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Blanchewater Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 11/8/80 to 10/8/82.
Drilling of two percussion holes (aggregate 400 metres) near Yerila, south of Lake Blanche, failed to give encouragement to the search for possible Permian coal and Tertiary uranium in the southern Eromanga Basin / Lake Blanche Lineament uplift area...-
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Lake Bring. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 710) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium associated with high order radiometric anomalies over lakes on the edge of the sand dune country, east of the Nullarbor Plain. EXPLORATION: Closely spaced (300-500 m), low level (65 m altitude) aerial scintillometer...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Lake Carnanto. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/11/1978 to 11/2/1983.
The south-eastern Lake Frome Embayment in the vicinity of Quinyambie Station was explored for Upper and Lower Tertiary 'blanket' or 'roll front' type sedimentary uranium, via the drilling of 75 open vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration...-
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RB 51/00040 Mesozoic non-marine mollusca (Pelecypoda: unionidae) from the north of South Australia.
Three species of Triassic freshwater molluscsa of the family Unionidae occur in the Leigh Creek and Springfield Coal Basins. One species Unio cyrensis is redescribed and two, Unio springfieldensis and Protovirgus isenschi, described as new. One Lower...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 46/00121 Tertiary and Pleistocene deposits on Eyre Peninsula.
Eocene paralic lignitic sands of a maximum known thickness of 380 feet occur in Cummins and Wanilla Basins. A thin deposit of mid-Tertiary limestone occurs at Fishery Bay. Pliocene limestones transgress on to Archaean basement at Fishery Bay and are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 47/00010 Report on the East Boolcunda Triassic basin.
The East Boolcunda Basin was examined in order to map the Triassic rocks in detail and to assess their coal-bearing potentiality. It was found that these rocks conform to a true basin structure, similar in most respects to the Leigh Creek and...-
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Published: 04 Jul 1958
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RB 47/00020 Subsurface stratigraphy of the Maralinga area, South Australia
Logging of sludge samples taken from 18 water bores drilled in an area of previously unknown stratigraphy located between Watson and Maralinga has established a sequence of about 1000 feet of Marinoan shales and sandstones resting on diorite. These...-
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Published: 23 Jul 1958
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RB 77/00078 Eocene palynology of a sample from Golden Grove, South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 78/00089;Env 02960 Appraisal drilling results, Anna Coalfield, Murray Basin, South Australia.
At the Anna Coalfield, the November 1976 appraisal drilling by SADME of 2 rotary mud, partly cored vertical boreholes with a total penetration of 159.62 m (including 28.36 m of continuous ?NQ coring over the coal-bearing section) has confirmed the...-
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Published: 11 May 1978
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RB 77/00083 Palynological report on three samples from the Late Triassic of the Telford Basin, Leigh Creek.
Palynological analysis was undertaken on two coal samples and a shale sample from within and just above the Lower Series Coal Seams of the Telford Basin, Leigh Creek.- The lowermost coal was dominated by monolete spores and the upper coal by...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 78/00013 Northern Adelaide Plains gas storage study. Barabba gravity low.
The Barabba Gravity Low in the Northern Adelaide Plains has been interpreted as a southerly dipping trough-like depression in Precambrian bedrock, infilled with Tertiary and covered by a blanket of Quaternary sediments. All margins of this feature are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 80/00145 Mucka Cudla no. 1 well completion report.
Based on results of SADM seismic refraction surveys Mucka Culda no. 1, 17 km NE of Colton, was drilled on shotpoint 6W of the Mount Wedge seismic traverse, for coal potential of the Polda Basin. Lignite was found in the thick Tertiary section. Absence...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 78/00038 Report on drilling in the Tallaringa palaeodrainage system.
Programme of fully cored shallow holes. Aim was to investigate stratigraphy of the palaeochannels, relate this to the geology and evaluate economic potential of channel confined sediments, to test for lignite, sedimentary uranium, alluvial gold, heavy...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 99/00025 Palynological analyses and dating of nine samples from Lochiel coal pit, St Vincent Basin, South Australia.
Palynological analyses of nine grab samples from the Lochiel coal test pit show two distinct floristic types, i.e. Haloragacidites spp. dominated and Nothofagidites spp. dominated palynofloras. This distinction is interpreted as indicating a change...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1999
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RB 95/00028 SAEI Triassic Coal Exploration Program. Exploration Licence Application ELA 382/92, Leigh Creek - Lyndhurst area, South Australia.
A data review undertaken by MESA to assess the prospectivity of the northern Flinders Ranges intramontane basins for concealed Triassic coal, highlighted four main areas as having the best potential for a discovery. Of these, the alluvium-covered...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1996
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RB 95/00029 Leigh Creek Coalfield, Lobe E coal deposit. Geological report.
In 1993 an exploration drilling program was undertaken jointly by The Department of Mines and Energy (MESA) and ETSA Corporation (ETSA) over areas considered prospective for coal within the vicinity of the existing infrastructure of the Leigh Creek...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1996
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Lake Anthony. Quarterly reports, first joint annual report (with SML 711) and joint final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/9/1971 to 31/5/1973.
An area located just to the east of the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, occupied by many scattered large and small salt lakes surrounded by sand dunes, with Precambrian basement [of the western Gawler Craton] subcropping near the surface, has been...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1973
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Hydrocarbon potential of the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sediments from five wells in the Eromanga Basin, South Australia.
Organic matter in Jurassic and lower Cretaceous sediments from 5 wells in the central Eromanga Basin was studied microscopically. The lower Jurassic Birkhead Formation, upper Jurassic to lower Cretaceous Murta Member and lower Cretaceous Transition...-
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Hydrocarbon potential and environmental interpretations of the Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous section in five wells in the Eromanga Basin.
Five wells along a north-south trending section in the southern Eromanga Basin were studied using petrographic techniques to delineate petroleum source rocks and possibly aid in environmental interpretation. The dispersed organic matter (d.o.m.) in...-
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Geological investigation of the Bowmans trial pit.
The sediments exposed in the Bowmans trial pit were mapped and sampled in detail. The oldest formation recognised is the mid to late Eocene Clinton Coal Measures, which is represented by low rank, soft brown coal and unconsolidated, medium grained...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1981
