A survey of the local foundry industry disclosed a need for a basic foundry sand and it was decided that South Australian deposits of glauconite should be investigated with the object of producing a suitable material for testing by local foundries....

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At Yatala Vale, Tertiary non-marine clayey sands capped in parts by a laterite horizon, unconformably overlie weathered Torrensian slates. A thin veneer of Recent fine drift sand covers the surface. Boring has proved 5½ million cubic yards of clayey...

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The Worumba Anticline is a regional fold in the gradational zone between the Olary Arc and the broader folding of the central Flinders Ranges. The limbs of the anticline comprise complete upper Adelaidean successions, of which the Holowilena...

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Three contiguous licences located at the south-western end of the Nackara Arc structural province have continued to be explored for possible economic buried diamond mineral occurrences in the cover and bedrock that may exist in association with...

An area of 145 square km comprising the northern ~38% portion of EL 4554 centred ~50 km north-east of Leigh Creek has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for copper and gold mineralisation. Work conducted on the...

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A survey of rock materials suitable for construction purposes showed that the most likely sources are Recent alluvial accumulations, suitable for foundry and concrete sand, and Permian fluvio-glacials which are used for local road-building. Drilling...

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A previous inspection suggested the presence of a deposit of fine sand suitable for foundry use and recommended for auger drilling. Four hand auger holes failed to intersect a significant thickness of sand

Background Following numerous complaints from local foundries more particularly as a result of the impending closure of the Royal Park Pit, the South Australian Government Department of Mines requested Amdel to investigate sand requirements of the...

Mineral resources of the Council area are reviewed and the importance of construction materials, both for present and future use is emphasised. Over 20 million tons of building sand have been proved in a zone along the northern margin of the area. Thi...

Albert's Sand Pit Pty. Ltd. is producing sand suitable for construction purposes from the basal Tertiary North Maslin Sands near Maslins Beach. Drilling during 1972 and 1973 has outlined the following reserves of sand under 4.21 million cubic metres...

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Nephrite jade is associated with an isoclinally folded dolomitic marble and calc-silicate rock horizon in the upper Gneiss Complex of the Cleve Metamorphics (Lower Proterozoic) near Cowell. Nephrite jade is known only within the nine square...

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One rotary drill hole 52.5m deep encountered a typical Tertiary sequence of Blanche Point Formation, South Maslin Sand and North Maslin Sand overlying Adelaidean basement. The lower 18m of North Maslin Sand are potentially of construction sand quality.