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RB 79/00152;Amdel 01300 Uses of talc / albite rock.
Background: Extensive deposits of talc exist in the Gumeracha-Lyndoch region of South Australia, located between 50-100 km north-east of Adelaide. Much of the talc rock contains a significant (5-30%) feldspar content. Project investigations have...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Interim report on a geological survey of Special Mining Lease no. 58, Mount Fitton area, South Australia.
Talc occurs in the Mount Fitton area in a massive recrystallized dolomite of Proterozoic age. The larger talc deposits are concentrated on its margins. This massive dolomite cuts through bedding and formation boundaries, and available evidence...-
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Published: 29 Jun 1964
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Mount Fitton Talc Province. Progress, annual and miscellaneous technical summary reports for the period 16/2/79 to 24/11/96.
Talc has been mined at Mount Fitton in the northern Flinders Ranges on a continuous basis since 1945, for industrial use in the manufacture of cosmetics, ceramics and refractory ware. From 1979 to 1996, under authority of a series of Exploration...-
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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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RB 2007/00003 Petrology of selected kimberlite and related rocks in South Australia - Volume 1.
Detailed petrological descriptions of 16 surface and near surface samples of intrusive ?igneous rocks obtained from nine localities spread around Terowie, Eurelia and Bangor have shown that they are intensely altered and weathered, making confirmation...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2007
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Memorandum re. assessment of talc prospect No. 24, Mount Fitton area.
An assessment has been made of the No. 24 talc prospect, which was discovered in 1964 and is located about 5 miles south-east of the principal No. 5 deposit and the mine camp. The prospect lies within the main dolomite mass, not far from its top, a...-
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Published: 18 Apr 1967
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Mount Fitton. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 28/10/1975 to 27/10/1976.
No technical data - work consisted only of office appraisal of previously obtained geological data, plus studies of newly acquired aerial photographs covering the entire licence area, to try to define structures possibly hosting new talc deposits or...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1976
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Truro talc prospect. Evaluation progress reports for the period December 1975 to November 1978.
Exhaustive beneficiation and quality testing of bulk samples of talc taken from the Truro prospect, which lies 1 mile north of Truro township, followed by widespread canvassing of potential customers both locally and abroad, failed to find buyers for...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1978
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Peterborough. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 31/8/1977 to 30/8/1978.
An occurrence of impure talc within fault-related Adelaidean diapiric carbonate breccia material, that is poorly exposed in disused railway cuttings to the west and south-west of Yongala, was investigated by performing 1:50,000 scale geological...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1978
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Mount Fitton. Progress and technical reports for the period 1/7/1971 to 30/6/1973.
A review has been carried out by Amdel Ltd, under contract to the licensee, of the applicability and suitability of low-cost geophysical reconnaissance tools in prospecting for concealed talc occurrences in the Mount Fitton area. It appears that use...-
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Published: 13 Jun 1973
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1998 Mount Painter area HyMap survey. Mineral maps Data Package.
HyVista Corporation was contracted by PIRSA during July 2012 to process HyMap airborne hyperspectral scanner data acquired over the Mount Painter region of SA on 28/3/1998. The nominal pixel size acquired was 4.5 m x 4.5 m, within a surveyed area of...-
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Mount Freeling. First annual report to licence surrender for the period 17/5/2002 to 4/5/2004.
Exploration for possible economic hydrothermal gold and base metal deposits within metasomatically altered Middle-Upper Adelaidean metasediments in the Yerelina Valley and Mount Fitton areas of the northern Flinders Ranges was much hindered by lack of...-
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Published: 04 May 1904
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Mount Fitton. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/7/1963 to 30/6/1971.
Following a geological survey of the area held under Special Mining Lease 58 by Industrial Rock Mines Pty Ltd in the Mount Fitton area, a detailed reconnaissance of all mineralisation was undertaken by two company prospectors during the period March...-
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Published: 14 Oct 1970
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Magnesite in the Mount Fitton area, South Australia.
Over the past three years crystalline magnesite has been found in the Mount Fitton area in many places, in a 12 miles long belt which follows the lower edge of a dolomite mass of Late Proterozoic age. The Mount Livingston deposit with indicated...-
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Published: 17 Apr 1967
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SP 008 Mineral Resources of the Adelaide Geosyncline
This publication has been compiled from a display prepared for the launch of SADME Bulletin 53, held at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 7 December 1987. The importance and diversity of commodities found in the Geosyncline are highlighted in the...-
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