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RB 81/00051 Exploration of the Arckaringa Basin. An outline of a work programme to upgrade knowledge of this Permian intracratonic basin.
This outline was compiled from available seismic and drilling data. Renewed exploration activity has shown the need to upgrade information relating to the Permian and the ?Cambrian sub-basins beneath. 2 seismic programmes, to clarify the structural...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 96/00025 Exploration for coal in the Coober Pedy area, South Australia.
As part of the Government's South Australian Exploration Initiative (SAEI), and in support of the South Australian Steel and Energy (SASE) Project, a small coal exploration program was initiated by MESA to investigate a number of subtle magnetic lows...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1996
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Weedina coal deposit, Arckaringa Basin. Mining proponent's submission to FEAC, including supporting geological data.
In June 1986 Cyprus Australia Coal Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of a large American coal producer and marketer then holding exploration licences over the Weedina coal deposit in the far north of South Australia, submitted to the South Australian...-
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Proposal to the Electricity Trust of South Australia for the supply of thermal coal for power generation.
This proposal being made to ETSA, for the supply of 1.3 Mt of thermal coal per year over 25 years for electrical power generation at the new Northern Power Station currently being built at Port Augusta, is intended to allow that utility to make an...-
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Williams Bore (Weedinna Coalfield). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 3/6/2014.
An area of 304 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the Weedina coal deposit. This deposit, located ~90 km north-east of Coober Pedy,...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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McDouall Peak - Kingoonya area. Data release at licence expiry/renewal : progress and technical reports for the period 26/8/1971 to 26/11/1980. [forms Part 1 of a SADME -compiled Lake Phillipson coal deposit data package released in December 1994].
A review of existing information indicated the possibility of Permian sediments extending southwards beneath Mesozoic cover. During 1971-1972, the licensee completed 10 rotary drilling traverses across strike that covered the entire Phillipson...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1980
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Data release - as updated : England Hill, Arckaringa and Copper Hill (the Arckaringa Coal Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2005 to 6/6/2019.
Under a new strategic focus, three licence areas covering three Early Permian buried coal deposits located at Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie in the northern part of the Arckaringa Basin, ~120 km north of Coober Pedy, have been evaluated both for...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1919
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Arckaringa [North-east]. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 3/6/2014.
An area of 185 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the East Wintinna coal deposit. This deposit had been discovered by Meekatharra...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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Evelyn Downs Homestead, Woorong Creek, Yijulka Creek and Mount Carulina [part of the Arckaringa Coalfield, northern South Australia]. Combined partial surrender report at licences' expiry/renewal, for the period 20/2/1980 to 28/3/1987.
A significant portion of the Arckaringa Basin acreage held by Meekatharra Minerals, that was subjected to greenfields coal exploration between 1980 and 1986, has now been relinquished. Relevant exploration work, for which the basic data is being...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Arckaringa Creek. Annual reports for the period 27/4/2015 to 11/5/2022.
Two separate areas in the Arckaringa Basin, designated as EL 5598 Areas 'A' and 'B', have been taken up to allow for a fresh assessment of the development potential of the large East Wintinna and Weedina coal deposits, respectively. During the first...-
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Published: 09 May 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/4/2000 to 8/8/2010.
During the sixth licence year, on renewed EL 2717 covering the same area as previously, the licensee, now a wholly owned subsidiary of AuIron Energy Limited (formerly Meekatharra Minerals Limited), progressed its investigations of the geology of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Arckaringa Coalfield. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/2/1982 to 8/2/1984.
In part of a regional coal exploration programme, 3 open rotary mud holes for a total of 380.3 m were drilled into the target Mount Toondina Formation, the third hole being geophysically logged through the Mesozoic and Permian sequences. All three...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 9/8/2010 to 8/8/2015.
During licence Year 16, on its renewed EL 4534 over the period October to December 2010, South Australian Coal Limited (SA Coal) undertook a drilling campaign of 15 rotary mud partly cored vertical holes for 2871 m which included 2064.7 m of coring,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Burial history analysis of the east Officer Basin, South Australia. A preliminary study.
In South Australia, the intracratonic eastern Officer Basin, which may contain up to 10 km of Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic sediments, is bounded by the Precambrian Gawler Craton to the southeast, the Musgrave Block to the north, and passes into...-
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Mount Dutton. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/7/1985 to 29/1/1990.
TARGET: Sub-bituminous coal seams within the Early Permian Mount Toondina Formation in the Mount Dutton - Nilpinna Springs region, these possibly being similar to, or forming an extension of, the large Weedina coal deposit recently discovered 20 km to...-
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The Arckaringa Basin Coal Project. Progress reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/5/1980 to 2/7/1990.
TARGET: Coal in the Arckaringa Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary drilling (248 holes totalling 56,498 m, including 59 partly cored holes totalling 3555 m. RESULTS: The Wintinna, East Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie coal deposits were discovered and...-
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Pedirka Sector: a reassessment of geology, porosity, maturity and maturity history.
A review of the Permo-Triassic and Mesozoic distribution of reservoir units. Data for some Birdsville Track Ridge wells are included as the development of the Pedirka Sector basins and the Birdsville Track Ridge are closely related.-
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Burial history of the eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Burial history analysis of the structurally complex eastern Officer Basin region was performed using data from petroleum, trona exploration and stratigraphic wells, seismic upholes, coal drillholes and selected seismic sections, to construct isopachs...-
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Cadaree Hill and Codna Hill. [Coal exploration joint venture] Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 4/5/1984 to 15/5/1990.
TARGET: Permian coal in the Mount Toondina Formation. EXPLORATION: Sirotem and Mini-Sosie reflection seismic surveys, plus regional and detailed exploratory rotary mud drilling of 56 holes totalling 11,007 m, with 6 partly cored holes (511 m cored)....-
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Oodnadatta, Eurelanna Hill, and the north-eastern Arckaringa Basin. Progress reports for the period 23/3/1984 to February 1990.
TARGET: Coal in the Oodnadatta - Mount Barry - Allandale area of the Arckaringa Basin. EXPLORATION: The drilling of 11 holes totalling 2989 m, the re-appraisal of existing seismic data, and acquisition of a high resolution reflection seismic survey...-
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