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Project proposal - Sceale Bay gypsum development. Summary of development program.
This project proposal relates to the potential for mining a vast gypsum deposit located adjacent to Sceale Bay, about 14 km south of Streaky Bay on the west coast of South Australia. Preliminary estimates put the ore reserves of gypsum of 88% purity...-
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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 41/00037 Treatment of granular gypsum from Stenhouse Bay (RD 23).
This report gives details of tests made to beneficiate granular gypsum ("caso"), which is at present regarded as overburden on the rock gypsum deposits at Stenhouse Bay, into a product suitable for the making of plaster.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 41/00033 Gypsum occurrence - Hd Stow.
Fred Ingham & Co., Plaster Manufacturers, Port Pirie and Dudley Park have sought Departmental assistance in locating a fresh source of gypsum of sufficient size and quality to satisfy a requirement of 10,000 tons per annum for plaster manufacture...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 51/00090 Gypsum deposit - Blocks Q and N, Hundred of Stuart.
Fourteen power auger holes and three bulldozed cuts have indicated clay containing 45% gypsum under 1m of overburden. Reserves in MLs 661 and 662 on the west margin of a dry lake approach 100 000 t of washed gypsum. Saline water is likely to occur at...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 52/00114 Report on test drilling - Lake MacDonnell gypsum deposit.
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 52/00119 Exploration drilling - Lake MacDonnell gypsum deposit.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 58/00137 Gypsum deposit, blocks Q and N Hundred of Stuart. Machine-auger boring.
Auger boring on a gypsum dune north-east of Morgan has proved 1 000 000 cubic metres of crude gypsum. Total reserved within MLs 665 and 678 exceed this value as the gypsum extends outside the area tested. 300 000 cubic metres of flour gypsum,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 60/00082 Coober Pedy Opalfield.
Mapping of the Coober Pedy Opalfield has shown that opal occurrence, although erratic, is not entirely unpredictable. Several groups of workings are present in an area of about 150 square miles. The host rock is a distinctive pink and white...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1965
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RB 49/00006 Mineral industry on Yorke Peninsula (13/7/1959).
Since the days of early settlement in South Australia mineral production from Yorke Peninsula has made an important contribution to the wealth of the state. Firstly, with the discovery and mining of copper in the Moonta Wallaroo district early in...-
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Published: 13 Jul 1959
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RB 43/00089 Treatment of gypsum from Kangaroo Island.
Samples were received from a gypsum deposit on Kangaroo Island (Hundred of Haines). Initial test work indicates that clean gypsum can be obtained by washing and that plaster can be made from the calcined washed gypsum. The colour of the plaster...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 44/00091 Lake Fowler gypsum deposit (29/5/1957).
A programme of 39 hand auger holes was carried out for CSR Limited, of Sydney, to define a reported bed of gypsum occuring below the level of the base of the gypsum dunes. The grade of gypsum found was generally lower than that in the dunes and is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 45/00032 Diamond Lake gypsum deposits.
Gypsum deposits occurring at Diamond Lake are at present being worked at the rate of 200 tons per week by Mr. C.D. Bartsch of Nuriootpa. The area of the deposits is private property owned by Mr. E.W. Wilson of Whitwarta, with minerals alienated from...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 45/00110 Report on bulk sampling procedure, 5000 ton shipment of gypsum ex. Thevenard.
At the request of Waratah Gypsum Pty. Ltd. bulk sampling of a 5000 ton shipment of Gypsum for export overseas from the Lake Macdonnell deposit, was carried out by Department of Mines officers, Messrs. C. R. Sandman, Metallurgist, and C. M. Willington,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 48/00148 Gypsum deposits near Streaky Bay and some other localities on Eyre Peninsula.
A survey of gypsum-bearing lakes on Eyre Peninsula has indicated a promising deposit about 10 miles SSE of Streaky Bay. Other deposits examined, namely those near Charra, Point De Mole, Lake Yaninee, Kopi, Lake Malata and Lake Greenly suffer from one...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 48/00005 Testing of marginal gypsum and estimates of gypsum reserves - Lake MacDonnell.
Three small areas (total about 0.8 sq. miles) outside existing gypsum leases near Lake MacDonnell have been tested by Proline auger and found to contain gypsum reserves estimated at about 2,850,000 tons. It is estimated that 29,000,000 tons of gypsum...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 48/00013 Gypsum deposits, near Maninee and Kopi.
A short survey of gypsum deposits at Lake Yaninee and Kopi indicates that the best gypsum is at Kopi. Here a large dune immediately west of the rail siding contains an estimated minimum of 44,000 tons. The dune is composed largely of pale brown seed...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 47/00004 Gypsum deposit, sections 72-74 and 78 Hundred of Melville.
On March 18 - 19th, 1958, samples were taken by means of a post hole auger from the floor of a saline lake situated in Hundred Melville, sections 72,73, 74 and 78 3½ miles by road west south west of Yorketown on Southern Yorke Peninsula. The samples...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 76/00120 Stenhouse Bay gypsum deposits, core sampling of Snow Lake and Spider Lake.
Gypsum reserves in Snow Lake and Spider Lake within Innes National Park on southern Yorke Peninsula have been delineated by core sampling and auger drilling. Snow Lake contains indicated geological reserves of 2.8 million tonnes of gypsum to an...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 84/00080 Reappraisal of gypsum reserves, Streaky Bay Lakes, Eyre Peninsula.
Based on 112 drill holes in 1959 and 32 in 1969, proved reserves were recalculated as 44 million tonnes in Lake Purdilla, 1 metre or more thick at average grade of 88.4% gypsum and 6 million tonnes in Lake Toorna, 1 metre or more thick at average...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1985
