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Blanchewater Hill. Progress and final reports for the period 11/8/80 to 10/8/82.
Drilling of two percussion holes (aggregate 400 metres) near Yerila, south of Lake Blanche, failed to give encouragement to the search for possible Permian coal and Tertiary uranium in the southern Eromanga Basin / Lake Blanche Lineament uplift area...-
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RB 77/00074 Seismic refraction investigations in the Polda Coalfield.
A seismic cross-section along the Lock-Tuckey portion of the Polda Basin shows that bedrock is between 600 m and 900 m deep. Bedrock probably, consists of either Mt. Wedge type grits and con-glomerates or weathered crystalline basement. The basin...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 86/00086 Bowmans coal deposit. 1986 drilling programme data report.
Drilling within preferred mining area of the deposit was undertaken to obtain coal quality and tonneage data.18,100 mm diameter cored holes (554 metres) and 18 open holes (3138 metres) were drilled to delineate optimum mining area (6529 : 4 MW558 -...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1986
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RB 83/00034 Underground gasification of inaccessible Leigh Creek coal measures - A preliminary evaluation of the geological structure of Telford Basin.
The Telford Basin is an asymmetrically shaped synclinal basin containing sediments of upper Triassic-Jurassic age, which cover a 25 square km area. Sub-bituminous coal occurs in three major series of seams which are informally termed the Leigh Creek...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 78/00013 Northern Adelaide Plains gas storage study. Barabba gravity low.
The Barabba Gravity Low in the Northern Adelaide Plains has been interpreted as a southerly dipping trough-like depression in Precambrian bedrock, infilled with Tertiary and covered by a blanket of Quaternary sediments. All margins of this feature are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 77/00057 Experimental resistivity survey over the Lock coal prospect, Eyre Peninsula.
An experimental survey over the Lock coal prospect has demonstrated that vertical electrical soundings can be used to indicate the depth of a resistivity boundary which corresponds to the bottom of the main coal horizon. The actual presence or...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 77/00055 Refraction seismic survey in the northern St Vincent Basin Coalfield.
A refraction seismic survey was employed to determine depths to bedrock in the northern St. Vincent Basin. The aim was to assist siting drillholes of a coal exploration programme within a down faulted trough. Time-distance curves did not directly...-
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Published: 29 Mar 1971
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RB 94/00002 Officer Basin water supply investigation.
A total of 12 water supply wells were drilled in the Pitjantjatjara and Maralinga Aboriginal Lands, from March to July 1993, to supply water for the AGSO/DME Officer Basin Seismic Survey. This report documents drilling information and chemical...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1994
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RB 91/00051 Mount Owen Coal Project preliminary geotechnical report.
Field investigations were undertaken to provide preliminary geotechnical and hydrogeological parameters for the design of a new open pit coal mine at Mount Owen in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. This work was done in association with the Joint...-
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Published: 01 May 1991
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Weedina coal deposit, Arckaringa Basin. Mining proponent's submission to FEAC, including supporting geological data.
In June 1986 Cyprus Australia Coal Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of a large American coal producer and marketer then holding exploration licences over the Weedina coal deposit in the far north of South Australia, submitted to the South Australian...-
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Leigh Creek Coalfield, Lobe B coal deposit: SADME/ETSA 1978 coal appraisal drilling program. Data package of coal seam representative sampling results [to be augmented as relevant retained records become rediscovered and made available].
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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Williams Bore (Weedinna Coalfield). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 3/6/2014.
An area of 304 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the Weedina coal deposit. This deposit, located ~90 km north-east of Coober Pedy,...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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NERDDC Project 590 : [ Research into the feasibility of ] Underground gasification of [ mining inaccessible ] Leigh Creek coal. Reports on field investigations and geotechnical studies.
During the first few months of 1985, field investigations were undertaken at Leigh Creek by consultants Golder Associates to provide quantitative data on the strength and permeability characteristics of the geological profile of the Main Series coal...-
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Dewatering investigations, Lake Phillipson area, South Australia.
An initial investigation programme aimed at obtaining hydraulic data from part of the Lake Phillipson Permian coal field been successfully completed. The initial area under consideration for mining is of approximately 130 hectares within the Western...-
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Orroroo (part of the Walloway Project). Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 18/3/2010 to 14/5/2014.
A large area consisting of two separate sub-blocks that were centred ~90 km east and 110 km south-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic Tertiary lignitic coal deposits that may have formed in the southern part of a now uplifted,...-
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Published: 13 Aug 1914
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Data release - as updated : England Hill, Arckaringa and Copper Hill (the Arckaringa Coal Project). Joint annual reports and joint final report to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2005 to 6/6/2019.
Under a new strategic focus, three licence areas covering three Early Permian buried coal deposits located at Wintinna, Westfield and Murloocoppie in the northern part of the Arckaringa Basin, ~120 km north of Coober Pedy, have been evaluated both for...-
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Published: 29 Aug 1919
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Arckaringa [North-east]. Annual reports to licence full surrender, for the period 13/4/2005 to 3/6/2014.
An area of 185 square km was taken up by SAPEX to allow it to evaluate afresh known sub-bituminous coal measures in the Permian Mount Toondina Formation that constitute the East Wintinna coal deposit. This deposit had been discovered by Meekatharra...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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Walloway (part of the Walloway Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/5/2008 to 11/5/2014.
An area centred ~90 km south-east of Port Augusta has been explored for possible economic Tertiary lignitic coal deposits that may have formed in the southern part of a now uplifted, ~50 km long x ~15 km wide intramontane sedimentary basin, the...-
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Published: 11 Jul 1914
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Anderson Range Project. Annual reports for the period 22/7/2014 to 21/7/2019.
Three adjoining large licences located in the Eringa Trough area ~120-170 km north-east of Marla, covering ground overlying the south-western end of the Pedirka Basin adjacent to the SA-NT state border, were taken up in order to evaluate the coal...-
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Published: 24 Sep 1918
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Mount Dutton. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 13/7/1985 to 29/1/1990.
TARGET: Sub-bituminous coal seams within the Early Permian Mount Toondina Formation in the Mount Dutton - Nilpinna Springs region, these possibly being similar to, or forming an extension of, the large Weedina coal deposit recently discovered 20 km to...-
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