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Kadlongaroo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1981 to 10/8/1982.
Drilling of a 196 m deep vertical diamond hole to further investigate the oil shale potential of Permian strata in the axis of the Boorthanna Trough, north of Billa Kalina Homestead, intersected only Lower Permian glacial sediments below 30 m thick...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1982
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RB 81/00051 Exploration of the Arckaringa Basin. An outline of a work programme to upgrade knowledge of this Permian intracratonic basin.
This outline was compiled from available seismic and drilling data. Renewed exploration activity has shown the need to upgrade information relating to the Permian and the ?Cambrian sub-basins beneath. 2 seismic programmes, to clarify the structural...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 78/00038 Report on drilling in the Tallaringa palaeodrainage system.
Programme of fully cored shallow holes. Aim was to investigate stratigraphy of the palaeochannels, relate this to the geology and evaluate economic potential of channel confined sediments, to test for lignite, sedimentary uranium, alluvial gold, heavy...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 91/00022 Palynological dating of borehole samples, Millers Creek area. Juka Mine Management.
8 drill cuttings samples of cover sediments from the Millers Creek Homestead area were dated palynologically as an aid to regional diamond exploration for buried kimberlite intrusions. Despite poor preservation of most palynomorphs, it was possible to...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 96/00019 Correlation of Permian sandstones in the Officer, Arckaringa and Pedirka Basins.
A detailed petrographic study of Permian sandstone drill cuttings and core samples selected from 32 drillholes variously located within the Officer, Arckaringa and Pedirka Basins was undertaken, with the intent of trying to classify the sandstones as...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1997
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Tallaringa and Mount Igy (the Tallaringa JV Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/1/2009 to 6/2/2015.
During the 2009-2010 project joint reporting year, the following activities occurred: - the conduct of an Aboriginal heritage work area clearance survey in the northern part of EL 3485 Tallaringa by the Antakarinja Land Management Council Native...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-47 - [prospecting for] water in Permian palaeochannels draining the Mount Woods Inlier. Project final report.
Development of the Prominent Hill copper-gold deposit in the Mount Woods region will require an adequate source of water to support planned mining and ore processing operations, currently estimated to involve at least 6 million tonnes of ore per year....-
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Published: 10 Jun 1905
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Wilkinson Lakes East. Annual reports plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 3/5/2010 to 6/2/2015.
An area centred ~150 km west of Coober Pedy, that is located mostly north-west of and that also has a small part lying immediately south-east of the Karari Fault, a major crustal structure which has controlled deposition at the southern limit of the...-
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Nilpinna Homestead area (part of the Australian Diamond Exploration joint venture). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/1/1980 to 22/2/1987.
Diamond exploration undertaken in the Peake and Denison Ranges included the acquisition and processing of aerial magnetic, radiometric and heliborne magnetic and VLF-EM surveys, with follow-up ground magnetic and Sirotem surveys, plus extensive...-
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Geology and hydrocarbon prospects of the Arckaringa Block.
Due to its thin sequence and shallow depth of burial, most of the Arckaringa Basin is predicted to be immature for hydrocarbon generation in traditional terms. Source rock and vitrinite studies in the Boorthanna Trough however indicate that the basal...-
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Pedirka Sector: a reassessment of geology, porosity, maturity and maturity history.
A review of the Permo-Triassic and Mesozoic distribution of reservoir units. Data for some Birdsville Track Ridge wells are included as the development of the Pedirka Sector basins and the Birdsville Track Ridge are closely related.-
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Arckaringa Block. Farmout block progress reports from November 1982 to January 1989.
Exploration from 1982 includes: Christmas Creek - ARC Seismic Survey (see Envs 4808 and 5064),. Hogarth - ARC Seismic Survey, . Morphett - ARC Seismic Survey,. drilling of 2 wells (Birribiana 1 and Hans Knob 1), (see Envs 7034/6 and 7043/6)....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1989
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Organic petrology of samples from a selected group of wells in or near the Arckaringa Block.
Nineteen drill cuttings and 15 drill core samples of Permian, Cretaceous and Jurassic ages were assessed for organic maturation and source rock potential.-
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Interpretation of apatite fission track data from the Officer Basin.
13 sedimentary rock samples from Proterozoic through to Mesozoic formations intersected in 5 Officer Basin wells yielded apatite fission track analysis data (track length and density) used to interpret, via statistical modelling, the broad geothermal...-
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Published: 21 Dec 1994
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Oil shale potential of the Arckaringa region.
Oil shales of extremely high quality have been intersected in Weedina 1 and Boorthanna 1. The main target horizon appears to approximate the top of the Stuart Range Formation but the stratigraphic position, thickness and extent of the oil shales are...-
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Burial history of the eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Burial history analysis of the structurally complex eastern Officer Basin region was performed using data from petroleum, trona exploration and stratigraphic wells, seismic upholes, coal drillholes and selected seismic sections, to construct isopachs...-
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Organic petrology of samples from a selected group of wells in or near the Arckaringa Block.
34 selected drill core and cuttings samples from six wells were assessed by petrographic methods for their degree of organic maturation and petroleum source potential. The sampled sequence ranged in age from ?Devonian through to Permian, Jurassic and...-
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Billa Kalina Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/6/1977 to 14/2/1979.
Airborne and ground geophysical surveys were undertaken in the Billa Kalina area, prior to commencing to drill in a search for Olympic Dam type Cu-U-Au mineralised haematitic breccias, in order to delineate and detail several broad magnetic anomalies...-
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Bulgunnia. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 22/5/1978 to 10/8/1981.
The base metal and uranium potential of a concealed Proterozoic basement high near Bulgunnia Homestead was evaluated using geological and hydrogeochemical reconnaissance and regional geophysical interpretation approaches. Seismic, ground magnetic and...-
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Reedy Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/2/1987 to 2/2/1992.
TARGET: Possible diamondiferous kimberlites subcropping under Cainozoic cover in an area located 110 km north-east of Glendambo. EXPLORATION: Acquisition and interpretation of 6759 line km of airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys, regolith heavy...-
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