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RB 37/00092 Report on Poonindie brick clay deposit, section 123, Hundred of Louth.
The investigation which is the subject of this report was carried out in response to a request from Mr. E.L. Mitton, Accountant, on behalf of Millers Lime Ltd. The property is owned by J.Hallett & Son Ltd., freehold, with mineral rights alienated...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1954
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RB 38/00087 Report on results of test boring in a brick clay deposit at Golden Grove.
Geological mapping of seven contiguous mineral claims at Golden Grove held by the SA Builders' and Contractors' Association revealed three areas of potential brick clay. A programme of test boring was carried out to define the deposits and obtain...-
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Published: 26 Oct 1954
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RB 79/00003 Fine tailings investigation. Drilling of tailings dams and the results of laboratory evaluation. Report no. 2, Gawler.
A total of 0.5 million cubic m of fine tailings, weighing 0.7 million tonnes, and averaging 44.8% solids, are impounded in 10 tailings dams at three sand deposits near Gawler, 35 km north-east of Adelaide. The dams are still in use, and pose a major...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 90/00013 Offshore sand prospects for metropolitan beach replenishment interpreted from shallow seismic profiles.
Shallow penetration, high resolution seismic profiling, with simultaneous sea floor coring found large areas of sea floor to be barren of unconsolidated Holocene sediment, or to be unsuitable for beach replenishment. Four prospects are identified...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1990
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White Lagoon. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/10/2001 to 2/10/2004.
Exploration for possible marine placer heavy mineral sands deposits within Recent sediments laid down across a large part of east-central Kangaroo Island, due south of Kingscote, has comprised a literature survey, limited field geological...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1905
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Summary of a strategic review of sand, clay and shale resources for metropolitan Adelaide.
This review has been undertaken to meet the State Government's commitment to maintain a long-term, competitively priced supply of extractive minerals to the community, as mandated by Strategy 1.5H of the S.A. Government response to the Resources Task...-
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Published: 18 May 1902
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Kybunga (latterly a part of the Balaklava HMS Project - Iluka tenements Group 9). First annual report 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2013, plus a joint annual report and final report for Group 9 submitted at the five project licences' full surrender on 24/9/2015.
Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1915
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Salt Lake and New Lake gypsum deposits, eastern Kangaroo Island. Geological appraisal and surface mine planning and development reports for the period March 1955 to March 1984.
Recent exploration by CSR for new rock gypsum deposits on Kangaroo Island which might contain material suitable for calcining to make plaster products has located several minor gypsum occurrences in low-lying areas on the eastern side of the island,...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1984
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Lochiel deposit run-of-mine coal quality - Procedures for calculation.
The report summarises the methods used to derive run-of-mine coal quality, and presents models. The quality models were generated over the measured portion of the deposit and relate to the cumulative coal zone. The data used includes all data from...-
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Northern Saint Vincent Basin, Port Wakefield and Lake Bumbunga areas. Coal deposit appraisal reports, plus pre-mining economic feasibility studies, for the period 4/10/78 to 28/7/90.
TARGET: Coal in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary open hole and core drilling of over 700 holes, including large diameter core and bulk sampling at the Lochiel and Bowmans trial pits. RESULTS: The Lochiel and Bowmans coal resources...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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Heavy mineral sand mining operations and ore reserve potential, Morrisons Beach, Kangaroo Island.
An assessment was carried out by SADM of the feasibility of mining the extensive sand dunes in the Morrison Beach area, which it was thought could contain large quantities of low grade heavy minerals that might now prove economical to extract because...-
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Lochiel and Sedan Coalfields : evaluation for the Energy Planning Executive. Volume 2A - Preliminary resource statement.
The methods and procedures for data collection and preparation, and for coal quality and seam modelling and tonnage estimates, are presented. The coal quality, geological models and tonnage estimates have been developed using a 30% ash (dry basis)...-
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Starvation Creek, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/5/1978 to 18/5/1980.
A programme of rotary drilling on Kangaroo Island of 56 shallow exploratory holes for 191 m, conjointly carried out by Comalco on its ELs 396 and 408, was designed to test for possible economic bauxite and low iron bauxite claystone occurrences...-
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Baker Gully. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1980.
The licence was taken up to test the alluvial diamond potential of Tertiary gravels exposed in quarry workings at Baker Gully, which were interpreted as having been deposited by an ancestral Onkaparinga River. The surface gravels were bulk sampled (3...-
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Published: 08 Jan 1981
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RB 2022/00001 Resource potential review for lime sand on Kangaroo Island.
This document aims to establish an appropriate geological framework and resource potential baseline for DEM's knowledge about lime sand on Kangaroo Island (KI), by showing and discussing what new lime sand resource areas are available, based on the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2022
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RB 65/00020 Stratigraphy of Late Cainozoic deposits in South Australia.
This paper sets out the stratigraphy of late Cainozoic deposits in the southern part of South Australia. The study includes the Murray, St Vincent and Spencer Gulf, West Coast and Eucla Basins and the adjoining uplands. Work has been concentrated on...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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Hamley Bridge (North Adelaide Plains). Progress and relinquishment reports for the period 27/7/1981 to 26/4/1982.
In a search for possible economic heavy mineral - bearing buried Tertiary beach sand deposits, similar to the recent Golden Grove discovery made in Eocene fluviatile sediments of an adjacent sub-basin, 20 vertical percussion stratigraphic drillholes...-
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Gypsum deposit evaluation, Hundred of Everard - Mineral Claim 3131. RAB drilling results.
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Condowie. Annual and surrender reports for the period 19/10/2000 to 18/10/2002.
A consultant's geological investigations in the vicinity of Lochiel and Snowtown have located significant resources of agricultural gypsum suitable for augmenting an existing local extractive industry. Five newly delineated deposits were pegged as...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Pinkerton Plain. First annual report for the period 29/8/1995 to 28/8/1996.
Report presents drillhole logs and results of sand sample laboratory beneficiation tests and assaying, consequent upon the drilling of 8 appraisal aircore holes for 166 m during February 1996 to assess the extent and quality of buried sand beds...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1996
