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RB 37/00118 Production of solar salt near Port Augusta (24/5/1954).
In January, 1951, a special mining lease of approximately 5,000 acres in the hundred of Davenport was granted to J. Saeck. This lease was later converted into ten miscellaneous salt leases, having a total area of 5,826 acres. Adjoining these leases to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 37/00159 Proposed production of salt by Solar Ltd at Port Augusta.
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 39/00055 Expansion of salt industry. Price and Port Wakefield area.
Ocean Salt (Extended) Proprietary Limited who produce salt by solar evaporation of sea water at Price, are investigating the possibility of increasing their annual production by utilising additional land at Price and near Port Wakefield.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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False Bay (South). Progress report for the period 23/7/1970 to 22/7/1971.
No text - one plan only, depicting the location and engineering surveyor's details for a planned earth fill embankment, to be constructed within SML 449 on the seaward side of the proposed primary evaporation pond for a 360,000 tons per annum saltworks.-
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Published: 23 Jun 1970
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Point Paterson - Port Pirie area. Progress reports on work carried out prior to grant of a special mining lease, for the period June 1962 to November 1969.
The applicant proposes during the two year SML period to undertake a work and study programme to determine the economic feasibility of developing a seawater salt recovery complex on the areas applied for, which will be capable upon completion of the...-
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Published: 07 Nov 1969
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Island Lagoon (part of the Island Lagoon Potash Project). Combined first annual / final report to licence full surrender, for the period 8/2/2016 to 30/11/2016.
An area covering most of Island Lagoon, a large playa lake which is centred ~30 km south-west of Pimba township and the Stuart Highway, has been explored for possible economic deposits of potash in the form of potassium sulphate, that it was thought...-
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Lake Torrens. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/4/1973 to 12/4/1975.
Continuing exploration by Delhi of the industrial salt potential of subsurface brines in the Lake Torrens basin aimed to ascertain the potential reserves of NaCl in the southern part of the lake, and to confirm the availability of suitable brine...-
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Lake Torrens - Port Augusta and Point Paterson areas. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 26/11/1977 to 30/11/1979.
SALT MINING STUDY: Field tests on the feasibility of Lake Torrens salt production to supply raw material for the planned Redcliff Petrochemical Project were continued, with project planning technical data demonstrations given to visiting officials of...-
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RB 05/00287 Lake Gairdner potash. [critique of a mining proposal submitted by the Potash and Rare Minerals Prospecting Co.]
The Director of Mines has provided comments regarding the special concessions from the South Australian Government asked for in a salt mining application made by a private prospecting syndicate, and has expressed grave doubts about the validity of the...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1917
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RB 73/00258 Salt, South Australia. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
Salt production in South Australia has shown a steady expansion since inception of the industry in 1891 until it now (1971) exceeds 700 000 tonnes annually (valued at $2.75 million). Until 1966, over 80% of Australian production came from this State....-
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Published: 31 Oct 1973
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False Bay. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/7/1969 to 30/6/1971.
Site investigations of the coastal area abutting False Bay, immediately north of Whyalla, were undertaken by BHP's Industrial Minerals Div. to gauge the feasibility of expanding their Whyalla Salt Works from its existing 60,000 tons per annum...-
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Published: 07 May 1970
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Snowtown. Annual report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/12/2009 to 8/12/2010.
Site investigations on spring-fed salt lakes in an area north of Snowtown were undertaken to assess their potential for inclusion in artificial pan - confined solar salt production to add to the output of an existing local, seasonal salt harvesting...-
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Cooke Plains. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/2010 to 12/12/2014.
An area located on the north-eastern side of Lake Alexandrina adjacent to Cooke Plains has been explored for possible saline groundwater resources that may be amenable to extraction for the purpose of solar salt (halite, NaCl) production in...-
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Mulgundawa. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/11/2009 to 11/11/2014.
Mulgundawa Investments Pty Ltd has a range of salt - commercialising interests in South Australia, where it trades as Mulgundawa Salt. The company presently has extractive operations occurring on a number of lakes in the Brinkley area in the vicinity...-
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Peesey Swamp, southern Yorke Peninsula. Progress reports for the period 1/5/1969 to 31/10/1970.
The enclosed reports describe geological, hydrological, geotechnical, market research, and plant design and trial construction work that has been carried out with a view to determining the feasibility of an integrated groundwater and seawater salt...-
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Yorke Peninsula salt feasibility study. Final report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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Murninnie Beach (south of Whyalla). Progress and technical reports for the period 12/3/1971 to 10/6/1972.
Site investigations of part of the coastal area south of Whyalla were undertaken by BHP Minerals Div. as part of overall studies addressing the possibility of expanding their Whyalla Salt Works. Field inspections of the area behind Murninnie Beach...-
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Bull 008 The Salt and Gypsum Resources of South Australia.
Salt is at the present time the most important of the non-metallic mineral products of the State, and has the distinction of having been the first recorded mineral exported from the region now known as South Australia. Salt has been gathered on a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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Lake Frome South, Central Lake Frome and Lake Frome North areas (the Lake Frome Potash Project). Joint annual reports plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 26/4/2018.
The entire extent of the main Lake Frome salina was taken up in early 2015 with three contiguous licences covering a total area of 2718 square km, to explore for a salt lake brine potash resource which might be economic to develop to supply the local...-
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Published: 30 Apr 2018
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Cooke Plains. First partial surrender report, for the period 13/12/2010 to 12/12/2012.
71 square km or ~52.6% of the former area of EL 4633 have been relinquished, as they are now viewed as less viable places in which to attempt commercial solar salt production. Exploration activities undertaken during the reporting period, with...-
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