Drilling within preferred mining area of the deposit was undertaken to obtain coal quality and tonneage data.18,100 mm diameter cored holes (554 metres) and 18 open holes (3138 metres) were drilled to delineate optimum mining area (6529 : 4 MW558 -...

Coal types and associated quality throughout the coal zone were assessed and the relationship between coal and quality parameters was evaluated.

A 210 tonne bulk sample of soft brown coal was obtained from the southern margin of the deposit using large diameter coring techniques. The recovered sample stratigraphy is consistent with a 6.4 metre coal seam overlain by clay and carbonaceous silty...

A large diameter coring programme obtained a bulk coal sample for combustion testing from two sites within the coalfield. The major portion (227 tonnes) represented "average " quality coal from the proposed mining area, while a poorer quality...

In 1982 ETSA carried out an exploration programme which lead to the discovery of the Lochiel brown coal deposit. Over 10,000 metres of drilling have been completed within the deposit. Reserve and resource calculation and hydrogeological and...

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TARGET: Coal in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary open hole and core drilling of over 700 holes, including large diameter core and bulk sampling at the Lochiel and Bowmans trial pits. RESULTS: The Lochiel and Bowmans coal resources...

Within the 1160 square km of presently relinquished ground, 66 exploratory rotary drillholes totalling 6178 m were completed between 1975 and 1986, of which 43 holes tested the Snowtown coal deposit centred about 10 km north-east of Snowtown. With...