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East Maitland. Final report at licence surrender for the period 12/9/1979 to 11/3/1980.
In a search for possible economic Mississippi Valley - type base metal mineralisation within an area located 30 km north-east of Maitland, 941 auger holes for 6839.2 m total penetration were drilled at 100 to 200 m spacings along roadsides to test the...-
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Published: 07 Feb 1980
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Arrowie Block acreage assessment.
During the period January 1946-December 1985 under review, the following petroleum exploration work was carried out over the Arrowie Block: 6 gravity, 2 aeromagnetic and 10 seismic surveys (total seismic coverage 2781 line km), plus 4 wells, all dry....-
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Petrographic study of some Palaeozoic samples from Yorke Peninsula, SA. EL 180, EL 181.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Maitland. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
As part of an ongoing search for MVT style base metal mineralisation within Lower Cambrian strata of the southern part of the Torrens Hinge Zone on Yorke Peninsula, in September 1975 112 RC holes for 1730 m were drilled at 500 m spacings along...-
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Price. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
In continuing regional exploration conducted over north-eastern Yorke Peninsula, further reconnaissance stratigraphic drilling and wireline geophysical logging (in 3 vertical rotary percussion holes totalling 373 m) was carried out in May 1976 to test...-
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RB 00667 Minlaton and Stansbury stratigraphic bores. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Minlaton Bore intersected 596 feet of Lower Permian (?lowermost Sakmarian) glacigenes and then a lower Middle to Lower Cambrian succession 2459 feet thick consisting in downward sequence of Ramsey Limestone (105 feet), red bed clastics (456 feet),...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1900
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RB 00727 Stansbury West 1. Palaeontological examination. Progress report no. 1.
Examination of drill cores from the Cambrian section of Stansbury West 1 indicates that the well intersected red bed clastics over the depth interval 1115-1950 feet KB, Parara Limestone from 1950 to 3315 feet, Kulpara Limestone 3315-5387, transitional...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1900
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RB 00765 Curramulka limestone deposits, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report - Site 2.
2 diamond drillholes (total 518 feet) and 22 air holes (total 1851 feet) have indicated the presence of 28.5 million tons of Lower Cambrian limestone containing over 85% calcium carbonate in a bed dipping at about 10 degrees southwards, and below...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 00764 Curramulka limestone deposits, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report - Site 1.
3 diamond boreholes (total 737 feet) and 8 air holes (total 1122 feet) were drilled in the Lower Cambrian Parara Limestone, half a mile south-west of Curramulka, to investigate the availability of commercial quality resources of limestone. Recovered...-
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Published: 01 May 1900
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RB 67/00085 Minlaton stratigraphic no. 2 borehole, Yorke Peninsula. Drilling completion report.
This borehole was drilled to a total depth of 321 ft. 4 ins., and a complete cored section was obtained of the lower part of the Middle Cambrian Ramsay Limestone and of the Lower Cambrian Red Bed Clastics, in which thin bands of gypsum had been...-
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Published: 07 Nov 1968
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RB 69/00120 Reconnaissance survey for ballast, southern Yorke Peninsula, Co. Fergusson - South Australian Railways.
Ballast sources on southern Yorke Peninsula are listed and discussed with reference to quality and availability. Further work required to define reserves at each site is indicated. Cambrian limestones are available near Ardrossan and Curramulka but...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 71/00131 Reconnaissance for railway ballast, Redhill-Bowmans area - SA Railways.
A site in Barunga Sandstone (Tent Hill Formation equivalent) located 2.5 miles south east of Nantawarra Siding has been selected for testing. Previous quarrying operations from this unit in the area have disclosed the presence at many sites of clay in...-
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Published: 20 Aug 1971
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RB 73/00204 Completion and pump test report, Hawker town water supply standby bore no. 5 - EWS Department.
Following the failure because of drilling difficulties of No. 4a water supply bore (to be used as a standby water supply for the township of Hawker) site No. 5 was drilled about 100 m south-west of the existing production bore No. 2 (see Fig. 1). The...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Alerumba Creek - Mount Roberts. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/9/1979 to 15/11/1986.
Exploration for possible Mississippi Valley style stratabound lead-zinc deposits hosted by Lower Cambrian carbonates in the Angepena area, 70 km north-east of Blinman, comprised regional and detailed geological mapping, reconnaissance stream sediment...-
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Curramulka. Combined first annual and final report at licence expiry/full surrender for the period 26/5/1997 to 25/5/1998.
Geochemical exploration conducted over the width of central Yorke Peninsula between Curramulka and Minlaton was directed at finding potential Cu-Au deposits in Mesoproterozoic basement, and Mississippi Valley type Pb-Zn deposits in Cambrian carbonate...-
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Published: 30 Jun 1998
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Sampling of Yorke Peninsula stratigraphic bores.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Mount Arden. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/9/1966 to 31/8/1967.
An area located approximately 12 miles north of Quorn was re-issued to Kennecott over a reduced licence acreage, to permit further investigation of Cambrian Parachilna Formation and Wilkawillina Limestone strata which had shown anomalous copper, lead...-
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Published: 25 Sep 1967
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Progress report on the palaeontology of the Cambrian sequence encountered in SADM Minlaton stratigraphic bore 1.
Reports describe the various Cambrian biostratigraphic horizons encountered in the bore, making comparisons and correlations with the Cambrian elsewhere in the Adelaide Geosyncline, particularly at Mount Scott Range, Sellicks Hill, Curramulka, The...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1957
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Curramulka - Pine Point area. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/7/1979 to 18/6/1986.
Intensive base metal and limited Permian coal exploration work conducted across central Yorke Peninsula has included seismic reflection, ground magnetic, radiometric, gravity, Sirotem, radon gas detection and EM 34 surveys, plus rock chip sampling....-
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Published: 18 Jun 1986
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Hydrogeological investigations at Wilkatana.
Discusses artesian waters encountered in drilling the Early Tertiary succession at Wilkatana. Salinity up to 290,000 p.p.m. Concludes that percussion drilling fluid samples were satisfactory representation of formation water, but that rotary...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
