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Shallow groundwater quality monitoring program for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board area.
The Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board (OCWMB) is responsible for an area of approx. 920 square km which includes the Onkaparinga Catchment in the Adelaide Hills and the Noarlunga and Willunga sedimentary embayments south of Adelaide, South...-
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Source relationships of oils : analysis of 6 oils by molecular organic geochemistry.
Data compilation and interpretation.-
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Published: 15 Jun 1998
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Petroleum geochemistry of the Otway Basin, and the significance of coastal bitumen strandings on adjacent southern Australian beaches. Volumes 1 to 5 source rock studies.
The standing of crude oil on the beaches of southern Australia was first recorded approximately 150 years ago. This material, known locally as coastal bitumen, was used by the early maritime visitors and settlers to caulk their vessels and is the...-
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RB 80/00022 Marla-1A, Marla-1B well completion report. Report no. 5 of the Officer Basin study group.
Marla 1A and 1B reached 215.30 metres and 379.40 metres respectively, penetrating aeolian sands overlying the Bulldog Shale, Cadna-owie Formation an d Observatory Hill Beds. In contrast to Byilkaoora 1, oil shows and calcite pseudomorphs after...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 81/00093 South-East water resources. Coonawarra groundwater investigation, progress report no. 1.
Coonawarra is important viticultural area. Its establishment was possible because of low salinity groundwater and suitable soil. Since 1970 groundwater levels have shown no significant decline due to irrigation and no increase in salinity. A pollution...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 77/00008 Murray Bridge abattoir pollution assessment. Progress report no. 1.
The Murray Bridge Abattoir is located 1.2km from the River Murray proper on the western edge of Mobilong Swamp. The Abattoir disposes of 0.7 to 0.8 Ml of effluent on each week day and until recently, all effluent was poured down four drainage wells....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 77/00087 South-East water resources, Mundulla town water supply. Progress report no. 2.
A recent scout well drilled into the confined Dilwyn Formation (formerly Knight Group) at Mundulla intersected only low permeability sediments unsuitable for development. However, this does not rule out the possibility that a suitable aquifer will be...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 77/00095 Murray Bridge abattoir pollution assessment final report.
Murray Bridge Abattoir's effluent is being disposed through drainage wells into unconfined aquifers which are hydraulically connected to the Murray River. Six rotary wells encircling the abattoirs area, proved the regional hydraulic gradient to be...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 90/00015 Correlation and depositional environment of Tertiary strata based on macrofloras in the southern Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia.
Plant macrofossils from silicified Cainozoic fluvial sediments on CURDIMURKA occur in 2 discrete suites. One suite has been found only in outcrops of silicified Eyre Formation in the Poole Creek Palaeochannel. This suite and the macroflora of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1990
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Port Broughton, Redhill and Mount Remarkable - Port Augusta areas (part of the Moonta North Project ELs combined reporting group). Annual reports and joint final report at licences' surrender, for the period 19/4/2002 to 22/5/2006.
Economic deposits of iron-oxide associated copper-gold mineralisation of the Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style, hosted in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks of the Moonta Sub-domain, were targeted by exploration in three now surrendered licences,...-
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Gawler Project Central Tenement Block [Part]. Data release at licences' joint partial surrender: Southern Gold gold exploration JV - specific annual reports 6/2/2006 to 30/6/2009. [Index Part 2 of 2].
After the Southern Gold joint venture agreement was signed in February 2006, that company as JV operator performed a due diligence review of Dominion Mining's exploration data, did some orientation soil calcrete and biogeochemical sampling at Typhoon...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1910
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Cedric Bore. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/4/2002 to 17/6/2008.
An area centred ~ 80 km north of Tarcoola was taken under licence to explore for possible economic buried precious and base metallic mineralisation hosted by Archaean and Proterozoic basement rocks. The area was selected on the basis of it having...-
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Published: 16 Sep 1908
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Data release - as updated : Security Dam. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2017.
A small licence area located ~30 km north of Cockburn has been being explored for possible economic shallowly buried sedimentary roll front style uranium mineralisation that may have formed within inferred Tertiary fluvial channel sands of the...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1917
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Morialpa. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports and annual reports for the period 16/12/1995 to 8/8/2003.
Initial exploration for stratiform Cu-Au mineralisation hosted within Adelaidean sediments in the Morialpa area, 40 km north- west of Olary, comprised soil, stream sediment, rock chip and ironstone lag geochemical sampling, and 1:10,000 scale...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1903
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Rehabilitation of the Nairne Pyrites Ltd quarry area and treatment of acidic effluent. Progress and final reports on investigations for the period March 1973 to June 1975.
A chemical survey of Dawesley Creek in the Brukunga Mine area has concluded that seepages from the southern mine waste dumps located alongside the creek contribute the greater proportion of pollutants (acidity, iron, aluminium, manganese, zinc,...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Harris. First annual report for the period 31/5/2010 to 30/5/2011.
An area extending for ~10 to ~60 km westwards from Kingoonya, comprising three separate sub-blocks, is being explored for buried Archaean greenstone belt - hosted primary metallic mineralisation. Work undertaken during the first year of tenure...-
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Lake Gilles (latterly part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports until the commencement of project licences' joint reporting, plus the final report, for the respective periods 13/2/2007 to 31/5/2010 and 1/6/2014 to 31/5/2015.
A licence area originally comprising three separate sub-blocks located along the northern and southern sides of the Lake Gilles Conservation Park has been explored by grant licensee Lincoln Minerals Ltd (LML) and its joint venture partner IronClad...-
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Published: 19 Jun 1915
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Mount Kintore to Mount Caroline area. Annual reports for the period 26/2/2008 to 25/2/2011.
The Mt Caroline exploration licence is in the eastern part of the Musgraves Province in northern South Australia, approximately 300 km southwest of Alice Springs within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. The tenement is comprised...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Deception Hill. First annual report for the period 1/6/2010 to 31/5/2011.
EL 4496 (Deception Hill) is centred approximately 15 km due south of Tarcoola, and extends from west to east for about 60 km. It is regarded by the licensee as being highly prospective for a range of commodities including gold and silver, nickel, iron...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Aurora Tank and Indooroopilly Outstation. Joint annual reports for the period 21/3/2011 to 20/3/2013.
Two separate tenements in the Challenger district which are now wholly owned by Marmota Energy Limited are being explored for possible economic buried Challenger style gold mineralisation that may be present within Archaean basement, and also, within...-
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Published: 12 Jul 1913