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RB 86/00059 Berri East groundwater interception scheme hydrogeological investigation.
This detailed investigation evaluates data from both SADME drilling and investigations, and EWS drilling primarily in the alluvial sediments on Martins Bend. The aim was to determine aquifer properties, confirm water table gradients toward the river...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1986
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RB 82/00098 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigations progress report no. 4 - Upper Murray and northern region.
The drilling of a further 16 rotary holes, as part of continuing investigations by the E&WS Department into the effect of groundwater on River Murray salinity, has indicated that the northern and north-western limits of the Tertiary limestone...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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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 98/00025 Hydrochemistry of groundwaters in the South Australian-Victorian Designated Area - Groundwater Border Agreement Act.
Hydrochemical data from a total of 165 bores along the 40 kilometre wide strip of the South Australian - Victorian Border Designated Area were used to provide a spatial, and temporal, hydrochemical framework of the groundwaters from the three main...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1998
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RB 97/00023 Hydrogeology of the Moorook New Residence irrigation district.
Following a request from the SA Department of Environment and Natural Resources at Berri in the Riverland, a hydrogeological assessment of the Moorook and New Residence irrigation areas was carried out. The water table aquifer occurs in fine to...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1997
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RB 95/00022 Five year technical review, 1991-1995 - Border (Groundwater Agreement) Act, 1985.
The Groundwater (Border Agreement) Act of 1985 legislated to provide a framework for the joint management of groundwater resources within a 40 km wide strip along the length of the South Australian and Victorian Border, which is referred to as the...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1995
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RB 91/00009 Border Groundwater Agreement five-year groundwater resource assessment review, 1986-1990. Report.
South Australian investigations have concentrated on defining the nature of the Tertiary limestone aquifer and determining aquifer recharge rates in Zones 3A-7A, to enable a reassessment of groundwater resources for Zones 2A-8A. An examination of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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RB 95/00037 Stonefield bedrock drilling, 1995.
Twenty-three vertical open RC drillholes with a total penetration of 2663 m were drilled by MESA during February and March 1995 along four W-E traverses in the Stonefield area near Truro, to determine bedrock geology and geochemistry below sedimentary...-
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Published: 01 May 1997
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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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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnerships DPY9-43 - Brownlow and DPY9-47 - Bower. Drilling projects' joint interim and final reports.
Copper and gold mineralisation associated with felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous intrusive rocks which have intruded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments in the Nackara Arc region has been the target of exploratory drilling conducted with the...-
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Morgan. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 28/11/1977 to 1/9/1978.
During Dampier's exploration conducted near Morgan township in the western Murray Basin, the main target was possible economic coal measures in Cretaceous or Tertiary sediments, with the base metal potential of pre-Mesozoic basement rocks constituting...-
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Quondong. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/2/1979 to 15/2/1980. s and final reports to licence expiry for the period 16/2/1979 to 15/2/1980.
An open hole rotary mud drilling programme of 42 holes for 4939 m was used to evaluate the licence area for economic Tertiary fluvial sandstone - type uranium mineralisation, after previous and current explorers had identified buried uraniferous...-
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RB 2000/00038 Qualco Sunlands groundwater control scheme - Stage 1: Aquifer testing for inter-aquifer leakage.
Aquifer testing at two sites in the Qualco Sunlands Irrigation Area showed there is no detectable leakage between the Loxton Sands perched aquifer and the underlying Murray Group Limestone aquifer, provided that representative readings were obtained...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
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RB 2000/00004 Mallee region groundwater modelling - Report no. 1.
A five-layer finite difference groundwater flow model (MODFLOW) was developed for the Mallee Region to determine the impacts of irrigation on water levels and salinities. The model was calibrated for steady-state conditions over the entire modelled...-
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Published: 01 Feb 2000
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RB 2000/00037 Qualco Sunlands groundwater control scheme - Stage 2: QS9 drilling and well testing completion report.
The contract drilling of three production wells, three combined interflow/production wells, three interflow wells, one observation well and seven drainage wells was carried out by Thompson Drilling Company as part of Stage 2 of the Qualco Sunlands...-
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Published: 01 Sep 2000
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SA/Vic Border Groundwater Review Committee - Five-year technical review, 1996 - 2000.
The Groundwater (Border Agreement) Act of 1985 provides the legislative framework for the joint management of the groundwater resources along the South Australia/Victoria State border. The Act established a 40 km wide Designated Area along the...-
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Marne River Catchment - Groundwater assessment.
The Marne River is a main tributary catchment for the River Murray, which generates ephemeral flows in wet years. Concerns have been expressed at the construction of large dams in the headwaters of the catchment, about their impacts on streamflow,...-
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Northwestern Murray Basin - stratigraphy, sedimentology and geomorphology.
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Murray Basin Project. Joint annual reports, plus individual licence final reports at their respective full surrender, for the period 19/12/1997 to 30/6/2018.
Previous investigations of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine littoral zone clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand (HM) placer accumulations have discovered numerous occurrences of economic to...-
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