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Blackford and Lochaber (the Kingston Lignite Project). Individual licence reports and a joint annual report, plus final report at the full surrender of the remaining (Blackford) licence, for the period 3/8/2005 to 20/2/2015.
The Kingston coal (lignite) deposit, delineated by Western Mining Corp. in the early 1980s, has been re-assessed for the energy generation potential its coal represents, viewed in the context of recent increased demand for liquid transport fuels and...-
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Published: 02 Mar 1915
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Orroroo (part of the Walloway Project). Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 18/3/2010 to 14/5/2014.
A large area consisting of two separate sub-blocks that were centred ~90 km east and 110 km south-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic Tertiary lignitic coal deposits that may have formed in the southern part of a now uplifted,...-
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Published: 13 Aug 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Windy Valley. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 25/1/2010 to 24/1/2015.
An area centred over the south-central Coober Pedy Ridge tectonic feature, 55 km south-southeast of Coober Pedy township, is being explored for possible economic buried massive haematite and magnetite within either Proterozoic banded iron formation...-
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Published: 17 Mar 1915
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Data release - as updated : England Hill, Arckaringa and Copper Hill (the Arckaringa Coal Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2005 to 6/6/2019.
Under a new strategic focus, three licence areas covering three Early Permian buried coal deposits located at Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie in the northern part of the Arckaringa Basin, ~120 km north of Coober Pedy, have been evaluated both for...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1919
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Arckaringa [North-east]. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 3/6/2014.
An area of 185 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the East Wintinna coal deposit. This deposit had been discovered by Meekatharra...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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Walloway (part of the Walloway Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/5/2008 to 11/5/2014.
An area centred ~90 km south-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic Tertiary lignitic coal deposits that may have formed in the southern part of a now uplifted, ~50 km long x ~15 km wide intramontane sedimentary basin, the...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 27/4/2000 to 8/8/2010.
During the sixth licence year, on renewed EL 2717 covering the same area as previously, the licensee, now a wholly owned subsidiary of AuIron Energy Limited (formerly Meekatharra Minerals Limited), progressed its investigations of the geology of the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Poondinga Rockhole. Progress and final reports for the period 25/2/83 to 24/2/85.
13 percussion holes (total 974.5 m) drilled over large gravity anomaly intersected a granular amphibolite containing variable magnetite, which probably represents an original, intermediate igneous pre-Kimban intrusive. It is of higher density than...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1985
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 9/8/2010 to 8/8/2015.
During licence Year 16, on its renewed EL 4534 over the period October to December 2010, South Australian Coal Limited (SA Coal) undertook a drilling campaign of 15 rotary mud partly cored vertical holes for 2871 m which included 2064.7 m of coring,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1916
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Port Wakefield. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 2/3/1977 to 1/3/1978.
TARGET: Definition of economic brown coal mineralisation in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Open-hole rotary drilling of 127 holes totalling 11,103 m, including a reported minimum of 468 m of HQ rotary coring in 24 of the holes. The...-
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Lochiel deposit run-of-mine coal quality - Procedures for calculation.
The report summarises the methods used to derive run-of-mine coal quality, and presents models. The quality models were generated over the measured portion of the deposit and relate to the cumulative coal zone. The data used includes all data from...-
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Northern Saint Vincent Basin, Port Wakefield and Lake Bumbunga areas. Coal deposit appraisal reports, plus pre-mining economic feasibility studies, for the period 4/10/78 to 28/7/90.
TARGET: Coal in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary open hole and core drilling of over 700 holes, including large diameter core and bulk sampling at the Lochiel and Bowmans trial pits. RESULTS: The Lochiel and Bowmans coal resources...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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Murrawijinie, Denman, Koonalda and Cook [Wigunda]. Progress and final reports for the period 7/7/80 to 27/7/81.
Cretaceous sediments in the Eucla Basin portion lying within South Australia's far west were investigated for their oil shale potential. This search was prompted by a recorded occurrence of a thick, oily Cretaceous shale horizon intersected in a...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1981
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Blackford, near Naracoorte (part of the South-East, South Australia (SESA) Coal Project). Data release made at licence's most recent partial surrender - Part 2 : related individual and multi-licence progress reports for the period 4/11/1978 to 22/2/1990.
TARGET: Coal in the Otway Basin in the Kingston area. EXPLORATION: Rotary drilling, core drilling and geophysical logging. RESULTS: Discovery and delineation of the Kingston coal deposit.-
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Milang. First partial relinquishment report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
Within the now relinquished portion of the licence area, four gravity traverses totalling 34.4 line km and 11 rotary mud drillholes for 593.2 m were completed by CRA in a search for possible sedimentary roll-front type uranium deposits formed within...-
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Published: 15 Apr 1985
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Northern Saint Vincent Basin Coalfield, South Australia. Geological report.
All previous data and all the known major deposits within the Clinton Coal Measures are reviewed. The study covers their formation, structure, stratigraphy and various engineering geology aspects associated with the possibility of mining any one of...-
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Lochiel coal deposit. 1984 bulk sampling geological report.
A large diameter coring programme obtained a bulk coal sample for combustion testing from two sites within the coalfield. The major portion (227 tonnes) represented "average " quality coal from the proposed mining area, while a poorer quality...-
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Lochiel coal deposit geological report.
In 1982 ETSA carried out an exploration programme which lead to the discovery of the Lochiel brown coal deposit. Over 10,000 metres of drilling have been completed within the deposit. Reserve and resource calculation and hydrogeological and...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Phillipson. Annual report for the period 24/3/1995 to 8/8/2018.
During the twenty-first licence year, now under tenure as EL 5719 covering the same area as former EL 4534, no new work was done. During the twenty-second licence year SA Coal commenced field work on their IOCG style mineralisation exploration...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1918
