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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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Exploration for marine phosphorite off Western [Australia] and South Australia.
Australian rock phosphate production has never been significant, and over the last two years steps have been taken to remedy the situation. This has and will involve time-consuming geological review work, leading to reconnaissance mapping, detailed...-
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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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Late Eocene - Pliocene stratigraphy of the Langhorne Sub-basin (north-western Padthaway Archipelago, South Australia).
The following Tertiary units were identified : Kongorong Fm, Narrawaturk Fm, Buccleuch Fm, Ettrick Fm, Mannum Fm, Kalibar Limestone, Parilla Sand and North West Bend Fm. All of these units are separated by unconformities. Erosional surfaces,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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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 36/00104 Hydrology of the Lower South-East.
Report presents results of the first regional hydrogeological survey of the Lower South-East area of South Australia, aimed at providing guidelines for optimising groundwater prospecting, use and protection during the period of strong urban,...-
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Published: 27 Jun 1953
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RB 35/00069 Preliminary report on palaeontological examination of sludges from Canopus bore, (depth interval) 0-706 feet.
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Published: 29 Apr 1953
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RB 37/00083 Microspore content of certain Tertiary sediments in a bore at Canopus Station, South Australia.
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Published: 27 Apr 1954
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RB 37/00084 Tripoli occurrence, Hundred of Murtho (17/3/1954).
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Published: 01 Jan 1956
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RB 37/00082 Stratigraphical and faunal sequence in Canopus bore no. 1, PL 1644, north of Renmark, South Australia.
In the stratigraphic sequence penetrated by Canopus Bore No. 1, five formations are present. From the surface to a depth of 185 feet, the boring passed through Recent surface sand and kunkar followed by medium to coarse sands of Plio-Pleistocene age....-
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Published: 27 Apr 1954
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RB 37/00111 Petrography of the Canopus bore.
A study of the drill cuttings samples obtained down to 641 ft depth from this vertical cable-tool drilled hole indicates an organic origin for a large part of the sediments, and a marine environment of deposition.-
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Published: 12 Feb 1954
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RB 53/00049 Preliminary report on a survey of the Sugarloaf Hill siliceous limestone deposit (also known as: Jones' quarry, Barmera).
A topographical survey has been carried out to determine the probable extent of a siliceous limestone horizon beneath a mesa, namely Sugarloaf Hill, located 2 miles west of Lake Bonney near Kingston-on-Murray, which on its northern part is worked as a...-
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Published: 18 Aug 1961
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RB 51/00136 Chowilla Dam site geological investigations. Preliminary report, with appendices on permeability testing by G.J. Crawford, and detailed drilling data.
The dam proposed on a site at the 392 and a half mile peg on the River Murray will have to be founded on a series of incoherent and probably unconsolidated sand beds up to 120 feet thick overlain by a veneer of clays and silts varying from 0 to 20...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1960
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RB 51/00999 Notes on potential for underground water supplies, section 105 Hundred of Short.
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Published: 13 Feb 1951
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RB 51/00013 Report on field permeability testing of the Murray Basin limestone aquifer at the Wanbi Experimental Station, SA.
At Wanbi in South Australia the laterally extensive limestone aquifer of the Murray Basin is over two hundred feet thick, and in this locality contains non-pressure water. Pump tests on a 16½ inch diameter open borehole showed the specific yield of...-
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Published: 29 Jul 1960
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RB 53/00037 Chowilla Dam site. Geological investigation supplementary report, dam site testing.
This report discusses the results of the second geological investigation at Chowilla, based on recommendations proposed in the preliminary text. Supplementary drilling has in no way altered the general geological concepts previously expressed....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1961
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RB 59/00095 Chowilla Dam Project, embankment materials investigation, sand for dam shoulders. Interim geological report.
Stage 1 of this investigation, the location and proving of more than 6 million cubic yards of clean quartz sand for dam shoulder for the proposed Chowilla Dam, is now complete. The investigation included geological mapping of the proposed site and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1964
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RB 60/00005 Report on an exploratory resistivity survey of the Waikerie - Renmark area.
In November 1964 this exploratory survey found good hydrological - geophysical correlation for the sedimentary formations to depths of 100 feet in the Murray River irrigation areas between Waikerie and Renmark. Analysis indicates that the sands,...-
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Published: 05 Jan 1965
