TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...

Production of uranium hexafluoride provides widest possible markets and value for Australia's exportable uranium. Australia's uranium resources are capable of supporting a 5000 tonne uranium per annum refinery in SA capable of competing with overseas...

Continuing reconnaissance and evaluation of potentially economic Tertiary or Jurassic age coal seams, both known to be present in the Naracoorte and Kingston areas, has consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 92 open rotary holes...

101 cuttings and 14 core samples from the depth interval 7500-10,485 feet KB were analysed both to assess the hydrocarbon source potential (maturity, richness, quality) of the Early Cretaceous Pretty Hill Sandstone, and to determine the biomarker...

A petroleum engineering consultancy review for SADME of the operation, results and economics of the existing Cooper Basin EOR projects, with comments on their likely outcome and the direction which should be taken in the development of future Unit and...

Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...

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The 1976-1978 drilling programme carried out in the Lock district was designed to establish the quantity, quality and extent of the known brown coal occurrence there. Exploration Licence (EL) 280, taken out by the Director-General, SA Department of...

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This report reviews the available information on the region, and presents a preliminary appraisal of the data supplied by South-western Mining Co. Ltd. Current field and laboratory information has also been included. New geological and geochemical...

The problem of efficient washing was first approached with a view to providing excess wash, it being reasoned that as long as excess wash was available the maximum number of displacements through the filter could be attained dependant only on the...

The molten chloride process previously described has been modified to enable the production of electrolytic uranium metal powder directly from impure oxide. The grade of metal obtained is not sufficiently high for atomic energy purposes. High purity...

A novel process for the manufacture of pure uranium metal is described, in which impure uranium oxides are converted to chlorides in a molten salt bath by means of a graphite chlorination reaction. The melt is then purified and uranium metal recovered...

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...

In an earlier report Wilmshurst (1963) proposed a novel method for extracting bromine from the residual liquor (bittern) resulting from the production of sodium chloride by solar evaporation of sea water. The bromine was to be released by chlorine,...

This report covers readings and observations made during the voyage to Japan of a cargo of concentrates from Peko Mines N.L.

This report gives preliminary details and estimated capital and operating costs for the planned possible treatment of kyanite-bearing ore in the Radium Hill mill. The estimated costs are based on the scale of treatment of ore required to produce 50...

The report includes a preliminary estimate of equipment sizes, capital and operating costs, together with a possible flowsheet of a treatment plant for treating slag at Copperfield Q'ld.

Includes activities of the Division since its inception; and records of pilot plant work relating to the chemical processing, for treatment, of Radium Hill uranium concentrates to produce high grade chemical salt; with photographs of plant...