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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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RB 55/00103 Report on site investigation SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd site, railway yards, Alawoona.
Investigation of the site of a proposed silo at Alawoona consisted of two cable tool holes to 20m deep. The drilling intersected a sequence of calcrete, Blanchetown Clay and Pliocene sands. (?Parilla Sand). No water was cut.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00133 Report on site investigation SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd site, railway yards, Geranium.
The site of a proposed silo at Geranium was investigated by means of two cable tool holes up to 20m deep. The drilling showed a sequence of Holocene clays and sandy clays overlying Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand at 4-6m depth. Hole 1 intersected the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 58/00009 Report on site investigation South Australian Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd. railway yards, Wolsely, Hd Tatiara.
Two percussion test boreholes was put down at two alternative sites at the Railway Yards, Wolsely, to test the foundation conditions below a proposed silo site. Subsurface conditions at both sites A and B are essentially similar, consisting of a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 60/00111 River Murray drainage investigation. Progress report no. 2 - stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of bores and surface sections.
Stratigraphic data are provided for: Waikerie Pumping Station - cliff section, Waikerie Bore No. 1, Waikerie Bore No. 1A, Ramco Heights Bore No. 1, Sunlands Pumping Station - cliff section, Sunlands Bore No. 2 and Tolleys Rising Main section (all in...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1965
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RB 78/00155 Rufus River aquifer test, Lake Victoria, NSW (Client - EWS Department).
Lake Victoria is an off-river water storage in western N.S.W. and the Rufus River is its outfall channel to the River Murray. Very saline groundwater seeps into the Rufus River and hence enters the River Murray system. A groundwater pumping scheme is...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 83/00052 Production and sources of filter sand and gravel in South Australia.
4 deposits with recorded production from Tertiary filter sand and gravel at Rowland Flat, Loxton and Berri and Quaternary sand at Murbko are described. Quaternary sand at Naracoorte is potential site. Sand is used for filtration of metropolitan water...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 81/00067 Mineral resources of the Calperum land management area, County Hamley - Department of Lands.
Sources of hard rock are restricted. Deposits of limestone and silicified sandstone are significant because of their proximity to Renmark and Berri. The present competition for these resources should be resolved by reserving an appropriate area from...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1981
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RB 79/00017 Completion report irrigation well for D.J. and N.P. Mount, secn 11 Hd Kingsford, Co. Chandos.
The well has been drilled into an area of low salinity groundwater occurring within the Tertiary limestone aquifer at Karte, north-west of Pinnaroo. A 48-hour well test was carried out at an average pumping rate of 2600 m3/day (23,800 gals/hr), and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 96/00015 Regional groundwater impacts of irrigation development in the eastern Riverland.
A regional groundwater model has been constructed of the Loxton Sands watertable aquifer in the eastern Riverland, over an area extending eastwards from Overland Corner to the State border. It is being used to quantify the salt load impacts on the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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RB 99/00009 Loxton irrigation area. Groundwater modelling of ground water / river interaction.
A combined groundwater and solute transport model (MODFLOW and MT3D) was constructed of the Loxton Irrigation Area to determine the future impacts on groundwater levels and salt loads to the river and floodplain for a range of local irrigation...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1999
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RB 96/00017 River Murray water resource management. Assessment of salt load impacts and drainage hazard for new irrigation development along the River Murray in South Australia.
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) has a commitment in the national interest to managing the health of the River Murray and floodplain environment by mitigating both decreases in river water quality and associated environmental degradation...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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Braemar. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 17/5/1990 to 3/9/1991.
In a search for possible economic buried copper-gold mineralisation that might be associated with an inferred south-western extension of the major Anabama - Redan Fault Zone system, the licensee conducted reconnaissance minus 80 mesh stream sediment...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Sturt Vale. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Murray Basin HMS Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 17/7/2001 to 16/7/2003.
No field work - only an office based review of past exploration data, and Native Title land access negotiations, were conducted.-
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Published: 11 Aug 1903
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Olary Project (latterly part of the Lodestone Project). Licence individual annual reports, plus related project joint annual reports, for the period 4/11/2009 to 20/1/2019.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Cooltong. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/8/2016 to 3/8/2020.
A very small area centred ~10 km west of Renmark, and adjacent to the River Murray, has been explored for possible extensions to a recently discovered occurrence of high purity (>90% SiO2) semi-consolidated quartz sand that was found in September...-
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Published: 08 Oct 1920
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Karoonda and Parrakie. Individual licence progress reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 13/6/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Aerial photo interpretation, regional sedimentological studies, preliminary...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1991
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Mannum area (including the Anna and Sedan coal deposits). Data release at licence expiry/renewal : coal exploration progress reports and data, plus Sedan coal deposit mine planning management progress reports, for the period 13/11/1978 to 20/8/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...-
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RB 00738 Chowilla Project. Reservoir geological investigations. Progress report no. 2. Proposed study of effects on groundwater regime, Co. Hamley.
It has been appreciated since the first geological report by Johnson, Hiern and Steel (RB 51/00136) that the filling of the proposed Chowilla Dam would cause some flushing downstream of saline groundwater present in sands beneath the Murray River...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 2022/00003 Zircon provenance and sedimentary transport processes – implications for the late Neogene evolution and heavy mineral deposits of the western Murray Basin, South Australia.
Strandlines or elevated shorelines, located across the Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia, trace the preserved remnants of former emergent coastlines that developed during the Late Miocene (c. 7 to 4 Ma) marine regression. Strandline traces...-
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Published: 01 May 2022
