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HandBk 009 - Quaternary Molluscs of South Australia. Ludbrook N.H. 1984 (reprinted version)
This work aims to thoroughly assist the student and collector in identifying the Quaternary molluscs preserved in SA rocks. Many of the molluscan fossils occurring in Late Pleistocene deposits are representatives of still living species, although...-
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HandBk 007 - Catalogue of South Australian minerals - 1983. Author: Noble, R.J.; Just, J.; Johnson, J.E. (reprinted version)
This volume is historically the fifth and most comprehensive catalogue of South Australian minerals yet prepared, and is based on work begun by the South Australian Department of Mines in 1956. For descriptive convenience, the State has been areally...-
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HandBk 006 - Living with Minerals - A South Australian perspective. Armstrong, A.T
This publication highlights how the availability of minerals is crucial to providing the basic requisites of life, or else, to fundamentally contributing for the manufacture of vital requisites such as food, clothing, heat, light and shelter, in order...-
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HandBk 008 - Geology and the Adelaide Environment. Selby J. 1984
This handbook brings together a local science history of all of the applied aspects of geology, the responsible exercising of which has helped to shape metropolitan Adelaide, and even if indirectly, has also invariably affected the lives of its...-
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HandBk 003 - A Guide to the Geology and Mineral Resources of South Australia. Ludbrook, N.H. 1980 South Australia. (reprinted version)
South Australia has had a very long geological history traceable back for over 2000 million years. It has areas of ancient basement rocks and of younger rocks representing most of the geological column, which are exposed at the surface or have been...-
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HandBk 005 - Opal: South Australia's Gemstone. Barnes L.C. et al. (1992 revised edition)
South Australia's famous desert opalfields supply about 80% of the world output of precious opal, with current production coming almost entirely from the major fields at Andamooka, Coober Pedy and Mintabie, each of which is expected to increase output...-
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HandBk 001 - Handbook on Quarrying (revised 5th edition). Dutton A.H. 1993 (reprinted version)
The aims of this handbook are to give practical guidelines to quarry operators and to discuss problems connected with operations which affect their employees and the general public: the handbook also points out obligations that arise out of...-
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HandBk 002 - Handbook on Small Mines (see Handbook 1). Armstrong A.T. 1983 (reprinted version)
The principal aim of this handbook is to help owners, managers and operators of small mines by providing them with useful and well-tested technical information including safe, practical operating ideas. For this exercise 'small mines' are considered...-
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HandBk 004 - Some Semi-Precious and Ornamental Stones of South Australia. Barnes, L.C., et al. 1980 Australia. (reprinted version)
This handbook is a selection of shortened reports by geologists of the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy dealing with some of the semiprecious and ornamental stones in this State. It is not intended to be a comprehensive review of these...-
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