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Karoonda. Final report at licence full surrender, combined with related partial surrender reports for Peake, Swan Reach, Waikerie and Malinong, covering the period 7/7/1980 to 6/7/1981.
Within the surrendered sections of the subject exploration licences in the Karoonda, Marmon Jabuk, Swan Reach, Blanchetown and Cooke Plains areas, following the conduct there of a 45.4 line km gravity survey and the drilling and geophysical logging of...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1981
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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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Late Eocene - Pliocene stratigraphy of the Langhorne Sub-basin (north-western Padthaway Archipelago, South Australia).
The following Tertiary units were identified : Kongorong Fm, Narrawaturk Fm, Buccleuch Fm, Ettrick Fm, Mannum Fm, Kalibar Limestone, Parilla Sand and North West Bend Fm. All of these units are separated by unconformities. Erosional surfaces,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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RB 55/00093 Lower Murray dam sites - Teal Flat report on geological investigations (drill logs in separate report 55/93, main report in 55/93A).
Three potential damsites on the lower Murray River near Mannum were investigated by drilling and geological mapping. Two holes at Site 4 and one at Site 5 showed Tertiary sediments overlying granite bedrock at depth exceeding 24m. Exploration was...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 60/00104 Report on site investigation, proposed EWS Department pumping station, Tailem Bend, pt secn 37 Hd Seymour.
The site of a proposed pumping station at Tailem Bend was investigated by means of two test pits and three drill holes 9m deep. The site is underlain by a veneer of Holocene slopewash and alluvium over Tertiary Ettrick Formation calcareous marl and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 61/00019 Report of gas from water bore, secn 8 Hd Kirkpatrick.
Gas was reported effervescing from a water bore of 256 feet depth near Ki Ki, South Australia. The water was sampled on May 11, 1965, but hydrocarbons were detected in the gas above the water in the sample bottle. There was a petroliferous smell from...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 77/00101 Hydrogeology of Rocky Gully Creek area, east of the Pallamanna Fault.
Three groundwater observation wells have been drilled at locations north-west of Murray Bridge to determine the effect of increased stream flows down the Rocky Gully and Preamimma Creeks. Rocky Gully Creek will be capable of accepting about 10 000 m...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 77/00132 Hydrogeology of the Paragum Depression, Monarto SA.
Cable tool and rotary drilling of 8 holes has enabled the geological sequence and general hydrology to be determined in the area to appraise its potential as a disposal site for stormwater runoff from urbanised Monarto.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 92/00015 Regional hydrogeology of the Loxton-Noora area, Murray Basin, South Australia.
The Loxton-Noora area is underlain by 3 aquifer systems - the Pliocene Sands water table aquifer, the confined Murray Group limestone and the deepest, the confined Renmark Group aquifer. Both confined aquifers contain groundwater of 20-25 000 mg/L...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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RB 88/00055 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigation drilling programme, western margin (south). Progress report no. 7.
To investigate the effect of groundwater on River Murray salinity, 10 observation wells were completed in the Renmark Group confined aquifer and 1 in shallow basement near Swan Reach. Depths vary from 31 to 174 metres. Potentiometric surface varies...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1988
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RB 91/00083 Biostratigraphy of a bore near Coomandook.
Most of the samples contained Subbotina angiporoides' and 'Guembelitria triseriata which confirm an Early Oligocene age. However at 7 and 8 metres, G. triseriata' was found in the absence of 'S. angiporoides'. While the absence of a species is not...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1991
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RB 89/00049 Aspects of stratigraphy and structure in relation to the Woolpunda Groundwater Interception Scheme, Murray Basin, South Australia.
Micropalaeontological and biostratigraphic studies have been used. Groundwater flow systems were investigated near the Woolpunda Groundwater Interception Scheme (WGIS) - a major area of saline groundwater discharge to the Murray River. Structure was...-
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Published: 01 May 1989
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Donna 1. Test report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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The Murray Basin Project. Joint progress reports and joint final report to remnant licences' full surrender, for the period 7/10/1980 to 6/12/1984.
Thirteen contiguous exploration licences located along the western margin of the Tertiary Murray Basin were taken up by CRA to search for economic buried brown coal / lignite deposits of the type already known from small discoveries that had been made...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Mannum area (including the Anna and Sedan coal deposits). Data release at licence expiry/renewal : coal exploration progress reports and data, plus Sedan coal deposit mine planning management progress reports, for the period 13/11/1978 to 20/8/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...-
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RB 67/00105 Murray Bridge to Onkaparinga pipeline pumping station no. 1, primary pumping station. Geological and geophysical investigations progress report 2, design stage - EWS Department.
The site of a pumping station at Murray Bridge was investigated by 1310m of seismic refraction traverses, a push tube-diamond cored hole to 41.61m, and two cable tool holes to 44.68 and 48.86m. The site is underlain by Recent river clays and sands...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 61/00079 River Murray drainage investigation. Progress report no. 4. Stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of Waikerie bore no. 2.
Waikerie Bore No. 2, drilled 2½ miles south-west of Waikerie township, bottomed at 775 feet in sands of the Knight Group, after passing through a sequence of Quaternary beds, Norwest Bend Formation, Morgan Limestone, Finniss Clay equivalent (?),...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1965
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RB 61/00152 Report on site investigation proposed SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd silo, railway yards, Tailem Bend, Hd Seymour.
Site investigations consisted of three cable tool holes up to 22m deep. The site is underlain by a continuous strong calcrete sheet at least 1.5m thick, over Tertiary sands and gravels consisting of Nor'west Bend Formation, Mannum Limestone (?and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 75/00041 Monarto new town - Paragum stratigraphic bore completion report, section 1972-17.
A stratigraphic bore was completed by cable tool drilling to a depth of 48m at Paragum Station, monarto South, in connection with the Regional Hydrological Survey. The hole intersected Blanchetown Clay, Parilla Sand and Mannum Limestone over phyllite...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
