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Beneficiation of monazite ore.
Beneficiation of a bulk sample of monazite ore taken from Monazite Hill, from an orebody containing in excess of 5 million tons of ore with a monazite content of 5-6%, yielded poor results.-
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RB 77/00018;Amdel 01146 Rare earths from Port Pirie tailings dam. Stage 2.
10 tonnes SC2O3, 50 tonnes Y2O3 450 tonnes Ln2O3 from the slimes fraction can be treated by simple roast leach solvent extraction process. Recovery from the solid residue would not be economically competitive.-
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Published: 01 Feb 1977
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Data release - as updated : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2008 to 11/11/2018.
Reedy Lagoon Corp. (RLC) has continued to look for minerals other than diamond, operating as the manager of exploration work for base metals (mainly copper) and uranium that was undertaken by the Edward Creek Base Metal Joint Venture (“ECBMJV”) during...-
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Vivonne Bay (part of the Kangaroo Island Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/5/2017 to 8/5/2019.
A small area located immediately west and north-west of Vivonne Bay on Kangaroo Island has been explored for possible economic occurrences of the lithium, tantalum and rare earth element (REE) - bearing accessory minerals lepidolite, zinnwaldite and...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1919
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Mount Caernarvon, Mount Havelock and Arkaba Hill (part of the Torrens Project). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 17/1/2012 to 14/12/2017.
An adjoining group of tenements located between Hawker and Wilpena Pound were taken up to explore for possible buried economic hydrothermal stratiform copper mineralisation which may have formed in sandy strata next to significant disruptive...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 7/11/2008 to 6/11/2011.
No field work was undertaken during licence Year 7, but Stellar instead did a review of the Cowell area's prospectivity for Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted sedimentary uranium mineralisation. Previous drilling data for the local Pirie Basin sediments...-
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Published: 05 Dec 1911
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Bull 034 Regional Geology and Mineral Resources of the Olary Province
Mineral prospecting in the Olary Province began many years ago, about the time of discovery of the great Broken Hill lode of New South Wales. Although many discoveries were made, and a number of mines worked, no significant producers survived from the...-
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RB 00063 The Radium Hill Mining Field.
Uraniferous lodes at Radium Hill occur as shear replacements and infillings along overthrust type fractures developed within a domed anticline (northeast-southwest major axis) in granitised metasediments. At least three major shear zones have...-
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RB 76/00021;Amdel 00545 Yttrium oxide from Port Pirie uranium plant residues.
26 tons of yttrium and 4 tons scandium are extractable from 2 tailings dams with high sulphate content but less than 10% extraction possible from bulk of uranium leach residues with high solid mineral content.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1967
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RB 76/00097;Amdel 01118 Rare earths from Port Pirie tailings dams.
No satisfactory process for direct chemical treatment of the bulk Port Pirie tailings. Effectiveness of high intensity magnetic separation for concentrating monazite and xenotime from deslimed tailing should be assessed. Slimes fraction is suitable...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1976
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Mount Norwest (part of the Willouran Ranges Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/cancellation, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2013.
A search primarily directed at assessing the stratiform copper and magnesite potential of an area centred 50 km south-west of Marree has consisted mainly of office studies comprising the collection and review of open file geoscientific data. Early in...-
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RB 33/00072 Callawonga Creek wolfram prospect.
The Queen Mary Wolfram Mine at Callawonga Creek which was discovered in 1911, worked till 1918 and reopened in 1952 is the only one three local workings to produce worthwhile wolfram ore. The mine is located intersecting pneumatolytic quartz veins...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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North Well Creek area. Quarterly progress reports and final report for the period 7/3/90 to 6/3/94.
Exploration, initially looking for rare metal elements within beryl, tantalite and ilmenorutile suite mineral occurrences, was carried out in the vicinity of diapiric breccia structures intruded by leucogranite in the area between Arkaroola Village...-
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Radium Hill - Mutooroo area. Annual and technical reports for the period 1/3/1969 to 28/2/1971.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Plumbago - Glenorchy area [= Olary 'B' Farmin Block]. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 10/2/1972 to 9/2/1973.
In a search for possible remaining economic primary or secondary uranium deposits in an area of known such mineral occurrences located around Mount Victoria, a consultant was engaged by Esso Minerals to conduct detailed 1:12,000 scale geological...-
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