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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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Late Eocene - Pliocene stratigraphy of the Langhorne Sub-basin (north-western Padthaway Archipelago, South Australia).
The following Tertiary units were identified : Kongorong Fm, Narrawaturk Fm, Buccleuch Fm, Ettrick Fm, Mannum Fm, Kalibar Limestone, Parilla Sand and North West Bend Fm. All of these units are separated by unconformities. Erosional surfaces,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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 56/00126 Report on site investigation SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd site, railway yards, Gurrai.
The site of a proposed silo at Gurrai was investigated by means of one cable tool hole 20m deep. The hole encountered Pliocene Parilla Sand to the depth drilled.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 57/00031 Report on site investigation for SA Cooperative Bulk Handling railway yards, Karoonda.
A percussion test bore (depth of 86 feet) was put down to investigate the site of a proposed silo at Karoonda. The materials intersected by the bore are fill, a sandy clay soil horizon and sediments (Parilla Sand). Water was not cut in the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 56/00137 Report on site investigation for SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd, railway yards, Kulkami.
The site of a proposed silo at Kulkami was investigated by means of one cable tool hole 20m deep. The hole intersected fill and Quaternary clay to 1m, and Loxton-Parilla Sand to full depth. No water was cut.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 56/00115 Report on site investigation SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd site, railway yards, Parilla.
The site of a proposed silo at Parilla was investigated by means of one cable tool hole 20m deep. The drilling showed a sequence of minor fill and Holocene (?) clay 4m thick overlying Pliocene Parilla Sand to the depth drilled.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 57/00045 Report on site investigation for SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd railway yards, Marama.
A test bore (65 feet in depth) was put down on the site of a proposed silo at Kilkami. The material penetrated was fill, clay and sand horizons of a surface soil developed over the Parilla Sand. Hydrology Bore A was put down 20 chains west of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 83/00017 SADME Oakvale 1. Well completion report.
The fully rotary cored Oakvale 1 vertical stratigraphic drillhole was drilled by SADME Regional Geology Branch, 13 km east of Oakvale Station homestead in the north of the Murray Basin within SA, over the period 22/5/1981 to 10/6/1981. The hole was...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 77/00087 South-East water resources, Mundulla town water supply. Progress report no. 2.
A recent scout well drilled into the confined Dilwyn Formation (formerly Knight Group) at Mundulla intersected only low permeability sediments unsuitable for development. However, this does not rule out the possibility that a suitable aquifer will be...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 79/00147 Cambrian Biostratigraphy Project. A preliminary report.
The Cambrian succession in South Australia is richly fossiliferous, but relatively little studied biostratigraphically. The Cambrian Biostratigraphy Project aims to provide a biostratigraphic framework similar to that available for the Cretaceous and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00017 Completion report irrigation well for D.J. and N.P. Mount, secn 11 Hd Kingsford, Co. Chandos.
The well has been drilled into an area of low salinity groundwater occurring within the Tertiary limestone aquifer at Karte, north-west of Pinnaroo. A 48-hour well test was carried out at an average pumping rate of 2600 m3/day (23,800 gals/hr), and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 77/00132 Hydrogeology of the Paragum Depression, Monarto SA.
Cable tool and rotary drilling of 8 holes has enabled the geological sequence and general hydrology to be determined in the area to appraise its potential as a disposal site for stormwater runoff from urbanised Monarto.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 96/00015 Regional groundwater impacts of irrigation development in the eastern Riverland.
A regional groundwater model has been constructed of the Loxton Sands watertable aquifer in the eastern Riverland, over an area extending eastwards from Overland Corner to the State border. It is being used to quantify the salt load impacts on the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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RB 90/00004 Foraminiferal dating of WH-1, Woorlo Hill transect, EL 1555.
Foraminiferal dating of marginal marine sediments intersected in WH1 drillhole was carried out to identify the age of the Tertiary drilling objective reached, a heavy mineral-bearing single stratum.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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RB 91/00009 Border Groundwater Agreement five-year groundwater resource assessment review, 1986-1990. Report.
South Australian investigations have concentrated on defining the nature of the Tertiary limestone aquifer and determining aquifer recharge rates in Zones 3A-7A, to enable a reassessment of groundwater resources for Zones 2A-8A. An examination of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 96/00017 River Murray water resource management. Assessment of salt load impacts and drainage hazard for new irrigation development along the River Murray in South Australia.
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) has a commitment in the national interest to managing the health of the River Murray and floodplain environment by mitigating both decreases in river water quality and associated environmental degradation...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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Quondong Vale. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 14/3/2012 to 13/3/2017.
Iluka Resources is exploring for possible economic heavy mineral (HM) deposits that may have formed in the northern Murray Basin, with a strategy of targeting any mineralised Loxton-Parilla Sand formation sediments deposited during the Pliocene marine...-
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Published: 05 May 1917
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Meribah, Halidon, Mantung, Karoonda and Woolpunda (parts of the Murray Basin HMS Project). Individual licence first or second partial surrender reports, describing relevant subsets of exploration work performed between 29/9/1997 and 5/9/2018.
Portions of the Tertiary shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) deposited in the central western Murray Basin within SA's Murray Mallee district have been explored for possible economic heavy mineral sand (HMS)...-
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Ngarkat - Bordertown and Bordertown - Naracoorte areas. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 30/11/2001 to 29/11/2002.
Heavy mineral marine placer deposits formed within the Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand of the Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in areas lying immediately north and south of Bordertown. Aircore drilling (86 holes, total 1903 m) was carried...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1903
