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Karoonda. Final report at licence full surrender, combined with related partial surrender reports for Peake, Swan Reach, Waikerie and Malinong, covering the period 7/7/1980 to 6/7/1981.
Within the surrendered sections of the subject exploration licences in the Karoonda, Marmon Jabuk, Swan Reach, Blanchetown and Cooke Plains areas, following the conduct there of a 45.4 line km gravity survey and the drilling and geophysical logging of...-
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Published: 12 Jun 1981
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RB 91/00026 Lake Alexandrina groundwater investigation and basement core project. Well completion report.
Nine observation wells were drilled in the SW Murray Basin between Goolwa and Salt Creek to monitor groundwater levels and salinity in the confined Renmark Group / Buccleuch Group aquifer. The area of interest is underlain by the Padthaway Ridge of...-
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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 95/00020 Coomandook bedrock drilling programme, 1994.
The Cambro-Ordovician basement underlying Murray Basin sediments in the Cooke Plains and Coomandook areas was sampled by a reverse circulation drilling programme as part of the South Australian Exploration Initiative. Greenschist to low amphibolite...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1995
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RB 91/00054 Early Oligocene and Late Eocene age determined for core samples from a borehole near Mundulla.
4 samples of drill core from a groundwater investigation well located approximately 6.5 km north-west of Mundulla were examined palaentologically to evaluate whether the Tertiary Murray Basin sediments that were cored can be correlated with similar...-
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Published: 10 May 1991
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Karoonda and Parrakie. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 2/9/1986 to 1/9/1987.
The southern portions of both subject licences, comprising ~58.5% of the former area of EL 1356 and ~38% of the former area of EL 1357, have now been relinquished. Preliminary work consisted of collecting 9 surface grab samples of exposures of...-
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Parilla. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/8/1987 to 5/2/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along part of the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Exploratory and appraisal RAB drilling along 8 roadside traverses (315...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1991
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Meribah. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 9/12/1988 to 8/6/1990.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along part of the west-central Murray Basin, east and south of Renmark. EXPLORATION: reconnaissance RAB drilling (273 holes, totalling 4035 m)...-
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Mercunda. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 13/5/1987 to 12/5/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along part of the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Exploratory and appraisal RAB drilling along 5 roadside traverses (163...-
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Published: 13 May 1991
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Karoonda and Parrakie. Individual licence progress reports to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/9/1986 to 13/6/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Aerial photo interpretation, regional sedimentological studies, preliminary...-
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Published: 05 Jun 1991
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Alawoona. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/1987 to 28/4/1991.
TARGET: Possible economic heavy mineral sand accumulations in Pliocene raised beach strandlines developed along the south-western margin of the Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Acquisition of an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey during November...-
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Published: 13 May 1991
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Full surrender of Swan Reach and partial relinquishment of Kakoonie : combined final and progress report for the period 7/7/1980 to 7/9/1984.
As part of a search for economic lignite occurrences formed near the western edge of the Murray Basin, available drill hole data and regional aeromagnetic and gravity data were used to interpret the basement structure and to define areas favourable...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1984
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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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PEL 16. Progress and technical reports for the period 16/6/80 to 15/5/90.
Reports document the petroleum exploration history and search philosophy behind PEL 16 over two licence terms, and provide some new raw and interpretative geophysical and geochemical data based on the conduct of 5 seismic surveys and the drilling of 2...-
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Published: 15 May 1990
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RB 2023/00001 New palynology results from western Murray Basin, South Australia
Palynological analysis has been undertaken on samples from 5 drillholes in the western Murray Basin, Alawoona area, South Australia, to provide a biostratigraphic framework and dating of the sediments. Late Middle to Late Eocene sediments, forming...-
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Published: 01 Jan 2023
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Sedan lignite deposit. Geological investigations and review of resources.
In October 2000 GTL Energy Pty Ltd began commercial investigations into the feasibility of establishing within Australia newly proven [coal] gas-to-liquids technology for combining power generation and synfuel production, by identifying potentially...-
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Sedan and Anna coal deposits (the Mannum Project). Data release upon the surrender of a subsequent licence (EL 4269): Coal mining feasibility studies. Expert reports plus supporting data for the period February 1981 to June 1987.
Deposits of low rank Tertiary brown coal formed in the Sedan area on the western margin of the Murray Basin, ~80 to 100 km north-east of Adelaide, have been investigated as potential sources of fuel for electricity generation. Attention has been...-
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Balah (part of the Oakvale Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/1997 to 23/7/1999.
25 vertical open RC/aircore holes (total penetration 1077 m) were drilled during heavy mineral sands exploration of an area stretching from 10 km to 100 km north-northeast of Morgan. The target Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand was found to be barren of...-
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Northwestern Murray Basin - stratigraphy, sedimentology and geomorphology.
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