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Outalpa. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/6/1972 to 15/4/1973.
Exploration of an area located approximately 10 miles north of Manna Hill, seeking possible economic Zambian Copperbelt style stratabound copper deposits, has consisted only of an orientation geochemical survey followed by field inspection of...-
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RB 80/00017 Review of the Gumeracha talc deposits, Mount Lofty Ranges, Hundred Talunga.
The Gumeracha deposits occur from Lobethal to Forreston and have formed by metasomatic replacement of metasediments of the Burra Group Undalya Quartzite and Woolshed Flate Shale. Steatite Hill deposit contains proved reserves of 156 000 tonnes of 65%...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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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Report on Stage I exploration programme for Truro Talc Project, SA.
On 19/1/70 Minefields Exploration NL were granted an option over the Truro Talc and Joe's Hill talc deposits situated some 60 miles north-east of Adelaide. Then, during April 1970 a Stage I exploration programme was undertaken, consisting of...-
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Published: 11 May 1970
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Burra - Chinaman Hat Hill area. First partial surrender report, for the period 17/5/1979 to 16/5/1980.
The target was possible diamonds, with base metals and coal as secondary interests. Initially, a 1:25,000 scale colour aerial photographic survey was flown across part of the now relinquished licence area, to assist BHP in mapping geomorphic and...-
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Mount Fitton Talc Province. Final report on second, 1984-1985 diamond drilling programme.
Drilling of 27 appraisal NQ diamond cored holes for a total penetration of 1538 m over the period October 1984 to May 1985 (2 holes being abandoned at shallow depth due to having drilling difficulties within broken quartzite) has defined 5 new buried...-
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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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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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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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Myrtle Springs. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 26/2/1985 to 25/2/1986.
Exploration for magnesite in the Myrtle Springs - Copley region was confined to sampling (167 samples, both of outcrop and crushed ore) and analysing 30 known magnesite occurrences held under mining lease, to determine the distribution of silica...-
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The Needles - Sitting Bull area [portion of Arkaroola Station]. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 1/7/1968 to 30/6/1969.
Numerous small, occasionally high grade occurrences of talc and asbestiform amphibole minerals, barite, vermiculite and sodic feldspar were discovered by prospecting across a wide, often rugged hilly area lying to the north-west of Arkaroola...-
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Note on No. 19 talc deposit in SML 82A, Mount Fitton area.
Evaluation of the Mount Fitton No. 19 talc prospect discovered in 1964, and situated some 3 miles south-east of the current main talc workings and company camp, has included a topographical survey, the wagon drilling of 49 vertical holes, and the...-
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Published: 14 Oct 1970
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Note on drilling at the Creek Junction talc deposit, SML 82A, Mount Fitton area.
The Creek Junction talc deposit, located 4 miles south-east of the No. 5 talc deposit and the Mount Fitton mining camp, had been worked on a small scale prior to 1963. In view of the comparatively narrow widths of the exposed talc lenses and their...-
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Published: 13 Oct 1970
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE, SH 54-05.
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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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 2013
