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RB 75/00006 Introduction to laboratory testing, characterisation and evaluation of industrial minerals and rocks.
'Industrial minerals' are those minerals or assemblages of minerals which are economically important because of their physical or chemical properties, rather than their metal or energy content. The term is synonymous with 'non-metallic minerals', and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1974
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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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Nilginee Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 15/3/1993 to 14/3/1998.
A low-lying small area situated 40 km west of Whyalla has been explored primarily for economic gypsum occurrences within Recent surficial sediments, while latterly, a search for metallic minerals has also commenced, via a geological survey of basement...-
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Waikerie. Information status at licence expiry, for the period 23/1/1990 to 22/7/1990 : no work performed.
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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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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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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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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Tooligie Hill. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of joint reporting on Southern Eyre Peninsula JV Project, for the period 3/12/1999 to 10/3/2006.
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Yaninee. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/2014 to 15/1/2016.
An area extending for 40 km to the west and south 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. The company's office-based compilation and...-
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2, Lake Torrens South and Lake Torrens North (the Lake Torrens Brine Potash Project). First joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 16/6/2016.
Much of the eastern side of the very large, 5,745 square km saline playa Lake Torrens, which occupies one of the most arid parts of Australia, was taken under licence by a Northern Territory - based company with the intent of systematically sampling...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Verran. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/4/1997 to 3/4/2002.
Part of the Cleve Uplands centred 15 km west of Cleve has been taken under licence to explore its potential for buried economic copper-gold mineralisation to occur within Archaean or Proterozoic basement rocks. Other possible commodities of interest...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1902
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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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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 21/00261 Report on water supply for proposed settlement in the vicinity of the Waratah Gypsum Company's leases at Kowalka, Eyre Peninsula. March 15.
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Published: 01 Jan 1946
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RB 27/00097 Stenhouse Bay gypsum deposits.
The Stenhouse Bay Gypsum deposits are the chief source of gypsum for the Australian and New Zealand plaster industries. They have been worked for over 60 years and the total recorded output to 31st December, 1949, amounts to 1,986,422 tons. Present...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1951
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RB 2003/00013 North-western Murray Basin geological synthesis, South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2003
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RB 2006/00009 Regolith studies at the Boomerang Gold Prospect, Central Gawler Craton, South Australia
The Boomerang gold prospect is located 650 km north-west of Adelaide in undifferentiated Proterozoic rocks incorporated within Archaean Harris Greenstone Belt mafic lithologies of the Gawler Craton. The prospect was originally discovered using...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2006
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RB 2000/00003 Regolith studies related to the Birthday gold prospect, Gawler Craton, SA.
Our knowledge of geochemical dispersion of gold and gold pathfinders in the Gawler Craton (South Australia) is poor since there have been very few published research or orientation studies. In this study conducted at the Birthday gold prospect, the...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2000
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
