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RB 55/00129 Imbitcha clay deposit.
Imbitcha clay deposit occurs in marine Cretaceous shales which have been incorporated in the basal mottled zone of a laterite profile. Reserves may total millions of tons, but problems of extraction and the alunite content of the clay probably make it...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 91/00103 Geology and mineral potential of the Pitjantjatjara Lands - South Australia.
The Pitjantjatjara Lands cover crystalline basement rocks of the Middle Proterozoic Musgrave Block, fringed by relatively unaltered sediments of the late Proterozoic and Palaeozoic Officer Basin, the late Palaeozoic Arckaringa Basin and the Mesozoic...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1991
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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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Data release - as updated : Edward Creek (part of the Edward Creek Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/2008 to 11/11/2018.
Reedy Lagoon Corp. (RLC) has continued to look for minerals other than diamond, operating as the manager of exploration work for base metals (mainly copper) and uranium that was undertaken by the Edward Creek Base Metal Joint Venture (“ECBMJV”) during...-
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Wilkinson. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2002.
Possible potash and halite resources in evaporite - rich sediment sequences of the Tallaringa Trough, lying at depths that might be suitable for solution mining, were the initial targets of exploration in the Wilkinson Lakes area. Following a...-
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Evelyn Downs. Biennial report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/10/2011 to 18/10/2013.
An area located in the southern Arckaringa Basin region, and centred ~90 km north of Coober Pedy, has been explored for inferred buried MVT stratabound base metal deposits and evaporitic mineral occurrences of hydrothermal origin which may be...-
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Mount Alberga. Progress reports for the period 21/4/86 to 20/4/87.
Native sulphur associated with salt domes was the target near Mount Todmorden. No field work was undertaken.-
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Published: 13 Jan 1988
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Oolgelima Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 15/7/1983 to 14/7/1984.
Investigation of a reported occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a black shale at the base of the Cretaceous Bulldog Shale, found previously about 50 km north-east of Coober Pedy near the western margin of the Eromanga Basin, was initially...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1984
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Todmorden. Progress reports for the period 21/4/1986 to 20/11/1987.
TARGET: Native sulphur associated with possible salt dome structures, the locations of which were interpreted from past petroleum exploration seismic reflection surveys. EXPLORATION: A detailed gravity survey, and 2 rotary/core drillholes totalling...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1988
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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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SADME / Amdel Project 1/1/232 : Officer Basin [South Australian portion] stratigraphic drilling project - petrographic sampling and analyses. Progress reports 3, 5 and 7 re. Wilkinson 1 drillhole.
32 rock samples, of unknown age, taken from the carbonate sequence intersected above the salt diapir section in SADME Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic drillhole, were examined petrographically to determine their possible depositional environment. Another 21...-
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Published: 24 May 1979
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RB 66/00033 SAG Cootanoorina no. 1 well. Upper Palaeozoic and Lower Cretaceous micropalaeontology. Grid G/3.
Microfossils from the section intersected in Cootanoorina 1 were analysed to enable correlation and age determination of the various rock units and interpretation of the Permian depositional environments. Age determinations include: Unit 3 (2925-3111...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1968
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RB 72/00120 Muddy Tank 001 Well completion report.
Stratigraphic well Muddy Tank 1 was drilled to sample fossiliferous late Jurassic clays. Consequently seen palynological evidence has firmly dated the Algebuckina Sandstone as very late Jurassic (ca. 144 to 141 Ma).-
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Published: 01 Jan 1972
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RB 74/00177 Progress report on the geology of the COOBER PEDY 1:250 000 sheet area (pre-Quaternary).
The Coober Pedy 1:250 000 sheet area (COOBER PEDY) is bounded by latitudes 29°S and 30°S and by longitudes 133°E and 135°E in the arid north of South Australia. The only town is the opal mining town of Coober Pedy on the northeastern margin of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 76/00064 Report of geology, MURLOOCOPPIE 1:250 000.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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ELs 4110 - 4114, 4136 and EL 4137 (part of the Arckaringa Basin Project). Joint annual reports, plus final report to remaining licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/3/2008 to 30/1/2012.
A group of seven adjacent licences were taken out near Cadney Park Homestead in the southern Arckaringa Basin region, extending for ~45 km to ~180 km north-west of Coober Pedy, to explore for possible buried Tertiary, palaeodrainage sediment-sourced,...-
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......[Key SAMREF record for accessing referenced reports and data via DEM Content Manager - SPOT]...... Mount Toondina. Annual reports and final report to licence surrender, for the period 13/2/1995 to 15/8/1998.
The Mount Toondina structure, a small but pronounced vertically fault-bounded inlier of Permian sediments within a flat-lying Mesozoic sequence, is represented by an annular magnetic feature located 45 km south of Oodnadatta. A single gravity profile...-
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Karkaro. Progress report to licence full surrender, for the period 26/11/1974 to 25/2/1975.
TARGET: Possible open-pit mineable Lower Permian coal seams, present down to a depth of 100 m below surface, associated with an inferred basinal depression located to the north-west of and adjacent to previous SADM stratigraphic drillhole Karkaro 1,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Nilpinna Spring. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/7/1982 to 11/1/1985.
As the start of a regional diamond exploration programme with secondary base metal objectives, portion of a detailed low-level airborne magnetic/radiometric survey was flown over the Nilpinna Spring area to define targets for drilling. Field...-
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