During Dampier's exploration conducted near Morgan township in the western Murray Basin, the main target was possible economic coal measures in Cretaceous or Tertiary sediments, with the base metal potential of pre-Mesozoic basement rocks constituting...

Reports document the petroleum exploration history and search philosophy behind PEL 16 over two licence terms, and provide some new raw and interpretative geophysical and geochemical data based on the conduct of 5 seismic surveys and the drilling of 2...

Possible lignite beds within the Eocene upper Renmark Group were targeted by coal exploration carried out in an area extending from 20 km south to 80 km north of Overland Corner. Available lithostratigraphic log data from more than 500 water bores...

Palynological analysis has been undertaken on samples from 5 drillholes in the western Murray Basin, Alawoona area, South Australia, to provide a biostratigraphic framework and dating of the sediments. Late Middle to Late Eocene sediments, forming...

In October 2000 GTL Energy Pty Ltd began commercial investigations into the feasibility of establishing within Australia newly proven [coal] gas-to-liquids technology for combining power generation and synfuel production, by identifying potentially...

Deposits of low rank Tertiary brown coal formed in the Sedan area on the western margin of the Murray Basin, ~80 to 100 km north-east of Adelaide, have been investigated as potential sources of fuel for electricity generation. Attention has been...

The Murray Basin is an intracratonic basin filled with Cainozoic fluvial to shallow marine sediments. Deposition in the Eocene and early Oligocene was characterised by floodplain and swamp deposits, emplaced with occasional interbeds of shelly clays...

Stratigraphic drilling has been undertaken by PIRSA in the South Australian portion of the northern Murray Basin to investigate the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Cainozoic sedimentary sequences, as well as the heavy mineral sand potential of...

A five-layer finite difference groundwater flow model (MODFLOW) was developed for the Mallee Region to determine the impacts of irrigation on water levels and salinities. The model was calibrated for steady-state conditions over the entire modelled...

The Groundwater (Border Agreement) Act of 1985 provides the legislative framework for the joint management of the groundwater resources along the South Australia/Victoria State border. The Act established a 40 km wide Designated Area along the...

25 vertical open RC/aircore holes (total penetration 1077 m) were drilled during heavy mineral sands exploration of an area stretching from 10 km to 100 km north-northeast of Morgan. The target Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand was found to be barren of...

The Marne River is a main tributary catchment for the River Murray, which generates ephemeral flows in wet years. Concerns have been expressed at the construction of large dams in the headwaters of the catchment, about their impacts on streamflow,...

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Exploratory RAB traverse drilling (16 vertical open holes totalling 297 m) intersected trace amounts of detrital heavy minerals in Pliocene marine littoral sands buried underneath thick clay and calcrete cover.