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Mintaro Slate and Flagstone - more than 150 years of production.
Mintaro Slate is produced from what is believed to be the oldest continuously operating quarry in Australia. The quarry was opened in the early 1850s, after Mintaro farmer Peter Brady discovered outcrops of slate in a creek bed on his property and...-
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RB 59/00153 Copper-silver-lead prospect, Peters Hill mine.
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 55/00082 Geological survey of road building material, portions of Counties Light and Stanley.
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 58/00092 Copper and silver-lead prospect, section 99 Hundred of Gilbert (10/4/1964).
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 47/00046 Mintaro slate quarries.
The slate deposit owned by the Mintaro Slate and Flagstone Co. has been known for about 100 years and since 1891 has been a steady producer of high quality flagstones.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 77/00030 Glen Osmond shale quarry, secn 1079 Hd Adelaide, PM 58 - PGH Industries Pty Ltd.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 77/00084;Amdel 01174 SADM/Amdel Project no. 1/1/198. Mintaro slate.
Late in 1976, the Mintaro Slate and Flagstone Company approached the South Australian Department of Mines seeking assistance to enable it to improve the efficiency of its operation and so enable it to operate more profitably in the face of competition...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1977
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RB 98/00015 Clare Valley groundwater resources. Progress report 1 - Hydrogeology, drilling and groundwater monitoring.
A fundamental question remains to be answered in the Clare Valley. How much water can be safely extracted without causing depletion of the groundwater resources? This question is being addressed by a major investigation into the groundwater...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1998
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Leighton. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 21/8/2009.
Basal Umberatana Group glacial tillitic sedimentary sequences and upper Burra Group interglacial arenaceous sediments were explored for possible economic stratabound gold mineralisation in an area located about 10-40 km north-west of Burra. In the...-
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SADME/Amdel mineral research project : [petrological/mineralogical and geochemical] investigation of Mintaro slate. Progress reports nos 1 and 2 for the period August 1978 to January 1979.
24 samples of quarried 'slate' (fine-grained dolomitic siltstone) from Mintaro were examined to determine microscopic reasons for the observed variability in their physical properties.-
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Published: 25 Jan 1979
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RB 65/00035 Clare Regional Geochemical Project.
This investigation was a feasibility study, therefore environmental factors are dealt with in much more detail than would be necessary in a routine geochemical report. Apparently these factors has little significant effect on the results. Spot...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 62/00028 Report on geochemical investigation, Burra project.
The pedological environment of the Burra area is described, the methods of soil sampling and sample penetration are given in detail and an outline of the spectrographic analytical procedure is given. Attempts at applying statistical methods to the...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1966
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RB 63/00065 Clay deposit, Clare (9/9/1966).
Greyish white, yellow-brown and greenish brown clays developed in situ by weathering of Adelaide System Mintaro shale have been auger drilled and laboratory tested. Possible uses for the clay are suggested. A stadia survey has been made and reserves...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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Mount Bryan. Annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/1/2008 to 7/5/2012.
Exploration for gold and copper mineralisation within an area located immediately south of Mount Bryan and 19 km north of Burra was aimed principally at finding deposits of copper oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra...-
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