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RB 79/00003 Fine tailings investigation. Drilling of tailings dams and the results of laboratory evaluation. Report no. 2, Gawler.
A total of 0.5 million cubic m of fine tailings, weighing 0.7 million tonnes, and averaging 44.8% solids, are impounded in 10 tailings dams at three sand deposits near Gawler, 35 km north-east of Adelaide. The dams are still in use, and pose a major...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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The Adelaide Hills Project (now including the former Fleurieu Project tenements). Annual reports for the period 1/10/2013 to 30/11/2018 plus expiry/full surrender reports to 7/10/2023.
During the twelfth, 2013-2014 project year, work on the now combined licence holdings of the Terramin Group focussed on prospect evaluation done at Bird-in-Hand (environmental and hydrological studies), Wheal Barton and Golden Slope, plus the ongoing...-
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Pidinga (part of the Eucla-Maralinga Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 27/8/2004 to 28/2/2009.
An area located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, and centred ~60 km north-east of Fowlers Bay, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for possible buried economic occurrences of zircon-rich heavy...-
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Copley and Leigh Creek. Progress reports for the period 4/10/1982 to 27/1/1991.
TARGET: Exploration and evaluation of known secondary copper occurrences and exploration for gold and phosphates in the Lyndhurst-Copley region. EXPLORATION: Including the work done previously in EL 929, exploration activities undertaken since 1981...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 00811 Redcliff Project: geological setting and preliminary assessment of environmental factors.
This report has been compiled at the request of the Redcliff Steering Committee to assist in the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement. It relies almost entirely on work carried out by Departmental officers and private consultants during...-
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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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Ooldea Range (part of the Eucla Basin Project). Annual reports, including those for the commencement of licence joint annual reporting for the Eucla Basin Mineral Sands Tenement Group 1, for the period 5/3/2002 to 28/2/2009.
The geomorphic feature known as the Ooldea Range, a prominent Eocene dune formed at the limit of the marine transgression on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, has now been taken under licence by WA-based company Iluka Resources to explore for...-
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RB 2001/00001 Soil sampling for heavy metal contaminants - Brukunga Township Reserve.
A soil-sampling program conducted on the public reserve adjacent to Dawesley Creek in the township of Brukunga was designed to determine the likely hazard of heavy metal contamination in the reserve. The reserve is on a site containing a small amount...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2001
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Gulf St Vincent, SA. Progress reports and final report, for the period 19/2/1975 to 18/2/1976. Includes Benthic survey of flora and fauna, Gulf of St Vincent April-October 1975 and Report on sea floor sediment sampling, EL 172, Gulf St Vincent, SA.
Reports describe an offshore sampling survey conducted of the topmost seabed sediments in a portion of Gulf St Vincent, over six days (non-consecutive) during December 1974 and January 1975. The aim was to map the occurrence and estimate the volume of...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1976
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Meningie, Ashville and Warnes (the Meningie South Gypsum Project). Licence-specific annual reports and project joint annual reports, for the period January 1995 to 12/11/2018.
This set of reports describes the resource discovery, process of appraisal, selective extraction and product sales history relating to a group of small Holocene surficial gysum deposits located in the brackish to saline swampy hinterland extending...-
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Published: 12 Jan 2018
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Absorbent Clay Project. Progress reports for the period January 1994 to January 1996.
This project was designed to determine the potential of various clays to absorb harmful or toxic substances present in water intended for human use. The clay samples that were selected for study contain significant amounts of either smectite, kaolin,...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mullaquana (part of the Mullaquana, later called Samphire, Uranium Project). Annual reports for the period 20/11/2009 to 19/11/2018.
During licence Year 4, UraniumSA undertook the following work on EL 3652: - pattern drilling of 232 rotary mud holes totalling 18,416 m, targeting the Blackbush and Plumbush prospects. - core drilling totalling 876 m in 8 holes, to characterise...-
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Published: 03 Dec 2018
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White Lagoon. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/10/2001 to 2/10/2004.
Exploration for possible marine placer heavy mineral sands deposits within Recent sediments laid down across a large part of east-central Kangaroo Island, due south of Kingscote, has comprised a literature survey, limited field geological...-
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Published: 17 Jun 2005
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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 2005
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Fig Tree Corner, Ooldea South, Barton, Colona North, Ooldea Range and Pidinga (the Eucla Basin HMS Project tenement Group One). Joint annual reports for the period 1/3/2007 to 28/2/2011.
A group of adjoining tenements covering ground situated between Ceduna and the Trans Australia Railway are being explored for possible economic buried Tertiary marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands. During the 2007-2008 joint reporting year,...-
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Published: 01 May 2011