The enclosed reports describe geological, hydrological, geotechnical, market research, and plant design and trial construction work that has been carried out with a view to determining the feasibility of an integrated groundwater and seawater salt...
The enclosed reports describe geological, hydrological, geotechnical, market research, and plant design and trial construction work that has been carried out with a view to determining the feasibility of an integrated groundwater and seawater salt extraction, purification, bulk handling and shipping facility, to be based on the large swamp and salt lake areas of southern Yorke Peninsula, and a nearby established deep sea port on Gulf St Vincent, the aim being to producing at least one million tonnes of salt per year for export to Japan. It is envisaged that, in addition to direct extraction of salt by solar means from the shallow, near-saturated saline unconfined aquifer found at Peesey Swamp, sea water could be pumped from the coast at Hardwicke Bay to the proposed solar evaporation pond area covering 5085 acres of Peesey Swamp, which lies just to the east and south-east of Warooka township. Allied to these sources of salt, there is scope to access, via bores, suitable feedstock fossil brines held within Cambrian limestones that underlie the district, which rocks have already been mapped using geophysical methods as part of the PEL 7 petroleum exploration programme. This work has identified three potentially porous and permeable reservoir trap structures located near Sultana Point, Lake Fowler and Yorketown. From Peesey Swamp, partly processed brines of 24% salinity would be piped to a final solar evaporation, crystalliser, harvest and stacking complex situated on Lake Fowler. Lake Fennell, adjacent to Lake Fowler, would also be used for stockpiling high salinity brines. Port Giles is the obvious shipping point, at which it is intended to install a product stack and washing plant plus a conveyer belt structure linked to the SA Harbours Board 1400 tons per hour capacity ship loader.
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