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Port Augusta (including Delhi Petroleum's Lake Torrens Salt Project). Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/1/1980 to 23/1/1982.
Field tests continued as part of the salt project, to confirm salt crystallization and purification data. Results indicate that brine production rates and quality and quantity of salt output are comparable with the results from previous tests....-
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Assessment of the resource potential of leases held by Frontier Exploration in the Central Flinders Zone, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia.
Report presents a consultant's independent assessment of the petroleum potential and risked prospect status for PEL 41, using data provided by the licensee.-
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Resource potential of the Central Flinders Zone, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia.
Since 1990 Frontier Exploration Ltd has explored in the Central Flinders Zone of the Adelaide Geosyncline in order to assess its hydrocarbon and mineral potential, and the relationship of diapirs to these resources. The basic concepts used have not...-
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Starvation Creek, Kangaroo Island. Progress and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 19/5/1978 to 18/5/1980.
A programme of rotary drilling on Kangaroo Island of 56 shallow exploratory holes for 191 m, conjointly carried out by Comalco on its ELs 396 and 408, was designed to test for possible economic bauxite and low iron bauxite claystone occurrences...-
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Innamincka 1. Test reports.
Contains palaeontology, palynology, sedimentology, petrology, coal source rock, formation testing, test and completion flow fluid sampling and seismic reflection analysis reports, plus upper hole drill bit records and limited geochemical and...-
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Pioneer Bend, Kangaroo Island. EL 408. Quarterly reports 7/6/78 to 7/6/79.
A programme of rotary drilling of 56 holes on EL 396 (ENV 3300) & EL 408 tested for bauxite and kaolin in the weathered profile, and for base metals in Cambrian bedrock at the end of two holes. Economic amounts of the commodities were not found.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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Cummins. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 11/11/1971 to 10/11/1972.
In order to appraise a potentially economic discovery of very pure, high reflectivity kaolin clay located near Kapinnie on southern Eyre Peninsula, a drilling programme is planned by Endeavour Oil which aims to outline around 33 million tons of kaolin...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1972
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RB 00811 Redcliff Project: geological setting and preliminary assessment of environmental factors.
This report has been compiled at the request of the Redcliff Steering Committee to assist in the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement. It relies almost entirely on work carried out by Departmental officers and private consultants during...-
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RB 66/00052 Granite deposit, Yarwondutta Rocks, secn 27, Hd Minnipa, Co. Le Hunte.
Two granite inselbergs known as Yarwondutta Rocks have been defined by a plane-table survey. Because of the desirability of preserving geomorphic features on the larger rock, an additional shallow-penetrating seismic survey was carried out on the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 71/00057 Tarcoola-Alice Springs railway ballast seismic survey. Report no. 1. The Perfection Well area in Ingomar and McDonall 1:63 360 sheet areas - Commonwealth Railways.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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RB 71/00127 Tarcoola Alice Springs railway ballast. Seismic survey report no. 2. Robin Rise to Mabel Creek - Commonwealth Railways.
A shallow seismic refraction and ground magnetic survey of areas between Robin Rise and Mabel Creek was made in January 1971. The target was shallow basement comprised of a material suitable to use as ballast for construction of the Tarcoola to Alice...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1971
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RB 73/00193 Seismic refraction survey at Anstey Hill - EWS Department.
It is proposed that a water filtration plant be constructed near the Anstey's Hill Tanks. Six seismic refraction traverses were made over the area concerned to test bedrock conditions. These show that the rocks comprising bedrock are phyllites and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 72/00140 Monarto town area - Construction materials and foundation conditions.
A proposed new city referred to as Murray New Town, with a possible population of 250 000, is to be built in the Murray Bridge area, west of the Murray River. The city will-occupy an area of approximately 175 sq miles; (450 km2). This report has been...-
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Published: 27 Jul 1972
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RB 74/00105 City of Monarto. Preliminary geotechnical investigations.
A geotechnical investigation of the proposed Monarto City site has been carried out by photogeological interpretation and a rapid shallow drilling programme. As a result of this a preliminary assessment of engineering conditions to be expected on the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 74/00165 Proposed subdivision, Magill, pt secns 1055 and 1059 Hd Adelaide. Report on geological investigation - State Planning Office (Docket no. 515/74).
A subdivision at Magill has been inspected with respect to its suitability for residential development. The subdivision straddles three north running spurs having average slopes of 15° (steeper in the reserves). Two deep gullies separate the spurs....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 73/00268 Amphibolite deposit near Tailem Bend, seismic survey, Hd Seymour.
Seismic velocity discontinuities in the bedrock refractor at the site of an amphibolite deposit near Tailem Bend have been used to outline the contact of the amphibolite with the surrounding schist. A high velocity (1500 m/s) calcrete layer, where it...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 74/00111 Amphibolite deposit near Tailem Bend.
Railway ballast was sought from amphibolite of the Kanmantoo Group of Cambrian age which subcrops on a bedrock ridge in the Murray Basin near Tailem Bend. A surface sample of amphibolite returned low Los Angelese Abrasion and Sodium Sulphate Soundness...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 2006/00008 Proterozoic geology of islands in southern Spencer Gulf, southern Gawler Craton
An emplacement age of 1497 ± 38 Ma for the felsic Spilsby Suite exposed on islands in southern Spencer Gulf is anomalously young with respect to magmatism elsewhere within the Gawler Craton, and is approximately 75 to 90 million years younger than the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2006
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RB 2014/00005 WINTINNA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SG53-14. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The WINTINNA 1:250 000 mapsheet area lies between latitudes 27° to 28° South and longitudes 133°30’ to 135°00’ East. This ~16 400 square km area includes the Marla and Cadney Park settlements, and is crossed by the Stuart Highway and Adelaide to...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2015
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RB 2012/00004 MARREE, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SH54-5. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The MARREE mapsheet area includes the south-western portion of the Strzelecki Desert plus parts of the Tirari Desert, north-western Flinders Ranges and north-eastern Willouran Ranges, between latitudes 29 to 30 degrees S and longitudes 138 to 139...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2012