Laboratory tests leading to installation of magnetic separation plant, and to heavy media plant, are decribed. Operations of plants are reviewed. Lab. tests of flotation are described. Operating costs of pilot plant are discussed.

Background: Enormous reserves of high grade polyzoal limestone exists in the South east of South Australia near Mount Gambier. The conventional methods of calcinations (vertical shaft kilns, rotary kilns and multi stage fluidized beds) are either...

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 appraisal of the Northern Adelaide Plains Groundwater Supply has been .carried out under the commission of the Director of Mines, South Australia. The appraisal is based on information compiled by the Department and re-produced in the appendices...

Background In 1965 the South Australian Government Department of Mines authorised Amdel to carry out a review of lead and copper smelting operations. This decision was undoubtedly prompted by the proving of considerable reserves of lead ore at...

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Over the last few years, a problem has existed along Dawesley Creek due to the release of acid waters with a high concentration of iron and appreciable contents of other heavy metals from the mine area of Nairne Pyrites Limited at Brukunga. This...

This study reports on a project to establish a magnesium oxide derivatives business in South Australia, by exploiting a resource of sedimentary magnesite held by Commercial Minerals Ltd (a member of the Normandy Poseidon Group of companies). Aspects...

Ongoing exploration in the Kalkaroo joint venture (formerly called South Eagle - Yarramba) area, located 40-80 km north-east of Olary and 50-150 km west-northwest of Broken Hill, has continued to target stratabound/epithermal/hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag and...

As part of a planned project to rehabilitate the disused, government-owned Mount Torrens gold treatment plant, expert research was commissioned by SADME into selection of a suitable extraction process to remove remnant gold credits from accumulated...

The Sedan lignite deposit was discovered in 1979 and was subsequently investigated as fuel for an onsite conventional thermal power station. At that time, predicted high future energy demand by the 1990s required the state government to put in place...

An area situated ~100 km west of Broken Hill has been explored for buried base and precious metals epigenetic mineralisation that might have formed within Palaeoproterozoic meta-igneous and metasedimentary basement rocks of the north-eastern Olary...

An area located on central western Eyre Peninsula between Minnipa and Port Kenny was taken up to explore the Precambrian basement rocks, which are poorly exposed there, for possible economic buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits....

The Lochiel North coal deposit was taken under licence to allow for an evaluation of the known coal seams' potential for significant upgrading of their contained thermal energy, through the application of a proprietary autoclave heating process under...

Report discusses the newly proven anomalous fluorine levels naturally pertaining to GAB groundwater of the Marree district (being 10+ times background levels found elsewhere in the region), in the context of whether this potentially harmful water can...

On the basis of information obtained from a private bore sunk in section 27, Hundred of Stow, an investigation into the brown coal occurrence of this area was commenced in February 1949. In the course of this investigation twenty two bores were sunk,...

The Minerals value-chain ScoreCard, initiated in 2001, provides information regarding the performance of South Australia’s mineral industry across the exploration, investment, production, processing and export stages of wealth creation. In doing so,...

Abstracts to PAPERS: - Baker, A.K.M. - Metal geochemistry of regolith in the Mount Lofty Ranges and associated alluvial fans on the Adelaide Plains. - Belperio, A.P. and Freeman, H. - Exploration using gold and base metal pathfinders in calcareous...

The Nankivel Dam prospect, located in north-western Eyre Peninsula, contains alunite, pyrophyllite, dickite, topaz and diaspore alteration of its rocks that is thought to be consistent with mineral assemblages found in advanced-argillic alteration...

The Minerals value-chain ScoreCard, initiated in 2001, provides information regarding the performance of South Australia’s mineral industry across the exploration, investment, production, processing and export stages of wealth creation. In doing so,...