The Colonial Sugar Refining Company requested that tests be carried out on gypsum bearing material from their deposit at Manara, New South Wales. A gypsum concentrate is being produced at the moment from a plant at the deposit but difficulty in...

The Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited submitted samples of dune gypsum material from Lake Fowler for treatment; A product free from fine, or flour, gypsum was required. Air separation methods had been used on dried material from this deposit in...

The operation of a planned industrial plant, designed to produce Portland cement and sulphuric acid from anhydrite, is described. Profitable operation of the process in South Australia, using gypsum as the principal raw material, is shown to be...

Scout drilling, undertaken by hand on a number of salt lakes in the Hundred of Haines, and also on isolated lakes in the Hundreds of Newland and Dudley, all on Kangaroo Island, has indicated that no gypsum occurs in these lakes. Without exception,...

A survey was conducted of possible uses of finely divided gypsum. As this material is not generally suitable for plastering uses, limited reference only is made to this field of application.

The Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited, in a letter of April 23rd, 1957 sought assistance is improving the efficiency of gypsum washing carried out by their subsidiary Brunswick Plaster Mills. The Companys main requirements were: (a) Reduction...

In order to determine the underground water possibilities of the subject mapsheet area, a vehicle-borne ground reconnaissance was conducted over ten days during July-August 1952, followed in mid-August by several days of low-level aerial flight...

In recognition of the centenary of Henry Yorke Lyell Brown's appointment as the first Government Geologist for South Australia, and the foundation of the Department of Mines and Energy, aspects of South Australia's colourful and vital mining and...

Background: Australia currently imports about 430 000 tons of elemental sulphur per year, valued at about $12,000,000 in 1966. The sulphur is purchased from Canada, the USA and Mexico. The annual production of elemental sulphur in these three...

This borehole was drilled to a total depth of 321 ft. 4 ins., and a complete cored section was obtained of the lower part of the Middle Cambrian Ramsay Limestone and of the Lower Cambrian Red Bed Clastics, in which thin bands of gypsum had been...

Preliminary investigation by air photo interpretation and drilling of 5 hand auger holes suggests that probable reserves of seed gypsum accumulated in extensive dunes amount to approximately 10 million tonnes averaging 70% CaSO4.2H2O. Crystalline...

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To assist the State Planning Office "examine and assess the future development of a defined area in the Mid-North of the State in anticipation of the area being declared a planning area under the provisions of the Planning and Development Act,...

Mineral deposits and regional geology are summarised, and future prospects for mineral development are discussed. Gypsum and construction materials are the only commodities being produced at present. Metallic minerals associated with a regional fault...

Lunette dunes are associated with a playa lake that is underlain by Blanchetown Clay. At the surface the dunes consist of sandy flour gypsum, but auger drilling disclosed silica sand at shallow depth; thus the dunes do not constitute a commercial...

The Colonial Sugar Refining Co. has expressed a wish to cease the production of gypsum from their Lake MacDonnell leases for several years. They wish to concentrate their production at their leases on Kangaroo Island, to save costs, because they are...

Lake Gairdner is largely covered by a crust of salt which overlies gypseous muds, silts and sands. Despite the fact that the floor of the lake and the surrounding catchment area are underlain by igneous rocks whose K2O content exceeds 5%, the lake...

Laboratory testing of samples from dam and Lake bank exposures has shown the clay to be a high quality plastic type suitable for use in whiteware manufacture. Exposures are limited and a programme of exploratory mapping and drilling is recommended to...

This report deals with the regional stratigraphy of surficial deposits in the region of the Murray Basin and adjoining Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin. The aim is to place deposits described in selected earlier publications of anthropologists,...

A comprehensive review of mineral deposits and their geological setting is presented to guide planning decisions relating to the mineral industry. The report also provides basic geological, data and literature references useful to mineral exploration...