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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 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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