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Saw Mill. Progress and final reports for the period 22/2/1973 to 22/2/1974.
Investigations included drilling in the eastern part of EL 41, costeaning and close space drilling near Nob Well and Apollonaris anomaly, water well sampling, and ground search for carnotite.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Lake Carnanto. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/11/1978 to 11/2/1983.
The south-eastern Lake Frome Embayment in the vicinity of Quinyambie Station was explored for Upper and Lower Tertiary 'blanket' or 'roll front' type sedimentary uranium, via the drilling of 75 open vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration...-
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RB 60/00040 Geology of the MARREE 1:250 000 map area.
The MARREE mapsheet area lies in arid country about 400 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia. It includes the town of Marree, on the Alice Springs railway line, and part of the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks. The area is covered mainly by flat...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1965
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RB 60/00107 Stuart Range no. 3 bore, Coober Pedy, stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Stuart Range No.3 bore, which was deepened by rotary drilling during January-March 1965 in a search for additional underground water supplies for the Coober Pedy Opalfield, and which was completed as a stratigraphic bore (with some bottomhole rotary...-
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Published: 26 May 1965
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RB 78/00117 Bumbarlow 1 - Well completion report.
Bumbarlow 1 (TD 720.33 m) aimed to test the lithology and petroleum potential of the Cambrian section in the central part of the eastern Arrowie Basin. It continuously cored a sequence over 300 m thick of flat-lying Proterozoic sediments interbedded...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1978
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RB 80/00116 Mesozoic stratigraphy of the Frome Embayment.
This study covers a southern lobe of the Eromanga Basin known as the Frome Embayment, which extends W-E from the Flinders Ranges to the Barrier Ranges, and southwards from the vicinity of Moolowatana Station to the Scott Hill-Mundaerno Hill region....-
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Published: 01 Feb 1980
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RB 84/00047 Origin and formation of matrix opal from Andamooka, South Australia.
Two specimens were probably formed by partial dissolution of Andamooka Limestone erratics within Cretaceous marine sandy clay, followed by replacement of the remaining carbonate rock by fine grained silica together with growth and deposition of silica...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1984
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RB 84/00042 Progress report on mapping of the Mesozoic and Quaternary of the Curdimurka region.
Results of mapping, particularly basal Mesozoic sandstone unit, description of sections and borehole study of cuttings from 14 holes.-
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Published: 01 Jun 1984
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RB 79/00006 Opal at the Stuart Creek, Charlie Swamp and Yarrawurta Cliff diggings. Report no. 12 on geological investigations and Calweld drilling of the Stuart Creek Precious Stones Field.
Small quantities of precious opal have been mined from sediments of the Early Cretaceous Marree Formation at Stuart Creek, 50 km north of Andamooka. These sediments appear to have been unaffected by the Early Tertiary deep weathering and bleaching...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Mount Distance. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 3/9/1970 to 2/9/1971.
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...-
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Oil Prospecting Licence 4, Lake Cootabarlow area. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 18/11/1948 to 9/1/1950, plus technical correspondence and results of drill sample analyses, as later submitted to the SA Department of Mines.
A 50 square mile area centred immediately south-southeast of Lake Cootabarlow, and lying ~12 miles south of the Moolawatana 1 water bore, was taken up by Australian - based holding company Frome - Broken Hill Co. Pty Ltd as an Oil Prospecting Licence...-
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Petroleum geochemistry and source-rock potential of the Arrowie, Pedirka, Cooper and Eromanga Basins, central Australia.
Samples of ?Ordovician to Cretaceous sediments taken from 5 Pedirka Basin petroleum exploration wells, and of crude oils recovered from the Jurassic Poolowanna and Triassic Peera Peera Formations intersected in Poolowanna 1, were examined. The...-
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1981 and 1982 seismic surveys, Wertaloona and Christmas Creek-ARR, final report.
Wertaloona Seismic Survey - AIM:The 1981 Wertaloona Seismic Survey programme was designed by the PELs 5 and 6 Arrowie Block partners to provide the first high quality, multifold seismic reflection data in the area of likely preserved thick Cambrian...-
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Cretaceous stratigraphy of the southwestern Eromanga Basin - Part 1: general introduction, formation tops and log correlation diagrams for the interval Toolachee Formation to 'C'-Horizon.
This company study of the Eromanga Basin sequence within PELs 5 and 6 and ATP 259P was designed to provide the Delhi Petroleum exploration consortium with data on the following: (a) thickness and correlation of Aptian-Albian units throughout the...-
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RI 051 Andamooka Opal Fields The Geology of the Precious Stones Field and The Results of the Subsidised Mining Program
Since discovery of the opal field in 1930, Andamooka, 640 km by road north of Adelaide, has been a major world producer of precious opal. All workable opal at Andamooka has been found in the Marree Formation, a sequence of marine sediments of...-
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Tertiary geology of the Coward Cliff area, between Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens, South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 00655 Delhi-Frome-Santos Innamincka no. 1 well. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study. Final report.
Innamincka no. 1 well was drilled to a depth of 12,638 feet KB and penetrated a sedimentary sequence of Mesozoic and Palaeozoic rocks ranging in age from Cretaceous to ?Devonian. Marine Cretaceous (Albian) carbonaceous mudstones and siltstones were...-
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Published: 08 Feb 1960
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RB 00626 Santos Oodnadatta no. 1 well. Micropalaeontological examination.
The fossil microfaunal assemblage in the Oodnadatta 1 petroleum wildcat well has been examined as a basis for correlation and possible zonation of the Lower Cretaceous sequence in the South Australian portion of the Great Artesian Basin. 112 samples...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 00679 Delhi-Santos' Dullingari 1 subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study. Progress report.
Dullingari 1 to a depth of 2798 metres has intersected a sedimentary sequence of Tertiary, Mesozoic and Permian rocks, the age of the sediments below 2756 metres being at present uncertain. This report presents lithological data and stratigraphic...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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Bull 040 Cretaceous Biostratigraphy of the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia
After its formation as a single sedimentary entity the Great Artesian Basin provided a marine environment only during the Cretaceous Aptian, Albian and early Cenomanian in South Australia. Santos' Oodnadatta 1 well (1957), continuously cored through...-
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