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RB 45/00076 Diamond drilling of limestone for building stone, near Morgan.
Three diamond holes totalling 29.03m tested a fine grained sandy limestone in the Pliocene Loxton Sand. The drilling indicated approximately 6000 cubic metres of fine grained building stone, underlain by a similar amount of shelly limestone also...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 92/00045 Upper South-East dryland salinity and flood management plan. Excavation characteristics and slope design for the drainage channels.
The Upper South-East Dryland Salinity and Flood Management Plan proposals aim to address the worsening salinisation problems now clearly visible in the area. This report provides feasibility and preliminary project design data to the EWS engineers who...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1992
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Ashville gypsum deposits. Retention lease six-monthly combined reports for the period 14/9/1993 to 1/6/1996.
Activity on these deposits has consisted of one phase of trial mining of 600 cubic m of the best quality part of the Warnes deposit, stockpiling of the extracted gypsum-rich lakebed sediments, chemical analysis of 39 bulked samples of this stockpile...-
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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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Kingston (South-East). Progress reports [until the commencement of WMC's Kingston Coal Project multi-licence joint reporting, approved from 1/5/1980] for the period 21/8/1979 to 20/2/1980.
Continuing reconnaissance and evaluation of potentially economic Tertiary or Jurassic age coal seams, both known to be present in the Naracoorte and Kingston areas, has consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 92 open rotary holes...-
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Padthaway - Black Range area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/5/1979 to 28/3/1980.
Exploration for possible economic lignite and coal that may occur within Tertiary sediments of the western Murray Basin covering the crest of the Padthaway Ridge, consisted of drilling 14 rotary mud vertical holes, 4 being partially diamond cored,...-
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Published: 12 May 1980
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RB 71/00086 Proposed 2 million gallon tank, Murray Bridge, section 47 Hd Mobilong. Geological investigations report no. 2, feasibility stage - EWS Department.
4 test pits indicate weathered weak to strong granite gneiss and clayey sand.-
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Published: 02 Jun 1971
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RB 62/00085 Report on site investigation, proposed 250 000 gallon elevated tank, secn 1376 Berri township - EWS Department.
A drillhole 47ft. deep was used to investigate the site for a proposed 250,000 gallon elevated tank at Berri. Due to the loose unconsolidated nature of the dune sand material (up to 29ft.), piling to the Bungunnia Limestone may be desirable....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 76/00008 Monarto new town. Proposed city centre. Geotechnical investigations report no. 2.
Engineering geological investigations consisting of cable tool drilling of 10 holes up to 15.25m deep, penetration testing and seismic refraction surveys were completed at the proposed CBD of the Monarto city centre. Drilling encountered thin...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1976
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Sedan lignite deposit. Geological investigations and review of resources.
In October 2000 GTL Energy Pty Ltd began commercial investigations into the feasibility of establishing within Australia newly proven [coal] gas-to-liquids technology for combining power generation and synfuel production, by identifying potentially...-
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Sedan lignite deposit. Technological investigations and commercialisation of resources.
The Sedan lignite deposit was discovered in 1979 and was subsequently investigated as fuel for an onsite conventional thermal power station. At that time, predicted high future energy demand by the 1990s required the state government to put in place...-
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Sedan and Anna coal deposits (the Mannum Project). Data release upon the surrender of a subsequent licence (EL 4269): Coal mining feasibility studies. Expert reports plus supporting data for the period February 1981 to June 1987.
Deposits of low rank Tertiary brown coal formed in the Sedan area on the western margin of the Murray Basin, ~80 to 100 km north-east of Adelaide, have been investigated as potential sources of fuel for electricity generation. Attention has been...-
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RB 2000/00038 Qualco Sunlands groundwater control scheme - Stage 1: Aquifer testing for inter-aquifer leakage.
Aquifer testing at two sites in the Qualco Sunlands Irrigation Area showed there is no detectable leakage between the Loxton Sands perched aquifer and the underlying Murray Group Limestone aquifer, provided that representative readings were obtained...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
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RB 2000/00004 Mallee region groundwater modelling - Report no. 1.
A five-layer finite difference groundwater flow model (MODFLOW) was developed for the Mallee Region to determine the impacts of irrigation on water levels and salinities. The model was calibrated for steady-state conditions over the entire modelled...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2000
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RB 2000/00016 Groundwater flow model of the Tertiary confined sand aquifer in southeast South Australia and southwest Victoria.
A three-layered transient groundwater flow model of the Tertiary Confined Sand Aquifer (TCSA) underlying the South-East of South Australia and south-west region of Victoria has been constructed using MODFLOW software. The model is being used as a...-
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Published: 01 May 2000
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Vertical groundwater recharge to the Tertiary confined sand aquifer, South-East, South Australia.
Groundwater flows mainly through two major aquifer systems: a regionally unconfined aquifer, and an underlying confined aquifer. The two aquifers are separated by a low permeability confining bed (or aquitard). Determining the degree of hydraulic...-
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Moorlands. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/9/1976 to 9/9/1978.
Work consisted of gathering all available information and advice on, and assessing the problems associated with, treatment of the Moorlands deposit low rank brown coal to make it a fuel suitable for use in cement manufacture within a newly constructed...-
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Tintinara. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 8/1/1979 to 7/1/1980.
Exploration for possible economic Tertiary lignite and coal seams within sediments overlying the northern flank of the Padthaway Ridge palaeo-archipelago in the western Murray Basin has consisted of the drilling and geological/geophysical logging of 7...-
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Calcrete investigations. Progress report nos 1 to 3 for the period September 1974 to December 1976.
Calcrete samples taken from various likely residential and industrial sites in South Australia were examined to determine features applicable to stratigraphic classification and to engineering geology requirements for construction planning.-
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Kingston (South-East). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/11/1993 to 14/11/1994.
Exploration for possible commercial grade celestite and for filler type carbonate material deposited in coastal lakes, undertaken in an area of the southern Coorong extending for 7-30 km north of Kingston, entailed the collection and analysis of...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1994
