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Lake Greenly area [Mount Hope kaolin deposit]. Progress and final reports to licence renewal for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/9/1974.
Appraisal of a newly discovered large deposit of kaolin, found in the near surface regolith to Archaean basement on two farms situated 7 km south of Mount Hope on southern Eyre Peninsula, has consisted of further air/rotary drilling (35 holes, total...-
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RB 44/00058 Activation of Birdwood kaolin clay.
Birdwood Kaolin Clay was subjected to the normal methods of acid leaching and acid salt roasting, but did not produce a sufficiently activated product for use as a decolourising agent.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 78/00087;Amdel 01229 Aluminium sulphate from Birdwood clay - Stage 2.
Aim was to estimate effects of modifications on the cost of producing aluminium sulphate solution from Birdwood clay for the treatment of domestic water supplies.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 77/00096;Amdel 01177 Aluminium sulphate from Birdwood clay.
The Engineering and: Water Supply Department has let a contract to Adelaide and Wallaroo Fertilizers limited for the supply of an estimated 8,000 to 25,000'tonnes per annum of aluminium sulphate solution OW.5% A1203) to be used% ais'a coagulant for...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 90/00007 Industrial minerals in South Australia. Current operations and future trends.
Established producers have taken advantage of export opportunities for gypsum, salt and dolomite. New developments include a graphite processing plant at the former Uley Graphite Mine and trial mining of micaceous iron oxide for pigments. Proposals...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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Cocunda and Calca (Poochera Kaolin Project). Progress reports, annual reports, and final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 12/5/1986 to 28/3/2002.
Kaolin, derived mainly from deep weathering of Hiltaba Suite granites, was the principal target of exploration in the area south and south-west from Poochera, near Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. Following a review made of historic drillhole...-
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Mikkira (south-west of Port Lincoln). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/3/1981 to 27/10/1987.
Exploration for graphite primarily, and secondarily for BIF-associated massive base metal sulphides, in the area surrounding the historic Uley graphite mine situated 15 km west south-west of Port Lincoln, initially comprised an airborne reconnaissance...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1987
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Mount Hope. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 1/9/1988.
Pre-development feasibility studies of the Mount Hope kaolin deposit, located 75 km north-west from Port Lincoln, gave indications that the kaolin might extend beyond the boundaries of the nine Mineral Leases under which the deposit was held....-
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Published: 25 Jul 1988
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tootla. Annual reports for the period 6/6/2009 to 13/10/2015.
During the 2009-2010 reporting year, Great Southern Kaolin Pty Ltd (GSK)'s activities comprised: - commissioning the pilot plant at the fabrication site in Kingaroy, Qld, in May-June 2010, and processing about 2 t of kaolinised granite through it to...-
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Antechamber Bay. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/11/1986 to 26/11/1989.
TARGET: Evaluation of the gemstone tourmaline and kaolin clay potential of the Dudley Pegmatite on Kangaroo Island. It is believed that this known occurrence of coloured tourmaline is one of only two locations in Australia which have produced...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Geological investigations of clay, mica and sillimanite occurrences at Williamstown, and evolving mine development plans and alternatives. Progress reports for the period 6/10/1976 to July 1984.
Dataset contains Amdel - derived mineralogical and petrological data on the ore and host rocks, plus the mine operator's reports on its plans to resume and optimize production of the unique ore types known to exist in four current mine pits and their...-
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Ulooloo. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/7/1986 to 6/3/1989.
TARGET: Economic fine-grained, Telfer style gold mineralisation occurring as syngenetic stratabound deposits formed in sedimentary basins during or soon after periods of basin subsidence and instability. The eastern limb of the large, overturned...-
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Published: 22 Feb 1989
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Stratigraphic study progress report of the Moomba and Big Lake field areas.
This report forms part of a continuing study of the Permian in the Cooper Basin by the PELs 5 and 6 licensees. All cuttings and cores from wells drilled in the Moomba and Big Lake field areas, and from Burley 1 in the Nappamerri Low depocentre, have...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1974
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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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Investigation of the Williamstown mine.
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 10/00103 Kapunda Copper Mines NL, Hd Kapunda.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jun 1907
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RB 71/00194 Murray Bridge to Onkaparinga pipeline summit storage, Mount Barker junction, secn 5214 Hd Onkaparinga. Geological investigation, report no. 2, construction.stage - EWS Department.
In response to a verbal request by Mr R Good, Designing Engineer, Engineering and Water Supply Department, geological investigations were carried out to locate and determine the strike and dip of a possibly permeable metasandstone layer, which was...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1971
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RB 72/00108;Amdel 00853 Investigations of ceramics based on barytes.
Based on earlier published work on barium sulphate-alumina-silica systems, Amdel submitted a proposal to the South Australian Department of Mines to examine the application of these reported methods to South Australian barytes and kaolin. The proposal...-
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Published: 01 May 1972
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Monarto. Combined first annual/final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/6/2011 to 20/6/2012.
As part of a continuing search for kaolin of suitable quality for use in cement manufacture, the licensee commissioned Johnson Geological Services to investigate any areas that have a well developed weathered horizon overlying fresh granite bedrock....-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] due to licence expiry and pending approval of its subsequent re-grant : Pine Ridge (part of the Central Giles Nickel Project). Annual reports for the period 25/2/1999 to 29/3/2007.
A licence area located in South Australia's Far North-west Aboriginal Lands, approximately 140 km north-west of Marla, has been explored by Rio Tinto Exploration (RTE) as part of work planned for a larger set of project exploration licences currently...-
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