RB 80/00139 Tumby Bay marble EML 3554. T.W. Norton, sections 288, 299, Hundred Hutchison, County Flinders.
Published: 12 Nov 1980 Created: 06 Nov 2024 Revised: 06 Nov 2024

EML 3554, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, contains 3 separate marble outcrops, each 40 metres wide, of similar mineralogy, which are isoclinally-folded Katunga Dolomite of the Hutchison Group of Lower Proterozoic age. The marble quarries where mapped,...

EML 3554, 9 km NW of Tumby Bay, contains 3 separate marble outcrops, each 40 metres wide, of similar mineralogy, which are isoclinally-folded Katunga Dolomite of the Hutchison Group of Lower Proterozoic age. The marble quarries where mapped, surveyed and sampled. In the northern and southern marble outcrops on the slope of Waterfall Creek, reserves are limited and problems are expected with access and quarrying. At the central outcrop, from which 720 tonnes have been produced since 1961, 100000 tonnes of marble are inferred. A near vertical vein of chrysotile asbestos is exposed in an old adit on the southern marble outcrop. The marble is used as coloured aggregate for construction panels, paving and swinnimg pool surrounds and is suitable as base course of marginal quality for sealing aggregate.

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Record No rb8000139
Topic Geoscientific Information
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Document Type Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication
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Geological Province Gawler Craton
Mine Name Nortons Quarry
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Geographic Locality: Tumby Bay;Hd Hutchison, secn 288, secn 299
Doc No: RB 80/00139

Geographic Locality: Tumby Bay;Hd Hutchison, secn 288, secn 299 Doc No: RB 80/00139

Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb8000139
Citation Johnson, P.D. 1980. RB 80/00139 Tumby Bay marble EML 3554. T.W. Norton, sections 288, 299, Hundred Hutchison, County Flinders. Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication. Government of South Australia.
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb8000139

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