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RB 87/00094 Ooldea 3. Well completion report and tectonic modelling.
Ooldea 3 diamond drillhole is located on the western margin of the Gawler Craton where thin Tertiary (ca. 16 metres) and Palaeozoic (ca. 75 metres) sediments, of the Eucla and Officer Basins respectively, overlie Archaean to Early Proterozoic basement...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1987
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RB 87/00058 Observatory Hill 1 well completion report, and geology of adjacent Observatory Hill Formation.
SADME stratigraphic drill hole, Observatory Hill 1, was located 270 km west of Coober Pedy to fully core the Observatory Hill Formation type section and the prognosed lithologies below it. The type section as intersected was successfully correlated...-
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Published: 01 May 1987
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RB 81/00051 Exploration of the Arckaringa Basin. An outline of a work programme to upgrade knowledge of this Permian intracratonic basin.
This outline was compiled from available seismic and drilling data. Renewed exploration activity has shown the need to upgrade information relating to the Permian and the ?Cambrian sub-basins beneath. 2 seismic programmes, to clarify the structural...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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RB 79/00092 Petrophysical data on Wilkinson stratigraphic drillhole no. 1.
Various petrophysical property measurements (total count radiometric, mag susceptibility and specific gravity) were made at 1-metre intervals on samples of stored drill core recovered from the hole depth range 210 m to 710 m (TD) in SADME Wilkinson 1...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1983
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RB 79/00088 Wilkinson 1. Well completion report.
Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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Wilkinson. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 4/1/1999 to 3/1/2002.
Possible potash and halite resources in evaporite - rich sediment sequences of the Tallaringa Trough, lying at depths that might be suitable for solution mining, were the initial targets of exploration in the Wilkinson Lakes area. Following a...-
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Burial history analysis of the east Officer Basin, South Australia. A preliminary study.
In South Australia, the intracratonic eastern Officer Basin, which may contain up to 10 km of Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic sediments, is bounded by the Precambrian Gawler Craton to the southeast, the Musgrave Block to the north, and passes into...-
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Exploration of PEL 23 and PEL 30, eastern Officer Basin, South Australia, 1983-1988.
This licence relinquishment report includes a description of regional stratigraphy and summary of exploration seismic interpretation and drilling results. The quality and distribution within (and projected outside of) PELs 23 and 30 of the source...-
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PEL 23. 1983 source rock, geochemistry and porosity / permeability studies.
Rock-eval data for Byilkaoora 2 and 3 do not agree with elemental analytical studies previously carried out on similar rocks in Byilkaoora 1. Biomarker studies will be undertaken in an effort to resolve these difficulties.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1984
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Eastern Officer Basin geology and hydrocarbon potential.
Following the allocation in 1992 of Aust $2 million to MESA for petroleum exploration as part of the SA Exploration Initiative, the Department undertook to conduct reconnaisance seismic surveys over selected, poorly known sedimentary basins. As part...-
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Burial history of the eastern Officer Basin, South Australia.
Burial history analysis of the structurally complex eastern Officer Basin region was performed using data from petroleum, trona exploration and stratigraphic wells, seismic upholes, coal drillholes and selected seismic sections, to construct isopachs...-
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Wilkinson Lakes South. Progress and final reports to licence surrender for the period 5/9/1980 to 4/2/1982.
TARGET: Possible Irish Plains type carbonate-hosted base metals, and sylvite, hosted within the evaporite sequence of the Early Cambrian Observatory Hill Formation in the area immediately south of the Wilkinson Lakes. EXPLORATION: Two percussion...-
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Mount Mystery, Mount Alberga and Mount Gordon, eastern Officer Basin. Joint progress and final reports for the period 12/1/81 to 11/1/82.
TARGET: Base metal sulphides associated with evaporitic carbonates of the Cambrian Observatory Hill Formation, and sodium carbonate evaporite minerals (i.e. trona, natrite, etc.) in lacustrine sediments. EXPLORATION: Analysis of available drill core...-
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Immarna North, Ooldea and Marram (the Karari Joint Venture Project). Progress and final reports to licences' joint surrender, for the period 12/1/1981 to 27/7/1983.
The subject EL areas are located adjacent to the Woomera Defence Area reserve, 800 km north-west of Adelaide. Exploration targeted stratiform base metal mineralisation of the sedimentary - exhalative or sabkha type, based on the McArthur River model,...-
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Yarle Lakes and O'Malley Siding. Progress reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 20/6/1980 to 19/12/1981.
Two areas located approximately 45-55 km west of Ooldea were explored for possible buried Olympic Dam - type base metal deposits in poorly known Archaean to Early Proterozoic basement beneath the Eucla and Officer Basin sedimentary sequences. A...-
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Cook North, Chilbinga, Wyola Lake, Nurrai Lakes South, Nurrai Lakes and Cook (Wyola Project). Final report at licences' joint surrender, for the period 6/10/1980 to 27/2/1981.
TARGET: Possible commercial oil shale beds in either the Cretaceous Madura Formation or the Cambrian Observatory Hill Formation; possible Mississippi Valley - type lead-zinc deposits within the Observatory Hill Formation; economic lignite seams...-
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Published: 05 Mar 1981
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Wyola 5. Final report to June 1981.
TARGET: Oil shale in the Madura Formation and to a lesser extent, the Observatory Hill Formation. RESULTS: 2 drill holes intersected Madura Formation, 1 also intersecting Observatory Hill Formation, and gave very low oil yields.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
