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Wallaroo and Moonta mines and smelters, Yorke's [sic] Peninsula, South Australia. History, nature and methods.
A detailed account of the large scale copper mining and processing operations occurring in the 'Copper Triangle' region of South Australia in the few years following the end of the First World War. The included metrics and pictorial coverage of many...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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RB 78/00062 Australia's first world scale petrochemical complex.
The Australian continent is well endowed with most mineral and energy resources and its development has been materially assisted by the successful exploitation of these resources. Additional processing of these basic materials would diversify...-
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Published: 19 May 1978
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The Kapunda mine, 1842 - 1912.
The subject report, drawing on numerous contemporary accounts, sketches and photographs of the historic Kapunda copper mine, clearly demonstrates that despite this mine being much smaller and earlier than the better-known 'monster' Burra mine, its...-
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Archaeological survey of the Wallaroo copper smelters, Wallaroo, South Australia.
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Aeolianitic lime sands.
Aeolianitic lime sands. Part 1. Calcination requirements. Suitable for lime production without prior beneficiation, but too fine for conventional kilns. Use of novel type of fluid bed kiln is proposed. Production of lime from Coffin Bay lime sand....-
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South Australia. Miscellaneous, non-tenement related SADM and BMR - authored technical reports for the period 1940 to 1969.
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Dry processing of construction sands.
The feasibility was examined of producing construction sand conforming to Australian Standard 1465-1974, by a suitable dry process which would avoid the environmental problems associated with the need for storage of wet slimes. Representative...-
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1993 Scientific Investigation Permit [for a Marine Seismic Survey], Encounter Bay. Reports for the period March 1993 to February 1995.
AIM: The survey was conducted to provide information on the geology of the virtually unexplored sub-sea region between Backstairs Passage and the offshore Robe Trough of the State's South-East, with a focus on the Kanmantoo Group and Encounter Bay...-
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Phase 2 report on investigation for borrow materials, Gilman and Islington Highways. Final report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 00573 Manara Gypsum - New South Wales - Colonial Sugar Refining Company .
The Colonial Sugar Refining Company requested that tests be carried out on gypsum bearing material from their deposit at Manara, New South Wales. A gypsum concentrate is being produced at the moment from a plant at the deposit but difficulty in...-
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RB 00562 Estimates of the cost of a plant for treating Copperfield (Qld) smelter slag.
The report includes a preliminary estimate of equipment sizes, capital and operating costs, together with a possible flowsheet of a treatment plant for treating slag at Copperfield Q'ld.-
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RB 00631 Uranium ore, Pandanus Creek, NT. First report for BHP Co. Ltd. Preliminary treatment investigations.
A bulk sample of uranium ore from Pandanus Creek was amenable to leaching by the process in use at the Mary Kathleen Plant. A simple leaching stage followed by direct precipitation of uranium or recovery by solvent extraction or ion exchange would...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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[ The Moonta - Wallaroo mining district, 1859-1923 ]. Proceedings of the AMHA 12th Annual Conference, Kadina, South Australia, 5-10 July 2006.
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Australia's earliest mining era : Mount Lofty Ranges, 1841-1851. Proceedings of the AMHA 17th Annual Conference, Hahndorf, South Australia, 12-18 September 2011.
During the period 1841-1851, the Mount Lofty Ranges region was the locus of Australia's first mining era. This was the decade prior to the discovery of gold in the eastern States, when virtually all of the metalliferous mines in Australia were located...-
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RB 18/00191 Dr H.G. Raggatt, Geological Adviser, Census Building, Canberra City, Australian Capital Territory. Phosphate rock.
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Published: 27 Jan 1942
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RB 23/00095 Notes on the clay deposit, section 950, Hundred of Barossa.
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Published: 04 Dec 1947
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RB 26/00113 Organization and growth of the Mines Department.
Describes the purpose and functions of the SA Mines Department during a recent period of rapid growth that commenced in about 1944, immediately preceding the Second World War. Major work projects and acquired technical capabilities are highlighted....-
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Published: 01 Feb 1950
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Australian Mineral Development Laboratories' investigation of the Mount Davies nickel deposits. Progress reports nos 1 to 4 for the period June-December 1966, and subsequent activity reports for the period January-December 1967.
Reports deal with the start of a complex laboratory investigation to trace the petrological development of possibly economic supergene nickel deposits discovered in the Mount Davies area, and to study the unusual mineralogy of the ferruginous ochres...-
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Published: 04 Dec 1967
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Geoscience Data Model (AMIRA Project P431). Final report to sponsors.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION Background This report is the final report for an Australian Mineral Industries Research Association (AMIRA) research project, aimed at developing a Geoscience Data Model for the Australian geosciences industry. The report...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1998
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History of mineral processing in South Australia - Ammonia leaching of oxide copper ores by Samin Limited at Burra, SA.
When Samin Ltd decided in 1969 to re-open the Burra mine for open pit extraction and onsite processing of the substantial remnant orebody of oxidised copper minerals, it was initially envisaged that the copper recovery method would involve an acid...-
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