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Peake and Malinong. Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 7/7/1980 to 6/8/1982.
In a search for economic Tertiary brown coal in the south-eastern Murray Basin, a large reconnaissance drilling programme was undertaken during February-April 1981 to test known carbonaceous sediments reported as encountered by previous drillholes and...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1982
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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Kadlongaroo Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/8/1981 to 10/8/1982.
Drilling of a 196 m deep vertical diamond hole to further investigate the oil shale potential of Permian strata in the axis of the Boorthanna Trough, north of Billa Kalina Homestead, intersected only Lower Permian glacial sediments below 30 m thick...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1982
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Karoonda. Final report at licence full surrender, combined with related partial surrender reports for Peake, Swan Reach, Waikerie and Malinong, covering the period 7/7/1980 to 6/7/1981.
Within the surrendered sections of the subject exploration licences in the Karoonda, Marmon Jabuk, Swan Reach, Blanchetown and Cooke Plains areas, following the conduct there of a 45.4 line km gravity survey and the drilling and geophysical logging of...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1981
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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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RB 80/00054 Coongra no. 1 well completion report.
Aim was 1) to determine whether Permian sediments extended across the northern Muloorina Ridge, and thereby connected the Arckaringa and Pedirka basins; 2) to identify basement high-speed seismic refractor. The well was abandoned in Early Cretaceous...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 78/00013 Northern Adelaide Plains gas storage study. Barabba gravity low.
The Barabba Gravity Low in the Northern Adelaide Plains has been interpreted as a southerly dipping trough-like depression in Precambrian bedrock, infilled with Tertiary and covered by a blanket of Quaternary sediments. All margins of this feature are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00033 Logeval. A computer program for the evaluation of petroleum well logs.
The purpose of petroleum well log evaluation is quantitative determination of the possible presence of hydrocarbons. This necessitates making calculations of porosity and water saturation for many intervals within the well, using various log...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00062 Investigation of a possible site for underground gas storage in the Northern Adelaide Plains.
Exploration for a suitable underground gas storage target in the Northern Adelaide Plains was initiated in 1964. Prior to the present investigation, four other areas have been examined and rejected as target areas, mainly due to the shallow depth of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00088 Wilkinson 1. Well completion report.
Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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The Murray Basin Project. Joint progress reports and joint final report to remnant licences' full surrender, for the period 7/10/1980 to 6/12/1984.
Thirteen contiguous exploration licences located along the western margin of the Tertiary Murray Basin were taken up by CRA to search for economic buried brown coal / lignite deposits of the type already known from small discoveries that had been made...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Pernatty Lagoon. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/7/1973 to 19/7/1975.
Ongoing appraisal work conducted by CSR at the company's newly discovered Cattlegrid copper deposit that lies at the top of the Pandurra Formation has included infill rotary percussion and diamond drilling (13 holes for 554 m, including 166 m cored),...-
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Data release : Old Gluepot Homestead (fully surrendered), plus Bungunnia, Redcliffe, Sturt Vale and Waikerie (all partially relinquished). Licences' joint progress report for the period 7/7/1980 to 12/2/1982.
All of a licence area lying to the east of Morgan, and sections of the Kia Ora, Canegrass, Pine Valley and Blanchetown licence areas adjoining, have been relinquished following the drilling of three rotary mud vertical open holes totalling 707 m in a...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1982
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Ruby Hill. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 1/12/1980 to 31/5/1982.
During a search for possible diamondiferous rocks within an area lying to the north of William Creek and abutting the south-eastern side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, stream sediment sampling and a low level, 5300 line km aeromagnetic / radiometric...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1982
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Mullaquana. First partial surrender report, for the period 8/12/1980 to 7/12/1981.
Exploration targets were economic deposits of oil shale and coal in Eocene sediments deposited on the downthrown parts of fault blocks, under the coastal plain between Whyalla and Cowell. Four rotary drillholes totalling 133.5 m tested the Cainozoic...-
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012
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South-East SA [coal and oil shale] Project. Data release : relinquishment report at licences' joint partial surrenders, for the period 3/11/1978 to 15/12/1982.
In a rationalisation of its extensive exploration acreage formerly held in the upper South-east of South Australia for the purpose of coal exploration, Western Mining Corp. (WMC) has partially relinquished most of the ground that it previously held...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1983
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Erudina, Stickhole and Lake Namba. Combined annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 25/2/2004 to 19/2/2014. [ Index Part 1 of 2 ].
Three large but quite separate licence areas located at the southern end of the Frome Embayment have been explored together for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation hosted by Tertiary palaeochannel sands of the Callabonna...-
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Coonalpyn, Salt Creek and Keith (the Coorong Project). [Final] Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/4/1972 to 26/10/1972.
In follow-up to previous exploratory drilling carried out on Pacminex' SMLs 649 and 650, another 15 open rotary mud precollared /diamond cored tail vertical drillholes with a total penetration of 3616 feet (including 137 feet of coring) were drilled...-
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