RB 86/00052 Sugar Loaf Hill quarry - Geological investigations and machine auger drilling, 1985.
Published: 01 Aug 1986 Created: 07 Nov 2024 Revised: 07 Nov 2024

Sugarloaf Hill quarry 18 km NE of Barmera has been operating since 1949. Pleistocene dolomitic Bungunnia Limestone has been the source of aggregate, and underlying bimodal Pliocene Loxton Sands, the source of construction sand. Production has...

Sugarloaf Hill quarry 18 km NE of Barmera has been operating since 1949. Pleistocene dolomitic Bungunnia Limestone has been the source of aggregate, and underlying bimodal Pliocene Loxton Sands, the source of construction sand. Production has been 120,854 tonnes of dolomite, and 18,000 tonnes of sand, from 1949 - 1985. Allowing for a 2:1 ratio of overburden to dolomite as a mineable limit, the remaining measured reserves of dolomite are 930,000 tonnes, and the remaining indicated reserves of sand are 3.8 million tonnes, above RL 13 m. The remaining volume of overburden, comprising clay, gravel, sand, silt and calcrete, is estimated at 960,000 tonnes. Additional mineral claims will be required.

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Record No rb8600052
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
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Document Type Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication
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Geological Province Murray Basin
Mine Name Sugarloaf Hill quarry
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Commodity industrial material
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Geographic Locality: Barmera
Doc No: RB 86/00052

Geographic Locality: Barmera Doc No: RB 86/00052

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/rb8600052
Citation Crettenden, P.P. 1986. RB 86/00052 Sugar Loaf Hill quarry - Geological investigations and machine auger drilling, 1985. Departmental Publication - Geological Survey Geoscience Publication. Government of South Australia.
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/rb8600052

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