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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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RB 36/00104 Hydrology of the Lower South-East.
Report presents results of the first regional hydrogeological survey of the Lower South-East area of South Australia, aimed at providing guidelines for optimising groundwater prospecting, use and protection during the period of strong urban,...-
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Published: 27 Jun 1953
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RB 41/00029 Suitability of Mount Gambier limestone for the production of hydrated lime.
Samples of polyzoal limestone from Mount Gambier were burned to quicklime and then hydrated. Comparisons of colour, texture and general qualities were made with hydrate made from stone at present used commercially.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 53/00051 Examination of water bores, Hundred of Murra Binna, County MacDonnell.
A water bore on Section 500, Hundred of Murra Binna intersected a sequence of Recent, Pleistocene, Oligocene (Gambier Limestone and Compton Conglomerate) Eocene (Knight Group) and probably Permian sediments to a depth of 320 feet. Two other bores in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 51/00036;Amdel 00049 Limestone investigation. Fluidised bed calcination of Mount Gambier limestone.
This report descibes the fluidisation and calcination treatment of two samples of Mt. Gambier polyzoal limestone under batch and continuous conditions. Although high-grade lime could be produced under single stage conditions, dust losses high and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 52/00159 Cellulose Australia Ltd water bore, Hundred Mayurra, section 78. Micropalaeontological examination.
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 51/00999 Notes on potential for underground water supplies, section 105 Hundred of Short.
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Published: 13 Feb 1951
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RB 59/00054 Reinterpretation of the stratigraphy of the Comaum no. 2 bore, South Australia.
The stratigraphy of the Comaum 2 bore was revised and corrected. Tertiary sediments extend to 146m, and at this depth are dated as Paleocene on microfloral comparisons with south-western Victoria. Most of the Eocene section of the Knight Group (now...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1964
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RB 55/00068 Geological investigation of Mount Gambier pumping station access tunnel - EWS Department.
A new pumping station is to be built in the Blue Lake crater to supply Mount Gambier with water. Access to this pumping station by a tunnel from the bottom of an old pumping shaft is proposed. The new pumping station is to be built adjacent to the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00065 Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Co. NL. Bundy 1, NSW. Palaeontological report.
Bundy No. 1 well near the eastern margin of the Murray Basin intersected a sequence 1340 feet thick of non marine lignitic sands and silts of Tertiary age. The oldest are Eocene and the youngest probably Pliocene. The well bottomed in granite at 1340...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00066 Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Co. NL. Balranald 1, NSW. Palaeontological report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00145 Amdel 00212 Polyzoal limestone investigation. Entrained bed calcination.
Deposits of limestone at Mount Gambier have for some time attracted attention as a possible source of lime. The limestone is a soft polyzoal material which can be readily mined and is also of high purity, containing about 97 per cent CaCO3, so that...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1962
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RB 60/00011 Examination of bore samples for sedimentary phosphate (in the) Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin.
In a reconnaissance survey for sedimentary phosphate, sludges and cores were examined from 100 widely-scattered bores in parts of the Murray Basin and the Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin that are located in South Australia. Microscopic inspection...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1965
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RB 49/00102 Stratigraphy of the Murray Basin in South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an area of Mesozoic and Tertiary sedimentation divided into two main units the Murray Basin proper separated by structural highs, the Padthaway “Horst”, from the Gambier Sunklands. Knowledge of the Mesozoic in the Murray Basin...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1959
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RB 49/00187 Mount Gambier building stone.
The limestones outcropping in and around the Mount Gambler district, have been known as coralline, polyzoal, or bryozoal limestones, but are now generally referred to as the Gambler limestones. They have been the main building material for the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 42/00111 Production of hydrated lime and quicklime from Mount Gambier limestone.
Capital and operating costs are estimated for a rotary kiln plant to produce agetone, quicklime, and hydrated lime from Mount Gambier limestone. The output from the plant has been considerably increased above that used in the original estimates.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 42/00119 Micropalaeontological examination of sludges from three water bores, Millicent.
Sludges from three bores sunk recently at Millicent were examined in an effort to determine the cause of failure of two of them. All bores are considered to be in Pleistocene sediments containing much reworked Gambier Limestone material increasing...-
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Published: 08 Jun 1956
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RB 43/00030 Report on foundation testing, Government Sawmill, Mount Gambier, secn 1235 Hd Gambier.
During construction of the green mill at Mount Gambier Government sawmill, cavities were found in excavations for a gangsaw in the Gambier Limestone. Diamond drilling showed the main cavity to be funnel-shaped and not a cavern top, but revealed minor...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 42/00069 Preparation of precipitated chalk from Mount Gambier limestone.
This report describes the laboratory preparation of precipitated calcium carbonate from Mount Gambier limestone. The process consists of four stages, clacination, slaking, carbonation and drying. By calcination at 950°C, slaking at 92-94°C, and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 43/00012 Material collected during field conference. Frome - Broken Hill Co. Pty Ltd, Mount Gambier area, July 2-6, 1956.
Samples collected in the Mount Gambier, Mount Burr and Naracoorte areas include material from Knight Group sediments at their only South Australian exposure in Knight's Quarry where they are discordantly overlain by a basal conglomerate and the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
