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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...-
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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...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 84/00080 Reappraisal of gypsum reserves, Streaky Bay Lakes, Eyre Peninsula.
Based on 112 drill holes in 1959 and 32 in 1969, proved reserves were recalculated as 44 million tonnes in Lake Purdilla, 1 metre or more thick at average grade of 88.4% gypsum and 6 million tonnes in Lake Toorna, 1 metre or more thick at average...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1985
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RB 83/00046 Auger drilling of Craigie Plains gypsum deposit no. 2 in 1981. Sections 199 and 120, Hundred Brownlow, County Eyre.
Flour seed gypsum deposit in lunette dune system was investigated by auger drilling of 34 holes up to 9 metres deep. 243 000 tonnes of flour gypsum remain with an average grade of 43% gypsum, which is unsuitable for commercial use, although...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1983
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RB 90/00061 Yamba-Noora gypsum deposits - Results of 1989 scout drilling program.
Dunes derived from Yamba Formation gypsiferous beds are mantled with flour gypsum in the Yamba-Noora area. They have been a source of agricultural gypsum for Riverland irrigation areas since the early 1900s. Auger drilling located 6 deposits with good...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1990
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Kyancutta. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/4/2014 to expiry 15/4/2018.
An area extending for 26 km to the south and south-east 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 that are associated with Recent salt...-
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Gluepot Homestead area, Waikerie district. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/5/1984 to 21/11/1984.
A total of 6 test pits and 4 hand auger holes were constructed to extend and delineate the known reserves of seed gypsum at Parcoola, located approximately 40 km north-northeast of Waikerie, and to explore for possible further reserves of higher grade...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1985
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RI 039 Regional Stratigraphy of Surficial Deposits in the Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment
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RB 68/00025 Reconnaissance geological survey of the STREAKY BAY and NUYTS 1:250 000 areas.
The Streaky Bay and Nuyts 1:250 000 map areas are located on the western side of Eyre Peninsula. Precambrian greenschist and amphibolite facies metamorphics of the Gawler Platform are intruded by Lower Proterozoic or Carpentarian granites, gneisses...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1969
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RB 65/00079 Lake MacDonnell gypsum deposit, Hd Kevin. Department of Mines bore A.A.10w micropalaeontological examination.
Lake Macdonnell bore A.A.10W (total depth 150 feet) intersected a Quaternary sequence consisting of a thin salt crust and lime sand (Recent, marine), Yamba Formation (Recent to Pleistocene, gypsiferous, lagoonal), Bridge-water Formation, upper member...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 71/00001 Regional stratigraphy of surficial deposits in the Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment.
This report deals with the regional stratigraphy of surficial deposits in the region of the Murray Basin and adjoining Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin. The aim is to place deposits described in selected earlier publications of anthropologists,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 71/00033 RENMARK, South Australia, sheet SI54-10 International Index.
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 73/00070 Fossiliferous marine and non-marine Cainozoic rocks from the eastern Eucla Basin, South Australia.
Outcrop and subsurface samples taken from various sources, that represent all the Cainozoic marine formations of the eastern Eucla Basin, have been studied. The current stratigraphic knowledge of these formations in SA is summarised. A marine...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1973
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RB 73/00085 Preliminary notes on the geology of the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin, FOWLER 1:250 000 sheet area.
This report deals with the stratigraphy and economic geology of an area on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin and the western margin of the Gawler Block. The area is centred upon the FOWLER 1:250 000 map area. The stratigraphic section of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 63/00064 Stratigraphy of the Chowilla area, South Australia.
This report deals with the stratigraphy and sedimentary history of the Chowilla area in the Murray Basin. Local geology is set against a background of geological information derived from other areas in southern Australia. Local stratigraphy is based...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 74/00030 Gypsum, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Karkarook. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 17/9/1998 to 16/9/2003.
Holocene lacustrine gypsum beds, believed to have formed around 6000 years ago by the evaporation of saline water in a series of shallow lakes and lagoons that had developed along the ancestral Driver River watercourse, were the objectives of early...-
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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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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 2007/00006 The geology and mineral potential of the PORT AUGUSTA [mapsheet] area, eastern Gawler Craton.
The PORT AUGUSTA 1:250,000 mapsheet area covers the north-eastern part of the Eyre Peninsula, the northern Spencer Gulf and the south-western Flinders Ranges, and extends from latitude 32°00'S to 33°00'S and longitude 136°30'S to 138°00'S. The main...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2007
