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RB 77/00009 Construction materials investigation Redcliff petrochemical site, sections 12, 18, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 102, 134 Hd Winninowie, Co. Frome.
Materials suitable for concrete aggregate, railway ballast, road base course, protection of salt field sea wails and rock fill will be required should construction of the petrochemical plant and appurtenant works proceed at Redcliff, 25 km...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 94/00009 Soils, stratigraphy and engineering geology of near surface materials of the Adelaide Plains.
Metropolitan Adelaide is founded on a wide variety of soils that overlie sediments and rocks. Some of the soils and sediments react to seasonal and human-induced changes in water content with marked changes in volume. The black earths and...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1996
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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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Bond Hill. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 17/5/2002 to 3/6/2005.
An area located between Lakes Acraman and Gairdner was taken up to explore for possible buried iron oxide - associated copper-gold deposits hosted by subcropping basement rocks of the Gawler Range Volcanics (GRV). The licensee had noted a lack of...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1905
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 15/7/1999.
Exploratory drilling to search for heavy mineral sands, performed over an area extending to 160 km north and north-west of Renmark, has targeted marginal marine placer deposits of detrital rutile, ilmenite and zircon in potential Loxton - Parilla Sand...-
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Oakbank, Sergeant's Dam and Oakvale, northern Murray Basin, South Australia (part of the Oakvale Project). Joint third partial surrender report, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/12/2001.
Within the now relinquished licence portions, parts of six traverses of reverse circulation aircore drilling (involving 68 vertical open holes, total 1918.5 m) tested 60 km strike length of interpreted heavy mineral sand - bearing marine beach facies...-
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Interim report on mapping of surficial materials in ELs 113 and 114.
The Kapunda region is principally one in which prolonged denudation, or lowering of the landsurface, has been operative over the past 100 Ma, while the present topographic amplitude of the region is also at its greatest since the onset of the...-
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Oakbank, Balah, Sergeant's Dam and Record Dam (Basin Minerals' Oakvale Project). Joint annual reports plus joint final report at the latest licence's full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 1/4/2004.
Heavy minerals in the Pliocene Loxton - Parilla Sands marginal marine sequence of the western Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in an area 130 km north of Renmark. During March 1998, a trial 571 line km low-level aeromagnetic survey was...-
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Published: 02 Jun 1904
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Kybunga (latterly a part of the Balaklava HMS Project - Iluka tenements Group 9). First annual report 3/5/2012 to 2/5/2013, plus a joint annual report and final report for Group 9 submitted at the five project licences' full surrender on 24/9/2015.
Ground within the northern onshore Saint Vincent Basin was taken up by Iluka Resources to re-appraise the heavy mineral sands (HMS) potential of buried Tertiary sediments there, after some unsuccessful exploration had previously been undertaken in the...-
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Published: 22 Sep 1915
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Update of basement interpretation and assessment of mineral potential, EL 2487, Sedan, South Australia.
The acquisition in the Sedan area by Shell Coal Pty Ltd during May 1999 of high resolution infill aeromagnetic data, as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative (SAEI) airborne geophysical programme, has enabled some revision of the...-
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Mount Rose. First partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 8/9/2010 to 7/9/2015.
An area of 145 square km comprising the northern ~38% portion of EL 4554 centred ~50 km north-east of Leigh Creek has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for copper and gold mineralisation. Work conducted on the...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1916
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Mount Magnificent. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 30/9/1968 to 29/12/1968.
Fourteen shallow auger holes to 30 feet deep were drilled in the Mount Magnificent area to test an occurrence of kaolinised sand which might suit as raw material for refractory ceramic manufacture. Laboratory sieve analyses and clay silica...-
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Carrieton West (part of the Orroroo North Project). Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/11/1979 to 12/11/1981.
TARGET: Diamonds in the Cradock - Carrieton region. EXPLORATION: Regional and follow-up stream sediment and gridded loam sampling, heavy mineral processing and SEM microscopy of bulk samples, grid-based ground magnetic surveys, and part of a regional...-
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RB 69/00128 2 000 000 gallon surface tank, Kelway Park, HWL RL664 geological investigations progress report no. 1, feasibility stage. Secn 2110 Hd Yatala - EWS Department.
A geological examination of the site for a surface concrete tank of 2,000,000 gallon capacity was requested in a letter dated 23rd September, 1968 from the Assistant Director, Engineering Operations. The site was initially investigated, by 2 test pits...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 72/00160 Frome Embayment stratigraphic drilling project. Preliminary report on SA Department of Mines Wooltana no. 1, Yalkalpo no. 1 and Wertaloona no. 1 stratigraphic bores.
This report contains downhole geological and wireline logging data summarizing the results of recent stratigraphic drilling in the Frome Embayment by the South Australian Department of Mines. Conclusions are tentative and may be subject to revision...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1972
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RB 74/00228 Exploration drilling for coal, Lake Weatherstone.
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 76/00054 Engineering soils survey, Smithfield East.
The proposed subdivision is underlain by an upper horizon of expansive dark brown silty clay 0.30 to 0.60m thick, above a red-brown silty clay both units being part of the Pooraka Formation. The red-brown silty clay is recommended as a foundation...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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RB 76/00091 Monarto brick clay investigation - Monarto Development Commission.
Reconnaissance sampling and exploratory drrilling have been undertaken to locate suitable brickmaking clay for the proposed city of Monarto. Samples from exposures and boreholes in Quaternary and Tertiary sediments and in weathered bedrock have been...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Lake Torrens Areas 1 and 2, Lake Torrens South and Lake Torrens North (the Lake Torrens Brine Potash Project). First joint annual report plus final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 5/1/2015 to 16/6/2016.
Much of the eastern side of the very large, 5,745 square km saline playa Lake Torrens, which occupies one of the most arid parts of Australia, was taken under licence by a Northern Territory - based company with the intent of systematically sampling...-
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Published: 14 Jun 1916
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RB 2015/00028 Modbury North Catena Study in metropolitan Adelaide: geology, regolith, soils and gilgai; their mineralogy, geochemistry, landscape evolution, geomechanics, and implications for civil engineering.
During the early to mid-1980s, the SADME (SA Department of Mines and Energy) Engineering Division collaborated with CSIRO Soils Division to jointly sponsor a major geomechanics project, investigating metropolitan Adelaide’s problem soils and near...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2016
