By Harold Barnes
ISBN-10: 0080324584
ISBN-13: 9780080324586
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Marine Aggregates for the Sydney Market. Branch Bowral Symposium, 5 July 1980, 27 pp. , 1980b. Quarry Mine Pit, 19(10), 10–12, 14, 22. , 1981. Exploration and Exploitation of Mineral Sands off the East Coast of Australia. Paper presented at SEATEC III Symposium, Singapore, March 1981, 29 pp. , 1970. Prepr. Marine Technology 1970, 2, 983–1001. , Rogers, J. , 1971. Proc. Australas. Instn. Min. , 1971, 1–13, (Pap. M. Conf. 8). , 1977. Bull. geol. Soc. , 88, 813–823. , 1980a. Burnett, East-West Center, Honolulu, pp.
It has been estimated that the Rise has a total reserve of phosphorite of about 100 million tonnes with an average P2O5 content of 21–22% although recent investigations suggest lesser amounts (Bender, 1982; Bäcker, 1985). , New Zealand, and German cruises (Buckenham, Rogers & Rouse, 1971; Cullen, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1984; Karns, 1976; Pasho, 1973, 1976; Kudrass, 1980, 1982; Kudrass & Cullen, 1982; von Rad & Kudrass, 1984) and the agronomic potential of the material assessed (Mackay, Gregg & Syers, 1984; Mackay, Syers & Gregg, 1984).
1985; Goodfellow, 1985; Richards & Strens, 1985; Scott, 1985). Preliminary metallurgical studies on sulphides have been carried out by Sawyer et al. (1983) and Ergunalp & Weber (1985). Malahoff (1982b) described the largest deposits then known which is on the Galapagos Rift. The deposit is said to be 1000 m long, 35 m high, and 200 m wide at a water depth of 2850 m, to have an average specific gravity of 5·8 and to contain an average 10% Cu, 35% Fe, and 1% Zn. , 1983a). Bäcker, pers. ). Furthermore, the description of the size and character of deposits does not accord with the more detailed description given by Malahoff et al.
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