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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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RB 55/00068 Geological investigation of Mount Gambier pumping station access tunnel - EWS Department.
A new pumping station is to be built in the Blue Lake crater to supply Mount Gambier with water. Access to this pumping station by a tunnel from the bottom of an old pumping shaft is proposed. The new pumping station is to be built adjacent to the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 60/00011 Examination of bore samples for sedimentary phosphate (in the) Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin.
In a reconnaissance survey for sedimentary phosphate, sludges and cores were examined from 100 widely-scattered bores in parts of the Murray Basin and the Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin that are located in South Australia. Microscopic inspection...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1965
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RB 87/00132 Lithological factors influencing the quality of Gambier Limestone as a building material.
The Marte area, 10 km west of Mount Gambier is the largest producer of building limestone in Australia. Massive calcarenite of Gambier Limestone of late Eocene to early Miocene age has been extensively modified by subsequent groundwater movement...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1987
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RB 78/00150 Hydrogeological assessment of proposed rubbish tip sites for Mount Gambier.
In conjunction with an inter departmental committee and representatives, from local government, fifteen proposed solid waste disposal sites were investigated in the vicinity of Mt. Gambier. After subjecting each site to relevant pollution potential...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 88/00002 Review of Gambier Limestone - Geology, uses, specifications and production.
The Marte area, 10 km west of Mount Gambier is the largest producer of building stone in Australia. Reviews production of ashlars from Gambier Limestone with emphasis on the Mount Gambier area; coverage is incomplete for production of ashlars from the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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RB 89/00052 Flint report.
Flint occurs in 4 geological settings in the South-East - beds and dykes in the Gambier Limestone, bouldery conglomerate of the Bridgewater Formation, Holocene surface lag deposits and Holocene beach deposits. Pebbles from beach deposits between Cape...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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RB 95/00040 Otway Basin aeromagnetic/radiometric test survey.
A test aerial spectrometric and subsidiary aeromagnetic survey of the onshore Otway Basin in SA was proposed in 1991 by APIRA, the Commonwealth Government's petroleum research authority. Initially it was aimed at utilising possible signature responses...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1995
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gambier. Final geological report on drilling.
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Published: 09 Aug 1999
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Glenelg River. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/4/2007 to 11/4/2014.
A very small area located ~25 km south-east of Mount Gambier was taken up to try to identify in outcrop or in the near surface a glass grade dolomite resource which would be suitable to mine as a replacement for Unimin’s Tantanoola dolomite deposit....-
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Blackford (WMC's Kingston Lignite Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting area-specific reports for this licence's third and fourth partial surrenders: progress reports and related technical reports for the period 23/2/1988 to 22/2/1990.
Ongoing coal exploration conducted by Western Mining Corp. in the upper South-East region has targeted commercial-grade lignite occurrences within the Tertiary upper Dilwyn Formation, which may have formed in geological settings similar to that of the...-
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Kiama. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/11/1985 to 6/11/1986.
Tertiary age heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits were the principal target in the Naracoorte - Penola region. Following an assessment of regional geophysical data seeking to identify possible palaeo-depositional traps adjacent to basement...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1986
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RB 00717 Beach Petroleum NL Monash no. 1 well subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Beach Petroleum NL Monash 1 exploratory well located 5 miles north-west of Monash, and 20 miles south-west of Renmark, was drilled to a total depth of 3445 feet. The well penetrated a sequence of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Permian sedimentary rocks,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00618 Stratigraphy and palaeontology of Keith bore (drilled 1958). Preliminary report.
Sludge and core samples examined microscopically but not in detail show a sequence on 70 feet of recent sands followed by at least 90 feet of Loxton Sands. Below 260 feet Miocene-Oligocene limestone continued to 479 feet at which 9 feet of glauconitic...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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RB 00674 South East Oil Syndicate Ltd, Beachport no. 1 well. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study combined with RB 00674A - Summary report on the investigation of the Warramboo aeromagnetic anomaly, central Eyre Peninsula.
Beneath a cover of shell sand and reworked Gambier Limestone Beachport No.1 Well intersected a sequence of Lower Tertiary and cretaceous rocks. The Tertiary sediments of Oligocene age consisted of Gambier Limestone 760-820 feet, equivalents of the...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1900
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RB 00734 Stratigraphy and correlation of the marine sediments of the Gambier Embayment (Otway Basin).
The sediments of the Gambier Embayment are mainly of Cretaceous and Tertiary age. Lower Cretaceous subsurface units have been referred to outcropping rocks of the Otway and Merino Groups, but satisfactory criteria for their identification with...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1900
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RB 00680 Mount Salt Structure Drilling Project of Oil Development NL. Palaeontological report.
Five structure holes drilled to a depth of approximately 1,000 feet in the Hundred of MacDonnell 9 miles south west of Mount Gambier intersected a lower Tertiary section in downward sequence of Gambier Limestone, Buccleuch Group and Knight Group...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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RB 00681 Oil Development NL's Mount Salt 1. Palaeontology progress report no. 2.
From brief examination of cores and of the five structure holes the following sequence has been intersected to 921 feet. 0-536 feet Gambier Limestone (Oligocene), 536-600 feet Buccleuch Group (Upper Eocene); 600-3131 feet Knight Group (Dartmoor...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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RB 00687 Australian Oil Corp.'s North Renmark no. 1 well. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology study.
North Renmark 1 was drilled 6 miles north of Renmark, to a total depth of 4018 feet. The well penetrated a sequence of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Permian rocks, mostly of marine origin, and has given the most complete section so far known from the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1900
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RB 71/00185 Construction material, Port MacDonnell breakwater - Minister of Marine.
The construction of a stone-mound breakwater at Fort MacDonnell will require about 100,000 to 170,000-tons of suitable stone. Individual blocks should be about 5 tons in weight, and an amount as yet unspecified should contain individual blocks which...-
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Published: 16 Nov 1971
