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RB 60/00085 Report on the drainage investigations undertaken at Greenways irrigation scheme, Nildottie.
A survey has been undertaken to determine the areal extent and variation in thickness of impermeable clay strata underlying the Greenways Irrigation Scheme at Nildottie. Thick clay was found on the eastern half of the Scheme underlying, in general,...-
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Published: 27 Apr 1965
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RB 60/00086 Report on the drainage investigations at the proposed Swan Reach irrigation scheme on secns 48 and 85, Hd Nildottie.
The survey was made to determine the extent and variation in thickness of impermeable clay strata under an area proposed for irrigation development. The area was proved to be free of clay except for an insignificant zone on the western boundary of...-
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Published: 30 Apr 1965
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RB 78/00089;Env 02960 Appraisal drilling results, Anna Coalfield, Murray Basin, South Australia.
At the Anna Coalfield, the November 1976 appraisal drilling by SADME of 2 rotary mud, partly cored vertical boreholes with a total penetration of 159.62 m (including 28.36 m of continuous ?NQ coring over the coal-bearing section) has confirmed the...-
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Published: 11 May 1978
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RB 77/00132 Hydrogeology of the Paragum Depression, Monarto SA.
Cable tool and rotary drilling of 8 holes has enabled the geological sequence and general hydrology to be determined in the area to appraise its potential as a disposal site for stormwater runoff from urbanised Monarto.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 96/00015 Regional groundwater impacts of irrigation development in the eastern Riverland.
A regional groundwater model has been constructed of the Loxton Sands watertable aquifer in the eastern Riverland, over an area extending eastwards from Overland Corner to the State border. It is being used to quantify the salt load impacts on the...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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RB 96/00017 River Murray water resource management. Assessment of salt load impacts and drainage hazard for new irrigation development along the River Murray in South Australia.
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) has a commitment in the national interest to managing the health of the River Murray and floodplain environment by mitigating both decreases in river water quality and associated environmental degradation...-
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Published: 01 May 1996
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Ramco West. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/9/1983 to 10/2/1988.
In an area located west of Waikerie and adjacent to the River Murray, field examination of gypsum bed outcrops and the measuring of strata sections, plus shallow definition drilling (64 holes for a total penetration of 312 m) and backhoe trench...-
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Published: 04 Mar 1988
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Blanchetown Plain. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/5/1988 to 19/8/1989.
Four potentially commercial Pleistocene gypsum occurrences located 2.5 km east of Linke's gypsum mining leases, that had previously been outlined by CSR under its lapsed Mineral Claim 2097, were drill-tested by Hooker Resources (46 reverse circulation...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1989
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Mannum area (including the Anna and Sedan coal deposits). Data release at licence expiry/renewal : coal exploration progress reports and data, plus Sedan coal deposit mine planning management progress reports, for the period 13/11/1978 to 20/8/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...-
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Mannum Project - Sedan coal deposit. Geology and reserves (Volume 4).
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RB 69/00049 Drainage investigations in the River Murray irrigation areas. Progress report no. 14, water levels in the Waikerie district for July 1967-June 1969.
Details of the drilling carried out to improve the observation borehole network since June 1967 given. Water level observations are presented in graphical form for a total of 16 observation boreholes and covering the whole or part of the 24 month...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 69/00090 Desalination by freezing.
The report covers the initial phases of investigation into the use of underground methods of water disposal employed in the Waikerie Irrigation Area. The detailed geology of the area was established from surface exposures and by means of several...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 62/00098 Chowilla Project. Saline water disposal, Tilmy Flat, Co. Hamley. Geological investigation progress report no. 1, May 1966.
Low lying tracts of ground lying northwest of the Chowilla dam site are proposed for use as storage - evaporation basins for highly saline water produced in small quantities from excavations during construction of the dam and possibly in larger...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 61/00086 River Murray drainage investigation. Progress report no. 3.
The geology of the district south of the Murray between Cadell and Holder is described, with particular reference to the affect on the irrigation areas in terms of both creation and solution of drainage problems. The occurrence and nature of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 62/00021 River Murray drainage investigation. Progress report no. 5. Resistivity survey.
In May 1965 an exploratory resistivity survey conducted near Waikerie revealed the presence of buried zones of low resistivity that are probably caused by evaporation of saline groundwaters ponding above the Blanchetown Clay formation, which indicates...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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RB 74/00030 Gypsum, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 74/00111 Amphibolite deposit near Tailem Bend.
Railway ballast was sought from amphibolite of the Kanmantoo Group of Cambrian age which subcrops on a bedrock ridge in the Murray Basin near Tailem Bend. A surface sample of amphibolite returned low Los Angelese Abrasion and Sodium Sulphate Soundness...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 74/00152 Investigation of potential evaporation basins, Upper Murray, South Australia. Progress report 1. Appendix Analogue model experiments to determine saline groundwater flow into the Murray River system
Groundwater flow in the Upper Murray region is generally towards the River Murray except in the Noora area where contours show a depression in the water table surface. The Noora area appears to be the most suitable site for an evaporation basin for...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 76/00016 Investigation of potential evaporation basins, Upper Murray, South Australia. Progress report no. 3.
Further drilling and aquifer testing between the proposed Noora evaporation basin and the River Murray yielded an average value of about 100 m3/day/m for transmissivity of the Loxton Sand aquifer. It is therefore expected that initial effects of such...-
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Published: 16 Feb 1976
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RB 76/00015 River Murray drainage investigation potential evaporation sites - Waikerie area. Progress report no. 1.
Two potential evaporation sites have been delineated within 20 km south and southwest of Waikerie following the drilling of 31 shallow rotary holes. A further two sites were outlined between Cadell and Waikerie as a result of an inspection of...-
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Published: 12 Feb 1976
