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RB 61/00082 Chowilla Dam Project: materials investigation, Devlin Pound quarry site. Geological report.
Published: 01 Jan 1965 Created: 05 Nov 2024 Revised: 05 Nov 2024
Author: Trudinger, J.P.

A quarry site at Devlin Pound has been explored by four diamond drill holes totalling 360 feet in depth. Drilling shows that hard limestone occurs in thin bands in the upper 75ft. of the sequence of shallow marine sediments. To recover this rock...

A quarry site at Devlin Pound has been explored by four diamond drill holes totalling 360 feet in depth. Drilling shows that hard limestone occurs in thin bands in the upper 75ft. of the sequence of shallow marine sediments. To recover this rock it would be necessary to remove more than five time its volume of unusable material.

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Record No rb6100082
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Departmental Publication - Engineering Geology Publication
Contributor South Australia. Department of Mines
Sponsor South Australia. Engineering and Water Supply Department
Tenement
Tenement Holder
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Geological Province
    Mine Name
    Stratigraphy Mannum Formation
    Commodity limestone
    Notes 
    Notes: 65/01291
Geographic Locality: Chowilla;Devlin Pound
Doc No: RB 61/00082
    Notes: 65/01291
Geographic Locality: Chowilla;Devlin Pound
Doc No: RB 61/00082
    Language English
    Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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    License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb6100082
    Citation Trudinger, J.P. 1965. RB 61/00082 Chowilla Dam Project: materials investigation, Devlin Pound quarry site. Geological report. Departmental Publication - Engineering Geology Publication. Government of South Australia.
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb6100082

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    Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
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