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Amdel reports on the physical and mineralogical properties of white clay samples taken from a core cut in Kalabity drillhole K59.
Clay sample CE3989 has a brightness that is well below the requirements for a paper coating clay (85% or greater). Bleaching of the - 2 micron clay fraction increased the brightness to filler grade requirements (75-85%). Clay sample CE4008 has a...-
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Published: 20 Apr 1972
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RB 41/00077 Quaternary stratigraphic record at Lake Eyre North and the evolution of existing topographic forms.
Fossiliferous Quaternary lacustrine deposits of the Lake Eyre Basin are exposed in escarpments along the margins of Lake Eyre, North and were intersected in shallow boreholes in the area. These are described in detail and their distribution shown on...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 87/00063 Report on Tenth Clay Minerals Society Conference, Sydney 8-10 December, 1986 and text of paper, SA Palygorskite - Potential and problems.
Presents program and abstracts of talks, including illustration of slides, and notes to accompany field excursions.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1987
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RB 84/00052 Reconnaissance sampling of palygorskitic clay, Garford Palaeochannel - Coober Pedy.
Hand auger and channel sampling was carried out at 23 localities on the margins of playa lakes within the palaeochannel. Large areas of Garford Formation clay, possibly suitable as industrial absorbents, are likely in the centre of the palaeochannel....-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 85/00039 Colour coding of sands and clays from the Simpson Desert dunefield according to Munsell soil colour charts.
Colour variation was ascribed to the dominance of limonite coatings on sand grains, to uncoated grains and to various proportions of clay.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1985
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RB 87/00085 Simpson Desert sand colour-note.
Colour of mobile Simpson Desert dune sands varies from light brown in the playa region north of the Kallakoopah, to dark red brown and red to the northwest and west, confirming previous less detailed observations. A source in younger (largely...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1987
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RB 82/00061 Late Tertiary grey billy, and the age and origin of surficial silicifications (silcrete) in South Australia.
Age demonstrated by stratigraphic relationships with palynologically dated sequences, and evidence of erosion of silcretes.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 98/00021 Review of open file company exploration data from 1992 to mid-1997, Olary Domain, CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
This report comprises Open file company data, released since the previous MESA review (Yates and Randell, 1994) of the CURNAMONA 1:250 000 map sheet, includes exploration for base and precious metals (especially stratiform/stratabound Broken...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Ethiudna. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 22/2/2004 to 22/2/2015.
An area centred ~50 km north-west of Olary is continuing to be explored for possible buried economic Prominent Hill or Olympic Dam type iron oxide associated copper-gold (IOCG) breccia style mineralisation. The area is considered highly prospective...-
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Lake Frome EL 19. Results of coring programme.
A new coring technique recommended by Christensen Diamond Products has been successfully used by Afmeco to complete four rotary coreholes within unconsolidated Tertiary sediments on the northern Lake Frome Plains (total drilled 1957'5 inches / total...-
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Report on dolomite deposits at the Neales River, north-west of Lake Eyre North, SA.
Geological investigations have delineated a dolomite deposit extending at least 8 miles along the lower Neales River and exposed in its banks. An indicated resource of approximately 20 million tons is estimated to be present. It is considered that...-
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Published: 09 Jan 1970
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Curnamona Province.
CURNAMONA PROVINCE SUMMARY Age: Sedimentation - late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic. Felsic and mafic volcanism - late Palaeoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic. Granitic intrusion - late Palaeoproterozoic to early...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2003
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Mulyungarie. Information status at licence expiry, for the period 14/8/2002 to 13/8/2003 [no work performed].
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Lake Frome South, Central Lake Frome and Lake Frome North areas (the Lake Frome Potash Project). Joint annual reports plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 26/4/2018.
The entire extent of the main Lake Frome salina was taken up in early 2015 with three contiguous licences covering a total area of 2718 square km, to explore for a salt lake brine potash resource which might be economic to develop to supply the local...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1918
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West Lake Blanche. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/3/2014 to 26/3/2018.
A licence area covering the piedmont plain formed adjacent to a large salt lake (Lake Blanche) of the Cenozoic Lake Eyre Basin, and the underlying Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments situated to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage Inlier, ~100...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1918
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Petermorra Creek. Information status at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/6/2016 to 1/6/2018: no work performed.
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Lake Callabonna. Information status at licence full surrender, for the period 16/8/2016 to 7/9/2017: no work performed.
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Lake Blanche. Information status at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/6/2016 to 1/6/2018: no work performed.
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Hayes Dam. First partial surrender report, for the period 6/10/2016 to 5/10/2019.
149 square km or ~31% of the former area of EL 5864, which is centred ~105 km south-southwest of Moomba, have been relinquished. The exploration target being investigated on this licence, which is located along the central section of the Strzelecki...-
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Published: 06 Feb 1920
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Lake Gregory. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 13/5/2016 to 9/3/2017.
A licence area covering a large salt lake (Lake Gregory) of the Cenozoic Lake Eyre Basin, and the underlying Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments situated to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage and Mount Painter inliers, ~120 km north-east of...-
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