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Results of a chemical analysis for possible bromine present in halite samples taken from the drill core and cuttings of Wilkinson 1.
XRF analyses of 25 selected samples of halite interbedded with Early Cambrian strata, which had been taken from stored Wilkinson 1 drill core and cuttings, returned a maximum value for contained bromine of 470 ppm Br. This result was not of enough...-
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Published: 09 Sep 1982
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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...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 37/00159 Proposed production of salt by Solar Ltd at Port Augusta.
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Published: 01 Jan 1954
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RB 41/00006 Report on prospects of obtaining brine from subsurface sources - Lake Fowler, Hd Melville - Australian Salt Co.
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Published: 01 Jan 1955
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RB 54/00153 Investigations of Lake Eyre. Part 1 - The sediments of the Lake Eyre Basin, evaporites and brines, their constitution and age.
Four boreholes completed in Lake Eyre North and one in Lake Eyre South have provided further information on lake sediments and the stratigraphy of the Lake Eyre Basin. Modern lake sediments constitute a thickness of less than 15 feet in the deflated...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 56/00050 Salt making, Hd Dublin.
Attempts made in the past 12 months to produce salt on Miscellaneous (Salt) Leases No. 682 and 683, have failed. Banks have been breached by high tides, and no sea water has remained on clay pans to evaporate. It has been recommended to the holder of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 50/00055 Salt Investigations. Recovery of potassium from salt bitterns, part 4.
The recovery of a saleable potassium product from potassium enriched salts obtained by evaporation of salt bitterns was investigated. Four methods of treatment, namely, flotation, leaching, ion exchange and hydrolysis of the magnesium salts were...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 45/00099 Recovery of potassium from bitterns, part 1 (RD 69).
Imported potassium salts are obtained from materials which require only simple and cheap methods of treatment. Because of the complex nature of salt bitterns, more costly methods of extraction are required. It is unlikely that any of the methods of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 83/00065 Petrography of eight thin sections from an ETSA well in an aquifer near Leigh Creek.
Eight thin sections of drill core, four cut parallel to and four perpendicular to the core, were received from the Engineering Division of the Electricity Trust of South Australia, for petrographic examination. The core is from an existing well,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 79/00159 Three sections measured in Lower Adelaidean (Proterozoic) rocks, southeastern Curdimurka area.
Stratigraphic sections were measured through the Callanna Beds and lower Burra Group, by tape and air photo enlargement, at the following localities: (1) north-east of Kingston Dam, (2) south-east of Dome Hill and (3) west of Callanna Homestead. At...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 79/00092 Petrophysical data on Wilkinson stratigraphic drillhole no. 1.
Various petrophysical property measurements (total count radiometric, mag susceptibility and specific gravity) were made at 1-metre intervals on samples of stored drill core recovered from the hole depth range 210 m to 710 m (TD) in SADME Wilkinson 1...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 79/00088 Wilkinson 1. Well completion report.
Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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RB 96/00015 Regional groundwater impacts of irrigation development in the eastern Riverland.
A regional groundwater model has been constructed of the Loxton Sands watertable aquifer in the eastern Riverland, over an area extending eastwards from Overland Corner to the State border. It is being used to quantify the salt load impacts on the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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RB 96/00012 Dryland salinity investigation, Toolillie Gully. Progress report no. 1 - Drilling programme.
Dryland salinisation is degrading land and water resources of Lower Eyre Peninsula. It decreases land production capabilities, water quality, and the general aesthetics of the environment. Interdepartmental investigations into the occurrence and...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1996
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RB 96/00017 River Murray water resource management. Assessment of salt load impacts and drainage hazard for new irrigation development along the River Murray in South Australia.
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) has a commitment in the national interest to managing the health of the River Murray and floodplain environment by mitigating both decreases in river water quality and associated environmental degradation...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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Ashville gypsum deposits. Retention lease six-monthly combined reports for the period 14/9/1993 to 1/6/1996.
Activity on these deposits has consisted of one phase of trial mining of 600 cubic m of the best quality part of the Warnes deposit, stockpiling of the extracted gypsum-rich lakebed sediments, chemical analysis of 39 bulked samples of this stockpile...-
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Point Paterson. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/6/2003 to 1/6/2006.
Evaluation of the feasibility of re-establishing salt production facilities at the abandoned solar salt works on the tidal flats at Point Paterson, 15 km south-east of Port Augusta, has been undertaken by the current local SA major salt producer...-
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Point Paterson - Port Pirie area. Progress reports on work carried out prior to grant of a special mining lease, for the period June 1962 to November 1969.
The applicant proposes during the two year SML period to undertake a work and study programme to determine the economic feasibility of developing a seawater salt recovery complex on the areas applied for, which will be capable upon completion of the...-
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Published: 07 Nov 1969
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Results of limited quality testing on Lake Phillipson coal.
Analyst's reports presenting the results of small scale test work conducted on selected drill core samples of coal taken from the 'S' and 'T' seams in the West Basin deposit of the Lake Phillipson coal measures.-
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Reports on salt from southern Yorke Peninsula.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
