With a view to providing facilities for settlers to establish themselves on the land that will be made available by the railway, the Government directed that a geological examination be made of a portion of this area with regard to the possibilities...

Regional geological mapping of the area was initiated in 1959 and was completed in 1964. All tracks in the area were traversed and detailed mapping confined to critical localities and to areas where this was considered desirable. Geological boundaries...

During the past twenty years attention has been directed to the natural resources of the State in pigment materials, and a considerable body of information, based 011 official reports, has been accumulated, which is now collected into this Bulletin,...

32 rock samples, of unknown age, taken from the carbonate sequence intersected above the salt diapir section in SADME Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic drillhole, were examined petrographically to determine their possible depositional environment. Another 21...

This report covers work carried out on behalf of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co, Ltd to separate fine gypsum from granular seed gypsum. Using an air separator, good separations of the two types were obtained.

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...

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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...