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Strata passed through in the Guinewarra, Alballa-Karoo and Roberts Well 2 bores.
The annual Letter Books comprise 19 volumes, which contain primary copies of all of HYL Brown’s early work-related correspondence written after 1882, in his official capacity as SA Government Geologist, to his employer the SA Minister of Mines, plus...-
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Exploration for marine phosphorite off Western [Australia] and South Australia.
Australian rock phosphate production has never been significant, and over the last two years steps have been taken to remedy the situation. This has and will involve time-consuming geological review work, leading to reconnaissance mapping, detailed...-
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Project proposal - Sceale Bay gypsum development. Summary of development program.
This project proposal relates to the potential for mining a vast gypsum deposit located adjacent to Sceale Bay, about 14 km south of Streaky Bay on the west coast of South Australia. Preliminary estimates put the ore reserves of gypsum of 88% purity...-
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Gypsum deposits of South Australia [a commodity review - as updated].
53 individual gypsum deposits are catalogued and described.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1997
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RB 51/00142 Report on tank sites for EWS Department, secn 94 Hd Lincoln.
It is proposed to construct a 2 million gallon tank on the north western slopes of North Side Hill as a high level storage for water from the Lincoln Basin. Seven test pits were sunk in the area to include the proposed site of a second 2 million...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 60/00030 Report on reconnaissance seismic refraction survey in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, 1964.
A reconnaissance seismic refraction survey was carried out in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, to determine the general shape of the basin and to assess the feasibility of using seismic methods in the area. Some of the refractors...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1965
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RB 88/00010 Maralinga Lands - 1987 drilling.
Seven wells were drilled in the Oak Valley area. One well drilled at the airstrip yielded 3 L/s of 74 000 mg/L water, a quality that is only suitable to use for compaction. Three wells drilled close to swamps located west of Oak Valley gave low yields...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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RB 88/00021 Groundwater supply. Yalata Community.
A well was drilled 300 metres south of Tallowon 1 well to 72 metres. Production tests showed that the well was capable of producing 4.2 l/sec with 8 metres of drawdown. Salinity remained constant at 9 800 mg/l.-
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Published: 01 Apr 1988
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RB 78/00022 Eyre Peninsula groundwater survey, Uley South Basin. Progress report no. 5 - Water balance and safe yield.
Drilling and testing of well HDO22 to 26 metres has confirmed relationship between high transmissivity and low hydraulic gradient within the basin.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 78/00052 Cook water supply well number 3. Completion report.
A new supply well was drilled at Cook on the trans- Australia railway line, to replace an existing one which was producing excess suspended solids, thus clogging the filters of the township's desalination plant. The new well used a wirewound screen...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 96/00011 Assessment of the Tertiary sand aquifer, County Musgrave Proclaimed Wells Area, Eyre Peninsula.
The groundwater resources of the Tertiary sand aquifer in the County Musgrave Proclaimed Wells Area (PWA) have been reviewed in order to assess the potential for their use to augment groundwater currently extracted from the unconfined Quaternary...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1996
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RB 96/00030 Pureba-Nunnyah Rehabilitation Project.
MESA has recently undertaken, on behalf of the South Australian Department of Environment and Natural Resources, a landscape rehabilitation project to ameliorate the residual environmental impacts of a mineral exploration program carried out 15 years...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1996
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RB 88/00032 Groundwater prospects. Colona Station.
A water well survey was undertaken and a well drilled for evaluation and upgrading of the water supply 40 km NW of the homestead. It was unsuccessful because of high salinity. More drilling is recommended in other areas.-
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Published: 01 May 1988
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Garford Homestead. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 12/4/1983 to 11/4/1984.
After a regional review of the absorbent clay mineral potential of known palygorskite and attapulgite - bearing Middle Tertiary palaeochannel sediments in an area centred 110 km south-west of Coober Pedy, a possibly economic partly-exposed attapulgite...-
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Published: 21 Jun 1984
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1967 marine seismic survey (second reflection round), Eucla Basin (Esperance to Ceduna), final report.
AIM:To extend by seismic reflection profiling along tie-lines the information gained from previous offshore and onshore reflection and refraction work, thereby aiding in establishing the basin configuration and determining whether any prospective...-
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Murrawijinie, Denman, Koonalda and Cook [Wigunda]. Progress and final reports for the period 7/7/80 to 27/7/81.
Cretaceous sediments in the Eucla Basin portion lying within South Australia's far west were investigated for their oil shale potential. This search was prompted by a recorded occurrence of a thick, oily Cretaceous shale horizon intersected in a...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1981
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Yarranna Hill (part of the Narlaby Palaeochannel Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial surrender report: progress reports for the period 25/10/1979 to 30/6/1981.
Drilling of 490 rotary drillholes (total 43,000 m) in EL 539, the majority being located on a 200 m grid spacing, has revealed the western end of a major Tertiary palaeochannel system, and has intersected significant and widespread subsurface uranium...-
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Chadee Curra Plains (north-western Eyre Peninsula). Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 6/9/1985 to 5/6/1986.
An evaluation of the commercial potential of known gypsum, salt and silica sand occurrences located within coastal dunes and palaeo-lakeshore terraces 15 km north-east of Venus Bay on Eyre Peninsula initially comprised aerial photographic...-
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1967 seismic survey (marine), offshore Eucla Basin, final report.
AIM: The objectives of this survey were (1) to check the validity of the 1966 offshore aeromagnetic survey interpretation of a central trough running NW-SE through OEL 33, and (2) to extend, by additional refraction profiling, the mapping of the...-
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Duntroon 1. Pre-drilling safety and environmental surveys, contingency plans, well programme and emergency response manual.
A set of drilling operation planning reports and emergency action procedure manuals, required by law to be submitted before the commencement of works.-
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