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RB 79/00003 Fine tailings investigation. Drilling of tailings dams and the results of laboratory evaluation. Report no. 2, Gawler.
A total of 0.5 million cubic m of fine tailings, weighing 0.7 million tonnes, and averaging 44.8% solids, are impounded in 10 tailings dams at three sand deposits near Gawler, 35 km north-east of Adelaide. The dams are still in use, and pose a major...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 79/00146 Exploration for underground gas storage targets in South Australia.
Geophysical and geological surveys and drilling in the Northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia have located a Tertiary palaeochannel incised within Proterozoic bedrock. Present data indicate favourable reservoir and seal conditions for the...-
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RB 76/00123 Tertiary stratigraphy of a new bore in the Inkerman-Balaklava Coalfield.
Inkerman/Balaklava Coalfield Bore I411 penetrated a Tertiary succession consisting of Port Vincent Limestone and equivalents, (Early and Middle Miocene), Rogue Formation including the Port Julia Greensand Member (Late Eocene? and Oligocene) and...-
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Published: 28 Sep 1976
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RB 77/00055 Refraction seismic survey in the northern St Vincent Basin Coalfield.
A refraction seismic survey was employed to determine depths to bedrock in the northern St. Vincent Basin. The aim was to assist siting drillholes of a coal exploration programme within a down faulted trough. Time-distance curves did not directly...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1971
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RB 79/00082 Geological results from the 1977/78 drilling programme, Wakefield and Clinton coal deposits.
Between December 1977 and February 1978, 103 coal exploration and development holes were drilled in the Wakefield and Clinton coal deposits, 100 km north of Adelaide. These Tertiary deposits, in the northern extremity of the St. Vincent Basin, contain...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1992
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RB 93/00011 Artificial recharge potential at Precinct 1, Northfield residential development, Adelaide, South Australia.
Investigations of the Tertiary Sand and the basement aquifer underlying Sections 789 and 873 Hd Yatala, indicate that only the basement aquifer has the potential to store storm water for subsequent reuse. Well equations to describe the behaviour of a...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1993
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RB 99/00025 Palynological analyses and dating of nine samples from Lochiel coal pit, St Vincent Basin, South Australia.
Palynological analyses of nine grab samples from the Lochiel coal test pit show two distinct floristic types, i.e. Haloragacidites spp. dominated and Nothofagidites spp. dominated palynofloras. This distinction is interpreted as indicating a change...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1999
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RB 98/00031 Mount Lofty Ranges groundwater assessment - Brownhill Creek Catchment.
The Brownhill Creek Catchment can be divided into two main zones - the Hills Zone (rural catchment) and the Plains Zone (urban catchment). The Hills Zone is underlain by fractured rock aquifers which contain good quality groundwater (salinities...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1998
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RB 97/00025 Preliminary report of palaeodrainage in the St Vincent Basin and Mount Lofty Ranges.
Generalised contouring of the Mount Lofty Ranges aimed at reconstructing the Tertiary landsurface topography has identified the locations of a number of possible buried fluvial valleys and channels associated with the St Vincent Basin palaeodrainage,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 97/00014 Aquifer storage and recovery, MFP Australia, The Levels. Progress report no. 1.
Mines and Energy South Australia (MESA) was commissioned by MFP Australia to undertake an investigation into the feasibility of establishing an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) scheme at The Levels site. The programme is being carried out in two...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1997
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Inkerman. Final report at licence surrender for the period 12/5/2008 to 1/6/2009.
Exploration for economic coal seams within Tertiary sediments of the northern St Vincent Basin, south of the recognised Bowmans coal deposit, consisted only of a detailed review of previous Electricity Trust of South Australia exploration in the area...-
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Investigation into public risks from potential landfill gas migration and abandoned underground clay mine workings in the Saint Agnes district of Adelaide.
Field investigations including drilling and soil gas sampling, carried out as part of a subsurface hazard assessment for a parcel of land at Saint Agnes, did not indicate any significant risks to an intended building development.-
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Published: 27 Feb 1903
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Proposed residential development at the disused Brompton Gasworks site. Landfill environmental assessment and rehabilitation reports for the period August 1986 to December 1990.
The disturbed soil profiles at 29 historic light to heavy industrial sites in the city of Hindmarsh were investigated to determine their respective levels of hazard contamination and suitability after rehabilitation for undergoing residential...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1990
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Lake Bumbunga. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/5/1985 to 16/5/1991.
TARGET: Coal in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary open hole and core drilling plus detailed geological and geophysical logging of 24 holes on Lake Bumbunga, designed to achieve coal sampling to 500 m centres in the area lying south...-
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Published: 07 Apr 1991
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Summary of a strategic review of sand, clay and shale resources for metropolitan Adelaide.
This review has been undertaken to meet the State Government's commitment to maintain a long-term, competitively priced supply of extractive minerals to the community, as mandated by Strategy 1.5H of the S.A. Government response to the Resources Task...-
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Published: 18 May 1902
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South Australia. Miscellaneous, non-tenement related SADM and BMR - authored technical reports for the period 1940 to 1969.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Stansbury and Southern Yorke Peninsula areas (the Coonarie JV Project). Joint first annual plus subsequent annual (re. EL 3907) reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2011.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation within early Tertiary or underlying middle Permian palaeochannel sediments of the western Saint Vincent and central Troubridge Basins, and for possible unformity style uranium...-
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Published: 15 Nov 1911
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Kybunga (latterly a part of the Balaklava HMS Project - Iluka tenements Group 9). First annual report 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2013, plus a joint annual report and final report for Group 9 submitted at the five project licences' full surrender on 24/9/2015.
Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1915
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Port Wakefield (the Clinton Coal-to-Liquids Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/8/2007 to 15/8/2015.
Ground covering the known extent of three shallowly buried Eocene lignite deposits located in the Port Wakefield district was taken up to allow their delineation in tonnage and quality terms, to modern industry standards (i.e. meeting the Joint Ore...-
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Salt Lake and New Lake gypsum deposits, eastern Kangaroo Island. Geological appraisal and surface mine planning and development reports for the period March 1955 to March 1984.
Recent exploration by CSR for new rock gypsum deposits on Kangaroo Island which might contain material suitable for calcining to make plaster products has located several minor gypsum occurrences in low-lying areas on the eastern side of the island,...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1984
