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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 60/00082 Coober Pedy Opalfield.
Mapping of the Coober Pedy Opalfield has shown that opal occurrence, although erratic, is not entirely unpredictable. Several groups of workings are present in an area of about 150 square miles. The host rock is a distinctive pink and white...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1965
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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 88/00017 Holocene non-tropical coastal and shelf carbonate province of southern Australia.
The southern edge of Australia is the site of non-tropical biogenic carbonate formation over a greater expanse of continental shelf than the Great Barrier Reef. The variety of modern environments and sedimentary facies in this region, and the major...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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Ashville gypsum deposits. Retention lease six-monthly combined reports for the period 14/9/1993 to 1/6/1996.
Activity on these deposits has consisted of one phase of trial mining of 600 cubic m of the best quality part of the Warnes deposit, stockpiling of the extracted gypsum-rich lakebed sediments, chemical analysis of 39 bulked samples of this stockpile...-
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Kyancutta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/2014 to expiry 15/4/2018.
An area extending for 26 km to the south and south-east of Wudinna was taken up by Minotaur to evaluate the economic potential of known but poorly defined occurrences of the industrial minerals gypsum and alunite that are associated with Recent salt...-
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Lake MacDonnell. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/1968 to 5/5/1970.
An exploratory drilling programme (23 vertical rotary/NX diamond core holes for a total penetration of 487 feet 10 inches) was carried out during May-June 1969 on the surface of Lake MacDonnell, which covers an area of approximately 4.5 square miles....-
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Published: 26 Feb 1970
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Salt Lake and New Lake gypsum deposits, eastern Kangaroo Island. Geological appraisal and surface mine planning and development reports for the period March 1955 to March 1984.
Recent exploration by CSR for new rock gypsum deposits on Kangaroo Island which might contain material suitable for calcining to make plaster products has located several minor gypsum occurrences in low-lying areas on the eastern side of the island,...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1984
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Ramco West. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/1983 to 10/2/1988.
In an area located west of Waikerie and adjacent to the River Murray, field examination of gypsum bed outcrops and the measuring of strata sections, plus shallow definition drilling (64 holes for a total penetration of 312 m) and backhoe trench...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1988
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Kyancutta. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 6/9/1985 to 5/9/1986.
Marketable quality gypsum was the major commodity sought in Recent salt lakes and marginal dunes of a large swamp in the Kyancutta area. Reconnaissance mapping, plus hand or power auger drill sampling of the near-surface sediments, has identified...-
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Lake Greenly, Lake Malata. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 6/9/85 to 5/9/86.
TARGET: Potentially commercial gypsum, salt or silica occurrences in Holocene paralic lakes and marginal dunes, in an area immediately north-east of Coffin Bay. EXPLORATION: Bulk sampling of lacustrine evaporitic sediments and related aeolian deposits...-
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Blanchetown. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/3/1983 to 27/3/1987.
An area located immediately south-east of Blanchetown has been explored for possible economic shallowly buried occurrences of Quaternary gypsum. Work included aerial photo interpretation and reconnaissance auger drilling, the drilling of 89 shallow...-
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Published: 24 Apr 1987
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Economic feasibility of producing sulphur from gypsum.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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Streaky Bay. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/ full surrender, for the period 2/11/1987 to 1/11/1989.
TARGET: Gypsum in dune and salt lake deposits; groundwater for possible water supply. EXPLORATION: Auger drilling of aeolian dunes and 7 salt lakes, reverse circulation drilling (16 holes totalling 410 m) for water. RESULTS: A resource of 4 Mt @ 88%...-
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Published: 03 Oct 1990
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RB 00661 Proposed manufacture of sulphuric acid and cement from gypsum by the Billingham Process.
The operation of a planned industrial plant, designed to produce Portland cement and sulphuric acid from anhydrite, is described. Profitable operation of the process in South Australia, using gypsum as the principal raw material, is shown to be...-
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RB 00069 Hydrology and geology of the GILES (4-mile) military sheet, with petrology by G. Taylor and palaeontology by N. Ludbrook.
In order to determine the underground water possibilities of the subject mapsheet area, a vehicle-borne ground reconnaissance was conducted over ten days during July-August 1952, followed in mid-August by several days of low-level aerial flight...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1900
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RB 67/00028;Amdel 599 Extraction of sulphur from gypsum, part 1.
Background: Australia currently imports about 430 000 tons of elemental sulphur per year, valued at about $12,000,000 in 1966. The sulphur is purchased from Canada, the USA and Mexico. The annual production of elemental sulphur in these three...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1968
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RB 62/00009 Situation of the gypsum market with particular reference to production from Lake MacDonnell.
The Colonial Sugar Refining Co. has expressed a wish to cease the production of gypsum from their Lake MacDonnell leases for several years. They wish to concentrate their production at their leases on Kangaroo Island, to save costs, because they are...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1966
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RB 64/00003 Preliminary report on white clay deposit, Mineral Claims 5071, 5072, Hesso Station, County Manchester - J. and M. Spiers.
Laboratory testing of samples from dam and Lake bank exposures has shown the clay to be a high quality plastic type suitable for use in whiteware manufacture. Exposures are limited and a programme of exploratory mapping and drilling is recommended to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 70/00133 Mineral resources of the Eyre planning area.
A comprehensive review of mineral deposits and their geological setting is presented to guide planning decisions relating to the mineral industry. The report also provides basic geological, data and literature references useful to mineral exploration...-
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Published: 04 Sep 1970
