-
Lake Greenly area [Mount Hope kaolin deposit]. Progress and final reports to licence renewal for the period 30/3/1973 to 29/9/1974.
Appraisal of a newly discovered large deposit of kaolin, found in the near surface regolith to Archaean basement on two farms situated 7 km south of Mount Hope on southern Eyre Peninsula, has consisted of further air/rotary drilling (35 holes, total...-
Document
-
Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/6/1980 to 2/12/1980.
Thirty-two shallow auger holes up to 2.76 m deep were drilled into the floor of Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, situated 70 km west of William Creek, in a search for possible potash-rich brines trapped by the lake sediments. The lacustrine sediments were...-
Document
-
Copperlinka. Progress and annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/1991 to 6/6/1997.
Exploration for possible large, potentially open cut - mineable disseminated quartz vein - type syngenetic gold and base metal deposits within a licence area located near Outalpa, 150 km south-west of Broken Hill, has comprised geological mapping,...-
Document
-
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...-
Document
-
Landsat thematic mapper study of the Yardea Dacite, Gawler Range Volcanics, YARDEA 1:250 000 scale map sheet.
The South Australian Department of Mines and Energy (SADME) commissioned the South Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (SACRS) to undertake a digital analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data in an attempt to locate prospective areas for...-
Document
-
RB 37/00077 Petrology of the cores of bores no. 1 and 2, Middleback Ranges.
A representative selection of rock types obtained in the cores of the DDH1 and DDH2 iron ore exploration holes was made with a view to studying the mineralogy, the lithology and any microstructures of interest present in the formations intersected. A...-
Document
Published: 05 Apr 1954
-
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...-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1956
-
RB 37/00159 Proposed production of salt by Solar Ltd at Port Augusta.
There is no abstract created for this record-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1954
-
RB 37/00158 Gypsum occurrence - Hd Haines, Kangaroo Island.
There is no abstract created for this record-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1954
-
RB 38/00009 Duricrust silica for high-quality refractory bricks, near Oodnadatta.
The C.S.I.R.O Division of Industrial Chemistry, Melbourne, expressed interest in the possibility that some of the duricrustal material in the north of South Australia might compare favorably with the South African "silcrete" which has successfully...-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1956
-
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.-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1955
-
RB 52/00134 Amdel 00069 Utilization of South Australian phosphate deposits.
Summary of deposits, products, methods of producing phosphorus and phosphoric acid and production costs. All reserves are low grade and unsuitable for super phosphate, but probably amenable to electrothermal reduction for phosphoric acid. Tests on...-
Document
Published: 01 Feb 1961
-
RB 55/00100;Amdel 00203 Abrasives industry survey.
The South Australian Government Department of Mines requested an industry survey on Abrasives. The proposed survey was to include a study of available statistics and published data to provide the following information: 1. Abrasive materials used,...-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1962
-
RB 59/00096;Amdel 00371 Abrasives industry survey. Second report.
An earlier survey on the abrasives industry was undertaken on behalf of the South Australian Government Department of Mines and is the subject of AMDL Report 203. No information on the specifications required by industry for the raw materials used...-
Document
Published: 01 Sep 1964
-
RB 57/00100;Amdel 00297 Lightweight aggregate rotary kiln tests.
There is no abstract created for this record-
Document
Published: 01 Nov 1963
-
RB 60/00082 Coober Pedy Opalfield.
Mapping of the Coober Pedy Opalfield has shown that opal occurrence, although erratic, is not entirely unpredictable. Several groups of workings are present in an area of about 150 square miles. The host rock is a distinctive pink and white...-
Document
Published: 30 Apr 1965
-
RB 47/00004 Gypsum deposit, sections 72-74 and 78 Hundred of Melville.
On March 18 - 19th, 1958, samples were taken by means of a post hole auger from the floor of a saline lake situated in Hundred Melville, sections 72,73, 74 and 78 3½ miles by road west south west of Yorketown on Southern Yorke Peninsula. The samples...-
Document
Published: 01 Jan 1960
-
RB 83/00077 Petrography of forty-two specimens from the Wangianna sheet.
Forty-two thin sections collected from the Skillogalee Dolomite are representative of carbonate and non-carbonate facies, and include shales, siltstones, sandstones and conglomerates. Many of the specimens are partly or wholly stromatolitic: two...-
Document
Published: 01 Oct 1983
-
RB 84/00009 Diamond Lake (Mid North) gypsum deposit. Geological investigation and auger drilling 1983 - Hd Stow.
9 auger holes, and 18 earlier drill holes indicate reserves of 7 000 tonnes, and 42 000 tonnes of gypsum inferred in low dunes flanking lake margin.-
Document
Published: 01 Feb 1984
-
RB 83/00047 Auger drilling Morgan gypsum deposit in 1981. Blocks Q, 77 and 61 Hd Stuart, County Young.
205 auger holes up to 9 metres deep indicate the bulk of the reserves without beneficiation are suitable for agriculture. Reserves of 149 000 tonnes of high grade seed gypsum, suitable for cement and plaster manufacture near present mining...-
Document
Published: 01 Jul 1983
