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Lilydale. Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report : progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal over a much reduced area, for the period 5/1/1988 to 4/1/1993.
Initial exploration carried out near Lilydale Homestead, 80 kilometres south-east of Yunta, targeted possible Starra-style gold in the Braemar Ironstone facies. Flying of an airborne semi-detailed magnetic and radiometric survey identified magnetic...-
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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RB 51/00121 Chowilla Dam site, River Murray. Stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Five stratigraphic bores at Chowilla Dam Site intersected Post-Tertiary river sands and silts, equivalents of the Loxton Sands grading downwards into highly glauconitic siltstone of the Bookpurnong Beds and, in two bores, Shelly glauconitic marls,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 53/00059 Lower Murray dam site investigation, stratigraphy.
Two bores on the west bank of the River Murray in the Hundred of Finniss intersected part of the Mannum Formation and the Ettrick Formation before entering weathered granite. Site 5, Bore 1, 2 miles east of Mannum had the lower part of the Mannum and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 55/00103 Report on site investigation SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd site, railway yards, Alawoona.
Investigation of the site of a proposed silo at Alawoona consisted of two cable tool holes to 20m deep. The drilling intersected a sequence of calcrete, Blanchetown Clay and Pliocene sands. (?Parilla Sand). No water was cut.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00133 Report on site investigation SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd site, railway yards, Geranium.
The site of a proposed silo at Geranium was investigated by means of two cable tool holes up to 20m deep. The drilling showed a sequence of Holocene clays and sandy clays overlying Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand at 4-6m depth. Hole 1 intersected the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00065 Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Co. NL. Bundy 1, NSW. Palaeontological report.
Bundy No. 1 well near the eastern margin of the Murray Basin intersected a sequence 1340 feet thick of non marine lignitic sands and silts of Tertiary age. The oldest are Eocene and the youngest probably Pliocene. The well bottomed in granite at 1340...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 55/00066 Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Co. NL. Balranald 1, NSW. Palaeontological report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 58/00009 Report on site investigation South Australian Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd. railway yards, Wolsely, Hd Tatiara.
Two percussion test boreholes was put down at two alternative sites at the Railway Yards, Wolsely, to test the foundation conditions below a proposed silo site. Subsurface conditions at both sites A and B are essentially similar, consisting of a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 60/00011 Examination of bore samples for sedimentary phosphate (in the) Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin.
In a reconnaissance survey for sedimentary phosphate, sludges and cores were examined from 100 widely-scattered bores in parts of the Murray Basin and the Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin that are located in South Australia. Microscopic inspection...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1965
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RB 60/00111 River Murray drainage investigation. Progress report no. 2 - stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of bores and surface sections.
Stratigraphic data are provided for: Waikerie Pumping Station - cliff section, Waikerie Bore No. 1, Waikerie Bore No. 1A, Ramco Heights Bore No. 1, Sunlands Pumping Station - cliff section, Sunlands Bore No. 2 and Tolleys Rising Main section (all in...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1965
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RB 49/00102 Stratigraphy of the Murray Basin in South Australia.
The Murray Basin is an area of Mesozoic and Tertiary sedimentation divided into two main units the Murray Basin proper separated by structural highs, the Padthaway “Horst”, from the Gambier Sunklands. Knowledge of the Mesozoic in the Murray Basin...-
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Published: 05 Oct 1959
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RB 44/00088 Fauna of the Bookpurnong Beds outcropping 2.5 miles west of Loxton.
The report covers palaeontological examinations of seven samples collected by an officer of Frome Broken Hill Company Limited from the only known outcrop of the Bookpurnong Beds, 2½ miles west of Loxton. The fauna indicates worn shallow-water...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 42/00075 Advance note on younger Tertiary sediments in the Murray Basin between Loxton and Morgan.
Drainage problems in the Loxton Irrigation area have called for a clearer understanding of the stratigraphy of the area between Loxton and Morgan. Apart from Quaternary sediments, the sequence is normal marine, in which five formations may be...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 44/00037 Murray Basin stratigraphy. Samples collected by Frome-Broken Hill.
Rock samples collected from outcrops on the margin of the Murray Basin were examined and the formations from which they were taken identified. Material from the Marne River in Hundred of Ridley was of particular interest. In this area marginal...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 45/00076 Diamond drilling of limestone for building stone, near Morgan.
Three diamond holes totalling 29.03m tested a fine grained sandy limestone in the Pliocene Loxton Sand. The drilling indicated approximately 6000 cubic metres of fine grained building stone, underlain by a similar amount of shelly limestone also...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 47/00028 Probable stratigraphy of water bores at Murrayville, Victoria.
Water Bores in the Murrayville area mostly intersect only the late Tertiary sequence of the Loxton Sands and Bookpurnong beds. Mid Tertiary limestones are encountered only below depths of about 300 feet. A similar sequence, reported to carry large...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 47/00052 Ettrick Formation.
The standard subsurface section for the Ettrick Formation, A.R. Launer's No. 2 Bore, Section 21, Hundred of Ettrick, is described and outcropping members of the formation noted. The formation is of Oligocene age, equivalent in part to the Gambier...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 47/00085 Murray Basin Oil Syndicate - Pinnaroo Bore. (Palaeontology of sediments) Final report and summary.
Contains a description of the biostratigraphic determinations made on drill cuttings samples recovered from below 1047 feet depth in the subject drillhole. Metamorphic basement rocks were encountered at 1191 feet depth, and drilling ceased at 1260...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1958
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RB 77/00146 Loxton sands exposure, Peake area, Murray Basin.
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
