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Lake Frome East. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/9/1971 to 29/9/1972.
TARGET: Uranium in Tertiary sediments in the vicinity of Lakeside Bore. EXPLORATION: 2 vertical rotary mud holes for a total of 1044 feet were drilled and geophysically logged during September 1972. RESULTS: The radiometric logs did not show...-
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Published: 29 Sep 1972
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Millers Creek Homestead. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/3/1980 to 28/3/1986.
Following a review of existing regional geophysical and geological data for the north-western Stuart Shelf, grid-based gravity and ground magnetic surveys were run to further outline two broad gravity highs associated with discrete magnetic anomalies,...-
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RB 54/00153 Investigations of Lake Eyre. Part 1 - The sediments of the Lake Eyre Basin, evaporites and brines, their constitution and age.
Four boreholes completed in Lake Eyre North and one in Lake Eyre South have provided further information on lake sediments and the stratigraphy of the Lake Eyre Basin. Modern lake sediments constitute a thickness of less than 15 feet in the deflated...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 60/00040 Geology of the MARREE 1:250 000 map area.
The MARREE mapsheet area lies in arid country about 400 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia. It includes the town of Marree, on the Alice Springs railway line, and part of the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks. The area is covered mainly by flat...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1965
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RB 85/00008 Stratigraphic drilling of Cainozoic sediments near Lake Eyre, BMR 1983, well completion report.
10 fully cored shallow holes (total 543.2 m) were rotary mud drilled at four localities by the Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR) to elucidate the cover stratigraphy, particularly the upper age limit of the Etadunna Formation,...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1985
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RB 77/00037;RB 00802 Palynology of selected samples from the Poontana Structure, Frome Embayment.
18 drill cuttings samples taken from 4 mineral exploration holes were examined for making palynological age determinations. 11 samples were variously identified as being sediments of Middle Miocene freshwater or Early Cretaceous marine facies.-
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Published: 23 Mar 1977
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RB 90/00015 Correlation and depositional environment of Tertiary strata based on macrofloras in the southern Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia.
Plant macrofossils from silicified Cainozoic fluvial sediments on CURDIMURKA occur in 2 discrete suites. One suite has been found only in outcrops of silicified Eyre Formation in the Poole Creek Palaeochannel. This suite and the macroflora of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1990
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Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report on regional exploration programme at licence surrender, for the period 13/1/1972 to 31/7/1972.
In a search for possible economic roll-front, blanket style uranium deposits within Tertiary sediments in part of the eastern Frome Embayment, the licensee undertook 1:75,000 scale geological mapping and exploratory auger drilling of the Quaternary...-
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Curdimurka. Progress reports for the period 19/12/86 to 18/6/88.
TARGET: Celestite in the Lake Eyre South region. EXPLORATION: Market research, stream sediment, soil and bedrock sampling, backhoe trenching and drilling. RESULTS: A number of small celestite occurrences and strontium-bearing limestone were defined.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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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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Lake Yalkalpo. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 6/8/1973 to 5/12/1974.
Exploration for possible roll-front style sedimentary uranium deposits within buried Tertiary sediments on the plains east of Lake Frome has focussed on an area near Lake Yalkalpo, where in 1972 Chevron Exploration found indications of low grade...-
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RB 00742 Delhi-Santos Moomba 4 well. Lithological sequence, surface to 1 000 feet.
In connection with the issue of design for well casing installations in potential gas wells in the Coopers Creek Sub-basin, the SADM Petroleum Section was approached by the Petroleum Engineer to supply a lithological description of the top 1000 feet...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 71/00138 Helicopter geological survey of the western Great Artesian Basin, 1971.
During the six-week period 27/5/1971 to 7/7/1971, the SADM Regional Surveys Div. carried out a helicopter-assisted geological survey within the western Great Artesian Basin for the purpose of compiling six 1:250,000 geological sheets at publication...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1971
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RB 72/00160 Frome Embayment stratigraphic drilling project. Preliminary report on SA Department of Mines Wooltana no. 1, Yalkalpo no. 1 and Wertaloona no. 1 stratigraphic bores.
This report contains downhole geological and wireline logging data summarizing the results of recent stratigraphic drilling in the Frome Embayment by the South Australian Department of Mines. Conclusions are tentative and may be subject to revision...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1972
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RB 74/00177 Progress report on the geology of the COOBER PEDY 1:250 000 sheet area (pre-Quaternary).
The Coober Pedy 1:250 000 sheet area (COOBER PEDY) is bounded by latitudes 29°S and 30°S and by longitudes 133°E and 135°E in the arid north of South Australia. The only town is the opal mining town of Coober Pedy on the northeastern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2, Lake Torrens South and Lake Torrens North (the Lake Torrens Brine Potash Project). First joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 16/6/2016.
Much of the eastern side of the very large, 5,745 square km saline playa Lake Torrens, which occupies one of the most arid parts of Australia, was taken under licence by a Northern Territory - based company with the intent of systematically sampling...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1916
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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Western and southern Lake Eyre Plains. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 15/1/1970 to 29/1/1971.
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Published: 18 Nov 1970
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Lake Torrens East. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 15/1/79 to 14/10/79.
A planned 48-hole stratigraphic/exploration shallow RC drilling programme on the surface of eastern Lake Torrens was aborted due to heavy rainfall before commencement making lake site access impossible. The intended drill targets were possible trona...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1979
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Lake Elder. Progress reports and partial relinquishment report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 4/1/1973 to 3/1/1974.
In a search for possible economic Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium deposits in an area lying just to the east of Lake Frome, a reconnaissance open hole rotary drilling and geophysical logging programme was undertaken (84 holes totalling 9625 m, put...-
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