Diamond exploration undertaken about 80 km south of Coober Pedy comprised a helicopter geological reconnaissance and collection of 8 bulk loam samples for heavy mineral analysis. No kimberlitic indicator minerals were recorded.

Stockdale's diamond exploration work included reconnaissance stream sampling, and photogeology and Landsat interpretation. Ground magnetic surveys were run over aeromagnetic anomalies interpreted from the previous nickel exploration (Mount Purvis)...

In a search for possible roll-front type secondary uranium deposits emplaced in piedmont alluvial sediments over an area adjacent to the north-western edge of the Mount Painter Block, the licensees drilled 6 scout vertical rotary holes totalling 2151...

Negative heavy mineral sampling results and a lack of magnetic anomalies suggest that two areas located south-west of Lake Eyre South have little potential for diamonds and / or kimberlites.

Investigation of a reported occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a black shale at the base of the Cretaceous Bulldog Shale, found previously about 50 km north-east of Coober Pedy near the western margin of the Eromanga Basin, was initially...

Diamond exploration in the Bon Bon - Millers Creek region, about 80 km north-northeast of Kingoonya, included Landsat imagery and photogeological studies plus extensive reconnaissance soil and stream sediment sampling. No kimberlitic indicator...

Organic matter in Jurassic and lower Cretaceous sediments from 5 wells in the central Eromanga Basin was studied microscopically. The lower Jurassic Birkhead Formation, upper Jurassic to lower Cretaceous Murta Member and lower Cretaceous Transition...

TARGET: Diamondiferous kimberlites in the Boorthanna Trough region (near Nilpinna Springs). EXPLORATION: A literature review, the reprocessing and re-interpretation of data from BHP's 1983 Peake Creek Aerial Magnetic Survey flown by Aerodata /...

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Five wells along a north-south trending section in the southern Eromanga Basin were studied using petrographic techniques to delineate petroleum source rocks and possibly aid in environmental interpretation. The dispersed organic matter (d.o.m.) in...

Ten samples of drill cuttings from Merrimelia 15 were examined in polished section under normally incident white light and under reflected light UV fluorescence mode. Brief descriptions of the dispersed organic matter contained in each sample, plus...

TARGET: Possible diamonds and source diamondiferous kimberlites in the Boorthanna Trough region. EXPLORATION: Present-day drainage heavy mineral sampling for kimberlitic indicators, follow-up barrage sampling for diamonds, an aerial magnetic survey...

During their initial and only licence term the licensees conducted significant regional geological and geophysical studies (seismic mapping, source rock maturation and burial history profiling, and oil migration/entrapment modelling), acquired 60 line...

AIM:The 1981 Rainbow Plains Seismic Survey semi-detailed programme was designed by the PELs 5 and 6 Birdsville Track Ridge Block partners to further define the Haddon Downs structural feature, which in 1979 had been identified on regional line 79-QAM...

AIM: Previous semi-detailed seismic mapping of the licence area by the former PELs 5 and 6 licensees had identified several prospects and leads worthy of follow-up detailed seismic work. 7 new lines of infill seismic totalling 60 line km were...

In a search for possible diamondiferous Jurassic kimberlites in an area of the Lake Eyre Plains bordering the eastern side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, limited reconnaissance sampling of stream sediments revealed that kimberlitic indicator...

TARGET: Coal in the Arckaringa Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary drilling (248 holes totalling 56,498 m, including 59 partly cored holes totalling 3555 m. RESULTS: The Wintinna, East Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie coal deposits were discovered and...

AIM:The 1980 Woolkanie Seismic Survey was primarily aimed at detailed gridding over areas of known commercial hydrocarbon accumulation, and more specifically was directed toward locating drilling exploration/appraisal sites on or near existing fields,...

TARGET: Kimberlitic diatremes; Olympic Dam / Tennant Creek style deposits; stratiform base metal deposits; iron ore; Cretaceous sediment - hosted uranium deposits. EXPLORATION: Regional : aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys, geological mapping,...