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Blanchewater Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 11/8/80 to 10/8/82.
Drilling of two percussion holes (aggregate 400 metres) near Yerila, south of Lake Blanche, failed to give encouragement to the search for possible Permian coal and Tertiary uranium in the southern Eromanga Basin / Lake Blanche Lineament uplift area...-
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Watson Siding (South). Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 11/12/81 to 10/10/82.
In a search for possible concealed Olympic Dam type base metal deposits within an area located 80 km north-west of Yalata, the licensee investigated several previously identified contiguous magnetic and gravity anomalies by performing ground magnetic...-
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Published: 16 Dec 1982
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Lake Tallacootra. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
In a search for possible Proterozoic - Cainozoic unconformity - related, concealed sedimentary uranium deposits in an area of the Eucla Basin located 60 km north of Fowlers Bay, 42 rotary mud drillholes totalling 1432.4 m were put down on 5 traverses...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Ifould Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
Continuing exploration for possible buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium deposits in the vicinity of Ifould Lake consisted of ground truthing of aerial radiometric anomalies by scintillometer surveys and chemical analysis of auger...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Lake Carnanto. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/11/1978 to 11/2/1983.
The south-eastern Lake Frome Embayment in the vicinity of Quinyambie Station was explored for Upper and Lower Tertiary 'blanket' or 'roll front' type sedimentary uranium, via the drilling of 75 open vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration...-
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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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Farina. Progress reports for the period 28/2/82 to 29/8/82.
An area of approximately 1791 square km located to the north and north-west of the Leigh Creek Coalfield was taken out under licence by ETSA for one year, to enable the conduct of a joint ETSA/SADME coal exploration programme over alluvium-covered...-
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RB 39/00079 Review of mineral production - 1954.
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Published: 17 Jun 1955
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RB 49/00006 Mineral industry on Yorke Peninsula (13/7/1959).
Since the days of early settlement in South Australia mineral production from Yorke Peninsula has made an important contribution to the wealth of the state. Firstly, with the discovery and mining of copper in the Moonta Wallaroo district early in...-
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Published: 13 Jul 1959
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RB 83/00034 Underground gasification of inaccessible Leigh Creek coal measures - A preliminary evaluation of the geological structure of Telford Basin.
The Telford Basin is an asymmetrically shaped synclinal basin containing sediments of upper Triassic-Jurassic age, which cover a 25 square km area. Sub-bituminous coal occurs in three major series of seams which are informally termed the Leigh Creek...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 94/00019 BARTON Bedrock Drilling Project, 1993.
Between June and December 1993, 184 vertical RC stratigraphic drillholes totalling 10,126.2 m (average hole depth 55 m) were drilled by Mines and Energy South Australia at 2 km spacing along roadsides traversing much of the BARTON 1:250k map sheet...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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RB 96/00001 Mineral exploration and development in South Australia.
This mineral promotional brochure reviews significant historical developments in South Australia's mineral industry and canvasses the currently recognised mineral potential within the State, for the benefit of local and overseas interested companies...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1996
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RB 95/00028 SAEI Triassic Coal Exploration Program. Exploration Licence Application ELA 382/92, Leigh Creek - Lyndhurst area, South Australia.
A data review undertaken by MESA to assess the prospectivity of the northern Flinders Ranges intramontane basins for concealed Triassic coal, highlighted four main areas as having the best potential for a discovery. Of these, the alluvium-covered...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1996
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RB 96/00025 Exploration for coal in the Coober Pedy area, South Australia.
As part of the Government's South Australian Exploration Initiative (SAEI), and in support of the South Australian Steel and Energy (SASE) Project, a small coal exploration program was initiated by MESA to investigate a number of subtle magnetic lows...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1996
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RB 96/00016 Review of mineral exploration - CHILDARA region.
Mineral exploration on CHILDARA 1:250 000 geological map sheet was reviewed from SADME open file Envelopes, to complement an overview of regional prospectivity supported via the recent acquisition of high quality aeromagnetic data and a compilation by...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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Orroroo. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 27/9/1982 to 26/9/1983.
In a search for possible economic Tertiary brown coal deposits buried in the northern half of the Walloway Basin, 4 reconnaissance holes spaced 5 km apart, with a total penetration of 773 m, were open rotary mud drilled and geophysically logged. The...-
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Published: 04 Nov 1983
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NERDDC Project 590 : [ Research into the feasibility of ] Underground gasification of [ mining inaccessible ] Leigh Creek coal. Reports on field investigations and geotechnical studies.
During the first few months of 1985, field investigations were undertaken at Leigh Creek by consultants Golder Associates to provide quantitative data on the strength and permeability characteristics of the geological profile of the Main Series coal...-
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Frome Downs Homestead. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 1/1/1969 to 31/12/1970.
Reconnaissance shallow stratigraphic drilling with subsequent borehole geophysical electric and radioactivity logging in the south-western Frome Embayment (21 rotary mud partly cored holes, total 8841 feet), over areas lying adjacent to outcropping...-
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Published: 31 Dec 1970
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Farina and Witchelina. Information status at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/2015 to 26/4/2016 : no work performed.
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Port Wakefield (the Clinton Coal-to-Liquids Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/8/2007 to 15/8/2015.
Ground covering the known extent of three shallowly buried Eocene lignite deposits located in the Port Wakefield district was taken up to allow their delineation in tonnage and quality terms, to modern industry standards (i.e. meeting the Joint Ore...-
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