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RB 54/00139 Great Artesian Basin sediments from near Tibooburra, NSW.
38 rock specimens from outcrops in the Tibooburra area were examined palaeontologically for clients Fitzpatrick, Wilson and Company. A Neocomian to probably Cenomanian age is represented.-
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Published: 01 May 1962
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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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Lake Arthur East, Lake Arthur West and Lake Arthur (the Lake Surprise Project and the Mumpie Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting partial surrender reports : annual and joint annual reports for the period 29/8/2006 to 28/8/2014.
A wide basinal area located east of Marree and bordering the northern Willouran Ranges is being explored afresh for sedimentary uranium occurrences in response to market conditions and the demonstrated prospectivity of the local cover rocks, which...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1914
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Old Hut area (part of the Marree Uranium JV Project). First annual report for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2010.
Exploration for possible Beverley - type Tertiary sedimentary uranium deposits associated with the north-western margin of the Mount Babbage Inlier, being undertaken within a small licence area centred approximately 120 km east of Lyndhurst, has...-
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Published: 16 Sep 1910
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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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Organic petrology of a suite of samples from Merrimelia 15 and a comparison with Merrimelia 6 and 7.
Ten samples of drill cuttings from Merrimelia 15 were examined in polished section under normally incident white light and under reflected light UV fluorescence mode. Brief descriptions of the dispersed organic matter contained in each sample, plus...-
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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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Benagerie. Progress reports and annual reports, plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 9/3/1989.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium in Tertiary sandstone, plus Olympic Dam type copper-gold mineralisation and Broken Hill or Mount Isa type stratiform base metal mineralisation in the underlying basement rocks. EXPLORATION: Stratigraphic drilling (162...-
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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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Purni 1. Test reports.
Contains results of government consultants' palynological and palaeontological studies of drill cuttings and cores, plus data obtained from DST fluid sample water and gas analyses and from conventional core analyses and source rock analytical...-
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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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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 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 74/00025 Geology of the FROME 1:250 000 geological map and adjacent regions.
The Frome 1: 250 000 map covers the northern part of the South Australian portion of the Frome Embayment. The embayment is essentially the eastern portion of a Mesozoic basin, developed on Palaeozoic and Precambrian rocks during Upper Jurassic time by...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 76/00027 Explanatory Notes for the FROME 1:250 000 geological map.
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Published: 01 Mar 1976
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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RB 2009/00001 Explanatory Notes for [the] CALLABONNA 1:250 000 Geological Map, sheet SH 54-6.
The CALLABONNA map area includes the southern end of the Strzelecki Desert and the north- eastern Flinders Ranges, between latitudes 29° to 30° S and longitudes 139° 30' to 141° E. Cameron Corner adjoins New South Wales and Queensland in the...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2009
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Geology of the Stuart Creek - Charlie Swamp area, northern South Australia.
As a B.Sc. Honours project with the Geology Department of the University of Adelaide, which was sponsored by the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy, the author during 1978 carried out geological mapping of a nearly 400 square km area...-
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Marree. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1977 to 10/2/1979.
Exploration conducted over an area stretching westwards and eastwards from Marree, along the south-western margin of the Great Artesian Basin, addressed the potential for possible economic sedimentary deposits of trona, sodium bentonite, chlorite,...-
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