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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 96/00025 Exploration for coal in the Coober Pedy area, South Australia.
As part of the Government's South Australian Exploration Initiative (SAEI), and in support of the South Australian Steel and Energy (SASE) Project, a small coal exploration program was initiated by MESA to investigate a number of subtle magnetic lows...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1996
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RB 96/00019 Correlation of Permian sandstones in the Officer, Arckaringa and Pedirka Basins.
A detailed petrographic study of Permian sandstone drill cuttings and core samples selected from 32 drillholes variously located within the Officer, Arckaringa and Pedirka Basins was undertaken, with the intent of trying to classify the sandstones as...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
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Oolgelima Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 15/7/1983 to 14/7/1984.
Investigation of a reported occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a black shale at the base of the Cretaceous Bulldog Shale, found previously about 50 km north-east of Coober Pedy near the western margin of the Eromanga Basin, was initially...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1984
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Burial history analysis of the east Officer Basin, South Australia. A preliminary study.
In South Australia, the intracratonic eastern Officer Basin, which may contain up to 10 km of Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic sediments, is bounded by the Precambrian Gawler Craton to the southeast, the Musgrave Block to the north, and passes into...-
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1982 seismic survey, Christmas Creek, final report.
AIM:The 1982 Christmas Creek Seismic Survey was designed to cover a wide area of the sparsely explored western farmout blocks of PELs 5 and 6, where Eromanga Basin sediments thin and overly sub-basins of variously aged prospective sediments. Primary...-
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Pedirka Sector: a reassessment of geology, porosity, maturity and maturity history.
A review of the Permo-Triassic and Mesozoic distribution of reservoir units. Data for some Birdsville Track Ridge wells are included as the development of the Pedirka Sector basins and the Birdsville Track Ridge are closely related.-
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Report on Pexa Oil's 1971 geophysical evaluation of the Arckaringa Block [farmout] area.
The structural relationships of the sediments of the Boorthanna Trough are discussed. This feature has an areal extent of approximately 6480 square miles, with dimensions of 32 miles by 180 miles north to south. The structural limits of the trough...-
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Distribution of Permian sediments in the eastern Officer Basin, SA.
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent, thickness and facies of the Permian Arckaringa Basin where it overlies the Officer basin in central northern South Australia. Marine sediments provide important data for sea level curves, and...-
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Hydrocarbon characterisation study, Warriner Creek 1 and bore NB/SR 12, Arckaringa Block.
Contains the results of organic geochemical analyses performed on two oil-stained siltstone and sandstone drill cuttings samples obtained from 101.4 and 107.9 metres depth in bore NB/SR 12, and on two core samples cut from 161.3 and 196.8 metres depth...-
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Burial history of the eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Burial history analysis of the structurally complex eastern Officer Basin region was performed using data from petroleum, trona exploration and stratigraphic wells, seismic upholes, coal drillholes and selected seismic sections, to construct isopachs...-
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Organic petrology of samples from a selected group of wells in or near the Arckaringa Block.
34 selected drill core and cuttings samples from six wells were assessed by petrographic methods for their degree of organic maturation and petroleum source potential. The sampled sequence ranged in age from ?Devonian through to Permian, Jurassic and...-
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Mount Eba. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/2/1978 to 22/2/1979.
In a search for possible buried stratiform base metal deposits of Mount Gunson type in an area surrounding Mount Eba Homestead, Carpentaria undertook a field reconnaissance of surface geological structures, followed by a study of aerial photographs...-
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RB 73/00098 A Synthesis of Stratigraphic drilling in the Arckaringa Basin, 1969-1971.
The SA Department of Mines drilled seven stratigraphic wells between 1969 and 1971 in the Arckaringa Basin. This study presents the stratigraphic information obtained and attempts to collate all available information in a synthesis of the Arckaringa...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 75/00005 Progress report on geophysical survey in EL 157, Mulgathing area.
Five geophysical traverses have been made across an elongate regional gravity low centred on Durkin Outstation on the Mulgathing pastoral lease, in order to try to locate and outline the shape and depth of a previously discovered palaeochannel incised...-
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Published: 16 Jan 1975
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Data release - as updated : Phar Lap Outstation. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2017.
An area centred ~85 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy, at the southern margin of the Lake Phillipson Trough, a long active tectonic feature now occupied by deep sedimentary fill, was taken up by a wholly-owned subsidiary to Monax Mining Ltd primarily...-
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Published: 24 May 1917
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RB 2019/00006 Sedimentology of the late Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of the Arckaringa Basin, South Australia
Late Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of the Arckaringa Basin in northern South Australia include diamictite and sandstone units of the Boorthanna Formation that were deposited as lodgement till under fluvioglacial conditions. The clast size and matrix...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2019
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RB 2006/00001 Guide to the sedimentary cover of the central Gawler Craton, South Australia
The central Gawler Craton is blanketed by thin sedimentary cover that ranges in age from Neoproterozoic to Quaternary. Locally, though, such cover can reach a maximum of ~500 m thickness in Permian glacial valleys or rift structures. This guide...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2006
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Gibraltar Rocks. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 16/3/1981 to 15/6/1982.
Coal exploration performed by CRA in the eastern part of the Mulgathing Trough comprised a literature review, stratigraphic interpretation of previous drillhole and geophysical data, and the planning of a 6-hole rotary exploratory drilling programme...-
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Published: 15 Jun 1982
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Murangoona. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 15/1/1982.
A small graben indicated by regional geophysical data from an area north of Mount Woods was investigated for its Permian coal potential. A semi-detailed gravity survey of three NW-SE lines totalling 57 km at 200 m station spacing was conducted, and a...-
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