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RB 2019/00006 Sedimentology of the late Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of the Arckaringa Basin, South Australia
Late Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of the Arckaringa Basin in northern South Australia include diamictite and sandstone units of the Boorthanna Formation that were deposited as lodgement till under fluvioglacial conditions. The clast size and matrix...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2019
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Gibraltar Rocks. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 16/3/1981 to 15/6/1982.
Coal exploration performed by CRA in the eastern part of the Mulgathing Trough comprised a literature review, stratigraphic interpretation of previous drillhole and geophysical data, and the planning of a 6-hole rotary exploratory drilling programme...-
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Published: 15 Jun 1982
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Wilkinson Lakes. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 24/2/1975 to 1/8/1975.
TARGET: Shallow Permian coal in the Tallaringa Trough, west of the Karari Fault. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance rotary drilling (21 holes totalling 2009.3 m), plus an additional 12.2 m of bottomhole coring. RESULTS: No Permian coal measures were...-
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......[Key SAMREF record for accessing referenced reports and data via DEM Content Manager - SPOT]...... Mount Toondina. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/2/1995 to 15/8/1998.
The Mount Toondina structure, a small but pronounced vertically fault-bounded inlier of Permian sediments within a flat-lying Mesozoic sequence, is represented by an annular magnetic feature located 45 km south of Oodnadatta. A single gravity profile...-
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Robin Rise. First partial surrender report, for the period 2/1/1997 to 1/1/2001.
A regional drilling programme was undertaken to investigate the economic potential of possible Permian coal occurrences within buried extensions to the Lake Phillipson Trough, in its adjacent northern Penrhyn Trough and south-eastern Ingomar regions...-
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Report of investigations for coal in the Arckaringa Basin, [conducted during the period] September to December 1974.
TARGET: Lower Permian coal of steaming or coking grade, suitable for open cut development. EXPLORATION: Rotary drilling of 42 open and partly cored holes totalling 5122 m, including 105 m of coring, with follow-up geophysical logging. RESULTS: 7...-
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Response to the [FEAC] Coal Review Group draft comments [on the] proposal to the Government of South Australia for the utilisation of the Wintinna Coal Deposit.
This document elaborates on two main points of difference, and the validity of certain criticisms of technical data and cost estimate derivations, present in the original 1984 submission to the South Australian Government on the proposed open cut...-
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RB 2023/00005 BLANCHE 1 (DH 206086) drillhole report. Sedimentary Copper Mineral Systems of the Stuart Shelf GSSA–CSIRO project.
Critical minerals are a collection of metal and non-metal commodities considered essential for economic and industrial development, and for which there are significant concerns around future supply due to resource scarcity or geopolitical factors. The...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2024
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RB 2020/00012 Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 8A, Coober Pedy West – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models
This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2020
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Mooloogoorana Swamp. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/2/1980 to 19/12/1980.
9 widely spaced vertical percussion holes totalling 1340 m were drilled 30 km south-west of Anna Creek Homestead, to search for possible Early Permian coal seams in a relatively shallowly buried sub-basin at the southern end of the Boorthanna Trough....-
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Lake Woorong. Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 15/10/1973 to 14/1/1974.
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...-
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Condarlaroo Hill, Murloocoppie Bore and Tallaringa Well. Joint first progress and final reports to licences' combined surrender, for the period 23/7/1974 to 8/5/1975.
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...-
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Giddi Giddinna Creek. Progress and final reports for the period 3/3/1975 to 16/9/1975.
Fourteen rotary holes were drilled totalling 1362 metres. Coal was intersected as thin stringers in the Cretaceous Cadna-owie Formation in MU-3 and MU-13, and as a 1 metre thick seam in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation in MU-2, but is not...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1975
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Wilkinson Lakes. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/11/1975 to 31/10/1976.
Possible shallowly buried, surface-mineable coal formed within the Lower Permian Mount Toondina Formation, and similar to the coal occurring in the Phillipson Trough area, was the target of exploration carried out in the poorly defined Tallaringa...-
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Cameron Hill. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 15/2/1973 to 31/3/1974.
TARGET: Lower Permian coal measures of the Mount Toondina Formation in the Evelyn Downs - Mount Barry area. EXPLORATION: Ten holes totalling 853.4 m. RESULTS: Most holes intersected thin coal seams at depths ranging from 73 m to 121 m.-
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Oodnadatta. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/1973 to 7/6/1974.
Shallow, open pit mineable near-surface coal within Permian sediments along the eastern rim of the Boorthanna Trough was the target of exploration in EL 108 and in adjoining EL 104 to the south. After conducting photo-interpretation on aerial...-
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ExpNotes GILES: Explanatory Notes GILES, SH 53-01.
Concealed basement on GILES comprises ?Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic rocks belonging to the Nawa Subdomain of the Gawler Craton. These are intruded by Mesoproterozoic Hiltaba Suite granitic bodies and Mesoproterozoic or Neoproterozoic...-
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ExpNotes WINTINNA: Explanatory Notes WINTINNA, SG 53-14.
A new generation, first edition WINTINNA 1:250 000 scale geological map and explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's geological mapping program undertaken in the...-
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ExpNotes WARRINA: Explanatory Notes WARRINA, SH 53-03.
The Peake and Denison Inliers (comprising the Davenport Range, Denison Range and small basement inliers to the east) form the dominant geological structure on WARRINA. The Inliers include outcrops of Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic basement which is...-
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Robin Rise. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/1/1997 to 2/6/2004.
The subject EL 2249 and follow-on EL 2966 consisted of two areas: Area 'A', centred 40 km SSW of Coober Pedy, covering a Permian coal basin, the Penrhyn Trough; and Area 'B', centred 70 km SSE of Coober Pedy. Interpretation of regional gravity and...-
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Published: 10 Jun 2004