Within the surrendered sections of the subject exploration licences in the Karoonda, Marmon Jabuk, Swan Reach, Blanchetown and Cooke Plains areas, following the conduct there of a 45.4 line km gravity survey and the drilling and geophysical logging of...

Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...

The following Tertiary units were identified : Kongorong Fm, Narrawaturk Fm, Buccleuch Fm, Ettrick Fm, Mannum Fm, Kalibar Limestone, Parilla Sand and North West Bend Fm. All of these units are separated by unconformities. Erosional surfaces,...

A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...

In the stratigraphic sequence penetrated by Canopus Bore No. 1, five formations are present. From the surface to a depth of 185 feet, the boring passed through Recent surface sand and kunkar followed by medium to coarse sands of Plio-Pleistocene age....

A water bore on Section 500, Hundred of Murra Binna intersected a sequence of Recent, Pleistocene, Oligocene (Gambier Limestone and Compton Conglomerate) Eocene (Knight Group) and probably Permian sediments to a depth of 320 feet. Two other bores in...

Two bores on the west bank of the River Murray in the Hundred of Finniss intersected part of the Mannum Formation and the Ettrick Formation before entering weathered granite. Site 5, Bore 1, 2 miles east of Mannum had the lower part of the Mannum and...

Bundy No. 1 well near the eastern margin of the Murray Basin intersected a sequence 1340 feet thick of non marine lignitic sands and silts of Tertiary age. The oldest are Eocene and the youngest probably Pliocene. The well bottomed in granite at 1340...

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Three potential damsites on the lower Murray River near Mannum were investigated by drilling and geological mapping. Two holes at Site 4 and one at Site 5 showed Tertiary sediments overlying granite bedrock at depth exceeding 24m. Exploration was...

Six bores on the eastern bank of the River Murray at the Teal Flat Damsite in the Hundred of Younghusband intersected post Miocene sediments before bottoming in weathered Kanmantoo bedrock. A seventh bore intersected typical Mannum Formation limestone...

In a reconnaissance survey for sedimentary phosphate, sludges and cores were examined from 100 widely-scattered bores in parts of the Murray Basin and the Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin that are located in South Australia. Microscopic inspection...

The site of a proposed pumping station at Tailem Bend was investigated by means of two test pits and three drill holes 9m deep. The site is underlain by a veneer of Holocene slopewash and alluvium over Tertiary Ettrick Formation calcareous marl and...

Gas was reported effervescing from a water bore of 256 feet depth near Ki Ki, South Australia. The water was sampled on May 11, 1965, but hydrocarbons were detected in the gas above the water in the sample bottle. There was a petroliferous smell from...

Rock samples collected from outcrops on the margin of the Murray Basin were examined and the formations from which they were taken identified. Material from the Marne River in Hundred of Ridley was of particular interest. In this area marginal...

Drilling at Swan Reach passed through Mannum Formation into the upper sediments of the Ettrick Formation. Mannum Formation limestone is exposed in the river cliffs while the river has cut down into the Ettrick. About 60 - 70 feet of silty sands cover...

The standard subsurface section for the Ettrick Formation, A.R. Launer's No. 2 Bore, Section 21, Hundred of Ettrick, is described and outcropping members of the formation noted. The formation is of Oligocene age, equivalent in part to the Gambier...

3 aquifer systems are assessed : the Renmark Beds, Murray Group and the Pliocene sands. The Tertiary Murray Group limestone aquifer is the most widely developed in the area. Large areas of potable and irrigation quality groundwater have been delineated.

At the Anna Coalfield, the November 1976 appraisal drilling by SADME of 2 rotary mud, partly cored vertical boreholes with a total penetration of 159.62 m (including 28.36 m of continuous ?NQ coring over the coal-bearing section) has confirmed the...

5 samples from 80.63 - 175.30 metres, are Late Oligocene. None (unlike SADME Oakvale 1) are Early Miocene. The sample from 80.63 metres is probably latest Oligocene but no younger : Tenuitella gemma' is present. The sample from 175.30 metres is...