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Port Wakefield. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 2/3/1977 to 1/3/1978.
TARGET: Definition of economic brown coal mineralisation in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Open-hole rotary drilling of 127 holes totalling 11,103 m, including a reported minimum of 468 m of HQ rotary coring in 24 of the holes. The...-
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Treatment of coal from Wakefield, South Australia, for removal of soluble salts.
A combined sample of 6 borehole cores was used to study the reduction of soluble salts, mainly sodium chloride, in Wakefield coal by a process of water leaching. Practically all the sodium chloride was removed and other chlorides and sulphates were...-
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Published: 29 Apr 1977
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Port Wakefield [part of ETSA's northern Saint Vincent Basin coal exploratory drilling programme]. First partial surrender report for the period 27/5/1974 to 3/10/1979.
Contains data for five ETSA coal exploration drillholes located within the relinquished area. No significant coal intercepts were made in these drillholes, and only thin unmineable minor coal seams and carbonaceous sediments were found occurring in...-
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Published: 09 Nov 1979
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Northern Saint Vincent Basin. EL 782 first partial surrender report [and project second overall] - ETSA coal exploration data for the period 27/5/1974 to 11/1/1983.
TARGET: Economic Tertiary brown coal seams associated with possible depressions in the pre-Tertiary basement. EXPLORATION: Following the acquisition by SADME of a detailed gravity survey (2030 stations on a 1.5 by 0.75 km grid) over previously...-
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Northern Saint Vincent Basin [Port Wakefield area]. EL 1113 first partial surrender [and project third overall] - coal exploration data for the period 27/5/1974 to 24/2/1986.
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...-
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