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Tallaringa. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 12/2/1981 to 11/8/1982.
Scout drilling of gravity low anomalies in the western half of the buried Permian Wallira Trough (2 rotary mud holes totalling 100 m), in a search for possible economic Upper Permian coal seams which might extend westward from those discovered in the...-
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Published: 03 Aug 1982
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Lake Phillipson North. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 16/3/1981 to 15/9/1982.
Drilling of 3 rotary mud holes totalling 392 m on gravity lows in the Mabel Creek area disclosed only thin seams of lignite at about 66 m depth. Because the holes were not geophysically logged, the coal seam thickness could not be ascertained....-
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Published: 20 Aug 1982
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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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RB 96/00009 Oak Valley groundwater investigation.
MESA was contracted to find a groundwater supply for the Oak Valley Community. It was identified that the water's salinity was required to be less than 40,000 mg/l for desalination, and that the yield needed was 1 l/s. The investigation included a...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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RB 94/00002 Officer Basin water supply investigation.
A total of 12 water supply wells were drilled in the Pitjantjatjara and Maralinga Aboriginal Lands, from March to July 1993, to supply water for the AGSO/DME Officer Basin Seismic Survey. This report documents drilling information and chemical...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1994
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RB 95/00017 Gas sampling from water bores in the northern Gambier Basin, South Australia.
In January 1993, 15 water bores in the South-East were sampled for headspace gas. 7 of these bores provided sufficient gas for compositional analysis of hydrocarbons. Methane values ranged from 25% to 92% of the total gas for these bores, with...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1995
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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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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 25 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~1280 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 26 Feb 1971
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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 7 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~110 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1971
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SADME source rock analysis research and development (project 1/1/237). Progress reports nos 1-6, 21 December 1979 to 26 May 1981.
These reports describe the development of an innovative analytical system for petroleum source rock assessment, using both pyrolysis - gas chromatography and pyrolysis - flame ionization detection methods, plus gas condensate and drill cuttings gas...-
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Published: 26 May 1981
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Petroleum geochemistry and source-rock potential of the Arrowie, Pedirka, Cooper and Eromanga Basins, central Australia.
Samples of ?Ordovician to Cretaceous sediments taken from 5 Pedirka Basin petroleum exploration wells, and of crude oils recovered from the Jurassic Poolowanna and Triassic Peera Peera Formations intersected in Poolowanna 1, were examined. The...-
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Carbon dioxide in natural gas from the Cooper Basin.
Isotopic and chemical evidence reported herein suggests that the bulk of the carbon dioxide in natural gas from the Cooper Basin appears to be sourced from the underlying granite, rather than from the thermal decomposition of humic (coally)...-
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Preliminary evaluation of the source rock potential of the Eumeralla Formation in Chama 1A and Geltwood Beach 1, Otway Basin.
Organic petrology, total organic carbon (TOC), Rock-Eval pyrolysis and preliminary biological marker data are summarised to provide an assessment of the source rock potential of the Eumeralla Formation in the subject wells. The findings are as...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Cowell (latterly part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports for the period 23/9/2002 to 6/11/2008.
A large licence area, comprising two separate blocks aligned along strike, which cover the northern Cowell Hills and the less elevated country stretching north-east of Lucky Bay, was taken up by Avoca Resources Ltd as part of a much wider search...-
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Port Kenny. Combined first progress / final report at licence full surrender, for the period 20/7/1981 to 30/10/1981.
After a review of existing geophysical and water bore data revealed a subsurface basement topographic depression onshore in the vicinity of Venus Bay, CRA took up an exploration licence there to look for possible economic lignite or sandstone-hosted...-
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Published: 13 Oct 1981
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Geochemical evaluation of six wells from the Otway Basin, South Australia (attachment to 1982 annual report for EPP 18).
The well sections analysed are mainly of Cretaceous age and are largely in the early to middle mature zones for oil generation. The Lower Cretaceous sections in Geltwood Beach 1 and Chama 1a have attained sufficient maturity for the commencement of...-
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Seven Mile Swamp and Chundie Swamps. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/6/1969 to 15/6/1970.
Following on from the conduct of both preliminary airborne and carborne radiometric surveys in an area 60 miles north of Penong, which disclosed numerous anomalies with potential for finding uranium occurrences, the locality was taken up and...-
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Published: 22 Jun 1970
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Rudall, central Eyre Peninsula. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 1/11/1969 to 31/10/1971.
Exploration for possible sedimentary uranium deposits formed within the Cainozoic basin located south-west of the Darke Range on central Eyre Peninsula has entailed reconnaissance groundwater sampling, acquisition of part of a regional aerial...-
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East Boolcunda. Combined first progress / final report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/9/1969 to 17/9/1970.
The 1 mile wide by 1.5 miles long intra-montane Triassic Boolcunda Basin was investigated for its sedimentary uranium potential, by conducting reconnaissance ground scintillometric traverses across the entire contained Triassic to Recent sedimentary...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1969
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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 29/11/1974 to 7/7/1976.
As part of a continued search for possible Proterozoic - Cainozoic unconformity - related, concealed sedimentary uranium deposits in an area of the Eucla Basin located 60 km north of Fowlers Bay, Pechiney conducted geological reconnaissance, ground...-
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