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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 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 59/00115 Micropalaeontology of bores at Fortville (appendix C).
To a total depth of 3610 feet Fortville No. 3 well intersected 62 feet of recent sand, 368 feet of Tertiary sand, silt and clay, 887 feet of Canomanian (Winton Series, Blanchewater Formation in part at least) sandstones, siltstones and dolomite; 1243...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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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 50/00035 Lower Cretaceous sediments of the Great Artesian Basin bordering the northeastern slopes of the Flinders Ranges.
Marginal sediments of the Great Artesian Basin outcropping on the north eastern slopes of the Flinders Ranges consist of non-marine gritty sandstones of Neocomian age (Blythosdale equivalents) transitional brackish water sandstones of basal Aptian age...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 46/00042 Frome Broken Hill Co. Pty Ltd. Material from the NSW portion of the Murray Basin.
A suite of samples collected from the New South Wales portion of the Murray Basin and the south west corner of the Great Artesian Basin proved to be, on micro-palaeontological evidence, mainly of Lower Cretaceous age. Three from between Cobar and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 88/00020 1:250 000 geological series - Explanatory Notes CURNAMONA - South Australia.
The area mapped includes most of the area south of Lake Frome between the Flinders and Barrier Ranges, and part of the Olary Hills. Basin nomenclature has been revised for the Cainozoic. Drilling by CSR, Minad and Petromin NL has been used in the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1988
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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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RB 80/00104 Discovery of Early Cretaceous sediments at Mintabie Opalfield.
This note records the discovery of previously unrecognised Early Cretaceous fossiliferous sediments unconformably overlying Palaeozoic rocks at the Mintabie opal field. Following renewed mining activity at Mintabie in 1977-78, the Mineral Resources...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1980
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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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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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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 029 S.A.G. Fortville No. 3 Well Completion Report
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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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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 00658 Delhi-Frome-Santos Betoota 001 well. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study.
Betoota No. 1 Well was drilled to a depth of 9824 feet and penetrated a sedimentary sequence of Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks to 5757 feet before entering steeply dipping red bed conglomerate and sandstone the age of which is uncertain. Marine...-
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Published: 01 Jun 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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