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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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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Annual, joint annual and combined annual reports for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2009.
A renewed effort to determine the diamond mineral potential of the 15.6 square km of land comprising Flinders Island was instigated during January 1999, under tenure of EL 2577, by Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, a company related to the previous...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1909
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Flinders Island and Flinders Island Coast. Joint annual reports for the period 4/1/2009 to 3/1/2019.
During licence Year 11, the lithological logs were digitised and are now presented for the remaining eight holes of the first drilling program (completed in 2002), together with the holes from the second (2003), and third (2004) drilling programs....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1919
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RB 68/00025 Reconnaissance geological survey of the STREAKY BAY and NUYTS 1:250 000 areas.
The Streaky Bay and Nuyts 1:250 000 map areas are located on the western side of Eyre Peninsula. Precambrian greenschist and amphibolite facies metamorphics of the Gawler Platform are intruded by Lower Proterozoic or Carpentarian granites, gneisses...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1969
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RB 73/00070 Fossiliferous marine and non-marine Cainozoic rocks from the eastern Eucla Basin, South Australia.
Outcrop and subsurface samples taken from various sources, that represent all the Cainozoic marine formations of the eastern Eucla Basin, have been studied. The current stratigraphic knowledge of these formations in SA is summarised. A marine...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1973
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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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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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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
