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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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Late Eocene - Pliocene stratigraphy of the Langhorne Sub-basin (north-western Padthaway Archipelago, South Australia).
The following Tertiary units were identified : Kongorong Fm, Narrawaturk Fm, Buccleuch Fm, Ettrick Fm, Mannum Fm, Kalibar Limestone, Parilla Sand and North West Bend Fm. All of these units are separated by unconformities. Erosional surfaces,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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 59/00054 Reinterpretation of the stratigraphy of the Comaum no. 2 bore, South Australia.
The stratigraphy of the Comaum 2 bore was revised and corrected. Tertiary sediments extend to 146m, and at this depth are dated as Paleocene on microfloral comparisons with south-western Victoria. Most of the Eocene section of the Knight Group (now...-
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Published: 27 Aug 1964
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RB 61/00019 Report of gas from water bore, secn 8 Hd Kirkpatrick.
Gas was reported effervescing from a water bore of 256 feet depth near Ki Ki, South Australia. The water was sampled on May 11, 1965, but hydrocarbons were detected in the gas above the water in the sample bottle. There was a petroliferous smell from...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 78/00134 Finniss town water supply investigation.
Well (100 metres) intersected 6 thin low yielding aquifers mostly in Tertiary and Permian sands.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 89/00087 Micropalaeontology and stratigraphy of selected samples from the Tertiary section in two boreholes at Maggea, Murray Basin.
Shelly fragments amongst poorly sorted, dark grey subrounded quartz sands below Murray Group limestones were examined. It was believed that these might equate to marginal marine or paralic facies of Late Eocene Buccleuch Group. The earliest Tertiary...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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RB 91/00099 Early Late Eocene age for limestone within lacustrine sequence at Karoonda.
A drill core sample of white bryozoal limestone taken from 156.9 m depth in hole Caringa 1 drilled near Karoonda in the Murray Basin was dated palaeontologically using the sediment's foraminiferal fauna. An early Late Eocene age was determined, which...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1992
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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 92/00013 Murray Basin Hydrological Investigation drilling programme - Coastal Plain. Progress report no. 9.
Nine rotary mud groundwater investigation holes were drilled by SADME on the Murraylands Coastal Plain between July and November 1989, to total depths of between 82 m and 204 m. Composite logs of these holes are presented herein, together with those...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1991
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RB 89/00011 Stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of three bores in the Milang / Langhorne Creek area, Murray Basin, SA.
Foraminiferal investigation of 3 SADME groundwater observation bores in relation to 2 already studied, resulted in the recognition of lithologically uncharacteristic marine Tertiary units on the margin of the Angas / Bremer Irrigation Area. A...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1989
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RB 91/00026 Lake Alexandrina groundwater investigation and basement core project. Well completion report.
Nine observation wells were drilled in the SW Murray Basin between Goolwa and Salt Creek to monitor groundwater levels and salinity in the confined Renmark Group / Buccleuch Group aquifer. The area of interest is underlain by the Padthaway Ridge of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 95/00020 Coomandook bedrock drilling programme, 1994.
The Cambro-Ordovician basement underlying Murray Basin sediments in the Cooke Plains and Coomandook areas was sampled by a reverse circulation drilling programme as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative. Greenschist to low amphibolite...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1995
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RB 91/00054 Early Oligocene and Late Eocene age determined for core samples from a borehole near Mundulla.
4 samples of drill core from a groundwater investigation well located approximately 6.5 km north-west of Mundulla were examined palaentologically to evaluate whether the Tertiary Murray Basin sediments that were cored can be correlated with similar...-
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Published: 10 May 1991
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RB 91/00055 Coonalpyn Downs 1. Well completion report.
SADME Coonalpyn Downs 1 intersected the full sequence of Buccleuch Group lithologies and penetrated the top of the Renmark Group. Drilling ceased at 105.1 metres, due to unconsolidated sands caving in on the drill string, and pre-Tertiary basement was...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1991
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Hawksnest and Peacock Range. Combined final report at licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/1/2008 to 24/2/2010.
No new work - data collection and review only. The subject areas flanking known outcropping uraniferous basement rocks of the Padthaway Ridge were taken up to explore for possible economic sandstone-type uranium deposits that may have formed in...-
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Published: 15 Feb 1910
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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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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/1/1979 to 30/11/1984.
Adelaide Brighton Cement took up tenure of the Moorlands lignite deposit during September 1976 in order to conduct confirmatory drilling of the published coal resource, to prepare a mining study for Lobe 'E', and overall, to assess the coal's...-
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Published: 23 Nov 1984
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Feasibility level geotechnical and hydrogeological studies, Moorlands coal deposit, Lobe E, Moorlands SA.
Drilling (132.8 metres) included fully cored geotechnical hole to basement to estimate mine planning constraints for open cut mining. The unconfined aquifer above the lignite must be dewatered for mine slope stability. Overburden contains 2 layers of...-
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Moorlands coal deposit conceptual mining study.
Coal seam thickness averages 9.55 metres. In situ reserves are 8.85 MT. Recoverable coal reserves are 8.6 MT. Capital required to bring the mine into operation is $15.2 M. The real average cost of production is $13.69 / T.-
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