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RB 67/00028;Amdel 599 Extraction of sulphur from gypsum, part 1.
Background: Australia currently imports about 430 000 tons of elemental sulphur per year, valued at about $12,000,000 in 1966. The sulphur is purchased from Canada, the USA and Mexico. The annual production of elemental sulphur in these three...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1968
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RB 74/00191;Amdel 01006 Possible uses of Coffin Bay lime sand.
Background At the request of Mr. R. Adam, South Australian Department of Mines, Amdel undertook an investigation of possible uses for Coffin Bay limesand. This was done as the result of greatly reduced consumption of limesand by the current operator,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Salt Creek. First partial surrender report, for the period 19/11/1996 to 18/11/2000.
Push tube sampling of lakebed sediments was carried out in two separate salt lake areas at the northern and southern extremities of a large dolomitic magnesite deposit located south-east of Salt Creek, adjacent to the Coorong. The northern area lake...-
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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 2018
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Salt Creek. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 19/11/1996 to 10/3/2008.
A 10 km long saline swampy area bordering The Coorong on the landward side of the Princes Highway, between Salt Creek and Chinaman Wells, has been explored for possible large tonnage deposits of dolomite lime that are suitable for agricultural and...-
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Published: 10 Mar 2008
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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 2018
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Data release - as updated : Salt Creek. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/2015 to 12/3/2022.
A small area located on the inland side of The Coorong, midway between Salt Creek and Chinaman Wells, has been explored for possible economic evaporitic deposits of dolomitic magnesite which can be used to supply local markets for carbonate minerals....-
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Published: 27 May 2022
