily accessible areas with dry subsurface conditions. Travel rate is very slow. Low angles of depression are not well accommodated. Compact indurated rocks are best drilled. This is not a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 73/00260 Sulphur, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
South Australia has no known reserves of elemental sulphur. On the southern shore of Lake Eyre native sulphur occurs as nodules within crystalline gypsum resulting from micro-biological reduction of gypsum (Bonython and King, 1956; Baas-Becking and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Sedan lignite deposit. Geological investigations and review of resources.
In October 2000 GTL Energy Pty Ltd began commercial investigations into the feasibility of establishing within Australia newly proven [coal] gas-to-liquids technology for combining power generation and synfuel production, by identifying potentially...-
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RB 26/00118 Gibraltar pyrite deposit near Nairne, SA.
Ideal location - 26 miles from Adelaide - good climate. 3½ miles from Nairne on Adelaide-Melbourne railway line. Electric supply to Nairne-Power requirements could probably be obtained from supply company. Small flow permanent water beside deposit,...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1949
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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/9/1976 to 9/9/1978.
Work consisted of gathering all available information and advice on, and assessing the problems associated with, treatment of the Moorlands deposit low rank brown coal to make it a fuel suitable for use in cement manufacture within a newly constructed...-
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Burdunga Rock Hole. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/10/1975 to 19/11/1976.
TARGET: Permian coal in the Tallaringa Trough, east of Maralinga. EXPLORATION: An 11 hole RC drilling programme totalling 1480 m. RESULTS: Eight drillholes intersected up to 4 horizons of lignite and lignitic clay of demonstrated Eocene age, that...-
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Mypolonga, Oakbank and Sturt Vale (part of CRA's Murray Basin Project). Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 7/7/1980 to 20/6/1983.
As part of ongoing exploration of three areas in the western and northern Murray Basin, an open-file data review, in conjunction with the acquisition and interpretation of previous aeromagnetic and gravity data, provided a basis for CRAE's siting of 5...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1983
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Blinman, Maggie Hill, Martins Well, Willippa, Bibliando, Upalinna and Mount Hemming. Quarterly, annual and final reports for the period 14/1/90 to 27/4/96.
Possible intrusive Proterozoic salt bodies beneath the Blinman, Upalinna, Martins Well, Mt Hemming, Willippa and Bibliando Domes were investigated by field mapping, including the construction of measured outcrop stratigraphic sections, seismic...-
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Current research on production of sulfur from gypsum at the Salt Lake City Metallurgy Research Center, US Bureau Mines.
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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SML 266 Frome Downs, SA. Final report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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Thermal processes for sulphur production.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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Engineering study sulphur and soda ash from gypsum at Thevenard, SA.
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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Bunabie. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 200 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and 28 km...-
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Koonalda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 130 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and south of...-
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Lake MacDonnell. Progress reports for the period 17/6/1968 to 16/6/1969.
Investigations included studies on production of sulphur, sulphuric acid, and other chemicals from gypsum, a feasibility study on scaled production operations for export of gypsum, and product marketing studies. There are no technical difficulties...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1968
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Nullarbor. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary cored holes totalling 189 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast just west of...-
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Arckaringa [North-east]. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 3/6/2014.
An area of 185 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the East Wintinna coal deposit. This deposit had been discovered by Meekatharra...-
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Published: 11 Jul 2014
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Camel Lake. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2023.
An area located ~ 70 km north-east of Ooldea Siding and 50 km east of Maralinga is being explored for the industrial mineral kaolin, and more particularly its crystallographic form halloysite, which typically occurs as microtubules or nanotubes which...-
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Published: 21 Nov 2023
