Report summarises drilling and geology. Regional drilling programme included rotary drilling near Lock coal deposit. Only P21 intersected coal.

Potable (over 1000 mg/l) groundwater occurs in 5 lenses. Annual yield totals 14 000 to 19 000 ML. Between 400 and 2 500 ML / year (seasonally dependent) is abstracted for reticulation. Diffuse, unquantified extraction for stock and domestic purposes...

Hydrogeological investigations undertaken by SADME at the Lock Coalfield have shown that significant aquifer systems occur above and beneath the coal, and that the coal itself has negligible permeability. Permeability of both aquifers is low,...

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The County Musgrave Proclaimed Wells Area on Eyre Peninsula, situated mainly near Elliston and extending eastwards towards Lock, contains a number of small groundwater lenses of potable quality which are surrounded by brackish to saline groundwater....

Two groups of samples from Eyre Peninsula have been analysed. The Elliston samples are correlative with the Polda Formation, probably in the latest Middle Jurassic. The younger Middle Eocene E04-1 sample indicates the presence of Pidinga Formation,...

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Sediments analysed from VB06 and VB07 are correlative with an early phase of the Garford Formation, either in the Middle Miocene or the Early Miocene. The environment of deposition appears to have been fairly open marine, or at least an estuarine...

Sedimentation in the Great Australian Bight (GAB) has occurred in a variety of settings from the initial intra-cratonic rift to the modern carbonate shelf. An extensive palaeodrainage system, remnants of which are still preserved, supplied clastic...

19 samples of exploratory RC aircore drillhole cuttings were examined by a SADME consultant to determine their microfloral assemblages, and to date the host sediments by correlation of diagnostic palynomorphs with published biostratigraphic schemes.

An exploration licence comprising three separate sub-blocks has been taken up with the primary goal of assessing the potential for additional coal resources to occur in proximity to the Lock coal deposit. During licence Year 1, the licensee sourced...

Two licences covering the undeveloped Jurassic coal measures of the Lock Coalfield have been taken up to allow initially for conducting research into the current technological and economic prospects for utilisation of the coal. Numerous samples of...

TARGET: Diamonds in 3 areas, one west of Lock, another east of Elliston, and the third surrounding Venus Bay. EXPLORATION: Heavy mineral sampling, airborne magnetic and multichannel radiometric surveys, ground magnetic surveys, and selected anomaly...

A large coalfield exists in the Polda Basin, west of Lock, on central Eyre Peninsula. One Jurassic coal deposit in the Polda Formation and 2 discrete Tertiary deposits have been recognized, containing reserves of over 300 million tonnes of Jurassic...

The intersection of massive halite in the ?Lower Palaeozoic sequence in Occidental Petroleum's Mercury 1 wildcat oil exploration well drilled in the offshore Polda Basin generated interest in the Tuckey area onshore for potash associated with similar...

This report summarises a geological review and evaluation of Outback Oil's EPP 15 permit area over the Polda Trough. The review is of a reconnaisance nature, with the main purposes being to determine the significance of the Gemini 1 well results,...

TARGET: (Stockdale) Diamonds in the Elliston region, related to possible kimberlite primary sources that may be associated with the deep-seated Polda Trough structural feature; (BHP) Mineral sands in Tertiary sediments. EXPLORATION: Stockdale...

This study, for which the supporting data was obtained between August 1983 and April 1984 and reported to the client Getty as Amdel report nos 5769/84 Parts 1-7, was prompted by a renewed exploration effort in the Duntroon Basin after some 9 years of...

Palynological analyses of 31 selected samples taken from uranium exploration rotary drillholes in the eastern Polda Basin indicate three distinct microfloral units - (a) a Late Jurassic assemblage comparable with that from the Polda Formation further...