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Size analyses of sand samples [from ACI's Mount Compass sand quarry].
250 samples of sand recovered from a 1997 SA Government glass-making sand exploration programme undertaken in the Mount Compass area of the southern Mount Lofty Ranges were subjected to [grain] size analysis determinations. The samples were derived...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1998
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RB 84/00007 Sand and clay resources of the Maslin Beach-Pedlar Creek area.
Evaluates economic potential of all stratigraphic units and recommends modification of Extractive Industry Zone. Contains 115 million tonnes of construction sand predominantly in North Maslin Sand Member and widespread weathered bedrock brick shale....-
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Published: 30 Sep 1985
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RB 78/00134 Finniss town water supply investigation.
Well (100 metres) intersected 6 thin low yielding aquifers mostly in Tertiary and Permian sands.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 99/00028 Sand resources of the Mount Compass area. Reconnaissance drilling and testing.
Mount Compass is an important sand resource area. The ACI Glenshera sand pit, which supplies Australia's largest container glass plant at West Croydon with over 100 000 tonnes per year of glass sand, is also a major source of foundry sand. Four...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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RB 99/00018 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Tookayerta Catchment.
The Tookayerta Catchment is an area which is increasingly coming under pressure from its landowners for the development of local groundwater resources to irrigate dairy pastures, berry plantations and vineyards. The catchment encompasses two...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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Mount Compass. First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2001 to 5/2/2003.
Buried Tertiary sand in the Mount Compass area, ~50 km south of Adelaide, was the target of exploration performed adjacent to the existing Glenshera sand pit. Aircore drilling (31 vertical holes, total 1269 m) defined an area containing a deposit of...-
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RB 2018/00026 Sedimentology of the late Palaeozoic Cape Jervis Formation, Troubridge Basin, South Australia.
The late Palaeozoic Cape Jervis Formation of the Troubridge Basin in southern South Australia provides a sedimentological record of the glacial environment during the Permo-Carboniferous glaciation. The sedimentary sequence is divided into five...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2018
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RB 71/00012 Ferry berth, Cape Jervis marine reserve, Hd Waitpinga. Report on geological investigations - Department of Marine and Harbours.
Foundation conditions for a ferry berth in a small inlet at Cape Jervis were investigated by three diamond drill holes up to 15m deep. The sea floor at the site is composed of sediments of Permian age. Rocky outcrops of Kanmantoo Group greywackes form...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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RB 71/00120 Permian and reworked Devonian microfossils from the Troubridge Basin.
Data, on numerous Permian samples from the Troubridge Basin, prepared for foraminifera and acid-resistant microfossils, are listed. By far the most important is a dark grey clay from Waterloo Bay, Yorke Peninsula, in which were found foraminifera...-
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Published: 29 Jul 1971
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Currency Creek (part of the Fleurieu Project). First partial surrender report, for the period 4/6/1992 to 20/9/2013.
A number of peripheral parts of the subject licence, in all comprising 54% of the originally granted area, have recently been relinquished by current holder Terramin, as part of the management conditions applying to the company's multi-licence...-
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RB 2004/00021 Palynostratigraphy of the sediments from Meadows Bore 1, Meadows Basin, and other diamond exploration sites from Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
Palynological analyses of samples from Meadows Bore 1 indicate the presence of Late Miocene to Early Pliocene sediments, correlated with the Monotocidites galeatus Zone. At the base of the Tertiary interval examined it appears that a wet rainforest...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2004
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RB 2001/00017 TER 001, Yorke Peninsula. Well completion report.
Drillhole TER 1, funded by the TEISA program, was drilled to test basement depth and stratigraphy to the west of Minlaton, Yorke Peninsula. This drilling project followed TEISA aeromagnetic and geological surveys of the Peninsula in 1999, which had...-
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Published: 01 Nov 2001
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A new geological map of Hallett Cove.
Hallett Cove is one of South Australia’s foremost natural science treasures. Exposed examples for prime geological concepts of superposition of strata, depositional unconformities (representing time breaks), and folding and faulting of sedimentary...-
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Geological map of Hallett Cove [surface geology jpeg version].
Hallett Cove is one of South Australia’s foremost natural science treasures. Exposed examples for prime geological concepts of superposition of strata, depositional unconformities (representing time breaks), and folding and faulting of sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1919
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ExpNotes MAITLAND: Explanatory Notes MAITLAND.
The MAITLAND Special 1:250,000 scale geological map covers the greater part of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The rocks in the map area comprise deformed Palaeoproterozoic and early Mesoproterozoic basement of the south-eastern Gawler Craton, and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2006
