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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1986 to 19/8/1987.
The heavy mineral potential of Tertiary sediments in the Chundie Swamps was investigated with 2 drill traverses (43 RC open vertical holes totalling 863 m) and reconnaissance soil mineralogical sampling. Heavy mineral contents were very low.-
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RB 66/00100 Limestone for railway ballast, Nullarbor Plain.
Ballast of moderate quality is won from an indurated fragmental limestone capping on the Nullarbor Plain. The assumption that ballast is available all over the Plain is valid, but the thickness of the cap rock zone varies from place to place. There is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 66/00118 Limestone for railway ballast on the Nullarbor Plain (with appendix on palaeontology).
Samples obtained from five quarry faces and one outcrop on the Transcontinental Railway are classified into 6 types of material, probably representing at least four generations ranging from Nullarbor Limestone to superficial material from the surface.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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Bunabie. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 200 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and 28 km...-
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Koonalda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 130 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and south of...-
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Nullarbor. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary cored holes totalling 189 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast just west of...-
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