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Mount Willoughby, Marla, Nicholson Hill, Hope, Manya, Emu, Moorefield, Lake Meramangye, Dingo Claypan and Alinya (Officer Basin). Progress, technical and partial relinquishment reports for the period 20/8/1980 to 19/8/1985.
TRONA EXPLORATION: Of the 9 rotary/diamond holes drilled, only the first, Meramangye 1, intersected a unit equivalent to the Observatory Hill Beds, which was the target horizon for trona. Drillholes Manya nos 2-6 and Marla 7 intersected Cambrian red...-
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Noorina Dam [part of Getty's Arckaringa Basin Coal Project]. Progress and final reports for the period 23/12/84 to 31/5/90.
TARGET: Economic sub-bituminous Permian coals in the Mount Toondina Formation, similar to those found by Getty in the Weedina Coal Deposit to the north. EXPLORATION: A review of existing seismic, gravity and magnetic data, aerial photograph...-
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Nilpinna Springs. [Farminee's diamond exploration] Progress report for the period 13/7/1986 to 12/1/1987.
TARGET: Diamondiferous kimberlites in the Boorthanna Trough region (near Nilpinna Springs). EXPLORATION: A literature review, the reprocessing and re-interpretation of data from BHP's 1983 Peake Creek Aerial Magnetic Survey flown by Aerodata /...-
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Mount Dutton. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/7/1985 to 29/1/1990.
TARGET: Sub-bituminous coal seams within the Early Permian Mount Toondina Formation in the Mount Dutton - Nilpinna Springs region, these possibly being similar to, or forming an extension of, the large Weedina coal deposit recently discovered 20 km to...-
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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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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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Oodnadatta, Eurelanna Hill, and the north-eastern Arckaringa Basin. Progress reports for the period 23/3/1984 to February 1990.
TARGET: Coal in the Oodnadatta - Mount Barry - Allandale area of the Arckaringa Basin. EXPLORATION: The drilling of 11 holes totalling 2989 m, the re-appraisal of existing seismic data, and acquisition of a high resolution reflection seismic survey...-
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Warrina. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/7/1977 to 12/7/1978.
Possible Jurassic, Algebuckina Formation - hosted sedimentary uranium, and economic Permian coal within the Mount Toondina Formation, were both targeted by exploration within an area located approximately 100 km south-east of Oodnadatta. A 104 line...-
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Cadaree Hill (part of the Stuart Range Joint Venture Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1977 to 10/8/1978.
Following the first public announcement on 18/11/1976 by Western Mining Corp. of its giant Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium discovery on Roxby Downs Station, Newmont Pty Ltd began a detailed assessment of the Stuart Shelf region of South...-
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Margaret Creek and Francis Swamp (part of the Billa Kalina Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 23/2/2006 to 22/2/2009.
Within the now relinquished portions of the subject licences, as part of a regional search across several tenements in the Billa Kalina district for possible kimberlites or diamonds, Flinders Mines carried out scout exploratory drilling in two...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/3/1995 to 23/3/2000.
On 27/3/1995, following a competitive bidding process, South Australian Coal Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Meekatharra Minerals Limited, was granted EL 2069 covering the Phillipson Coalfield located ~60 km south-west of Coober Pedy. The...-
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Published: 07 Jul 1998
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Balta (part of the Edward Creek Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/10/2000 to 17/7/2010.
An area located approximately 35 km west and south-west of Anna Creek Homestead, straddling the Coober Pedy - William Creek Road, was taken up to explore for possible buried diamondiferous kimberlite intrusions that could be the source(s) of the...-
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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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......[Key SAMREF record for accessing referenced reports and data via DEM Content Manager - SPOT]...... Mount Toondina. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/2/1995 to 15/8/1998.
The Mount Toondina structure, a small but pronounced vertically fault-bounded inlier of Permian sediments within a flat-lying Mesozoic sequence, is represented by an annular magnetic feature located 45 km south of Oodnadatta. A single gravity profile...-
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RB 2020/00012 Gawler Craton Airborne Geophysical Survey Region 8A, Coober Pedy West – Enhanced geophysical imagery and magnetic source depth models
This report presents the results of a study jointly conducted by the Geological Survey of South Australia and CSIRO Mineral Resources which aimed to enhance the expression of geological structure in geophysical images and to derive depth to magnetic...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2020
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Wilkinson Lakes. Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/11/1975 to 31/10/1976.
Possible shallowly buried, surface-mineable coal formed within the Lower Permian Mount Toondina Formation, and similar to the coal occurring in the Phillipson Trough area, was the target of exploration carried out in the poorly defined Tallaringa...-
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Billa Kalina, Welcome Creek, Millers Creek, Margaret Creek and Francis Swamp (the Billa Kalina G2 Diamond Project). Data release made at remaining licences' joint partial surrender: joint annual reports for the period 25/2/2006 to 29/8/2012.
As part of continuing diamond exploration on the subject five licences, more of the first pass sampling program was completed by Flinders Diamonds in August 2006 via aircore drilling of 47 vertical holes for an aggregate 1852 m aimed at penetrating to...-
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Published: 10 May 2012
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Algebuckina Hill. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 22/5/1985 to 21/5/1986.
Limited Sirotem surveys carried out in an area 40 km south-east of Oodnadatta failed to define any Permian coal seams inferred to possibly be present as eastward extensions from the Boorthanna Trough. 200 m x 200 m loops were employed at 5 sites on a...-
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Published: 16 Jul 1986
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Wirrangula Hill. Interpretation of gravity survey. Appendix 1 to progress report ended 15/2/82.
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Published: 24 Feb 1982
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Galaxy Tank (part of the Central Gawler Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/3/2006 to 10/5/2013.
Tasman Resources' ("Tasman") Central Gawler Project tenement acreage, originally comprising seven exploration licences ELs 3339 to 3345, was initially applied for on the basis of perceived prospectivity for diamonds: however, following Tasman's...-
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Published: 16 Jul 2013
