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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-47 - [prospecting for] water in Permian palaeochannels draining the Mount Woods Inlier. Project final report.
Development of the Prominent Hill copper-gold deposit in the Mount Woods region will require an adequate source of water to support planned mining and ore processing operations, currently estimated to involve at least 6 million tonnes of ore per year....-
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Published: 10 Jun 1905
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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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Data release - as updated : Boundary Dam. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/7/2007 to 29/7/2016.
A small area centred ~130 km north of Marla, and abutting the Northern Territory border along the northern side of Tieyon Station, has been explored for possible economic buried secondary uranium deposits, which Tianda Uranium (Tianda) thought could...-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnership DPY9-10 - northern Curnamona Province, Woolatchi magnetic anomaly Proterozoic basement IOCG mineral prospect. Drilling project final report.
The PACE Initiative Year 9 collaborative drilling project DPY9-10, which was undertaken between the Callabonna joint venture partners and DSD, aimed to discover a new copper-gold mineralised Iron Oxide Copper-Gold (IOCG) magmatic centre, similar in...-
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Published: 30 May 1917
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McDouall Peak. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 21/4/86 to 20/4/87.
Diamond exploration undertaken about 80 km south of Coober Pedy comprised a helicopter geological reconnaissance and collection of 8 bulk loam samples for heavy mineral analysis. No kimberlitic indicator minerals were recorded.-
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Painted Hill. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/7/1982 to 11/7/1987.
Stockdale's diamond exploration work included reconnaissance stream sampling, and photogeology and Landsat interpretation. Ground magnetic surveys were run over aeromagnetic anomalies interpreted from the previous nickel exploration (Mount Purvis)...-
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Mount Distance. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 3/9/1970 to 2/9/1971.
In a search for possible roll-front type secondary uranium deposits emplaced in piedmont alluvial sediments over an area adjacent to the north-western edge of the Mount Painter Block, the licensees drilled 6 scout vertical rotary holes totalling 2151...-
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Mount Morgan and Tent Hill (Stuart Creek Project). Progress and final reports from 8/1/82 to 7/1/84.
Negative heavy mineral sampling results and a lack of magnetic anomalies suggest that two areas located south-west of Lake Eyre South have little potential for diamonds and / or kimberlites.-
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Oolgelima Hill. First partial surrender report, for the period 15/7/1983 to 14/7/1984.
Investigation of a reported occurrence of magnesium and sodium sulphates in a black shale at the base of the Cretaceous Bulldog Shale, found previously about 50 km north-east of Coober Pedy near the western margin of the Eromanga Basin, was initially...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1984
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Mount Sabine and Snow Hill [Billa Kalina joint venture]. Joint final surrender report for the period 21/3/83 to 20/3/87.
Diamond exploration in the Bon Bon - Millers Creek region, about 80 km north-northeast of Kingoonya, included Landsat imagery and photogeological studies plus extensive reconnaissance soil and stream sediment sampling. No kimberlitic indicator...-
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Hydrocarbon potential of the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sediments from five wells in the Eromanga Basin, South Australia.
Organic matter in Jurassic and lower Cretaceous sediments from 5 wells in the central Eromanga Basin was studied microscopically. The lower Jurassic Birkhead Formation, upper Jurassic to lower Cretaceous Murta Member and lower Cretaceous Transition...-
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Nilpinna Springs. [Farminee's diamond exploration] Progress report for the period 13/7/1986 to 12/1/1987.
TARGET: Diamondiferous kimberlites in the Boorthanna Trough region (near Nilpinna Springs). EXPLORATION: A literature review, the reprocessing and re-interpretation of data from BHP's 1983 Peake Creek Aerial Magnetic Survey flown by Aerodata /...-
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Kerinna 1. Test reports.
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Eromanga Basin source rock studies. Reports.
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Hydrocarbon potential and environmental interpretations of the Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous section in five wells in the Eromanga Basin.
Five wells along a north-south trending section in the southern Eromanga Basin were studied using petrographic techniques to delineate petroleum source rocks and possibly aid in environmental interpretation. The dispersed organic matter (d.o.m.) in...-
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Organic petrology of a suite of samples from Merrimelia 15 and a comparison with Merrimelia 6 and 7.
Ten samples of drill cuttings from Merrimelia 15 were examined in polished section under normally incident white light and under reflected light UV fluorescence mode. Brief descriptions of the dispersed organic matter contained in each sample, plus...-
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Noorina Dam, Birthday Hill, Codna Hill and Cadaree Hill. [Diamond exploration - sole risk and joint venture] Joint progress reports and joint final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/1983 to 29/5/1990.
TARGET: Possible diamonds and source diamondiferous kimberlites in the Boorthanna Trough region. EXPLORATION: Present-day drainage heavy mineral sampling for kimberlitic indicators, follow-up barrage sampling for diamonds, an aerial magnetic survey...-
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PEL 55. Quarterly and annual progress reports for the period 22/3/91 to 31/5/96.
During their initial and only licence term the licensees conducted significant regional geological and geophysical studies (seismic mapping, source rock maturation and burial history profiling, and oil migration/entrapment modelling), acquired 60 line...-
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Published: 31 May 1996
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Mount Denison. Progress and final surrender reports for the period 7/9/82 to 6/9/84.
In a search for possible diamondiferous Jurassic kimberlites in an area of the Lake Eyre Plains bordering the eastern side of the Peake and Denison Ranges, limited reconnaissance sampling of stream sediments revealed that kimberlitic indicator...-
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The Arckaringa Basin Coal Project. Progress reports to licences' respective expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/5/1980 to 2/7/1990.
TARGET: Coal in the Arckaringa Basin. EXPLORATION: Rotary drilling (248 holes totalling 56,498 m, including 59 partly cored holes totalling 3555 m. RESULTS: The Wintinna, East Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie coal deposits were discovered and...-
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