Products to be recovered from coal by pyrolysis are fuel gases, tar for conversion to liquid fuels, and char for gasification or direct combustion. Laboratory tests performed on Wakefield coal have determined the nature and yields of decomposition...

The 2000 Mt Wintinna coal deposit is located approximately 700 km north-northwest of Port Augusta in South Australia. The area has opencut potential, and is proposed for development to supply a thermal power station. Meekatharra Minerals Ltd holds...

Study aimed at beneficiating the lignite, particularly removing sodium and chlorine, so that it could be used in pulverised fuel boiler unit to produce electricity. Study involved various leaching tests on lignite, and settling and filtering tests on...

Following the acquisition and interpretation of a semi-detailed aerial magnetic survey, drilling of 23 aircore/diamond holes to test bedrock (aggregate 1237.9 m, with 36.5 m cored) failed to lend encouragement to the search for uranium in an area...

A large area of the eastern Eyre Peninsula was taken up to test the potential of this region for hosting possible stratabound uranium deposits of Rum Jungle (Northern Territory) type. Following the conduct of a regional aerial radiometric survey,...

TARGET: Possible commercial oil shale beds in either the Cretaceous Madura Formation or the Cambrian Observatory Hill Formation; possible Mississippi Valley - type lead-zinc deposits within the Observatory Hill Formation; economic lignite seams...

Nine rotary mud open holes with a total penetration of 499.3 m were drilled, chip sampled and geophysically logged in a search for Moorlands - type coal in Eocene Renmark Beds to the south-east of Murray Bridge. Although the target horizon was...

Following on from the conduct of both preliminary airborne and carborne radiometric surveys in an area 60 miles north of Penong, which disclosed numerous anomalies with potential for finding uranium occurrences, the locality was taken up and...

The finding of substantial Permian sub-bituminous coal deposits in the Phillipson Trough of the Arckaringa Basin prompted discoverer Utah Development Co. to apply for an additional exploration licence to cover the adjoining newly disclosed Wallira...

Exploration for possible sedimentary uranium deposits formed within the Cainozoic basin located south-west of the Darke Range on central Eyre Peninsula has entailed reconnaissance groundwater sampling, acquisition of part of a regional aerial...

The 1 mile wide by 1.5 miles long intra-montane Triassic Boolcunda Basin was investigated for its sedimentary uranium potential, by conducting reconnaissance ground scintillometric traverses across the entire contained Triassic to Recent sedimentary...

Reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic drilling with subsequent borehole geophysical electric and radioactivity logging in the south-western Frome Embayment (21 rotary mud partly cored holes, total 8841 feet), over areas lying adjacent to outcropping...

A three-month programme of coal exploration drilling in the west-central Arckaringa Basin, in the vicinity of a buried Permian coal occurrence recorded in 1969 in the SADM Karkaro 1 stratigraphic well, has resulted in the delineation of three deposits...

The possibility that economic coal seams may occur in suspected buried Lower Permian sediments occupying the north-western corner of the Canegrass Lobe, where no deep stratigraphic drilling has hitherto been done, was investigated by Minad using...

As part of a larger ongoing exploration programme occurring in adjoining SMLs across central Eyre Peninsula, the SML 645 licensee carried out reconnaisance groundwater sampling and analysis, airborne radiometric surveying, studies of existing drill...

Exploration for possible buried roll-front or sandstone type sedimentary uranium deposits was carried out over a broad area lying northeast of Lake Frome by a South African - French joint venture. A large reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling and...

Lignite seams in three separate parts of the Moorlands Coalfield were further assessed for their potential to produce commercial grade montan wax in marketable quantities, via the drilling and sampling of three appraisal cable tool percussion/core...

The natural organic compound Montan wax, extracted from drill core samples of lignites that are present in the Moorlands Coalfield, has been tested in West Germany by the Hoechst GmbH company. The wax was found to be of poor quality, with excessive...

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As part of a search for possible economic sedimentary uranium mineralisation in the vicinity of Ifould Lake, an airborne radiometric survey of 700 line miles was flown at 2 mile line spacings, and 13 rotary holes with a total penetration of 464.8 m...