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RB 37/00057 Grindability of limestone.
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Published: 24 Mar 1954
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RB 79/00064 Dolomite aggregate deposit, Warnertown, sections 307 and 308, Hd Napperby.
Two deposits comprising gently dipping dolomitic sediments of the Skillogalee Dolomite formation were located during a reconnaissance for construction materials for the Crystal Brook bypass. The southern deposit near Crystal Brook was subsequently...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Pernatty Quarry. Reports on site investigations for the period September 1986 - March 1989, re. Pernatty Crushing Contract no. 1 [let to McMahon Construction Pty Ltd].
Geoscientific information on quarry materials, copied from former Highways Department files. The subject quarry site was chosen in order to provide crushed rock products for the reconstruction of the Pimba - Wirrappa section of the Stuart Highway....-
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Published: 17 Mar 1989
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Willouran Ranges (part of the SAMAG Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/11/1998 to 18/11/2003.
Known magnesite beds existing within the Adelaidean Skillogalee Dolomite in the far north-western Flinders Ranges, and extending into the Willouran Ranges over a strike distance of 120 km heading north-westwards from Leigh Creek South township, have...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Ketchowla. Annual reports for the period 15/6/2009 to 14/6/2019 and Partial Surrender Report to 22/09/2023.
An area located in the Worlds End detrital alluvial goldfield district of the north-eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, and centred ~20 km north-east of Burra, is being explored mainly for possible economic stratiform/replacement manganese oxide...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1919
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Beltana. Progress reports and annual report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/4/1993 to 15/4/1998.
Contains a subset of data compiled by the licensee on the subject of commercial use of coloured iron oxides, plus some progress reports dealing with an assessment of red dolomitic marble from the Ajax Limestone unit for its potential use as an...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Yadlakina Hut. Annual reports for the period 20/9/2010 to 19/9/2018.
An area of outcropping magnesite-bearing metasediments extending from 10 km west of to 55 km north-west of Leigh Creek township is being explored to re-assess its commercial potential for magnesia and magnesium metal production, following other...-
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Published: 09 Oct 1918
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Mount Gunson - MG14 deposit metallurgy. Research reports for the period October 1974 to August 1984.
In October 1975, Mount Gunson mine operator Pacminex determined that the composition of mineable copper sulphide ore potentially obtainable from the undeveloped MG14 area would very likely be more difficult to process than existing Cattlegrid mine...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Yerelina. Annual reports for the period 18/9/2012 to 17/9/2018.
An extensive covered area centred ~100 km north of Leigh Creek and lying immediately west of the exposed basement rocks of the Mount Painter Inlier is being explored for possible Mount Isa style stratiform or Mississippi Valley type stratabound...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1918
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Burra Copper [open pit mining] Project. Reports of geological investigations for the period October 1969 to February 1981.
A collection of miscellaneous reports referring to geochemical sampling of costeans and exposed bedrock, drilling, mapping and petrology work that has recently been carried out in the re-developed Burra open cut copper mine. The focus of the work...-
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Published: 21 Apr 1980
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RB 2010/00019 Hardrock extractive minerals for metropolitan Adelaide - strategic review. [Summary version]
The purpose of the project is to provide essential data on the hardrock extractive (construction material) resources supplying the Adelaide metropolitan area, in order to be able to: - Critically examine current hardrock supplies and resources and how...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2010
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SP 003 Mining in South Australia - A Pictorial History
In recognition of the centenary of Henry Yorke Lyell Brown's appointment as the first Government Geologist for South Australia, and the foundation of the Department of Mines and Energy, aspects of South Australia's colourful and vital mining and...-
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RB 72/00218 Limestone for railway ballast on Murray lands at Pungonda.
A late Cainozoic lacustrine deposit equated with the Bungunnia Limestone crops out near Pungonda and has been investigated as a source of railway ballast by mapping, trenching and laboratory testing of samples. Los Angeles Abrasion and sodium sulphate...-
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Published: 21 Nov 1972
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Burnda. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/7/1989 to 2/7/1990.
Reverse air circulation rotary drilling of four outcrops of potentially glass-grade raw material dolomite rock (42 holes for a total penetration of 924 m), carried out 14 km north-west of Mount Gambier in April 1989 on a 50 m grid within pine...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1990
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kapunda (latterly part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Annual reports for the period 12/3/2007 to 27/4/2013.
During 2007, Luzenac Australia Pty Ltd (Luzenac), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto Pty Limited, entered into an Option Agreement with Flinders Diamonds to explore for commercial grade talc deposits over part of its EL 3064 situated in the...-
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Published: 06 May 1913
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Mount Parry (part of the Flinders Ranges Project). Sixth partial surrender report, for the period 4/1/1999 to 2/6/2015.
EL 5520 is being explored as part of a regional search for possible economic Beltana-style zinc silicate hydrothermal replacement mineralisation hosted by brecciated Cambrian or Neoproterozoic bedrock carbonates. No field work was completed by licence...-
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Published: 11 Dec 1915
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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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Price. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 6/12/1978.
Continuation by Aquitaine of its regional appraisal of the mineral potential in the Cambrian carbonate sequence on northern Yorke Peninsula, has recently involved them in acquiring and interpreting ground gravity and magnetic surveys, completing a...-
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Amdel Project : feasibility study into production of magnesia from [Alberrie Creek] dolomite (Stage 2). Progress report no. 3 for the period 5/10/1970 to 2/11/1970.
Report discusses the scope and costing of a calcining and hydration plant designed to produce 100,000 long tons per annum of 95% MgO from dolomite rock feedstock mined at Alberrie Creek, detailing the many input assumptions made in arriving at final...-
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Published: 06 Nov 1970
