Peesey Swamp, southern Yorke Peninsula. Progress reports for the period 1/5/1969 to 31/10/1970.
Created: 28 Oct 2024 Revised: 15 Dec 2024

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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Record No mesac3326
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Kenneth W.G. Smith, Schumann and Associates
Sponsor Geosurveys of Australia Pty Ltd
Tenement SML 299
Tenement Holder Geosurveys of Australia Pty Ltd
Operator
Geological Province St Vincent Basin
Mine Name
Stratigraphy Glanville Formation
Commodity
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Geographic Locality: Southern Yorke Peninsula;Peesey Swamp;Warooka;Point Turton;Lake Fowler;Lake Fennell;Port Giles
Doc No: Env 01127

Geographic Locality: Southern Yorke Peninsula;Peesey Swamp;Warooka;Point Turton;Lake Fowler;Lake Fennell;Port Giles Doc No: Env 01127

Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac3326
Citation Sprigg, R.C.;Chugg, I.G.;Johnson, J.E.;Laws, R.A.;Von Sanden, D.H.A. Peesey Swamp, southern Yorke Peninsula. Progress reports for the period 1/5/1969 to 31/10/1970. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac3326

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