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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Lake Tallacootra. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
In a 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, 42 rotary mud drillholes totalling 1432.4 m were put down on 5 traverses...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Ifould Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
Continuing exploration for possible buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium deposits in the vicinity of Ifould Lake consisted of ground truthing of aerial radiometric anomalies by scintillometer surveys and chemical analysis of auger...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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RB 87/00094 Ooldea 3. Well completion report and tectonic modelling.
Ooldea 3 diamond drillhole is located on the western margin of the Gawler Craton where thin Tertiary (ca. 16 metres) and Palaeozoic (ca. 75 metres) sediments, of the Eucla and Officer Basins respectively, overlie Archaean to Early Proterozoic basement...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1987
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RB 79/00083 Ooldea no. 1 and Reid nos 1 and 1A. Well completion reports.
Three stratigraphic wells (Ooldea no. 1, Reid no. 1, and Reid no. 1A) were drilled by the South Australian Department of Mines during 1976 in an area that includes margins of the Officer, Arckaringa and Eucla basins. Principal objectives were to test...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 89/00039 SADME Nundroo 1, 2 and 3 well completion report.
The Nundroo basement drilling project was proposed in February 1987 by SADME's Regional Geology Branch as the first phase of investigation of the little known rocks of the south-western Gawler Craton. Previous drilling in this area had been restricted...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1989
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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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Sahara Prospect. Final report, Model Test and Core Scanning. Project ADI RD02-270 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises exploration conducted by Western Areas between May 2021 and October 2021, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/270-ED Sahara Prospect Model Test and Core Scanning. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide at Sahara in 2020,...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1922
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[SADME] Colona drilling program. [Geological results] Data package.
AIM: The Colona Drilling Project aimed to test concealed basement in the vicinity of two ground magentic profiles that have been run across the most south-western, teardrop - shaped aeromagnetic anomaly of the Fowler Suture Zone. METHODS: 45 vertical...-
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Murrawijinie, Denman, Koonalda and Cook [Wigunda]. Progress and final reports for the period 7/7/80 to 27/7/81.
Cretaceous sediments in the Eucla Basin portion lying within South Australia's far west were investigated for their oil shale potential. This search was prompted by a recorded occurrence of a thick, oily Cretaceous shale horizon intersected in a...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1981
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Assessment of seal potential in the Duntroon Basin.
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Published: 20 Oct 1995
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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1986 to 19/8/1987.
The heavy mineral potential of Tertiary sediments in the Chundie Swamps was investigated with 2 drill traverses (43 RC open vertical holes totalling 863 m) and reconnaissance soil mineralogical sampling. Heavy mineral contents were very low.-
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Fission track analysis of samples from Duntroon 1, Duntroon Basin.
Eight samples of unwashed cuttings from 1500-3510 metres (Aptian to late Eocene) were measured to determine thermal history. A major jump in the apatite grain age profile between the Tertiary and Cretaceous is attributed to a major shift in sediment...-
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Integrated petrographic and special core analysis report of BHP Petroleum Duntroon wells (Borda 1, Greenly 1 and Vivonne 1).
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Kudna Rockhole. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1980.
Photogeological studies and the acquisition of a 450 line km airborne magnetic - radiometric survey across an area of the Nullarbor Plain south-east of Cook disclosed several circular depressions and subtle magnetic anomalies that could reflect buried...-
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RB 00663 Exoil Eyre no. 1 and Gambanga no. 1 wells, Western Australia. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study.
Eyre 1 (total depth 1719 feet KB) and Gambanga 1 (TD 1283 feet KB) oil exploration wells, drilled in WA in the western part of the Eucla Basin, penetrated a succession of marine mainly Upper Eocene and Cretaceous rocks before entering crystalline...-
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Published: 06 Dec 1960
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RB 00731 Hughes-Denman Stratigraphic Drilling Project of Outback Oil Company NL. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study and Outback Oil Hughes and Denman wells. Palynological report.
The four stratigraphic wells completed in the Eucla Basin within 20 miles of the Hughes and Denman Railway Sidings intersected a sequence of Tertiary, Lower Cretaceous, probable Palaeozoic, and possibly some Proterozoic rocks. The ages of the...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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RB 72/00054 Micropalaeontological report on samples from WYOLA 1:250 000 sheet, Eucla Basin.
Two limestone samples from an area 80-105 km north of Cook, towards the northern margin of the Eucla Basin in South Australia, are identified as Nullarbor Limestone of ?late Lower and Middle Miocene age. The former, coarsely calcarenitic, has...-
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Published: 12 Apr 1972
