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Mintaro Slate and Flagstone - more than 150 years of production.
Mintaro Slate is produced from what is believed to be the oldest continuously operating quarry in Australia. The quarry was opened in the early 1850s, after Mintaro farmer Peter Brady discovered outcrops of slate in a creek bed on his property and...-
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RB 60/00037 Geology of the Clare 1-mile military sheet.
The Clare 1-mile mapsheet area is situated about 70 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia, in partly hilly agricultural and pastoral country. The oldest Adelaide System (Proterozoic) rocks are the phyllites, quartzites and dolomites of the River...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1965
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RB 98/00015 Clare Valley groundwater resources. Progress report 1 - Hydrogeology, drilling and groundwater monitoring.
A fundamental question remains to be answered in the Clare Valley. How much water can be safely extracted without causing depletion of the groundwater resources? This question is being addressed by a major investigation into the groundwater...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1998
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RB 98/00014 Clare Drilling. Phase 2 - June 1997.
Phase Two of a drilling program at Clare, South Australia was undertaken in June, 1997. A total of 6 bores were drilled, 4 of these at existing locations established during Phase One drilling in January, 1996, and a further 2 at Watervale Oval as...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1998
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SADME/Amdel mineral research project : [petrological/mineralogical and geochemical] investigation of Mintaro slate. Progress reports nos 1 and 2 for the period August 1978 to January 1979.
24 samples of quarried 'slate' (fine-grained dolomitic siltstone) from Mintaro were examined to determine microscopic reasons for the observed variability in their physical properties.-
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Published: 25 Jan 1979
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Mount Bryan. Annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/1/2008 to 7/5/2012.
Exploration for gold and copper mineralisation within an area located immediately south of Mount Bryan and 19 km north of Burra was aimed principally at finding deposits of copper oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra...-
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