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RB 80/00056 Report on the relinquished areas of EL 280, outside the area of EL 434.
Report summarises drilling and geology. Regional drilling programme included rotary drilling near Lock coal deposit. Only P21 intersected coal.-
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Published: 01 Aug 1980
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RB 79/00093 Lock Coalfield hydrogeological study - Progress report no. 1 (Volume 1 of 2).
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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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 96/00010 Musgrave Proclaimed Wells Area groundwater assessment.
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....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1994
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RB 92/00021 Petrological data on the evolution of the Great Australian Bight.
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...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1992
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lock. Annual and combined annual reports for the period 22/4/2010 to 21/4/2014.
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...-
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Published: 22 Mar 1913
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lock Project. Joint annual reports, for the period 22/4/2014 to 26/10/2018.
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...-
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Lock. Progress and final reports for the period 20/8/79 to 14/9/84.
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...-
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Published: 26 Sep 1984
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Final drilling report - CRAE boreholes 83KD1 and 83KD1A.
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...-
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Preliminary report (on) petroleum exploration potential, offshore Polda Trough, South Australia.
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,...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1977
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Kolballa. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 31/8/1990 to 15/7/1992.
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...-
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Coastal bitumen and potential source rocks, Duntroon Basin, South Australia.
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...-
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Published: 31 May 1984
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RB 00778 Palynological examination of selected drillholes, Polda Basin, Eyre Peninsula.
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...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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ExpNotes ELLISTON: Explanatory Notes ELLISTON
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Lock area. First partial surrender report for the period 22/4/2010 to 21/4/2011.
A mineral exploration licence consisting of three separate subareas (A, B & C) was granted on 22/4/2010 to Energy Exploration for an initial period of 12 months, during which time the company's primary goal was to assess the potential for finding...-
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Published: 10 Aug 1911
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lock [Coalfield]. Annual reports and technical reports for the period 24/5/1993 to 26/10/2014.
The Lock Jurassic sub-bituminous coal deposit was discovered by the South Australian Department of Mines and Energy in 1977. The Lock Coal deposit lies within the eastern portion of the Polda Basin on the Eyre Peninsula. The deposit covers an area of...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1913
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McLachlan, Tuckey, Sheringa and Lock. Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/7/1980 to 17/4/1985.
In mid-1980, CRA Exploration took out four mineral tenements in the Polda Basin area of western Eyre Peninsula to explore for Tertiary and Jurassic lignites and also for possible Permian sub-bituminous coal. Interest in this area had been generated by...-
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Published: 25 Mar 1985
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Combined report on the full surrender of Sheringa EL 688 and partial surrenders for McLachlan EL 670 and Tuckey EL 687, Polda Basin, South Australia, 17th May 1982.
Relinquishment of parts of the licenses held in the Lock, Tuckey and Tooligie area was made following drilling (31 holes totalling 2 960 metres) to investigate lignite occurrence in the Polda Basin. Possible reserves of Jurassic and Eocene coals in...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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Venus Bay. Third partial surrender report, for the period 27/7/1994 to 26/1/1998.
Diamond and gold exploration undertaken on the two relinquished ground portions located north-west and east of Venus Bay on Eyre Peninsula, which total 530 square km in area, have comprised heavy mineral sampling, heavy mineral grain microprobing,...-
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Wombat Flat. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 19/2/1980 to July 1982.
The subject area, which covered the western onshore portion of the Polda Trough, was initially acquired to explore buried probable Carpentarian sediments for base metals and uranium, but a subsequent review of available information suggested that...-
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Lock. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/2/1973 to 7/4/1974.
TARGET: Possible sedimentary uranium deposits in the Jurassic Polda Formation and Tertiary Poelpena Formation. EXPLORATION: To reconnoitre contemporary soil radiometry in the area, the near-surface sediments penetrated by 135 auger holes (all drilled...-
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