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Mount Willoughby, Marla, Nicholson Hill, Hope, Manya, Emu, Moorefield, Lake Meramangye, Dingo Claypan and Alinya (Officer Basin). Progress, technical and partial relinquishment reports for the period 20/8/1980 to 19/8/1985.
TRONA EXPLORATION: Of the 9 rotary/diamond holes drilled, only the first, Meramangye 1, intersected a unit equivalent to the Observatory Hill Beds, which was the target horizon for trona. Drillholes Manya nos 2-6 and Marla 7 intersected Cambrian red...-
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RB 80/00022 Marla-1A, Marla-1B well completion report. Report no. 5 of the Officer Basin study group.
Marla 1A and 1B reached 215.30 metres and 379.40 metres respectively, penetrating aeolian sands overlying the Bulldog Shale, Cadna-owie Formation an d Observatory Hill Beds. In contrast to Byilkaoora 1, oil shows and calcite pseudomorphs after...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 79/00157 Cambrian alkali playa-lacustrine sequence in the northeastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Byilkaoora 1, a stratigraphic well drilled in the northeastern part of the Officer Basin in South Australia, intersected aeolian and fluvial sandstones and mudstones overlying 224 m of fine-grained, dolomitic, calcareous and argillaceous sediments...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 80/00079 Lithologies and interpretations of the Observatory Hill Beds, Marla 1A and 1B.
A detailed description and interpretation of the carbonate lithologies present in drill cores recovered from two recently completed SADME stratigraphic wells have revealed that the Observatory Hill Beds in the Marla area were deposited in a shallow...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 99/00031 Assessment of zinc-lead prospectivity on the Murnaroo Platform and in the Manya Trough, eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
The Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic Officer Basin is located on and adjacent to the northwestern margin of the Gawler Craton. Deposition of the basin began in Adelaidean time, before and during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. The...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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RB 95/00011 Hydrocarbon shows in Comalco mineral drillholes, Officer Basin.
The Officer Basin covers some 350,000 square km of central southern Australia, extending from the Yilgarn Block in Western Australia east to the Gawler Craton in South Australia. During the early 1980s Comalco Aluminium Limited explored the eastern...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1995
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-39, Torrens Hinge Zone / Stuart Shelf project area Mississippi Valley type (MVT) mineral prospects. Project final report.
The recent Geoscience Australia - run regional seismic traverse across the Stuart Shelf has revealed the architecture of the buried Neoproterozoic sediments there, and also that of the structures created during the Delamerian inversion. Dewatering of...-
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Published: 29 Oct 1907
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Glenelg River. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/4/2007 to 11/4/2014.
A very small area located ~25 km south-east of Mount Gambier was taken up to try to identify in outcrop or in the near surface a glass grade dolomite resource which would be suitable to mine as a replacement for Unimin’s Tantanoola dolomite deposit....-
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Wirrealpa. Progress, partial surrender and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 26/2/1988.
Economic deposits of Mississippi Valley type stratabound lead-zinc mineralisation within in Cambrian limestones were the targets of exploration undertaken on and near the Wirrealpa Diapir. A preliminary field reconnaissance had shown that surface...-
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Mount Mantell. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 22/11/1983 to 21/2/1984.
An area centred approximately 100 km north-east of Hawker was taken up to look for possible economic Mississippi Valley type lead-zinc mineralisation that may have formed locally within the Cambrian Wilkawillina Limestone. A proposed programme of...-
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Reaphook Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 22/9/1980 to 18/11/1987.
Economic stratabound Mississippi Valley-type zinc-lead-silver deposits in Early Cambrian carbonate rocks were the targets of exploration carried out north and west of Reaphook Hill in the central Flinders Ranges. Regional geological mapping (at...-
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Mount Chambers. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 13/9/1988 to 12/9/1989.
TARGET: Downdip extensions of known Cambrian stratabound mineralisation occurring at the Eric lead-zinc prospect, principally along a mineralised, disconformable interpreted syn-depositional palaeosurface developed within the Wilkawillina Limestone....-
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Published: 14 Nov 1989
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Nilpena area. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 26/2/91 to 16/8/91.
Exploration for possible diamonds and base metals in Cambrian sediments of the Beltana Sub-basin, east of the Ediacara Range, consisted of an appraisal of existing geophysical data, and drainage gravel sampling. No encouraging results were obtained.-
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Published: 23 Sep 1991
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Commodore. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 22/9/1980 to 21/10/1986.
Multicommodity exploration undertaken in the Commodore - Parachilna area of the west-central Flinders Ranges, just outside of the western boundary of the newly proclaimed national park and the included Heysen Range, has comprised limited gravel...-
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Early origin of dolomite in Early Cambrian carbonates on Yorke Peninsula, western margin of Stansbury Basin, South Australia.
This study has shown that significant dolomite formation has occurred during early diagenetic stages in the Early Cambrian carbonate sequence of Yorke Peninsula. Relict depositional textures indicate that the sequence consists of tidal flat...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1994
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Officer Basin geological studies. Reports.
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Integrated petrographic and special core analysis report of BHP Petroleum Duntroon wells (Borda 1, Greenly 1 and Vivonne 1).
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ELs 730 - 739, Great Victoria Desert (CRAE Wyola Project). Progress and final reports for the period 6/10/1980 to 14/9/1981.
Compilation and re-interpretation of open file data from the Eucla Basin - southern Officer Basin region preceded exploratory and stratigraphic percussion drilling undertaken in an area north of the Trans Australian Railway (6 holes, total 1032 m)....-
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Published: 09 Jul 1981
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Petrographic study of the Ouldburra Formation.
This report presents over 500 thin section descriptions from cored Ouldburra Formation rocks lying within the PEL 23 area. The work forms an integral part of an on-going study of the sedimentology of the Ouldburra Formation and its possible...-
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Integrated geophysical interpretation of the Stansbury Basin, Australia.
Interpretation of airborne geophysical data covering the Gulf St Vincent region has utilised predominantly 1964 vintage gravity and aeromagnetics that have been digitised off original Beach Petroleum contour maps, plus limited well log and seismic...-
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