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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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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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