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Bundulla. Progress reports for the period 24/5/79 to 19/10/82.
Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted in the Bundulla area of the Nullarbor Plain (SA), prior to drilling a prominent circular aeromagnetic feature. 2 percussion/rotary mud holes, each drilled to TD 369.5 m, penetrated crystalline...-
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Bunabie Rockhole, Hughes and Nullarbor Plain. Progress reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/10/1980 to 19/10/1982.
Roxby Downs - type base metal deposits, potentially associated with linear and discrete magnetic anomalies of unknown origin in the basement, were the prime targets of exploration in an area extending between Koonalda and Hughes, adjacent to the SA/WA...-
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Lake Tallacootra. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
In a search for possible Proterozoic - Cainozoic unconformity - related, concealed sedimentary uranium deposits in an area of the Eucla Basin located 60 km north of Fowlers Bay, 42 rotary mud drillholes totalling 1432.4 m were put down on 5 traverses...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Ifould Lake. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 21/9/1972 to 20/9/1974.
Continuing exploration for possible buried economic Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium deposits in the vicinity of Ifould Lake consisted of ground truthing of aerial radiometric anomalies by scintillometer surveys and chemical analysis of auger...-
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Published: 12 Nov 1974
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Koonalda. Progress reports for the period 7/8/79 to 18/7/82.
Following an airborne magnetic/radiometric survey, two rotary percussion holes totalling 819 m were drilled on negative magnetic anomalies to reach pre-Mesozoic basement (gabbro and meta-sandstone) in the Koonalda area of the Nullarbor Plain. No...-
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RB 60/00030 Report on reconnaissance seismic refraction survey in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, 1964.
A reconnaissance seismic refraction survey was carried out in the South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin, to determine the general shape of the basin and to assess the feasibility of using seismic methods in the area. Some of the refractors...-
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Published: 18 Feb 1965
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RB 99/00027 Report on a water search program over the Yalata-Ooldea Road.
A Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) survey was used to prospect for groundwater at three locations on the road between Yalata and Ooldea, on the thesis that water would be available in either deeper overburden or fractured basement. Overburden targets...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1999
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RB 90/00029 Seismic study of the offshore Denman and Eucla Basins.
Four horizons were mapped (top of basement, top of Permian, top of Cretaceous and Sea Floor). The Denman Basin is a 50 km wide, north-south trending depression in Early Palaeozoic - Precambrian bedrock, infilled with up to 400 metres of Permian...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1991
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RB 89/00039 SADME Nundroo 1, 2 and 3 well completion report.
The Nundroo basement drilling project was proposed in February 1987 by SADME's Regional Geology Branch as the first phase of investigation of the little known rocks of the south-western Gawler Craton. Previous drilling in this area had been restricted...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1989
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Ooldea. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 20/9/2009 to 19/9/2014. [No work report].
Four separate licence portions together covering an area of 221 square km or ~42% of the former extent of EL 4565 have been voluntarily relinquished. The perceived prospective Karari Fault Zone and other places which possibly contain buried...-
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Pidinga Lakes. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/12/1969 to 17/12/1970.
Shallow drilling of sediments on the eastern margin of the Eucla Basin (in 7 vertical rotary mud holes with a total penetration of ~110 m) to test for secondary uranium mineralisation, although limited by drilling difficulties, has resulted in the...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1971
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Western Gawler Project. Final report, Magneto Telluric, Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. Project ADI RD02-296 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises geophysical studies conducted by Western Areas between October 2021 and October 2022, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/296-GP Magneto Telluric (MT), Passive Seismic and Magnetic Modelling Study. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu...-
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Published: 06 May 1923
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Sahara Prospect. Final report, Model Test and Core Scanning. Project ADI RD02-270 [Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report summarises exploration conducted by Western Areas between May 2021 and October 2021, under the ADI Agreement ADI: RD02/270-ED Sahara Prospect Model Test and Core Scanning. The discovery of magmatic Ni-Cu sulphide at Sahara in 2020,...-
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Published: 31 Oct 1922
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[SADME] Colona drilling program. [Geological results] Data package.
AIM: The Colona Drilling Project aimed to test concealed basement in the vicinity of two ground magentic profiles that have been run across the most south-western, teardrop - shaped aeromagnetic anomaly of the Fowler Suture Zone. METHODS: 45 vertical...-
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Murrawijinie, Denman, Koonalda and Cook [Wigunda]. Progress and final reports for the period 7/7/80 to 27/7/81.
Cretaceous sediments in the Eucla Basin portion lying within South Australia's far west were investigated for their oil shale potential. This search was prompted by a recorded occurrence of a thick, oily Cretaceous shale horizon intersected in a...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1981
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PEL 4, Eucla, Denman and Bight Basins. Progress and technical reports for the period 13/9/68 to 18/4/74.
PEL 4 was granted to Outback Oil Co. NL on 14/11/68 to succeed the onshore part of the former OEL 33 in the Eucla Basin region, and allow continuity of exploration in a little known petroleum province. Early in licence Year One Outback Oil succeeded...-
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Published: 08 Apr 1974
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Chundie Swamps. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 20/8/1986 to 19/8/1987.
The heavy mineral potential of Tertiary sediments in the Chundie Swamps was investigated with 2 drill traverses (43 RC open vertical holes totalling 863 m) and reconnaissance soil mineralogical sampling. Heavy mineral contents were very low.-
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1987 seismic surveys, Denman and Denman 'B', final reports.
Denman Seismic Survey - AIM: This seismic survey of 4 lines totalling 40.0 line kms coverage was conducted in the southern Denman Trough, in the vicinity of Outback Oil's Denman 1 well drilled in 1966, in order to fulfil the Licence Year 2 work...-
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Kudna Rockhole. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1980.
Photogeological studies and the acquisition of a 450 line km airborne magnetic - radiometric survey across an area of the Nullarbor Plain south-east of Cook disclosed several circular depressions and subtle magnetic anomalies that could reflect buried...-
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RB 00780 Brief study of the Eucla Basin, with recommendations for further petroleum work.
This report provides a brief summary of the geology and petroleum potential of the onshore, South Australian portion of the Eucla Basin at the time of termination of PEL 4, with the aim of providing a starting point for more thorough studies.-
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Published: 31 Jan 1900
