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RB 37/00057 Grindability of limestone.
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Published: 24 Mar 1954
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RB 60/00064 O'Donoghues Castle copper prospect, Balcanoona Station.
Irregular oxidised orebodies up to about 3 feet thick, containing copper carbonates, quartz, sphaerocobaltite (cobalt carbonate) and wad (hydrated manganese oxide), occupy both shear zones aligned parallel with bedding, and crush zones developed...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1965
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RB 50/00093 Mount Pitton Talc Deposits - Northern Flinders Ranges - Outside Counties - Pastoral Block 796.
All the talc deposits investigated occur in schistose dolomite in the Sturtian Series, near the upper or lower limits of a massive interglacial dolomite horizon. Reserves in sight are limited, and further underground exploration of the Nos 4 and 5...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1960
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RB 77/00015 Oodla Wirra palygorskite deposit, MC 789, Rocla Industries Ltd, secn 132 Hd Coglin, Co. Herbert.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 78/00065 Nephrite jade deposits near Cowell. Report no. 2 - Trial mining and evaluation of the jade.
Cowell jade province contains 100 outcrops. The nephrite jade is associated with isoclinally folded dolomitic marble and calc silicate horizon in the upper Gneiss Complex of the Early Proterozoic Cleve Metamorphics. Discusses mining methods and quality.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 82/00052 Oraparinna barite deposits. Geological investigations at the Oraparinna Bunker Hill mine, Co. Taunton, Flinders Ranges.
Total output from 1940 - 1979 is 180 000 tonnes. The deposits are in folded Marinoan shale and siltstone of the Wilpena Group, within a cone shaped graben, structurally controlled by the Oraparinna Diapir. All lodes are within Brachina Formation,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1982
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RB 83/00024 Survey of principal quarrying operations in metropolitan Adelaide.
Thirty five quarries and pits produced 99% of the 5.6 million tonnes of construction materials produced in Metropolitan Adelaide in 1981.A systematic review of these operations provides a concise summary of major extractive industry in Adelaide, and...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1983
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RB 76/00142 Nankabunyana barite deposit, Out of Counties, Flinders Ranges.
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Published: 04 Nov 1976
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RB 86/00005 Mineral production statistics. Six months period ended 30/6/1985.
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Published: 01 Jan 1986
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RB 76/00130 Barite deposits near Mount John, Out of Counties Flinders Ranges, ML 4319 and 4320 - J.H. Coad.
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Published: 14 Oct 1976
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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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RB 76/00148 Warrakimbo micaceous haematite deposit, secn 109, Hd Barnidoota, Co. Blachford. (ML 4521 - L. Morellato).
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Published: 18 Nov 1976
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RB 90/00070 Celestite in South Australia. A review of production use, tenure and geology.
Celestite (SrSO4), is the only known raw material suitable for production of Strontium carbonate and other compounds which are used in the television and computer industries. Historically, only 113 tonnes have been mined in Australia, all from...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1990
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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] : 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. Reports on trial seismic refraction surveys conducted in 1966 and 1972 to map possible ore-bearing horizons.
Reports describe the results of two attempts to use seismic refraction methods to map an unconformable subsurface interface between lithic sandstone and quartzite units within the Whyalla Sandstone. This palaeosurface is important as a locus for...-
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Manna Hill [not 'Mannahill']. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/10/1987 to 15/1/1990.
TARGET: Possible concealed, saddle-reef type lode developments of inferred Telfer-style gold deposits at the Manna Hill Goldfield. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance inspection of old mine workings, rock chip sampling (79), and shallow RAB bedrock drilling...-
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Paratoo. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/2/1984 to 23/2/1987.
Rotary percussion drilling (61 vertical holes totalling 2895 m), which was designed to try to delineate possible remnant oxidised copper ore reserves at the Paratoo copper mine, 20 km south-west of Yunta, has defined an Inferred mineral resource of...-
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Published: 03 Jul 1987
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Boolooroo Goldfield and Kate Hill. Joint annual reports for the period 2/1/2009 to 8/2/2019.
Two adjoining licence areas located ~ 40 km north-east of Leigh Creek township, in the ranges lying immediately east of the Telford coal basin, are being explored for possible economic occurrences of marble rock which are believed to hold enormous...-
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