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RB 74/00178 Oodnadatta town bore 2. Well completion report.
Oodnadatta Town Bore 2 was drilled to supplement the water supply of Oodnadatta, and also to enhance the stratigraphic knowledge of the area. It was drilled to a total depth of 439.48 metres KB, and after pump testing achieved a flow rate of 3.4...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1977
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RB 73/00248 Explanatory Notes for the KOPPERAMANNA 1:250 000 geological map. Stratigraphic sections and comments on the Cenozoic rocks
The KOPPERAMANNA map area covers arid stony tableland and sandridge desert on the Birdsville Track, in the Great Australian Artesian Basin about 100 km north of Marree and to the east of Lake Eyre, South Australia. The Cooper Creek crosses the area...-
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Published: 22 Oct 1973
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RB 74/00028 Explanatory Notes for the POOLOWANNA 1:250 000 geological map.
The POOLOWANNA 1:250 000 sheet area is located about 1000 km north of Adelaide, in the extreme north of the South Australian part of the Great Artesian Basin. It is entirely covered by the central southern end of the Simpson Desert. The oldest mapped...-
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Published: 30 Jan 1974
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RB 75/00126 Foraminiferal biostratigraphy of an Aptian marine shale from Giddinna, MURLOOCOPPIE 1:250 000 sheet.
A sample of restricted-marine shale from a pit dug approximately 16 km northeast of Coober Pedy, towards the southwestern margin of the Great Artesian Basin, contains a microfauna of agglutinated foraminifera including the Aptian zonal species...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 75/00132 Tarcoola-Alice Springs railway. Engineering geology, Marla Bore to Baystone Bore section.
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 76/00036 Engineering soils survey, Stuart Highway, Coober Pedy area. Four Mile diggings to vermin-proof fence.
A series of 67 backhoe pits, excavated over a distance of 40km along one of the proposed routes of the new Stuart Highway northwest from Coober Pedy has indicated that the following materials are present: • An expansive clay (Callabonna Clay) up to...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1976
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RB 76/00065 Tarcoola Alice Springs railway. Groundwater completion report. Second tender progress report no. 7.
Twenty four holes with a total combined penetration of 2443 m were drilled by cable tool and rotary techniques between Robin Rise and Marla Bore, to locate and supply water for the Tarcoola to Alice Springs railway project. The holes penetrated the...-
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Published: 18 May 1976
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RB 76/00064 Report of geology, MURLOOCOPPIE 1:250 000.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Wintinna Coalfield hydrogeological and geotechnical study.
This study has formulated a geotechnical and hydrogeological model of the Wintinna Coalfield which satisfies the following objectives: - to provide answers to the hydrogeological and geotechnical questions raised by Fluor in their mining study; - to...-
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Published: 05 Dec 1983
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Lake Yannerpi (part of the Curnamona North Project). First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/7/2007 to 15/7/2011.
As part of regional exploration for possible economic sandstone-hosted Tertiary palaeochannel uranium deposits within a project area extending eastwards from Lake Callabonna to the SA-NSW State border, licensee Frome Uranium has relied on airborne EM...-
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Published: 20 Dec 1912
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ELs 4110 - 4114, 4136 and EL 4137 (part of the Arckaringa Basin Project). Joint annual reports, plus final report to remaining licences' joint full surrender, for the period 26/3/2008 to 30/1/2012.
A group of seven adjacent licences were taken out near Cadney Park Homestead in the southern Arckaringa Basin region, extending for ~45 km to ~180 km north-west of Coober Pedy, to explore for possible buried Tertiary, palaeodrainage sediment-sourced,...-
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Warrataddy Hill and Mount Anthony (part of the Abminga Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 17/7/2006 to 16/7/2009.
The Abminga Project originally consisted of five exploration licences, ELs 3575, 3599, 3600, 3601 and 3602, all held 100% by Maximus Resources. ELs 3575, 3599 and 3600 were surrendered on 2/4/2009 [see Env 11884]. Under a joint venture made with...-
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Welbourn Hill. Second partial surrender report, for the period 15/1/2008 to 14/1/2016.
Approximately 66% of the former area of the subject licence has been surrendered in two separate portions together totalling 104 square km, due to perceived diminished prospectivity for possible buried Proterozoic IOCG-U deposits. During March 2015,...-
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RB 2004/00001 Palaeochannel studies related to the Harris Greenstone Belt, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Architecture and evolution of the Kingoonya Palaeochannel system.
Exploring the earth resources in the Harris Greenstone Belt (HGB) region is complicated by a regolith cover produced by a long and complex history of landscape evolution. The present surface of the HGB indicates little of the complex palaeochannel...-
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Published: 01 Jun 2004
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RB 2006/00001 Guide to the sedimentary cover of the central Gawler Craton, South Australia
The central Gawler Craton is blanketed by thin sedimentary cover that ranges in age from Neoproterozoic to Quaternary. Locally, though, such cover can reach a maximum of ~500 m thickness in Permian glacial valleys or rift structures. This guide...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2006
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RB 2001/00009 Downhole environmental risks associated with drilling and well completion practices in the Cooper/Eromanga Basins.
This project reviewed literature in order to: - evaluate any downhole environmental risks associated with drilling fluids and completion practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins; and - assess the effectiveness of cementing practices in achieving...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2001
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RB 2008/00012 Coober Pedy Opal Exploration Drilling Program 2005.
Two South Australian Government grants totalling $100 000 have been used by the Coober Pedy Miners Association Inc. to fund the use of an auger drilling rig on a drilling programme designed to explore for opal at selected locations away from the known...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2008
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RB 2008/00013 High Resolution Resistivity Test Survey: Coober Pedy.
A new high-resolution resistivity measurement instrument, developed by ZZ Resistivity Imaging Pty Ltd, was tested within the Coober Pedy Precious Stones Field, located 900 km north-west of Adelaide, to determine its suitability for assisting in opal...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2008
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RB 2015/00005 Opal Exploration Program — Andamooka Opal Fields.
Opal at Andamooka is found in the Bulldog Shale, a stratigraphic unit comprising shallow marine-deposited sediments of Cretaceous age. The opal mostly has formed within a bleached sediment weathering profile developed at the contact of a sandy...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2015
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RB 2014/00005 WINTINNA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SG53-14. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The WINTINNA 1:250 000 mapsheet area lies between latitudes 27° to 28° South and longitudes 133°30’ to 135°00’ East. This ~16 400 square km area includes the Marla and Cadney Park settlements, and is crossed by the Stuart Highway and Adelaide to...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2015
