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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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RB 60/00011 Examination of bore samples for sedimentary phosphate (in the) Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin.
In a reconnaissance survey for sedimentary phosphate, sludges and cores were examined from 100 widely-scattered bores in parts of the Murray Basin and the Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin that are located in South Australia. Microscopic inspection...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1965
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RB 60/00036 River Murray drainage investigation. Progress report no. 1.
A review is given of the progress of a SADM investigation into the causes of drainage problems being experienced in some South Australian irrigation areas located along the River Murray. Drilling and geological survey work have been carried out over...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1965
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RB 60/00085 Report on the drainage investigations undertaken at Greenways irrigation scheme, Nildottie.
A survey has been undertaken to determine the areal extent and variation in thickness of impermeable clay strata underlying the Greenways Irrigation Scheme at Nildottie. Thick clay was found on the eastern half of the Scheme underlying, in general,...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1965
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RB 60/00086 Report on the drainage investigations at the proposed Swan Reach irrigation scheme on secns 48 and 85, Hd Nildottie.
The survey was made to determine the extent and variation in thickness of impermeable clay strata under an area proposed for irrigation development. The area was proved to be free of clay except for an insignificant zone on the western boundary of...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1965
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RB 47/00085 Murray Basin Oil Syndicate - Pinnaroo Bore. (Palaeontology of sediments) Final report and summary.
Contains a description of the biostratigraphic determinations made on drill cuttings samples recovered from below 1047 feet depth in the subject drillhole. Metamorphic basement rocks were encountered at 1191 feet depth, and drilling ceased at 1260...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1958
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RB 78/00089;Env 02960 Appraisal drilling results, Anna Coalfield, Murray Basin, South Australia.
At the Anna Coalfield, the November 1976 appraisal drilling by SADME of 2 rotary mud, partly cored vertical boreholes with a total penetration of 159.62 m (including 28.36 m of continuous ?NQ coring over the coal-bearing section) has confirmed the...-
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Published: 11 May 1978
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RB 80/00141 Angas-Bremer irrigation area groundwater recharge.
Within the Angas - Bremer Irrigation Area, the source of the groundwater being taken currently primarily for the large-scale irrigation of lucerne fodder crops is the confined low salinity Tertiary limestone aquifer. The extent of pumping from bores...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1980
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RB 96/00015 Regional groundwater impacts of irrigation development in the eastern Riverland.
A regional groundwater model has been constructed of the Loxton Sands watertable aquifer in the eastern Riverland, over an area extending eastwards from Overland Corner to the State border. It is being used to quantify the salt load impacts on the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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RB 96/00017 River Murray water resource management. Assessment of salt load impacts and drainage hazard for new irrigation development along the River Murray in South Australia.
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) has a commitment in the national interest to managing the health of the River Murray and floodplain environment by mitigating both decreases in river water quality and associated environmental degradation...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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Cronje Dam and Oak Bank Outstation (the Cronje Dam Sedimentary Uranium Project). Annual and joint annual reports, plus final report at remaining licence's expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/10/2005 to 1/11/2014.
An area comprised of three separate sub-blocks generally located ~60 km south of Manna Hill and ~70 km south-southeast of Olary has been explored for Tertiary sedimentary uranium which may have formed in buried north to south trending palaeochannels...-
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Mannum area (including the Anna and Sedan coal deposits). Data release at licence expiry/renewal : coal exploration progress reports and data, plus Sedan coal deposit mine planning management progress reports, for the period 13/11/1978 to 20/8/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...-
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PEL 16. Progress and technical reports for the period 16/6/80 to 15/5/90.
Reports document the petroleum exploration history and search philosophy behind PEL 16 over two licence terms, and provide some new raw and interpretative geophysical and geochemical data based on the conduct of 5 seismic surveys and the drilling of 2...-
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Published: 15 May 1990
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RI 041 Hydrocarbon Potential of Western Murray Basin and Infrabasins
The Murray Basin is a shallow, saucer-shaped Tertiary basin covering an area of 120 700 square miles extending from the western foot of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales and Victoria to the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. Geophysical work...-
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RB 00472 Palaeontology of Australian Oil and Gas Corporation's Loxton oil bore 1, Hundred Bookpurnong, part section 6B. Progress report no. 2.
From 270 feet to 515 feet the boring progressed through pale grey bryozoal limestone and marly limestones, with a gradual transition from Batesfordian (Lower Miocene) to probably Longfordian (uppermost Oligocene - Lower Miocene).-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00713 Donna 1. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontological study.
Donna 1 well intersected 500 feet of Tertiary sediments and 1800 feet of Permian sands before drilling was suspended at 2300 feet. The formation at this level is presumed to be of Permian age, while the siliceous limestone cored between 2073 and 2078...-
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Published: 31 Jan 1900
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RB 00717 Beach Petroleum NL Monash no. 1 well subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Beach Petroleum NL Monash 1 exploratory well located 5 miles north-west of Monash, and 20 miles south-west of Renmark, was drilled to a total depth of 3445 feet. The well penetrated a sequence of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Permian sedimentary rocks,...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00618 Stratigraphy and palaeontology of Keith bore (drilled 1958). Preliminary report.
Sludge and core samples examined microscopically but not in detail show a sequence on 70 feet of recent sands followed by at least 90 feet of Loxton Sands. Below 260 feet Miocene-Oligocene limestone continued to 479 feet at which 9 feet of glauconitic...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1899
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RB 00507 Palaeontology of Murray Basin Oil Syndicate's Pinnaroo bore, Hundred of Pinnaroo, adjacent sections 59 and 67. Progress report no. 1.
The stratigraphic succession from the surface to 600 feet depth in Pinnaroo bore is: - Pleistocene to Recent terrestrial sands and clayey sands, thickness 34 feet; - Loxton Sands (Cheltenhamian - Upper Miocene), thickness 107 feet; - ?continental...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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RB 00687 Australian Oil Corp.'s North Renmark no. 1 well. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology study.
North Renmark 1 was drilled 6 miles north of Renmark, to a total depth of 4018 feet. The well penetrated a sequence of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Permian rocks, mostly of marine origin, and has given the most complete section so far known from the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1900
