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Peake and Malinong. Final report at licences' joint full surrender, for the period 7/7/1980 to 6/8/1982.
In a search for economic Tertiary brown coal in the south-eastern Murray Basin, a large reconnaissance drilling programme was undertaken during February-April 1981 to test known carbonaceous sediments reported as encountered by previous drillholes and...-
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Published: 06 Sep 1982
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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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Mutooroo [Station]. Progress reports to licence full surrender, for the period 11/9/1989 to 6/9/1994.
Exploration for possible heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits within Tertiary sediments on the northern margin of the Murray Basin comprised aircore drilling (28 holes, total 744 m) in the Mutooroo station area, 50 km south-east of Olary. The...-
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Yumali. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 18/10/1983.
Base metal exploration activities undertaken by Thiess Brothers in the Yumali - Coomandook area investigated several coincident regional gravity and aeromagnetic anomalies arising from concealed Palaeozoic basement rocks. These anomalies are part of a...-
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Published: 14 Nov 1983
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Murray Bridge. Progress reports, annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 14/1/1994.
Exploration was undertaken by BHP along the western margin of the Murray Basin, between Lake Alexandrina and Cambrai township, for possible economic heavy mineral sands and for exhalative sedex-style volcanogenic/stratabound base metal deposits, both...-
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Goolwa - Strathalbyn - Murray Bridge - Mannum area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender/re-issue as part of a larger tenement, for the period 13/11/1979 to 21/2/1985.
A multi-commodity mineral exploration programme carried out over an area between Mannum and Strathalbyn, seeking buried targets concealed in Tertiary sediments and basement rocks, comprised aerial magnetic, radiometric and EM surveys; groundwater,...-
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Published: 01 May 1985
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RB 56/00018 Seismic refraction survey proposed, Teal Flat dam site.
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 60/00010 CHOWILLA 4-mile sheet (geological mapping). Preliminary report.
Geological sections drawn across the CHOWILLA 4-mile mapsheet area have been prepared from drillers' lithologs of 36 bores. The existence of a number of distinctive marker horizons and paleontological age determinations enable a provisional...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1965
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RB 60/00026 Chowilla Dam Project, rip-rap investigation, Lowbank quarry site. Progress geological report, February 1965.
A quarry site located near Lowbank on the River Murray, 7 miles east of Waikerie, has been geologically mapped and partly explored by drilling 14 vertical diamond holes with a total depth penetration of 702 feet. Marine sandy limestone and calcareous...-
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Published: 12 Feb 1965
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RB 60/00079 Nulla Nulla refraction seismic and gravity survey.
During March 1965 a combined refraction seismic and gravity survey was carried out on behalf of Australian Oil and Gas Corporation Ltd by the SADM seismic party. The primary aim of the survey was to assess a probable sedimentary trough located in PEL...-
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Published: 14 Apr 1965
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RB 47/00085 Murray Basin Oil Syndicate - Pinnaroo Bore. (Palaeontology of sediments) Final report and summary.
Contains a description of the biostratigraphic determinations made on drill cuttings samples recovered from below 1047 feet depth in the subject drillhole. Metamorphic basement rocks were encountered at 1191 feet depth, and drilling ceased at 1260...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1958
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RB 83/00018 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigation data assessment - Mallee region.
3 aquifer systems are assessed : the Renmark Beds, Murray Group and the Pliocene sands. The Tertiary Murray Group limestone aquifer is the most widely developed in the area. Large areas of potable and irrigation quality groundwater have been delineated.-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 81/00021 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigation, data assessment, western margin (south).
The Murray River divides the Murray Group into 2 regimes. To the west, recharge occurs along the faulted western margin and also from streams flowing from the ranges. A steep water table gradient and increase in salinity is maintained towards the...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1981
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RB 80/00058 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigation, data assessment, western margin (north).
Assessment south of Morgan of the Murray Group aquifer system has been obtained despite a lack of data. Very little information is available on other aquifer systems with only a few wells being completed in the Pliocene sands aquifer and 1 well...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1980
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RB 98/00022 Review of open file company exploration data from the early 1980s to mid-1997, over the Yunta, Winnininnie, Anabama and Oakvale 1:100 000 map sheets, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 91/00015 Murray Basin Basement Transect Project. 1990 well completion reports.
During the period March to June 1990, 9 stratigraphic rotary mud/diamond cored holes with a total penetration of 3056 m, including 433.25 m of NQ or HQ cored diamond tails, were drilled by SADME in three cases and by its contractor Rockdril for the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
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RB 91/00074 Potential field survey of the Stonefield anomaly and a geophysical appraisal of the Sandleton 1:50 000 map sheet area.
Areas of high mineral potential within Adelaidean basement lying beneath deep Recent and Tertiary Murray Basin cover, have been interpreted in the poorly known Sandleton 1:50 000 map area. The interpretation has outlined the magnetic fabric, variously...-
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Published: 01 May 1992
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RB 91/00069 Petrology of specimens of CRAE drill core from the Murray Basin basement.
Core from drilling by CRAE at several locations in the basement of the Murray Basin consists of altered and often dolomitised rocks, the origins of which are uncertain. Tentative identifications are of metavolcanics, metasediments with...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1991
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RB 92/00013 Murray Basin Hydrological Investigation drilling programme - Coastal Plain. Progress report no. 9.
Nine rotary mud groundwater investigation holes were drilled by SADME on the Murraylands Coastal Plain between July and November 1989, to total depths of between 82 m and 204 m. Composite logs of these holes are presented herein, together with those...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1991
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RB 92/00014 Regional hydrogeology of the Cooke Plains - Coomandook area, Murray Basin.
The study area is underlain by two aquifer systems - unconfined Cainozoic marine limestones and confined Tertiary fossiliferous limestones and sands. Both aquifers contain saline groundwater which is flowing slowly to the west under low gradients....-
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Published: 01 May 1992