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RB 77/00009 Construction materials investigation Redcliff petrochemical site, sections 12, 18, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 102, 134 Hd Winninowie, Co. Frome.
Materials suitable for concrete aggregate, railway ballast, road base course, protection of salt field sea wails and rock fill will be required should construction of the petrochemical plant and appurtenant works proceed at Redcliff, 25 km...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 84/00032 Monument Hill sand deposit. Drilling and testing report no. 2. Out of Hundreds, County Manchester.
235 auger drill holes (476 metres) delineated 49 000 tonnes of concrete sand suitable without washing, and 1.1 million tonnes in adjacent abandoned meanders, suitable with washing.-
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Published: 01 May 1984
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RB 94/00009 Soils, stratigraphy and engineering geology of near surface materials of the Adelaide Plains.
Metropolitan Adelaide is founded on a wide variety of soils that overlie sediments and rocks. Some of the soils and sediments react to seasonal and human-induced changes in water content with marked changes in volume. The black earths and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1996
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RB 89/00062 Stratigraphic investigation of the Gillman development site, Port Adelaide estuary.
Drill core from samphire and mangrove marshes north of Gillman - Wingfield are used to interpret the shallow sub-surface stratigraphy of the region. A Holocene marine sequence up to 8 metres thick overlies Late Pleistocene alluvial (Pooraka Formation)...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1989
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 15/7/1999.
Exploratory drilling to search for heavy mineral sands, performed over an area extending to 160 km north and north-west of Renmark, has targeted marginal marine placer deposits of detrital rutile, ilmenite and zircon in potential Loxton - Parilla Sand...-
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale, northern Murray Basin, South Australia (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint third partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/12/2001.
Within the now relinquished licence portions, parts of six traverses of reverse circulation aircore drilling (involving 68 vertical open holes, total 1918.5 m) tested 60 km strike length of interpreted heavy mineral sand - bearing marine beach facies...-
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Oakbank, Balah, Sergeant's Dam and Record Dam (Basin Minerals' Oakvale Project). Joint annual reports plus joint final report at the latest licence's full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/4/2004.
Heavy minerals in the Pliocene Loxton - Parilla Sands marginal marine sequence of the western Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area 130 km north of Renmark. During March 1998, a trial 571 line km low-level aeromagnetic survey was...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1904
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Kybunga (latterly a part of the Balaklava HMS Project - Iluka tenements Group 9). First annual report 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2013, plus a joint annual report and final report for Group 9 submitted at the five project licences' full surrender on 24/9/2015.
Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1915
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Northern Saint Vincent Basin Coalfield, South Australia. Geological report.
All previous data and all the known major deposits within the Clinton Coal Measures are reviewed. The study covers their formation, structure, stratigraphy and various engineering geology aspects associated with the possibility of mining any one of...-
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RB 00811 Redcliff Project: geological setting and preliminary assessment of environmental factors.
This report has been compiled at the request of the Redcliff Steering Committee to assist in the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement. It relies almost entirely on work carried out by Departmental officers and private consultants during...-
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RB 69/00128 2 000 000 gallon surface tank, Kelway Park, HWL RL664 geological investigations progress report no. 1, feasibility stage. Secn 2110 Hd Yatala - EWS Department.
A geological examination of the site for a surface concrete tank of 2,000,000 gallon capacity was requested in a letter dated 23rd September, 1968 from the Assistant Director, Engineering Operations. The site was initially investigated, by 2 test pits...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 72/00160 Frome Embayment stratigraphic drilling project. Preliminary report on SA Department of Mines Wooltana no. 1, Yalkalpo no. 1 and Wertaloona no. 1 stratigraphic bores.
This report contains downhole geological and wireline logging data summarizing the results of recent stratigraphic drilling in the Frome Embayment by the South Australian Department of Mines. Conclusions are tentative and may be subject to revision...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1972
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RB 74/00228 Exploration drilling for coal, Lake Weatherstone.
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 75/00011 Monarto construction sand investigation progress report no. 1, Tepko sand deposit - Monarto Development Commission.
Reconnaissance auger drilling for construction sand to supply the proposed new city of Monarto was carried out in the Tepko-Mannum and Hartley-Monarto South areas in 1974 The programme consisted of 79 holes 0.6m to15m deep for a total of 451m. Grain...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 76/00054 Engineering soils survey, Smithfield East.
The proposed subdivision is underlain by an upper horizon of expansive dark brown silty clay 0.30 to 0.60m thick, above a red-brown silty clay both units being part of the Pooraka Formation. The red-brown silty clay is recommended as a foundation...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2, Lake Torrens South and Lake Torrens North (the Lake Torrens Brine Potash Project). First joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 16/6/2016.
Much of the eastern side of the very large, 5,745 square km saline playa Lake Torrens, which occupies one of the most arid parts of Australia, was taken under licence by a Northern Territory - based company with the intent of systematically sampling...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1916
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RB 2007/00023 Surface geology of Adelaide City and eastern suburbs.
Newly compiled surface geological mapping data for the Adelaide City and inner eastern suburbs is presented as a draft map and explanatory notes. The distributions of Eocene to Holocene units of the St Vincent Basin have been reinterpreted from...-
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Published: 01 Dec 2007
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RB 2015/00028 Modbury North Catena Study in metropolitan Adelaide: geology, regolith, soils and gilgai; their mineralogy, geochemistry, landscape evolution, geomechanics, and implications for civil engineering.
During the early to mid-1980s, the SADME (SA Department of Mines and Energy) Engineering Division collaborated with CSIRO Soils Division to jointly sponsor a major geomechanics project, investigating metropolitan Adelaide’s problem soils and near...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2016
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RB 2016/00008 Geological field excursion guide — Cenozoic Willunga Embayment: from Australo-Antarctic Gulf to Sprigg Orogeny.
INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE As superb exposures of fossiliferous strata, refreshed by coastal erosion and winter storms and backing popular beaches in what is now suburban Adelaide, the coastal cliff sections in the Willunga Embayment have attracted...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2016
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RB 2014/00006 Geology of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet (6432).
The revised digital geology map of the Cultana 1:100 000 map sheet and accompanying geological descriptions in this report are the first components of the 2nd edition PORT AUGUSTA 1:250 000 map sheet to be completed. The subject map sheet occupies the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2014
