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Wallaroo and Moonta mines and smelters, Yorke's [sic] Peninsula, South Australia. History, nature and methods.
A detailed account of the large scale copper mining and processing operations occurring in the 'Copper Triangle' region of South Australia in the few years following the end of the First World War. The included metrics and pictorial coverage of many...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1921
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Source Rock Studies - SA Sedimentary Basins Progress Report No 1.
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Published: 02 Nov 1978
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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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National Energy Plan II. May 1979. A report to the Congress required by Title VIII of the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91).
Topics include : immediate energy crisis and uncertainty in the world energy future; world oil prices; US energy future implications for policy; conservation;oil, gas, coal, nuclear energy, solar energy and alternative energy sources; and planning for...-
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Lake Phillipson area. Progress and technical reports for the periods 23/11/1978 to 22/11/1980, and 12/2/1981 to 11/5/1982. [forms Part 2 of a SADME - compiled Lake Phillipson coal deposit data package released in December 1994].
The licensee's 1981 coal search programme at Lake Phillipson had the following objectives: - delineation of the total extent of the coal measures; - resolution of seam stratigraphy and correlation of seams between the Main and West Areas; -...-
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Beneficiation of monazite ore.
Beneficiation of a bulk sample of monazite ore taken from Monazite Hill, from an orebody containing in excess of 5 million tons of ore with a monazite content of 5-6%, yielded poor results.-
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Petroleum geochemistry of the Otway Basin, and the significance of coastal bitumen strandings on adjacent southern Australian beaches. Volumes 1 to 5 source rock studies.
The standing of crude oil on the beaches of southern Australia was first recorded approximately 150 years ago. This material, known locally as coastal bitumen, was used by the early maritime visitors and settlers to caulk their vessels and is the...-
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RB 36/00077 Leigh Creek Coalfield. North Field, Lobe C.
Coal has been proved at Lobe C to a depth of 220 feet of overburden in an arcuate area along the southern and western margins of the basin. Within the suggested open cut area the coal seam averages 35 feet in thickness, has a weighted average ash...-
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Published: 26 Oct 1953
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RB 37/00028 Leigh Creek Coalfield: Report on exploration of the north-eastern margin - Telford Basin area 'Telford Opencut, extension east'. (CONFIDENTIAL)
An area located on the north-eastern margin of the Telford Basin, to the east of the present extent of theTelford Open Cut mine main pit, which is known to contain potentially mineable buried coal seams, has been examined geologically and...-
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Published: 03 Mar 1954
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RB 37/00039 Report on the Copper King ochre deposits (near Beltana).
The Copper King orebody, located approximately 10 miles north-northeast of Beltana township, is a massive deposit of iron carbonate, the upper portion of which has been altered by oxidation and hydration to oxides of iron. The deposit was worked...-
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Published: 09 Mar 1954
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RB 37/00068 Leigh Creek Coalfield, central area - Upper Coal Series. Report on scout drilling.
In the Triassic coal measures of Telford Basin occurring 1000 + (?) feet stratigraphically above the main (Telfod) seam are a number of coal seams - the "Upper coal series" - which further add to the opencut coal reserves at Leigh Creek Coalfield....-
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Published: 19 Mar 1954
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RB 37/00157 Leigh Creek Coalfield - Exploration of the southeastern margin, Telford Basin area (Telford Main Seam eastern margin, southern extension).
The area under review is situated in the south-eastern section of Telford Basin between co-ordinates 8,000 and 34,000, and is a southern extension of the main (Telford) coal seam proved previously on the eastern margin. Coal has been proved by close...-
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Published: 14 Jul 1954
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RB 42/00094 Report on site investigation. coal bins, north field, Leigh Creek - ETSA.
An E.T.S.A. investigation suggested that the site for a 4000 ton capacity coal bin was underlain by clay and gravel to 30 feet, a tender was let to place 112 piles. At completion of piling, which had proved more difficult than expected, a D.M. site...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 44/00105 Visit to Newcastle. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2nd-8th June, 1957.
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Published: 01 Jan 1957
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RB 47/00010 Report on the East Boolcunda Triassic basin.
The East Boolcunda Basin was examined in order to map the Triassic rocks in detail and to assess their coal-bearing potentiality. It was found that these rocks conform to a true basin structure, similar in most respects to the Leigh Creek and...-
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Published: 04 Jul 1958
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RB 78/00117 Bumbarlow 1 - Well completion report.
Bumbarlow 1 (TD 720.33 m) aimed to test the lithology and petroleum potential of the Cambrian section in the central part of the eastern Arrowie Basin. It continuously cored a sequence over 300 m thick of flat-lying Proterozoic sediments interbedded...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1978
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RB 81/00014 Report on overseas visit, October to November 1980.
Wide range of energy issues and aspects of energy resource development and management, particularly with regard to uranium was studied. Documents technical details and non-confidential aspects canvassed during discussions and inspections, such as...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1980
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RB 82/00050 South Australia. Investment and development for the 80s. Investment seminar April 1982, Singapore and Hong Kong.
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Published: 01 Jul 1982
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RB 82/00070 Seismic experiments over conglomerates in the Leigh Creek Coalfield.
The experiments indicate conglomerate can be delineated by seismic methods in both natural surface and removed overburden situations. However, confirmation by test drilling is needed. Some modifications to the original method are recommended along...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1982
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RB 83/00065 Petrography of eight thin sections from an ETSA well in an aquifer near Leigh Creek.
Eight thin sections of drill core, four cut parallel to and four perpendicular to the core, were received from the Engineering Division of the Electricity Trust of South Australia, for petrographic examination. The core is from an existing well,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
