A request, to test by diamond drilling the old I.C.I. Limestone Quarry, Secs.333/4, Hundred Moorooroo at Angaston, has been received from the present operators S.A. Portland Cement Co. Ltd., with a view to increasing reserves and so extend the life of...

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Since 1950, recorded production from ICI's Penrice marble deposit near Angaston has totalled 13,083,395 tonnes. High grade marble is used at the company's Osborne plant, while lower grade stone is sold for cement manufacture and roadstone, and small...

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TARGET: Marble resources in the Angaston area which might be suitable to use as raw material for soda ash manufacture. EXPLORATION: Detailed geological mapping [some scale(s) given] and surface rock chip geochemical sampling (22) of various deposits....

2 main areas are outlined as likely sources, high quality marble to the N of the Penrice quarries and quartzite from many localities NW and close to Tanunda, but of lower quality.

A diamond exploration project area comprising nine mineral exploration licences located in the central Mount Lofty Ranges was taken up by new public company Flinders Diamonds (FDL) to search for possible commercial accumulations of diamonds, thought...

During 2007, Luzenac Australia Pty Ltd (Luzenac), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto Pty Limited, entered into an Option Agreement with Flinders Diamonds to explore for commercial grade talc deposits over part of its EL 3064 situated in the...

Since June 1945, an extensive programme of diamond drilling has been carried out on the recently acquired property of I.C.I. Alkali (Australia) Pty Ltd at Penrice, with the object of investigating the reserves of high grade marble available for open...

To support the production of soda ash at its Osborne plant in Adelaide, South Australia, ICI Australia has been obtaining crushed marble from the Barossa Valley region as process raw material. Since June 1945, the South Australian Department of Mines...

Regional stream sediment and rock chip geochemical sampling of an area extending from 15 km north-east to south-east of Angaston was undertaken to search primarily for stratabound Mississippi Valley style Pb-Zn mineralisation in lower Cambrian Hawker...