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RB 51/00144 Cromer C white clay deposit. Sections 136, 143 and 154 Hundred Para Wirra - County Adelaide.
The Cromer-C clay deposit consists of three groups of workings extending over 1¼ miles in fractured greywacke rooks of the Kanmantoo Group of sediments. The white clay is derived from kaolinisation of the original sediments possibly due to hydro...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 43/00053 White clay deposit, Hundred of Miltalie.
The deposit of clay situated on the northern bank of Salt Creek was first recorded by Departmental Prospector, A.S. Giles, in September, 1949. A twenty acre Claim was pegged by the claimholder in 1951 after a proclamation made this land available for...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 83/00001 South Australian commercial clays, geology, mining and use. A talk and field excursion presented to 8th Biennial Conference of Australia Clay Minerals Society, Adelaide, August, 1982.
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 78/00017 Non metallic minerals and the future.
South Australia has been a traditional source of non metallic minerals. Those minerals currently being mined that offer scope for expansion is – Barite – In pigments, drilling muds, the manufacture of barium chemicals and for medical purposes...-
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Published: 20 Feb 1978
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RB 77/00096;Amdel 01177 Aluminium sulphate from Birdwood clay.
The Engineering and: Water Supply Department has let a contract to Adelaide and Wallaroo Fertilizers limited for the supply of an estimated 8,000 to 25,000'tonnes per annum of aluminium sulphate solution OW.5% A1203) to be used% ais'a coagulant for...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 89/00024 Shale and clay supplies for metropolitan Adelaide - Preliminary report for the Mount Lofty Ranges Review.
This report summarises the main consumers, reserves, production and probable life of current mines and identifies potential alternative sources. Shale reserves in the currently worked pits are sufficient for 50 years, white plastic clay at Golden...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 90/00007 Industrial minerals in South Australia. Current operations and future trends.
Established producers have taken advantage of export opportunities for gypsum, salt and dolomite. New developments include a graphite processing plant at the former Uley Graphite Mine and trial mining of micaceous iron oxide for pigments. Proposals...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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RB 91/00086 Mineral occurrences of the YARDEA 1:250 000 map sheet area.
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Published: 01 Sep 1991
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RB 91/00087 Mineral occurrences of the ELLISTON 1:250 000 map sheet area.
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Published: 01 Sep 1991
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RB 89/00074 Industrial and non metallic minerals - Operations in South Australia.
This data package discusses mining and processing operations of the major non metallic and industrial mineral commodities in South Australia and is of interest to those in the industry and to manufacturers and suppliers of a range of machinery and...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 91/00085 Mineral occurrences of the KIMBA 1:250 000 map sheet area.
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Published: 01 Sep 1991
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tootla. Annual reports for the period 6/6/2009 to 13/10/2015.
During the 2009-2010 reporting year, Great Southern Kaolin Pty Ltd (GSK)'s activities comprised: - commissioning the pilot plant at the fabrication site in Kingaroy, Qld, in May-June 2010, and processing about 2 t of kaolinised granite through it to...-
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Mount Magnificent. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 30/9/1968 to 29/12/1968.
Fourteen shallow auger holes to 30 feet deep were drilled in the Mount Magnificent area to test an occurrence of kaolinised sand which might suit as raw material for refractory ceramic manufacture. Laboratory sieve analyses and clay silica...-
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Williamstown. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 28/3/1983 to 29/3/1984.
In a search for possible extensions to existing, almost worked-out poddy deposits of damourite mica and kaolinised sillimanite, that may occur within an area of prospective Barossa Complex Proterozoic basement inlier rocks located south-east of...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1984
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Geological investigations of clay, mica and sillimanite occurrences at Williamstown, and evolving mine development plans and alternatives. Progress reports for the period 6/10/1976 to July 1984.
Dataset contains Amdel - derived mineralogical and petrological data on the ore and host rocks, plus the mine operator's reports on its plans to resume and optimize production of the unique ore types known to exist in four current mine pits and their...-
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Starvation Creek, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/5/1978 to 18/5/1980.
A programme of rotary drilling on Kangaroo Island of 56 shallow exploratory holes for 191 m, conjointly carried out by Comalco on its ELs 396 and 408, was designed to test for possible economic bauxite and low iron bauxite claystone occurrences...-
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RB 67/00058 Exploration for argillaceous material for cement manufacture, Yorke Peninsula - Adelaide Cement Co. Ltd.
Investigations carried out since 1964 have shown that although there are large reserves of Permian, Tertiary and Quaternary clays present near Klein Point, their chemical composition or physical characteristics render them unsuitable for use in the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 71/00194 Murray Bridge to Onkaparinga pipeline summit storage, Mount Barker junction, secn 5214 Hd Onkaparinga. Geological investigation, report no. 2, construction.stage - EWS Department.
In response to a verbal request by Mr R Good, Designing Engineer, Engineering and Water Supply Department, geological investigations were carried out to locate and determine the strike and dip of a possibly permeable metasandstone layer, which was...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1971
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RB 72/00108;Amdel 00853 Investigations of ceramics based on barytes.
Based on earlier published work on barium sulphate-alumina-silica systems, Amdel submitted a proposal to the South Australian Department of Mines to examine the application of these reported methods to South Australian barytes and kaolin. The proposal...-
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Published: 01 May 1972
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RB 74/00018 Clay, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
