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Kyancutta. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 6/9/1985 to 5/9/1986.
Marketable quality gypsum was the major commodity sought in Recent salt lakes and marginal dunes of a large swamp in the Kyancutta area. Reconnaissance mapping, plus hand or power auger drill sampling of the near-surface sediments, has identified...-
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Lake Greenly, Lake Malata. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 6/9/85 to 5/9/86.
TARGET: Potentially commercial gypsum, salt or silica occurrences in Holocene paralic lakes and marginal dunes, in an area immediately north-east of Coffin Bay. EXPLORATION: Bulk sampling of lacustrine evaporitic sediments and related aeolian deposits...-
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RB 00725 Bromine from bitterns. Pilot plant investigations.
In an earlier report Wilmshurst (1963) proposed a novel method for extracting bromine from the residual liquor (bittern) resulting from the production of sodium chloride by solar evaporation of sea water. The bromine was to be released by chlorine,...-
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RB 00726 Bromine from bitterns. Economic assessment of proposed process.
In a previous report (Wilmshurst, 1963) the possibility of recovering bromine either as the element or as ethylene dibromide from the residual liquor (bittern) from the production of salt by solar evaporation of sea water was discussed and methods...-
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RB 00721 Bromine from bitterns. Further laboratory investigations.
Wilmshurst (1963) described an investigation into the possibility of extracting bromine from solar salt bitterns by solvent extraction process, followed by conversion of the bromine into ethylene dibromide (EDB) while in the organic phase, and...-
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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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SP 003 Mining in South Australia - A Pictorial History
In recognition of the centenary of Henry Yorke Lyell Brown's appointment as the first Government Geologist for South Australia, and the foundation of the Department of Mines and Energy, aspects of South Australia's colourful and vital mining and...-
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RB 64/00022 Amdel 00519 Recovery of potassium from bitterns. (DEPARTMENTAL USE ONLY)
Background Seawater is potentially a vast and readily accessible reserve of potassium for fertilizer production. Potassium is not at present recovered from seawater commercially, since potash can be produced easily and cheaply from the extensive...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1966
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Salt Creek, Lochaber, Lake Hawdon, Kingston South-East and Kongorong. Joint annual reports for the period 19/11/1996 to 21/10/2018.
A number of shallow Neogene salt lakes, that extend in chain-like fashion along the length of the inner Coorong and its hinterland as far south as Lacepede Bay, have been investigated for possible economic evaporitic mineral deposits that may have...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1918
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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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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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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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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 1918
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RB 22/00009 Mineral resources of South Australia and their utilization.
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Published: 27 May 1946
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RB 2002/00002 [South Australian earth] resources production statistics for [the] six month [period] ended 30 June 2001.
This report presents a detailed statistical record of the State's output and sales values for petroleum, minerals and materials during the six month period ended 30 June 2001. The first part of the report details the production sales figures for the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2001
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RB 2006/00022 Resources Production for the 6 month ended June 2006
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2006, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2006
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RB 2007/00022 [South Australian earth] resources production [statistics] for the 6 month [period] ended [30] June 2007.
This report presents detailed industry-derived statistics on the State's output and sales values of earth resource commodities realised during the six month period ended 30 June 2007, and compares the data with that returned for the previous six...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2007
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RB 2004/00023 Resource production statistics for the period ending 31 Dec 2003
This report presents a detailed statistical record of the State's output and sales values for petroleum, minerals and earth resource materials for the six-month period ended 31 December 2003. The first part of the report details the production sales...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2004
