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RB 52/00134 Amdel 00069 Utilization of South Australian phosphate deposits.
Summary of deposits, products, methods of producing phosphorus and phosphoric acid and production costs. All reserves are low grade and unsuitable for super phosphate, but probably amenable to electrothermal reduction for phosphoric acid. Tests on...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1961
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RB 55/00098; Amdel 00206 Phosphate deposits, Kapunda. Beneficiation by flotation.
Sample of phosphatic rock was tested by flotation with anionic and cationic reagents. No significant concentrations of apatite were obtained.-
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Published: 01 Aug 1962
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RB 49/00162 Adelaide Geosyncline and the Kanmantoo Trough, Mount Lofty Ranges South Australia.
The problem of the southern continuation of the Upper Proterozoic Adelaide Geosyncline is discussed. A transverse Cambrian trough and the related unconformity with the Precambrian is described, and its palaeogeographic significance outlined.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 49/00116 Adelaide Geosyncline and the Kanmantoo Trough, Mount Lofty Ranges SA.
The problem of the southern continuation of the Upper Proterozoic Adelaide Geosyncline is discussed. A transverse Cambrian trough and the related unconformity with the Precambrian is described, and its palaeogeographic significance outlined.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Reaphook Hill and Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Respective early annual reports, for the period 17/1/2000 to 16/1/2002.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~50-70 km to the east and south-east of Blinman are being explored for possible economic buried willemite (zinc silicate), scholzite (zinc phosphate) and other base metal mineralisation associated with particular...-
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Witchitie. Progress and final reports for the period 16/10/87 to 16/7/88.
TARGET: An aeromagnetic anomaly located 12 km north-west of Witchitie Homestead was investigated as to whether it is indicative of a possible carbonatite source. EXPLORATION: Ground magnetic surveys, geological field reconnaissance and limited...-
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Progress reports on prospectivity investigations carried out in 1962 to assess phosphorite deposits formed within Adelaidean sediments of the Flinders Ranges [prior to the grant of a SML over an area in the southern Flinders Ranges].
TARGET: Phosphate occurrences in the Mid Sturtian from Port Pirie to Marree. EXPLORATION: Regional investigation of the occurrence, distribution and origin of phosphate by mapping of known phosphate occurrences and geological traversing across...-
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Published: 11 Oct 1962
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Ardrossan. Progress and final reports from 15/5/83 to 14/2/85.
Exploration by CRA for Mississippi Valley type deposits in Cambrian limestone included image processing of existing aeromagnetic data, ground follow up of 3 aeromagnetic anomalies in areas of interpreted shallow Precambrian basement, and Sirotem...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1985
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RB 68/00085 Diamond drilling of Fairview phosphate deposit.
Bedded phosphate deposits which occur principally at or near the base of the Cambrian Succession and also within sediments of the Adelaide System have been variously exploited in a number of areas from shallow quarries but utilisation has been limited...-
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Published: 09 Jun 1969
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The Flinders Ranges Project, Jamestown Group of tenements. Data release at partial surrender of subsequent licences: combined annual reports for the period 18/9/2004 to 31/12/2010.
Ten contiguous exploration licences in the Jamestown - Peterborough - Quorn region are being explored for possible economic diamonds associated with inferred buried kimberlite intrusions. Prior work done in the 1960s by Stockdale Exploration (a de...-
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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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Reaphook Hill. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 1/12/1965 to 13/5/1968.
The reported presence of high geochemical zinc values in the Parachilna Formation rocks exposed there prompted Kennecott Explorations to include the Reaphook Hill outlier of Lower Cambrian sediments into its regional investigation of the stratiform...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1967
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Mount Lyall. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 1/5/1969 to 24/3/1971.
The Third Plain zinc silicate (willemite) deposit, located 14 miles south-east of Blinman, has been newly assessed by North Flinders Mines for its economic potential. Originally discovered by Kennecott Explorations in late 1966, and evaluated by them...-
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Geological maps and sections of phosphate deposits, Orroroo area, SA.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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Preliminary report on the geology of the Kempes Bore area, eastern Flinders Ranges.
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Clare. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/3/1971.
In a search for possible economic stratiform / hydrothermal base metal occurrences and stratabound phosphate mineral deposits in the Clare Hills district, an initial reconnaissance visit and literature search was followed by the conduct of a regional...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1971
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Peterborough area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 12/3/1970 to 11/3/1971.
Exploration for possible economic stratabound / hydrothermal deposits of base metals and perhaps also uranium, within a large area surrounding Peterborough, has consisted of field inspection and rock chip geochemical sampling of known historic mines,...-
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Published: 10 Mar 1971
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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999), SH 54-13.
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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Data release - as updated : World's End. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/3/2009 to 2/3/2016.
An area centred about 30 km south-east of Burra has been explored for possible buried economic Burra style copper mineralisation and for Mongolata Goldfield type alluvial and reef gold. The host metasedimentary unit to the Monster mine, the...-
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Published: 16 Mar 2016
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Australia Plains. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 2/5/2015.
An area centred ~15 km east of Eudunda, in the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, has been explored initially for possible economic outcropping stratabound/replacement style phosphate mineralisation that may have formed within Adelaidean dolomitic...-
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Published: 25 Jun 2015
