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RB 87/00061 Calca granite deposits - Discovery, geology and production. Calca quarry section - EML 4469, section 46, Hundred Rounsevell. Calca South - EML 5068, section 48, Hundred Wrenfordsley.
Middle Proterozoic red granite is quarried near Calca, 35 km SE of Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. It is ideally suited as dimension and monumental stone, being fresh, uniform in texture and colour, and comparatively free of defects. It is...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1987
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RB 97/00028 Reconnaissance granite sampling of the Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, for dimension stone.
Reconnaissance sampling of Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granite on northern Eyre Peninsula, to identify all potentially quarryable granite varieties, was carried out by MESA during 1996/97. A total of 157 outcrops were inspected and 99 samples...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1998
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wild Horse Plain. Annual reports for the period 8/7/2005 to 23/2/2019, plus partial surrender reports to 23/2/2021.
An upland area located approximately 100 km south-west of Whyalla on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, and with its eastern boundary running parallel to the coast at a distance of 15 km from Cowell and Franklin Harbour, is being explored for uranium,...-
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Published: 11 Jan 1921
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Cocunda and Calca (Poochera Kaolin Project). Progress reports, annual reports, and final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 12/5/1986 to 28/3/2002.
Kaolin, derived mainly from deep weathering of Hiltaba Suite granites, was the principal target of exploration in the area south and south-west from Poochera, near Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. Following a review made of historic drillhole...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Hall. Annual reports for the period 23/7/2013 to 22/7/2015.
An area extending inland between Baird Bay and Venus Bay, 50-80 km South-east of Streaky Bay, has been taken up to explore for significant buried occurrences kaolin associated with the deep Cenozoic weathering of Proterozoic granite, in order to...-
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Whichelby (part of the Poochera Kaolin Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2022.
The Great White Kaolin Project (previously the Poochera Kaolin Project), until recently, comprised four Exploration Licences operated by Andromeda Industrial Minerals Pty Ltd, namely, EL 6096 Whichelby, EL 6202 Mount Hall, EL 6426 Mount Cooper and EL...-
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Published: 03 Dec 1922
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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1993 to 14/3/1998.
A low-lying small area situated 40 km west of Whyalla has been explored primarily for economic gypsum occurrences within Recent surficial sediments, while latterly, a search for metallic minerals has also commenced, via a geological survey of basement...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Kottata Well, Eldale, Tootla and Broadacres (also part of the Yaninee Project). First annual report for EL 3135, plus subsequent joint annual reports, for the period 29/9/2003 to 5/6/2009.
An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....-
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Minnipa area. Surrender report for the period 12/8/94 to 22/6/95.
Reconnaissance for commercially viable granite dimension stone, over an area located north-east of Minnipa, indicated that the outcrops had a marked variability in deleterious properties, particularly fracturing. Direct core sampling of the granite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1995
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Poochera Kaolin Project. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 28/6/1994 to 27/6/1995.
Three composite samples, taken from five RC drillholes (total 85 m) put down in kaolinised granite near Colley Hill, on testing exhibited poor raw and fired whiteness due to the presence of fine biotite.-
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Published: 10 Jul 1995
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ExpNotes ELLISTON: Explanatory Notes ELLISTON, SI 53-06.
There is no abstract created for this record.-
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