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Lake Greenly area [Mount Hope kaolin deposit]. Progress and final reports to licence renewal for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/9/1974.
Appraisal of a newly discovered large deposit of kaolin, found in the near surface regolith to Archaean basement on two farms situated 7 km south of Mount Hope on southern Eyre Peninsula, has consisted of further air/rotary drilling (35 holes, total...-
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Amdel reports on the physical and mineralogical properties of white clay samples taken from a core cut in Kalabity drillhole K59.
Clay sample CE3989 has a brightness that is well below the requirements for a paper coating clay (85% or greater). Bleaching of the - 2 micron clay fraction increased the brightness to filler grade requirements (75-85%). Clay sample CE4008 has a...-
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Published: 20 Apr 1972
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RB 57/00023;Amdel 00263 White clay deposit, Salt Creek, Cowell. Beneficiation tests.
Wet processed china clay rock is suitable as filler in paper manufacture and, with further reduction in grit content, for coating paper. Dry processed clay not bright enough for paper manufacture.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1963
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RB 57/00047A Mineral fillers and pigments. Progress report 25th to 30th June, 1963.
At the request of the South Australian Department of Mines a survey of current Australian usage of mineral fillers and pigments was made. The survey was intended to determine the consumptions and specifications typical of various industries and to...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1963
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RB 57/00047;Amdel 00266 Fillers and pigments. Survey of industry.
At the request of the South Australian Government Department of Mines a survey was made of current Australian usage of mineral fillers and pigments. The survey was intended to determine the consumption and specification typical of various industries...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1963
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RB 60/00055 Auger boring of Hackham clay deposit.
Near horizontally bedded Upper Eocene sediments comprising Blanche Point Marls, Tortachilla Limestone and South Maslin Sands, have been test bored at Hackham in the Noarlunga Basin, in the search for a bentonite - type clay deposit which might provide...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1965
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RB 48/00055 Activation of clays. Part 3. A study of the adsorption of polar organic molecules on montmorillonite clays (RD 68).
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 84/00065 Draft report, Williamstown industrial mineral deposits. Geology of kaolin sillimanite muscovite deposits, near Williamstown, Hd Barossa, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Aust.
This report presents a comprehensive summary of the results of considerable geological, survey and beneficiation work which has been carried out at four mines. The mined deposits have been formed in Burra Group schists and gneisses that constitute the...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 83/00058 Williamstown kaolin-sillimanite-mica deposits.
Report describes these unusual mineral deposits which are currently the only source in Australia of refractory grade sillimanite and filler grade mica.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 79/00140;Amdel 01296 Absorbents - Palygorskite and montmorillonite (Amdel report no. 1296).
Background: Examination of certain samples of clay from the Lake Frome area had indicated that there exist potentially large deposits of palygorskite-rich clay of possible economic value. An investigation of absorbent clays in general was requested...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 93/00018 Review of exploration for kaolin near Poochera, northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
The kaolin deposits located south-west of Poochera on northern Eyre Peninsula have formed by deep weathering of early to mid-Proterozoic crystalline basement rocks, which are now blanketed by late Tertiary to Quaternary terrestrial sediments. During...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1993
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RB 93/00037 Review of exploration for kaolin in the Kimba area, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
During 1969-72, kaolinised bedrock south of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula was investigated by Pechiney and CSR Ltd as a potential source of alumina. Exploration drilling of 102 holes outlined 4 broad areas of kaolinisation at Kelly Tank,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1993
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Giddi Giddinna Creek. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/lapse of tenure, for the period 16/6/1983 to 23/9/1987.
In early 1983, mineral prospector Peter Tayler discovered a near-surface secondary occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a creek-bank exposure of Mesozoic shales, deposited at the base of the Lower Cretaceous Bulldog Shale near the western...-
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Published: 23 Jun 1987
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Garford Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 12/4/1983 to 11/4/1984.
After a regional review of the absorbent clay mineral potential of known palygorskite and attapulgite - bearing Middle Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in an area centred 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, a possibly economic partly-exposed attapulgite...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1984
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Mount Sturt clay deposit. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/10/1971 to 20/10/1972.
A large tonnage (~10-50 Mt), easily mined deposit of white kaolin found by the landowner on a property at Mount Sturt has been partly evaluated by auger drilling 44 shallow holes totalling 707 feet, to obtain samples for materials testing and to...-
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Petrology and diagenesis of the Tirrawarra Sandstone in the Tirrawarra Field, Cooper Basin.
57 selected drill core plug samples from the Permian Tirrawarra Sandstone in 6 wells on the Tirrawarra Field were examined petrographically using thin section, XRD and SEM techniques. The contract brief was to try to establish reasons for observed...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1981
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RB 75/00006 Introduction to laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks.
'Industrial minerals' are those minerals or assemblages of minerals which are economically important because of their physical or chemical properties, rather than their metal or energy content. The term is synonymous with 'non-metallic minerals', and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1974
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RB 2007/00022 [South Australian earth] resources production [statistics] for the 6 month [period] ended [30] June 2007.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2007, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2007
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RB 2016/00003 South Australian mineral resource production statistics for the six month [period] ended 30 June 2015.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2015, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2016
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RB 2012/00011 South Australian mineral resources production statistics for the six month [period] ended 31st December 2011.
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Published: 01 May 2012
