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RB 38/00053 Report on an inspection of an asbestos deposit located on Mount Lyndhurst Station.
A minor outcropping occurrence of blue-grey ?tremolite asbestos found in a fault crush zone located near the head of Mount Lyndhurst Creek was visited to assess its economic viability. Because of the largely narrow and unpredictable development of the...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1954
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RB 57/00014 Report on visit to Western Australian iron and manganese deposits in May 1963.
A comparison of known iron deposits in Western Australia and South Australia suggests that large, high grade iron orebodies occur in flatly dipping favourable horizons which have a leached and oxidised appearance: siliceous, steeply dipping iron...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1963
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RB 47/00067 Robertstown crocidolite. Report of diamond drilling results at the Blue Hole deposit.
Three diamond drillholes recently completed at the Blue Hole crocidolite deposits, located 3 miles north-west of Robertstown, indicate the limited nature of the mineralisation. Boring proved that the asbestos-bearing biotite-albite-hornblende veins...-
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Published: 03 Sep 1958
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Verran and Malbrom (the Verran Project, then the Arno Graphite Project). Joint annual reports plus annual report, for the period 29/1/2014 to 28/1/2019.
Two licence areas together covering the hinterland to Arno Bay and Port Gibbon on eastern Eyre Peninsula, and extending as far north-westwards as Rudall, are being explored for economic buried graphite deposits that may have formed in deformed high...-
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Bull 037 Geology and Mineral Resources of Southern Eyre Peninsula
A regional geological survey covered 15 standard 1-mile map sheets. Detailed mapping established a 50 000 ft sequence of Archaean sedimentation of gneissose, schistose and granitoid rocks, migmatite, quartzite, dolomite and haematitic quartzite. These...-
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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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ExpNotes PARACHILNA (v2): Explanatory Notes PARACHILNA (second edition, 1999)
The PARACHILNA map area (31 to 32°S, 138 to 139.5°E) occupies the central Flinders Ranges which are made up of folded, mostly marine sedimentary Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline, and adjoining plains underlain by Cainozoic...-
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RB 06/00285 Report on asbestos, section 13 Hundred of Miltalie.
A newly found, up to 2 inch wide vein of asbestos occurring within a magnesian marble bed in the Mount Olinthus district was inspected and qualitatively assessed from a single shallow trench exposure.-
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Published: 15 Apr 1919
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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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Cowell. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/6/1965 to 31/12/1965.
Exploration for possible economic deposits of chrysotile asbestos, carried out across the Miltalie Hills and surrounding hinterland near Cowell, has consisted of detailed 1:12,000 scale geological mapping of the outcropping metamorphosed bedrock, in...-
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Published: 10 Dec 1965
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RB 45/00025 Crocidolite asbestos occurrences, Arkaba.
An area south-west of Arkaba Woolshed, 10 miles north of Hawker, shows extensive and generally low grade crocidolite mineralisation of Proterozoic dolomitic limestone, associated with diorite occurrences. True crocidolite is too rare for the area to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
