Four separate licence portions together covering an area of 221 square km or ~42% of the former extent of EL 4565 have been voluntarily relinquished. The perceived prospective Karari Fault Zone and other places which possibly contain buried...

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...

This report summarises geophysical studies conducted by Western Areas between October 2021 and October 2022, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/296-GP Magneto Telluric (MT), Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu...

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,...

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...

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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PEL 4 was granted to Outback Oil Co. NL on 14/11/68 to succeed the onshore part of the former OEL 33 in the Eucla Basin region, and allow continuity of exploration in a little known petroleum province. Early in licence Year One Outback Oil succeeded...

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.

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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Contains interpretation reports on satellite imagery remote sensing and reprocessed aeromagnetic data, plus other brief interpretative statements by the contract operator contained within some quarterly tenement reports.

Denman Seismic Survey - AIM: This seismic survey of 4 lines totalling 40.0 line kms coverage was conducted in the southern Denman Trough, in the vicinity of Outback Oil's Denman 1 well drilled in 1966, in order to fulfil the Licence Year 2 work...

Four wells, drilled within 36 km of the Hughes and Denman Railway Sidings, explored for a possible Palaeozoic section and/or Upper Proterozoic or older basement, that was expected from Outback's regional gravity survey data to occur at or around...

This regolith material hand specimen atlas displays 246 images of 212 regolith samples which have been collected over the last 30 years by the authors, present and past Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) staff and members of the Cooperative...

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...

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...

Cook 1 well, drilled on the Nullarbor Plain to a total depth of 915 feet KB, intersected approximately 470 feet of Tertiary sediments followed by unfossiliferous sands, and then limestones and sands of possible Lower Cambrian age, in which drilling...

This report provides a brief summary of the geology and petroleum potential of the onshore, South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin at the time of termination of PEL 4, with the aim of providing a starting point for more thorough studies.

Maralinga is located on the crest of the Ooldea Range, an ancient (Tertiary) coastal dune which is bounded to the south by the Nullarbor Plain and to the north by Tietkens Plain. The dune field of the Great Victoria Desert covers much of the region...