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RB 43/00030 Report on foundation testing, Government Sawmill, Mount Gambier, secn 1235 Hd Gambier.
During construction of the green mill at Mount Gambier Government sawmill, cavities were found in excavations for a gangsaw in the Gambier Limestone. Diamond drilling showed the main cavity to be funnel-shaped and not a cavern top, but revealed minor...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 43/00031 Limestone deposit - Reynella.
Diamond drilling in section 509, hundred Noarlunga, has indicated 400,000+ cubic yards of limestone probably suitable for bitumen aggregate. Further reserves are available over the creek west of this area but extensions to the east will be limited by...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1958
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RB 44/00028 Second report on foundation testing, Government Sawmill, Mount Gambier, secn 1235 Hd Gambier, Co. Grey.
Following the discovery, drilling and grouting of a large cavity in the proposed foundation area for the green milling section of the Mt Gambier Government sawmill, a second large cavity was found in the same area. A further 29 diamond drill holes...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 44/00063 Myponga Dam Project - Geological investigation of the tunnel route on the proposed pipeline from the reservoir.
Detailed geological examination of the area in the vicinity of the proposed tunnel has shown that, provided suitable precautions are taken, there are no geological factors which will prevent the successful construction of a tunnel through the ridge...-
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Published: 02 May 1957
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RB 45/00076 Diamond drilling of limestone for building stone, near Morgan.
Three diamond holes totalling 29.03m tested a fine grained sandy limestone in the Pliocene Loxton Sand. The drilling indicated approximately 6000 cubic metres of fine grained building stone, underlain by a similar amount of shelly limestone also...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 46/00083 Blue limestone deposit, section 1022 Hundred of Yankalilla.
Permian tillites unconformably overly Cambrian limestones and calcareous slates in the area mapped. Diamond drilling has indicated a weathered zone approximately 20' wide in D.D. Hole No 2 and this is expected to extend through the centre of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 48/00152 Report on site investigation, proposed bulk grain silo, railway yards, Wudinna, Hd Pygery.
Two percussion holes were put down to test the foundations of a proposed silo at Wudinna. No. 1 hole to a depth of 30 feet and No. 2 to a depth of 26 feet. Sealed tube samples were taken in Hole No. 2. The soil profile consists of 6 ft. of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1959
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RB 81/00008 Biostratigraphic examination of sample from Permit Bore 7955, Seacliff, southern Adelaide Plains (Marion Golf Course water supply).
A bottomhole drill cuttings sample obtained from a newly drilled water bore at Seacliff has been examined for the purpose of biostratigraphic correlation of the limestone aquifer sediments. It was determined from foraminiferal species assemblage...-
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Published: 03 Feb 1981
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RB 86/00066 New record and tectonic implications of a high-level Lepidocyclina-bearing limestone, Bremer Valley, eastern Mount Lofty Ranges.
The distinctive large, benthonic, shallow marine foraminifer Lepidocyclina howchini has been identified, with an associated benthonic microfauna, in limestone in a borrow pit located in the Bremer Valley 3 km east of Kanmantoo. The limestone is a...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1986
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RB 78/00006 Progress report on the geology of part of the Worumba Anticline.
The Worumba Anticline is a regional fold in the gradational zone between the Olary Arc and the broader folding of the central Flinders Ranges. The limbs of the anticline comprise complete upper Adelaidean successions, of which the Holowilena...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 82/00036 Oligo-Miocene transgressive Mannum Formation near Mannum, Murray Basin.
Analyses of key benthonic and planktonic foraminifera from this thin transgressive deposit, and of boundary criteria, indicate a date close to the Janjukian / Longfordian Australian Stage boundary, and close to the international Oligocene / Miocene...-
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Published: 01 May 1982
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RB 78/00138 Drilling and completion report, Marion golf course water wells (Client - Marion City Council).
2 water production wells were completed.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 93/00023 Palaeontological analysis of limestone samples from Saudi Arabia.
Eighty-eight limestone samples from twenty profiles approximately 50 km east of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are examined and named according to Dunhams 1962 classification of carbonate rocks. Ten main fossil groups are identified, namely: echinoderm...-
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Published: 01 May 1993
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RB 96/00011 Assessment of the Tertiary sand aquifer, County Musgrave Proclaimed Wells Area, Eyre Peninsula.
The groundwater resources of the Tertiary sand aquifer in the County Musgrave Proclaimed Wells Area (PWA) have been reviewed in order to assess the potential for their use to augment groundwater currently extracted from the unconfined Quaternary...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1996
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RB 96/00014 Clayton water supply - Aquifer storage and recovery investigation.
Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is being developed as a solution to provide an emergency town water supply in a location where blue- green algae make River Murray water unfit for domestic use during summer. Algae-free river water will be injected...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1998
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RB 89/00013 Angas Bremer irrigation area observation well drilling, March 1988.
Three new observation wells monitoring the Tertiary confined limestone aquifer underlying the Angas-Bremer Irrigation Area have been completed.-
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Published: 01 Feb 1989
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Koonunga limestone prospect (near Nuriootpa). Final technical and rehabilitation report on exploration drilling, for the period 6/6/2005 to 5/4/2006.
The Koonunga limestone prospect occurs within the Cambrian Kapunda Marble, which forms part of the Kanmantoo Trough metasedimentary sequence deposited on the eastern side of the Adelaide Geosyncline. The limestone outcrop of interest is located...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gambier. Final geological report on drilling.
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Published: 09 Aug 1999
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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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Progress reports on prospectivity investigations carried out in 1962 to assess phosphorite deposits formed within Adelaidean sediments of the Flinders Ranges [prior to the grant of a SML over an area in the southern Flinders Ranges].
TARGET: Phosphate occurrences in the Mid Sturtian from Port Pirie to Marree. EXPLORATION: Regional investigation of the occurrence, distribution and origin of phosphate by mapping of known phosphate occurrences and geological traversing across...-
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Published: 11 Oct 1962
