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Nundroo (latterly part of the Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project). Final report at licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/9/2014 to 15/9/2019.
An area comprising two separate blocks located ~20 km west and ~45 km north of Fowlers Bay has been explored for possible buried Pleistocene reworked heavy mineral sands (HM) marine placer mineralisation that may have become concentrated within the...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1919
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Nundroo. Second partial surrender report, for the period 16/9/2014 to 15/9/2017.
Two separate areas covering parts of the Nundroo Range, a prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which lies ~10 km west of Fowlers Bay and extends for 70 km to...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1917
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North-eastern Eucla Basin licence Areas S, T and U, and Penong (part of Iluka's Eucla Basin Heavy Mineral Sands Project tenement Group 4). Joint final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 19/10/2009 to 14/12/2017.
Four scattered Iluka heavy mineral sands (HM) exploration licences located on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin north of Ceduna have now been fully surrendered. On the basis of exploration conducted on them until late in 2017, this work being...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1918
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY8-30 - Eucla Basin Eocene and Pleistocene low-stand beach ridge marine heavy mineral placer prospects. Drilling project final report.
The Nundroo Range and Bookabie Range are prominent south-west facing, yet effectively previously undrilled, preserved palaeogeomorphic beach ridge /coastal dune features which are located ~200 km west of Ceduna and ~100 km south of the...-
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Blackford (WMC's Kingston Lignite Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting area-specific reports for this licence's third and fourth partial surrenders: progress reports and related technical reports for the period 23/2/1988 to 22/2/1990.
Ongoing coal exploration conducted by Western Mining Corp. in the upper South-East region has targeted commercial-grade lignite occurrences within the Tertiary upper Dilwyn Formation, which may have formed in geological settings similar to that of the...-
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Wirrulla, Cungena, Mortana, Kolballa and Calca. Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 18/8/1989 to 17/12/1991.
TARGET: Possible heavy mineral sands emplaced within Tertiary sediments in the Wirulla, Poochera, Inkster and Streaky Bay areas. EXPLORATION: Reconnaissance 10-15 km spaced and infill 100 m spaced reverse circulation drilling to pre-Tertiary basement...-
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Kyancutta. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 6/9/1985 to 5/9/1986.
Marketable quality gypsum was the major commodity sought in Recent salt lakes and marginal dunes of a large swamp in the Kyancutta area. Reconnaissance mapping, plus hand or power auger drill sampling of the near-surface sediments, has identified...-
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Chadee Curra Plains (north-western Eyre Peninsula). Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 6/9/1985 to 5/6/1986.
An evaluation of the commercial potential of known gypsum, salt and silica sand occurrences located within coastal dunes and palaeo-lakeshore terraces 15 km north-east of Venus Bay on Eyre Peninsula initially comprised aerial photographic...-
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RB 00685 Sleaford no. 1 well. Subsurface stratigraphy.
Sleaford 1 stratigraphic well was drilled to a total depth of 436 feet, penetrating a sequence of Quaternary and Tertiary sediments before bottoming in Precambrian gneissic granite. Pleistocene to Recent calcarenites were present down to 110 feet, and...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1900
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ExpNotes ELLISTON: Explanatory Notes ELLISTON
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RB 2022/00001 Resource potential review for lime sand on Kangaroo Island.
This document aims to establish an appropriate geological framework and resource potential baseline for DEM's knowledge about lime sand on Kangaroo Island (KI), by showing and discussing what new lime sand resource areas are available, based on the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2022
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RB 2021/00011 Models, geology and exploration of heavy mineral deposits in South Australia.
This study draws together diverse aspects of South Australia’s heavy minerals (HM) resources geoscience to provide an overall context for evaluating their occurrence, economic significance and origins. Two main objectives are addressed by the subject...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2021
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HandBk 009 - Quaternary Molluscs of South Australia. Ludbrook N.H. 1984 (reprinted version)
This work aims to thoroughly assist the student and collector in identifying the Quaternary molluscs preserved in SA rocks. Many of the molluscan fossils occurring in Late Pleistocene deposits are representatives of still living species, although...-
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RB 67/00017 Groundwater investigations, Hd Wright and Out of Hundreds, Co. Robinson. Progress report no. 2.
A request to investigate an area of fresh groundwater in County Robinson was received from the Engineer-in-Chief, Engineering and Water Supply Department, in February 1967. An inspection was made in August 1967, and Progress Report No. 1 was issued....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 68/00025 Reconnaissance geological survey of the STREAKY BAY and NUYTS 1:250 000 areas.
The Streaky Bay and Nuyts 1:250 000 map areas are located on the western side of Eyre Peninsula. Precambrian greenschist and amphibolite facies metamorphics of the Gawler Platform are intruded by Lower Proterozoic or Carpentarian granites, gneisses...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1969
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RB 68/00093 Water resources of the South-East of SA. Progress report no. 1. Regional geo-hydrology, Counties Cardwell, Buckingham, Grey, MacDonnell and Robe.
The purpose of this report is to assess the potential groundwater resources of the area using existing data in the Mines Department records. A previous assessment (HICKS), using a different approach, produced a quantity for groundwater safe yield...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 65/00020 Stratigraphy of Late Cainozoic deposits in South Australia.
This paper sets out the stratigraphy of late Cainozoic deposits in the southern part of South Australia. The study includes the Murray, St Vincent and Spencer Gulf, West Coast and Eucla Basins and the adjoining uplands. Work has been concentrated on...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 71/00125 Geology of the NARACOORTE 1:250 000 sheet area.
The most significant feature of the area, covered by the Naracoorte 1:250 000 sheet is the Padthaway Ridge which underlies all but the southernmost part of the area, where Mesozoic sediments, of the Otway Basin lap onto the ridge (Padthaway...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1971
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RB 73/00070 Fossiliferous marine and non-marine Cainozoic rocks from the eastern Eucla Basin, South Australia.
Outcrop and subsurface samples taken from various sources, that represent all the Cainozoic marine formations of the eastern Eucla Basin, have been studied. The current stratigraphic knowledge of these formations in SA is summarised. A marine...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1973
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RB 73/00080 Report on the Geological Society of Australia specialist group in sedimentology, Robe Field Conference, 1973.
The 1973 Robe Field Conference of the Specialist Group in Sedimentology comprised informal lectures on carbonate deposition and the role of algae in carbonate precipitation in volcanic lakes of western Victoria, supratidal dolomites of Queensland,...-
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Published: 19 Mar 1973
