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Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 3/6/1980 to 2/12/1980.
Thirty-two shallow auger holes up to 2.76 m deep were drilled into the floor of Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, situated 70 km west of William Creek, in a search for possible potash-rich brines trapped by the lake sediments. The lacustrine sediments were...-
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RB 82/00031 Clays of the palygorskite group - Depositional environment, age and distribution.
Major deposits of palygorskite group minerals were formed in 3 different environments :(1) as chemical sediments, or early diagenetic transformations of certain smectite group clays, in epicontinental and inland seas and lakes; (2) by diagenesis of...-
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Published: 01 May 1982
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RB 94/00022 Review of heavy mineral sand exploration in South Australia - Eucla Basin.
The Cainozoic Eucla Basin has been the focus of recent heavy mineral exploration due to the recognition of Tertiary coastal features including the Ooldea Range. Hypsometric and Landsat data, together with detailed work on the Tertiary stratigraphy of...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1994
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RB 96/00043 Report on a transient electromagnetic survey around Garford Palaeochannel, SA.
There are no known major groundwater resources in the Garford area, which borders the Barton and Ooldea Ranges dunefield and Great Victoria Desert southwest of Coober Pedy. The groundwater that is used by graziers for stock watering occurs in...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1996
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Naarack, Mabel Creek and Wintinna (part of the Arckaringa Basin Project). Respective final reports at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/3/2008 to 2/4/2010.
In a search for postulated Tertiary heavy mineral sands marine placer deposits that may have been formed outside of the presently known north-eastern extent of such age sedimentary basins (i.e. along a proto Eucla Basin coastline existing within the...-
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Port Augusta - Lake Torrens area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1979 to 29/10/1986.
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Lake Torrens. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 13/4/1973 to 12/4/1975.
Continuing exploration by Delhi of the industrial salt potential of subsurface brines in the Lake Torrens basin aimed to ascertain the potential reserves of NaCl in the southern part of the lake, and to confirm the availability of suitable brine...-
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Jones Dam [Mutooroo Station]. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1979 to 3/1/1981.
81 closely-spaced rotary mud vertical open drillholes (total penetration 9218 m) evaluated known low grade palaeochannel uranium mineralisation previously detected in Miocene sand sequences adjacent to the Anabama - Redan Fault by Tricentrol Australia...-
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Kiama. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/11/1985 to 6/11/1986.
Tertiary age heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits were the principal target in the Naracoorte - Penola region. Following an assessment of regional geophysical data seeking to identify possible palaeo-depositional traps adjacent to basement...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1986
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Mount Boothby (part of the Padthaway Ridge Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/1/1989 to 8/7/1989.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed within the Early to Middle Pleistocene marginal marine sediments deposited around and behind basement shoals of the Padthaway Ridge. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance reverse...-
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Assessment of the heavy mineral sands potential of the Pliocene sediments of the Padthaway Ridge. (Attachment to quarterly report, 9/4/89 to 9/7/89).
Analysis of Pliocene sedimentation along the Padthaway Ridge has identified a major shoreline feature in the Marmon Jabuk Range, with associated, but younger, shorelines developed in the Padthaway area. Traversing and sampling has established the...-
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Bordertown. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 21/8/1987 to 20/2/1990.
TARGET: Now buried heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed within the Tertiary Parilla Sand as palaeo-beach placer deposits. EXPLORATION: Appraisal of SADME-held water bore data, photogeological studies, geomorphic mapping,...-
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Alawoona. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/4/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey during November...-
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Published: 13 May 1991
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Marmon Jabuk Range (part of the Padthaway Ridge Project). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/1/1989 to 8/7/1989.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sands accumulations that may have formed in the Pliocene palaeocoastal dune and beach ridge sand sequence of the Marmon Jabuk Range, within an area extending south-eastwards from Tailem Bend for ~80 km.....-
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Stratigraphic study progress report of the Moomba and Big Lake field areas.
This report forms part of a continuing study of the Permian in the Cooper Basin by the PELs 5 and 6 licensees. All cuttings and cores from wells drilled in the Moomba and Big Lake field areas, and from Burley 1 in the Nappamerri Low depocentre, have...-
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Published: 20 Sep 1974
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Lake Conway - Oodnadatta area (the South Australia Potash Project). First progress report plus final report to licence full surrender, for the period 14/8/1969 to May 1970.
TARGET: Potash in Devonian evaporites within deep Palaeozoic basins. Secondary targets were coal and sulphur in the Devonian to Permian section. The area was selected because of the recent discovery of Devonian evaporites in SADM Cootanoorina 1....-
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Published: 15 May 1970
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Starvation Creek, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/5/1978 to 18/5/1980.
A programme of rotary drilling on Kangaroo Island of 56 shallow exploratory holes for 191 m, conjointly carried out by Comalco on its ELs 396 and 408, was designed to test for possible economic bauxite and low iron bauxite claystone occurrences...-
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Callington stone deposit (under lease by the Readymix Group). Notice of Intent to extract material [road sealing aggregates] by quarrying.
The site of the Callington greywacke deposit, located 2 km south of Callington township, was leased from the landowners by the Readymix Group in 1972 when preliminary geological investigations indicated that it contained unusually massive bedrock that...-
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Published: 18 Jul 1978
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SP 024 New Late Cainozoic Rock Units and Depositional Environments, Lake Frome Area,South Australia
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RB 74/00075 New rock units and climate of the Cainozoic, Lake Frome area, South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
