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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 83/00047 Auger drilling Morgan gypsum deposit in 1981. Blocks Q, 77 and 61 Hd Stuart, County Young.
205 auger holes up to 9 metres deep indicate the bulk of the reserves without beneficiation are suitable for agriculture. Reserves of 149 000 tonnes of high grade seed gypsum, suitable for cement and plaster manufacture near present mining...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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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
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RB 90/00061 Yamba-Noora gypsum deposits - Results of 1989 scout drilling program.
Dunes derived from Yamba Formation gypsiferous beds are mantled with flour gypsum in the Yamba-Noora area. They have been a source of agricultural gypsum for Riverland irrigation areas since the early 1900s. Auger drilling located 6 deposits with good...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1990
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Barna. Annual and final reports to licence expiry for the period 30/8/2002 to 29/8/2004.
Exploration for possibly economic small deposits of agricultural grade gypsum conducted on Eyre Peninsula has located several such occurrences within the remnant evaporitic sediments of past Holocene lakebeds, and in related nearby lunette dunes. The...-
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Published: 13 Jul 1905
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Kyancutta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/2014 to expiry 15/4/2018.
An area extending for 26 km to the south and south-east of Wudinna was taken up by Minotaur to evaluate the economic potential of known but poorly defined occurrences of the industrial minerals gypsum and alunite that are associated with Recent salt...-
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Gluepot Homestead area, Waikerie district. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/5/1984 to 21/11/1984.
A total of 6 test pits and 4 hand auger holes were constructed to extend and delineate the known reserves of seed gypsum at Parcoola, located approximately 40 km north-northeast of Waikerie, and to explore for possible further reserves of higher grade...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1985
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RB 74/00030 Gypsum, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Karkarook. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/9/1998 to 16/9/2003.
Holocene lacustrine gypsum beds, believed to have formed around 6000 years ago by the evaporation of saline water in a series of shallow lakes and lagoons that had developed along the ancestral Driver River watercourse, were the objectives of early...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sceale Bay. Annual reports for the period 17/11/2008 to 16/11/2015.
A review of past SADM and company technical reports concerning surficial gypsum deposits delineated near Sceale Bay showed that the gypsum resource is substantial, with a historical total proven resource of 50 Mt of gypsum at an average grade of...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1915
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Yaninee. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/2014 to 15/1/2016.
An area extending for 40 km to the west and south of Wudinna was taken up by Minotaur to evaluate the economic potential of known but poorly defined occurrences of the industrial minerals gypsum and alunite. The company's office-based compilation and...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Streaky Bay Lakes. Annual reports and technical reports for the period 19/2/1993 to 18/2/2000.
[Note: No formal annual reports were submitted to SADM for the 1993-1994 and 1994-1995 reporting years. Work done on the licence at this time is described by three consultants' reports which are held separately in Env 9502.] Exploration for economic...-
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
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RB 2016/00029 Gypsum resources of South Australia.
This report was compiled as a draft document in 1997 by Senior Geologist Jeff Valentine, a former officer working in the then Mineral Resources Branch, Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, and thereafter was put aside and disregarded by...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2018
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Mineral Claims 2557 to 2565, Sceale Bay, Eyre Peninsula. Report for the period 24/10/1990 to 20/8/1993.
This technical report by consultants to the Mineral Claim lessees examines the potential for mining a vast seed gypsum deposit located adjacent to Sceale Bay, about 14 km south of Streaky Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia....-
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Hincks. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 1/10/1999 to 30/9/2004.
Exploration for gypsum on the eastern Eyre Peninsula, 70 km west of Cowell, resulted in the establishment of mining operations at Terra Leen. Other potential gypsum sources were identified. No exploration for metals was undertaken.-
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Published: 30 Sep 1904
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Tailem Bend - Bordertown - Mount Gambier area (South-Eastern Coastal Plains Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/7/1974 to 19/7/1975.
Exploration for possible ancient beach strandline heavy mineral sand placer deposits formed within the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation has been undertaken in the State's South-East region. This pioneering on-ground work came about after several...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1975
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ExpNotes NUYTS: Explanatory Notes NUYTS
Proterozoic basement outcrops consist of syn and post- Kimban Orogeny granitoids, volcanics and basic dykes. Their rock type geochronology, field relationships and regional correlation are reported. Previous economic mineral investigations, plus...-
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