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RB 41/00029 Suitability of Mount Gambier limestone for the production of hydrated lime.
Samples of polyzoal limestone from Mount Gambier were burned to quicklime and then hydrated. Comparisons of colour, texture and general qualities were made with hydrate made from stone at present used commercially.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 41/00092 Estimated capital and operating costs of plant for production of hydrated lime (RD 21).
Capital and operating costs are estimated for a rotary kiln plant and for a fluosolids plant to produce hydrated lime from Mount Gambier polyzoal limestone.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 51/00057 Aeolianitic lime sands calcination requirements.
Preliminary investigations into the calcinations of lime sands from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia are described in this report. The material as mined has a chemical composition suitable for lime production without prior beneficiation. Usual...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 53/00181 Stansbury limestone lime-making investigations.
Samples of travertine limestone were forwarded by J.A. Bridges of Stansbury to the South Australian Department of Mines for assessment of their suitability as a raw material for the manufacture of hydrated lime. The Mines Department requested the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 51/00036;Amdel 00049 Limestone investigation. Fluidised bed calcination of Mount Gambier limestone.
This report descibes the fluidisation and calcination treatment of two samples of Mt. Gambier polyzoal limestone under batch and continuous conditions. Although high-grade lime could be produced under single stage conditions, dust losses high and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 55/00099 Investigation of Stansbury limestone (September 1962).
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 55/00145 Amdel 00212 Polyzoal limestone investigation. Entrained bed calcination.
Deposits of limestone at Mount Gambier have for some time attracted attention as a possible source of lime. The limestone is a soft polyzoal material which can be readily mined and is also of high purity, containing about 97 per cent CaCO3, so that...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1962
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RB 42/00111 Production of hydrated lime and quicklime from Mount Gambier limestone.
Capital and operating costs are estimated for a rotary kiln plant to produce agetone, quicklime, and hydrated lime from Mount Gambier limestone. The output from the plant has been considerably increased above that used in the original estimates.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 42/00139 Production of hydrated lime from Murray Bridge limestone.
Calcination and hydration tests on samples of Murray Bridge Limestones indicate 1100°C as the best calcination temperature. The products contained 72.4, 76.0 and 75.2 per cent calcium hydroxide respectively.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 44/00010 Marble deposit, near Mount Torrens.
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 45/00028 Shell grit deposits - Hundred of Inkerman.
Two mineral claims situated on Sec. 5. Hd. Inkerman, and approximately 51 miles north of Adelaide, were inspected on 15th March 1957 by N.A. Clothier. This report was prepared from several minutes presented by him. The profile of the deposit was...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gambier. Final geological report on drilling.
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Published: 09 Aug 1999
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Redcliff. Progress reports to licence surrender, for the period 12/1/1976 to 21/10/1977.
Reports provide a history of the assistance given by the licensee and State Government officials to Dow Chemical Co. to enable their re-assessment of the viability of the proposed Redcliff Petrochemical Plant and associated raw material sources.-
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RB 67/00015;Amdel 00595 Calcination of polyzoal limestone in transport.
Background: Enormous reserves of high grade polyzoal limestone exists in the South east of South Australia near Mount Gambier. The conventional methods of calcinations (vertical shaft kilns, rotary kilns and multi stage fluidized beds) are either...-
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Published: 01 May 1968
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RB 67/00028;Amdel 599 Extraction of sulphur from gypsum, part 1.
Background: Australia currently imports about 430 000 tons of elemental sulphur per year, valued at about $12,000,000 in 1966. The sulphur is purchased from Canada, the USA and Mexico. The annual production of elemental sulphur in these three...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1968
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RB 27/00046 Hydration and air classification of quicklime made from Yorke Peninsula travertine limestone.
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Published: 01 Jan 1950
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RB 31/00123 Weathered slate for brickmaking - Golden Grove.
An occurrence of Precambrian highly weathered slate, slightly phyllitic and quartz-veined, located in the foothills at Golden Grove, was investigated for its brickmaking potential via a shallow bedrock drilling programme and laboratory testing of...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1951
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/49 : production of high-grade calcium carbonate products from limestone fines. Progress report nos 1 to 15 plus final report, parts 1 and 2, for the period March 1962 to August 1964.
In South Australia there are a number of limestone occurrences which have been worked for long periods, and a high tonnage of limestones fines has accumulated. These fines are of too low a grade to be used. The Department of Mines (SADM) requested of...-
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SADM/Amdel Project 1/1/83 : Brachina limestone investigation. Progress reports 1 and 2 for the period 19/8/1964 to 30/6/1965.
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Salt Creek. First partial surrender report, for the period 19/11/1996 to 18/11/2000.
Push tube sampling of lakebed sediments was carried out in two separate salt lake areas at the northern and southern extremities of a large dolomitic magnesite deposit located south-east of Salt Creek, adjacent to the Coorong. The northern area lake...-
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