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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 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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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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SADM/Amdel Project CE 1/1/104 : Investigation of the properties of an imported clay refractory brick, and of the possible scope for its local manufacture using South Australian clay. Progress reports 1 and 2 for the period January-April 1968.
A lightweight insulating refractory brick designed for electric furnace linings, made by the firm Babcox and Wilcocks in the United States, was examined by Amdel to determine its physical and chemical properties, with a view to reproducing an...-
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Published: 26 Apr 1968
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Marree. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1977 to 10/2/1979.
Exploration conducted over an area stretching westwards and eastwards from Marree, along the south-western margin of the Great Artesian Basin, addressed the potential for possible economic sedimentary deposits of trona, sodium bentonite, chlorite,...-
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Curdimurka. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/4/1979.
An area located along the Marree - Alice Springs Railway in the region of Curdimurka was selected to be explored on the basis of its potential to contain deposits of bedded trona in closed basins, and to have sodium carbonate brines present in near...-
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Mount Crawford [clay deposits]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/3/1970 to 31/8/1970.
Further evaluation of the development potential and marketability of white clay deposits found in the Mount Crawford area, that contain around 12 million tonnes of quartz-kaolin material, has been conducted by a new interested party, Springton Clays,...-
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/157 : production of an [advisory] manual re. laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks. Final report for the period February 1974 to December 1974.
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Poondana Rock. Progress reports for the period 11/12/1974 to 10/6/1976.
Seven core holes were drilled for a total penetration of 90 m, to test the Mount Sturt kaolin occurrence. Composite drill core samples were analysed to determine the clay's suitability for paper coating.-
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Published: 04 Apr 1976
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Poondana Rock. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 23/5/1973 to 22/11/1974.
Reports present drilling logs and laboratory testing analytical data for clay samples taken from the occurrences near Mount Sturt, aimed at finding material of commercial paper coating grade in economic quantities. No firm conclusions have been...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1974
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Review of exploration in the Caralue Bluff area, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, for the period 1/11/1970 to 31/10/1972.
As part of a larger ongoing exploration programme occurring in adjoining SMLs across central Eyre Peninsula, the SML 645 licensee carried out reconnaisance groundwater sampling and analysis, airborne radiometric surveying, studies of existing drill...-
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