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RB 79/00100 Sand deposit, Mount Compass sections 323, 423, Hd of Nangkita.
An estimated 40,000 tonnes have been mined from a Permian sand deposit situated near Mt Compass. Reserves totalling 8.0 million tonnes are indicated. Overall, the sand is too fine grained to warrant the establishment of a washing plant to produce...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 81/00033 Nitschkes sand deposit, Mount Compass, sections 205, 206, Hundred of Nangkita.
Reserves of Permian sand in excess of 2.0 million tonnes were indicated by drilling of 5 auger holes. Most of the sand is too fine grained for structural concrete, and is unsuitable for glass and foundry use. Some of the sand is suitable as garden...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 99/00028 Sand resources of the Mount Compass area. Reconnaissance drilling and testing.
Mount Compass is an important sand resource area. The ACI Glenshera sand pit, which supplies Australia's largest container glass plant at West Croydon with over 100 000 tonnes per year of glass sand, is also a major source of foundry sand. Four...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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RB 99/00011 Physical properties of construction sands from the Adelaide area.
In response to a request for assistance from the State Heritage Branch, a suite of 56 sand samples has been collected from all major currently producing sand pits in the outer metropolitan area. Physical properties including grain size, grain...-
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Published: 01 May 1999
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Mount Compass. First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2001 to 5/2/2003.
Buried Tertiary sand in the Mount Compass area, ~50 km south of Adelaide, was the target of exploration performed adjacent to the existing Glenshera sand pit. Aircore drilling (31 vertical holes, total 1269 m) defined an area containing a deposit of...-
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Data release - as updated : Maitland (the Yorke Peninsula Copper Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 25/8/2008 to 24/8/2017.
An area of the western Yorke Peninsula, comprising three separate sub-blocks, was taken up to explore for possible economic buried IOCG-U deposits similar to those at Hillside (located 25 km to the east of sub-block 'B'), Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill...-
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Published: 18 Oct 1917
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RB 00687 Australian Oil Corp.'s North Renmark no. 1 well. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology study.
North Renmark 1 was drilled 6 miles north of Renmark, to a total depth of 4018 feet. The well penetrated a sequence of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Permian rocks, mostly of marine origin, and has given the most complete section so far known from the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1900
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RB 2018/00026 Sedimentology of the late Palaeozoic Cape Jervis Formation, Troubridge Basin, South Australia.
The late Palaeozoic Cape Jervis Formation of the Troubridge Basin in southern South Australia provides a sedimentological record of the glacial environment during the Permo-Carboniferous glaciation. The sedimentary sequence is divided into five...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2018
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Mineralogy of heavy mineral separates from sediments of Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
35 surface samples of various clastic sediments deposited on Kangaroo Island were studied microscopically to see if the respective abundances, composition and mineralogical features of their heavy mineral grain components might shed light on possible...-
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Published: 07 Jun 1902
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RB 2019/00006 Sedimentology of the late Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of the Arckaringa Basin, South Australia
Late Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of the Arckaringa Basin in northern South Australia include diamictite and sandstone units of the Boorthanna Formation that were deposited as lodgement till under fluvioglacial conditions. The clast size and matrix...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2019
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Yumali. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 4/1/1984 to 19/9/1985.
A sequence of Cambrian rocks buried beneath thin Phanerozoic cover on the western edge of the Murray Basin was explored for possible skarn-related base metal mineralisation associated with concealed Ordovician granitic intrusions, for stratiform...-
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