This tenement was procured by WMC for an attempt to locate buried strata of the Lower Permian Mount Toondina Formation of the Arckaringa Basin, and to determine if they are coal-bearing, in the area to the south-west of the Wilkinson Lakes. However,...

TARGET: Permian coal in the Tallaringa Trough, east of Maralinga. EXPLORATION: An 11 hole RC drilling programme totalling 1480 m. RESULTS: Eight drillholes intersected up to 4 horizons of lignite and lignitic clay of demonstrated Eocene age, that...

The northern Flinders Ranges region is underlain by rocks predominantly belonging to two contrasting geological provinces: the metamorphic and igneous Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic Mount Painter and Mount Babbage Inliers, and the sediments of...

The well sections analysed are mainly of Cretaceous age and are largely in the early to middle mature zones for oil generation. The Lower Cretaceous sections in Geltwood Beach 1 and Chama 1a have attained sufficient maturity for the commencement of...

This publication highlights how the availability of minerals is crucial to providing the basic requisites of life, or else, to fundamentally contributing for the manufacture of vital requisites such as food, clothing, heat, light and shelter, in order...

Report describes the technical feasibility and cost estimates for gasifying brown coal from the Moorlands and Leigh Creek deposits, which are the largest such coal deposits known to exist in South Australia. The coal would be gasified by conversion...

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The purpose of this data package is to provide end-users with the GIS datasets used for the 2009 modelling of mineral potential in the Northern Flinders Ranges. The package contains subsets of SA 1:100 000 scale surface geology (polygons) and...

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XRD, X ray powder photography, electron probe microanalysis and ICP atomic emission spectrographic analyses were carried out on thermally altered rocks. The high temperature origin of the mineral assemblage in the more strongly altered rocks is...

The target was lignite or oil shale hosted by Tertiary sediments possibly preserved on top of a series of tilted fault blocks bordering the western shoreline of Spencer Gulf, due south-west of Whyalla. 29 vertical rotary mud drillholes (total 2729...

The subject report describes prospecting follow-up to a March 1972 discovery of anomalous radiation associated with playa salt lakes in the BARTON and TALLARINGA mapsheet areas. Preliminary assay of the lake surficial sediments had indicated the...

The search for stratiform / stratabound base metals of the Broken Hill / Aggeneys type was extended from Warramboo to the McLachlan area because of similar magnetic features. 11 RAB holes (total 664 m) drilled over magnetic and geochemical anomalies...

Coal exploration undertaken in an area situated 120 km west of Coober Pedy (open rotary drilling and geophysical logging of 2 holes for a total of 252.3 m) failed to disclose any coal seams, despite a previous explorer having found a 1-2 m thick seam...

Investigations into the coal prospectivity of the buried Permian sedimentary sequence within the northern Arckaringa Basin, 70 km north-east of Coober Pedy, included an extensive data review, 6-line gravity survey, and reconnaissance drilling of 4...

Behaviour of SA lignite under elevated temperatures and pressures in a water slurry, and effects of temperature and water / coal ratio on coal drying and salt removal.

Investigated application of simple washing process to remove much of sodium with minimum water requirement. Leaching with 0.1N sulphuric acid is effective in removing sodium from Wakefield and Kingston coals in addition to sodium chloride. Preliminary...

As part of ongoing exploration of three areas in the western and northern Murray Basin, an open-file data review, in conjunction with the acquisition and interpretation of previous aeromagnetic and gravity data, provided a basis for CRAE's siting of 5...

Drilling of 49 rotary mud and partially cored holes totalling 1443 m (of which only 20 holes penetrated into the top of the basement) has been undertaken at the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin to further outline an occurrence of Tertiary lignite...

14 rotary/cable tool holes were drilled to test for lignite and uranium.