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RB 96/00015 Regional groundwater impacts of irrigation development in the eastern Riverland.
A regional groundwater model has been constructed of the Loxton Sands watertable aquifer in the eastern Riverland, over an area extending eastwards from Overland Corner to the State border. It is being used to quantify the salt load impacts on the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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RB 96/00012 Dryland salinity investigation, Toolillie Gully. Progress report no. 1 - Drilling programme.
Dryland salinisation is degrading land and water resources of Lower Eyre Peninsula. It decreases land production capabilities, water quality, and the general aesthetics of the environment. Interdepartmental investigations into the occurrence and...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1996
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RB 96/00017 River Murray water resource management. Assessment of salt load impacts and drainage hazard for new irrigation development along the River Murray in South Australia.
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) has a commitment in the national interest to managing the health of the River Murray and floodplain environment by mitigating both decreases in river water quality and associated environmental degradation...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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Ashville gypsum deposits. Retention lease six-monthly combined reports for the period 14/9/1993 to 1/6/1996.
Activity on these deposits has consisted of one phase of trial mining of 600 cubic m of the best quality part of the Warnes deposit, stockpiling of the extracted gypsum-rich lakebed sediments, chemical analysis of 39 bulked samples of this stockpile...-
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Point Paterson. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/6/2003 to 1/6/2006.
Evaluation of the feasibility of re-establishing salt production facilities at the abandoned solar salt works on the tidal flats at Point Paterson, 15 km south-east of Port Augusta, has been undertaken by the current local SA major salt producer...-
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Point Paterson - Port Pirie area. Progress reports on work carried out prior to grant of a special mining lease, for the period June 1962 to November 1969.
The applicant proposes during the two year SML period to undertake a work and study programme to determine the economic feasibility of developing a seawater salt recovery complex on the areas applied for, which will be capable upon completion of the...-
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Published: 07 Nov 1969
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Cocunda and Calca (Poochera Kaolin Project). Progress reports, annual reports, and final reports to licences' full surrender, for the period 12/5/1986 to 28/3/2002.
Kaolin, derived mainly from deep weathering of Hiltaba Suite granites, was the principal target of exploration in the area south and south-west from Poochera, near Streaky Bay on western Eyre Peninsula. Following a review made of historic drillhole...-
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Wilkinson. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2002.
Possible potash and halite resources in evaporite - rich sediment sequences of the Tallaringa Trough, lying at depths that might be suitable for solution mining, were the initial targets of exploration in the Wilkinson Lakes area. Following a...-
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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/1/1979 to 30/11/1984.
Adelaide Brighton Cement took up tenure of the Moorlands lignite deposit during September 1976 in order to conduct confirmatory drilling of the published coal resource, to prepare a mining study for Lobe 'E', and overall, to assess the coal's...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1984
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Redcliff. Progress reports to licence surrender, for the period 12/1/1976 to 21/10/1977.
Reports provide a history of the assistance given by the licensee and State Government officials to Dow Chemical Co. to enable their re-assessment of the viability of the proposed Redcliff Petrochemical Plant and associated raw material sources.-
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Kyancutta. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 6/9/1985 to 5/9/1986.
Marketable quality gypsum was the major commodity sought in Recent salt lakes and marginal dunes of a large swamp in the Kyancutta area. Reconnaissance mapping, plus hand or power auger drill sampling of the near-surface sediments, has identified...-
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Lake Greenly, Lake Malata. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 6/9/85 to 5/9/86.
TARGET: Potentially commercial gypsum, salt or silica occurrences in Holocene paralic lakes and marginal dunes, in an area immediately north-east of Coffin Bay. EXPLORATION: Bulk sampling of lacustrine evaporitic sediments and related aeolian deposits...-
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Interpretation of sequence of events - Central Flinders Zone.
A synopsis of the possible pre-tectonic structural setting and sequence of geological events which has resulted in the observed development of faulted domes and diapirs within Neoproterozoic sediments of the central Flinders Ranges, and the related...-
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Published: 26 May 1993
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MR 002 Short review of mining operations in the State of South Australia during the half-year ended June 30th, 1904
Articles include reports on: Copper: Wallaroo and Moonta, Paramatta and Yelta, Hamley, Blinman, Burra Burra; Kapunda, Prince Alfred, Lynda, Mutooroo , Paull's, Clara St. Dora and Mount Fitton South Mines, Gold: Tarcoola, Petersburg Mount Torrens,...-
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MR 004 Review of mining operations in the State of South Australia during the year ended June 30th, 1905
Articles and summaries are provided for the following: Wallaroo and Moonta mines. Report on Mount Malvern lead and silver mine. Report on the Mutooroo copper mine. West Mutooroo (formerly Cockburn Copper Mining Coy). West Mutooroo extended, Trinity...-
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MR 005 Review of mining operations in the State of South Australia during the year ended June 30th, 1906
Articles and summaries are provided for the following: Copper: Wallaroo and Moonta, Paramatta and Yelta, Hamley, Burra Burra, Kapunda, Blinman, Mount Gunson (North-West), Prince Alfred Mines Gold: Kings Bluff. Mount Torrens, Peterborough, Tarcoola,...-
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MR 001 Short review of mining operations in the State of South Australia during the year 1903
The total value of South Australian mineral production during the year 1903 maybe estimated at £520,000 Articles include: Copper: Paramatta and Yelta mines; Burra Mine; Kapunda mine Gold: the most important gold-mining district during the past year...-
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RB 00725 Bromine from bitterns. Pilot plant investigations.
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,...-
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RB 00738 Chowilla Project. Reservoir geological investigations. Progress report no. 2. Proposed study of effects on groundwater regime, Co. Hamley.
It has been appreciated since the first geological report by Johnson, Hiern and Steel (RB 51/00136) that the filling of the proposed Chowilla Dam would cause some flushing downstream of saline groundwater present in sands beneath the Murray River...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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SP 003 Mining in South Australia - A Pictorial History
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...-
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