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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 55/00124; Amdel 00205 Phosphate deposits, Kapunda. Production of phosphoric acid.
At least 90% of the phosphate was leached with either nitric, hydrochloric or sulphuric acids. Products unsuitable for the surface preparation of steel. The most promising outlet would be for upgrading the P2O5 content of super phosphate fertilizer.-
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Published: 01 Oct 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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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 1916
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Reaphook Hill and Mount Frome (a tenement group having amalgamated expenditure commitments, which is part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Joint annual reports for the period 4/8/2001 to 1/7/2015.
During the third year of exploration nominally ending on 1/7/2002 [and subsequent to the starting date of 5/3/2002 for the application of provisions of the Flinders Ranges Project's multi-tenement Amalgamation of Expenditure Agreement (AEA), whence...-
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Published: 07 Aug 1915
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Reaphook Hill (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Sixth partial surrender report, for the period 4/8/1997 to 29/8/2019.
The northern portion of EL 6132, comprising ~0.59% of its former area, was relinquished by the JV partners on 18/7/2019. The only work performed within the now relinquished ground has consisted of reconnaissance + infill surface geochemical sampling...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1919
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Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fifth partial surrender report, for the period 17/1/2000 to 29/8/2019.
Four separate portions of EL 5773, together comprising ~56% of its former area, were relinquished by the JV partners on 29/8/2019. The only work performed within the now relinquished ground has consisted of reconnaissance + infill surface geochemical...-
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Published: 10 Sep 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Frome. Annual reports for the period 4/11/2015 to 3/11/2018.
During the 2015-2016 period, reconnaissance portable XRF instrument soil spectrochemical sampling, plus limited rock chip sampling, was continued on the subject tenement. Work concentrated on infill sampling at Erragoonah Hill and over Aster...-
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Published: 21 Dec 1918
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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Reaphook Hill (formerly part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Licence-specific annual reports for the period 27/9/2015 to 26/9/2018.
A small area centred ~110 km south-east of Copley is being explored for possible buried economic Beltana style zinc silicate mineralisation, as well as for possible epigenetic hydrothermal lead-zinc sulphide and copper mineralisation. During...-
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Published: 26 Nov 1918
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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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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 1915
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Mount Frome (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Fourth partial surrender report, for the period 17/1/2000 to 16/6/2014.
Recently, seven small licence portions totalling 48 square km or ~19.3% of the former area of EL 4597 were relinquished on 16/6/2014 to comply in part with the terms of the 2013 renewal period of the Flinders Ranges Project tenement group's...-
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Published: 22 Jul 1914
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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
