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RB 38/00053 Report on an inspection of an asbestos deposit located on Mount Lyndhurst Station.
A minor outcropping occurrence of blue-grey ?tremolite asbestos found in a fault crush zone located near the head of Mount Lyndhurst Creek was visited to assess its economic viability. Because of the largely narrow and unpredictable development of the...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1954
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RB 57/00014 Report on visit to Western Australian iron and manganese deposits in May 1963.
A comparison of known iron deposits in Western Australia and South Australia suggests that large, high grade iron orebodies occur in flatly dipping favourable horizons which have a leached and oxidised appearance: siliceous, steeply dipping iron...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1963
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Verran and Malbrom (the Verran Project, then the Arno Graphite Project). Joint annual reports plus annual report, for the period 29/1/2014 to 28/1/2019.
Two licence areas together covering the hinterland to Arno Bay and Port Gibbon on eastern Eyre Peninsula, and extending as far north-westwards as Rudall, are being explored for economic buried graphite deposits that may have formed in deformed high...-
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Burra - Chinaman Hat Hill area. First partial surrender report, for the period 17/5/1979 to 16/5/1980.
The target was possible diamonds, with base metals and coal as secondary interests. Initially, a 1:25,000 scale colour aerial photographic survey was flown across part of the now relinquished licence area, to assist BHP in mapping geomorphic and...-
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RB 00656 Recovery of asbestos from mill tailings. First report.
A request dated 19th January, 1959, was received from Australian Blue Asbestos Limited, Wittenoom Gorge, Western Australia, initiating an investigation for recovering the asbestos fibre not being recovered by the existing treatment methods. The...-
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The Needles - Sitting Bull area [portion of Arkaroola Station]. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1969.
Numerous small, occasionally high grade occurrences of talc and asbestiform amphibole minerals, barite, vermiculite and sodic feldspar were discovered by prospecting across a wide, often rugged hilly area lying to the north-west of Arkaroola...-
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Cowell. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/6/1965 to 31/12/1965.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of chrysotile asbestos, carried out across the Miltalie Hills and surrounding hinterland near Cowell, has consisted of detailed 1:12,000 scale geological mapping of the outcropping metamorphosed bedrock, in...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1965
