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RB 93/00034 Palynological and dispersed cuticle report of KT-1, Port Broughton, Pirie Basin.
All 4 rotary mud drill cuttings samples examined from parts of the precollar hole depth interval 64 m to 148 m are Late Eocene - Oligocene in age.-
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Published: 01 Jul 1993
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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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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Mount Compass. First annual report and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2001 to 5/2/2003.
Buried Tertiary sand in the Mount Compass area, ~50 km south of Adelaide, was the target of exploration performed adjacent to the existing Glenshera sand pit. Aircore drilling (31 vertical holes, total 1269 m) defined an area containing a deposit of...-
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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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White Lagoon. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 17/10/2001 to 2/10/2004.
Exploration for possible marine placer heavy mineral sands deposits within Recent sediments laid down across a large part of east-central Kangaroo Island, due south of Kingscote, has comprised a literature survey, limited field geological...-
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Published: 17 Jun 1905
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Interim report on mapping of surficial materials in ELs 113 and 114.
The Kapunda region is principally one in which prolonged denudation, or lowering of the landsurface, has been operative over the past 100 Ma, while the present topographic amplitude of the region is also at its greatest since the onset of the...-
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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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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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Port Wakefield and Clinton. Progress reports for the period 26/7/1974 to 26/7/1977.
TARGET: Coal in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Drilling of 8 holes and sampling for coal analysis.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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Clinton and Port Wakefield. Progress reports for the period 27/5/1974 to 1/9/1975.
TARGET: Coal in the northern Saint Vincent Basin. EXPLORATION: Drilling of 3 holes and sampling for coal analysis.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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Report to SENRAC on the evaluation of coal types in the Bowmans deposit - phase 1.
Coal types and associated quality throughout the coal zone were assessed and the relationship between coal and quality parameters was evaluated.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Dry processing of construction sands.
The feasibility was examined of producing construction sand conforming to Australian Standard 1465-1974, by a suitable dry process which would avoid the environmental problems associated with the need for storage of wet slimes. Representative...-
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Treatment of coal from Wakefield, South Australia, for removal of soluble salts.
A combined sample of 6 borehole cores was used to study the reduction of soluble salts, mainly sodium chloride, in Wakefield coal by a process of water leaching. Practically all the sodium chloride was removed and other chlorides and sulphates were...-
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Published: 29 Apr 1977
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Redbanks. Reports for the period from 29/5/87 to 29/10/88.
TARGET: Heavy minerals in Pleistocene or Upper Tertiary sands in the Mallala area. EXPLORATION: Resampling of SADME holes over the Barabba Gravity Low and RAB drilling (72 holes along 22.2 km of traverses, totalling 1043 metres). RESULTS: Drill holes...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
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Geological investigation of the Bowmans trial pit.
The sediments exposed in the Bowmans trial pit were mapped and sampled in detail. The oldest formation recognised is the mid to late Eocene Clinton Coal Measures, which is represented by low rank, soft brown coal and unconsolidated, medium grained...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1981
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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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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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