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RB 82/00042 Oraparinna barite mine - A summary.
Oraparinna or Bunkers Hill mine is the largest operating underground mine in SA and has produced more than 50% of all barite and nearly 90% of industrial grade barite mined in SA. It has been the largest supplier of industrial grade barite in...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1982
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RB 84/00039 Beltana barite deposits - No. 2 lode. Geological investigations 1983. Out of Hundreds - Flinders Ranges. Steetley Industries Ltd.
Barite with abundant botryoidal goethite and quartz formed during Ordovician Delamerian Orogeny as infillings of fissure near regional northwesterly fault. Largely mined for oil drilling grade barite. Uneconomic tonnages remain.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1984
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Oraparinna. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 22/7/1969 to 21/7/1970.
Exploration of the area around the margins of the Oraparinna Diapir for commercial barite deposits has consisted of aerial photographic studies, plus ground geological traverses of photo-interpreted fault structures, and geological mapping, trenching...-
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Yappala. Final report at licence surrender for the period 22/7/1969 to 21/7/1970.
Diapiric faults disrupting upper Adelaidean strata in an area centred 8 miles north of Hawker were examined to find out whether economic barite vein occurrences might have formed within them. No outcropping barite or any other significant...-
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