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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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Cadaree Hill and Codna Hill. [Coal exploration joint venture] Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 4/5/1984 to 15/5/1990.
TARGET: Permian coal in the Mount Toondina Formation. EXPLORATION: Sirotem and Mini-Sosie reflection seismic surveys, plus regional and detailed exploratory rotary mud drilling of 56 holes totalling 11,007 m, with 6 partly cored holes (511 m cored)....-
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RI 045 Stratigraphic Drilling in the Arckaringa Basin, 1969-1971
The South Australian 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 syntheses of...-
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Bull 049 Regional Stratigraphic Analysis of the Gidgealpa Group, Southern Cooper Basin, Australia
A regional stratigraphic analysis, using mainly quantitative data derived from wireline logs, has led to the reconstruction of the palaeogeography and depositional history of the Permian Gidgealpa Group within the southern Cooper Basin. The Cooper...-
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RB 00759 Basin study of [sub-basins to] the Great Artesian Basin, South Australia: Palaeozoic and Triassic [sediments].
Report discusses via a series of maps the subsurface geology of the Cooper and Pedirka regions underlying the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia. A general tectonic and depositional environmental framework is delineated for each of 3 layers of...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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SP 003 Mining in South Australia - A Pictorial History
In recognition of the centenary of Henry Yorke Lyell Brown's appointment as the first Government Geologist for South Australia, and the foundation of the Department of Mines and Energy, aspects of South Australia's colourful and vital mining and...-
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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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Pidinga. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/2/2011 to 20/2/2013.
An area centred ~215 km north-west of Ceduna was taken up by Southern Coal Holdings (SCH), together with another tenement located immediately adjacent to the west, to assess the development potential of locally extensive, previously known Tertiary...-
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Pidinga. Annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/12/2010 to 12/12/2012.
An area centred about the Pidinga Lakes, 200 km north-west of Ceduna, was taken under licence to explore for economic Tertiary coal and lignite deposits because of several reported intersections of lignite made in drillholes by previous explorers. In...-
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Sedan and Anna coal deposits (the Mannum Project). Data release upon the surrender of a subsequent licence (EL 4269): Coal mining feasibility studies. Expert reports plus supporting data for the period February 1981 to June 1987.
Deposits of low rank Tertiary brown coal formed in the Sedan area on the western margin of the Murray Basin, ~80 to 100 km north-east of Adelaide, have been investigated as potential sources of fuel for electricity generation. Attention has been...-
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Robin Rise. First partial surrender report, for the period 2/1/1997 to 1/1/2001.
A regional drilling programme was undertaken to investigate the economic potential of possible Permian coal occurrences within buried extensions to the Lake Phillipson Trough, in its adjacent northern Penrhyn Trough and south-eastern Ingomar regions...-
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Yarle Lakes and O'Malley Siding. Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/12/1981.
Two areas located approximately 45-55 km west of Ooldea were explored for possible buried Olympic Dam - type base metal deposits in poorly known Archaean to Early Proterozoic basement beneath the Eucla and Officer Basin sedimentary sequences. A...-
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Data release - as updated : England Hill, Arckaringa and Copper Hill (the Arckaringa Coal Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2005 to 6/6/2019.
Under a new strategic focus, three licence areas covering three Early Permian buried coal deposits located at Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie in the northern part of the Arckaringa Basin, ~120 km north of Coober Pedy, have been evaluated both for...-
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Published: 29 Aug 2019
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Fowlers Bay North. Annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/8/2008 to 3/8/2010.
Within an area located approximately 110 km north-west of Ceduna, exploration has primarily been directed at assessing the heavy mineral sands potential of Tertiary Eucla Basin shoreline sediments, with an additional objective of determining the base...-
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Published: 31 May 2011
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Mount Barry. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 1/11/2011 to 2/9/2014.
Appraisal drilling of the previously defined south-eastern portion of the Wintinna Coal Deposit was undertaken by the licensee to try to better determine in situ resources of Permian sub-bituminous coal which might potentially be useable for coal seam...-
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Published: 28 Nov 2014
