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Lake Florence. First quarterly report [to licence surrender] for the period 8/12/1980 to 7/3/1981.
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Erudina, Stickhole and Lake Namba. Combined annual reports and final report to licences' joint surrender, for the period 25/2/2004 to 19/2/2014. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
(continued) During the fourth year of project activity, a second, more intensive vertical rotary mud drilling and wireline geophysical well logging campaign was carried out on all three subject licences in order to further test AEM and gravity...-
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Lake Frome East. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 13/11/79 to 12/5/80.
As part of a wider search over SA for possible continental salt lake occurrences of NaCO3-rich brines and of fossil crystalline trona beds, presumed to be equivalent to the Lake Magadi (Kenya) / Green River Basin (Utah - Wyoming) style Tertiary...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1980
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Lake Frome. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 13/11/1978 to 12/5/1980.
As part of a wider search over SA for possible continental salt lake occurrences of NaCO3-rich brines and of fossil crystalline trona beds, presumed to be equivalent to the Lake Magadi (Kenya) / Green River Basin (Utah - Wyoming) style Tertiary...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1980
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Palaeodrainage and Cenozoic coastal barriers of South Australia (2nd edition).
Since the first edition of this map was released in May 2007, the collection by the Department's Geological Survey of much new geoscientific data and interpretations arising from South Australian regional surveys and exploration activities has...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1912
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Paralana Hill. Progress and technical reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 23/9/1975 to 22/9/1977.
As part of ongoing regional Tertiary stratigraphic appraisal work, an area located to the south and east of the Beverley uranium deposit was explored for economic roll-front style sedimentary uranium mineralisation by conducting resistivity surveys...-
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Published: 06 Jul 1977
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Lake Millyera, Lake Callabonna and Lake Frome areas. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 31/10/1990 to 24/10/1994.
Field investigations were undertaken of reported occurrences of the rare strontium-bearing sulphate mineral celestite within lacustrine chemical sediments deposited along the western and southern margins of Lakes Frome, Callabonna and Blanche. The...-
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Lake Frome South. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 12/4/1979 to 11/4/1980.
Four samples of fresh attapulgite/palygorskite - bearing dolomitic claystone obtained from backhoe trenches dug into creek beds close to the south-eastern edge of Lake Frome were assessed for their clay material properties, in a search for absorptive...-
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Prescott Point. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 8/12/1980 to 23/6/1981.
Exploration for possible economic trona deposits thought to have formed within Cainozoic near-surface sediments, in an area of thick lacustrine sedimentation located 80 km north of Marree, consisted only of a consultant's review of available...-
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Lake Eyre dolomite.
Geological investigations carried out on the Babbage Peninsula at the southern end of Lake Eyre North suggest that an estimated 250 million tons of dolomite, with little or no overburden, is available for mining, and that additional reserves are...-
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Lake Frome. Progress reports for the period 3/10/1968 to 9/6/1971.
TARGET: Uranium in Tertiary sediments. EXPLORATION: 56 rotary drillholes for a total of 31,690 feet. All drillholes were geophysically logged. Samples from selected water bores were analysed for radon and uranium. RESULTS: All drillholes ended in...-
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Lake Frome North. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal for the period 21/10/1971 to 20/10/1972.
TARGET: Sedimentary uranium roll-front orebodies within buried Early Tertiary palaeochannels underlying the Lake Frome Plains to the south and east of the Beverley deposit. EXPLORATION: 25 rotary drillholes totalling 14,696 feet were put down to...-
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Mount Harvey. Progress report to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/6/1970 to 17/6/1971.
A preliminary field geological examination of an area at Mount Harvey, located about 25 miles south-east of Oodnadatta, where a deposit of siliceous ?Tertiary claystone material occurs which it was hoped might be suitable for use as an absorbent, did...-
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Published: 26 Jun 1970
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Island Lagoon. Final report at licence surrender for the period 27/5/1974 to 26/8/1974.
In a search for possible economic thicknesses of salt beds and crust developed on Island Lagoon, six shallow push-tube core samples were obtained from deltaic lakebed sediments in the north-eastern arm where the Island Lagoon Creek debouches. A...-
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Published: 18 Dec 1974
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Starvation Lake. Final report to licence surrender for the period 22/5/1972 to 21/5/1973.
As part of an ongoing search for possible buried economic roll-front or sandstone type Tertiary sedimentary uranium deposits in an area 70 km east of Lake Frome, a detailed stratigraphic and sedimentological analysis was undertaken of rotary drillhole...-
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Cockburn. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 8/10/1970 to 16/9/1971.
Possible economic buried Tertiary sedimentary uranium, plus any Palaeoproterozoic basement - hosted base metal deposits, were targeted in the region to the west of Cockburn by conducting an airborne radiometric survey (700 line miles at 0.5-1 mile...-
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ExpNotes MARREE: Explanatory Notes MARREE
A new generation, second edition MARREE 1:250 000 scale geological map and its explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's latest geological mapping program (1993 to...-
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RB 2017/00048 Geological Field Excursion Guide from Arkaroola to Sillers Lookout.
The 4WD vehicle journey of ~22 km length from Arkaroola Village to Sillers Lookout, along the world famous Ridgetop Track, presents the opportunity to view some amazing landscapes and associated geological features that the Arkaroola Pastoral Station...-
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Published: 01 Jul 2017
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ExpNotes WINTINNA: Explanatory Notes WINTINNA
A new generation, first edition WINTINNA 1:250 000 scale geological map and explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's geological mapping program undertaken in the...-
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ExpNotes STRZELECKI: Explanatory Notes STRZELECKI
The STRZELECKI 1:250 000 map area lies adjacent to the NSW border in the centre of the Strzelecki Desert, and covers some of the main hydrocarbon producing areas in SA around Moomba. Most of these oil and gas fields are located in the northern half of...-
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