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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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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 83/00017 SADME Oakvale 1. Well completion report.
The fully rotary cored Oakvale 1 vertical stratigraphic drillhole was drilled by SADME Regional Geology Branch, 13 km east of Oakvale Station homestead in the north of the Murray Basin within SA, over the period 22/5/1981 to 10/6/1981. The hole was...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 87/00077 Waikerie - Ramco building stone deposits. A review of the geology, history and production.
As part of a project to document all building stone deposits in South Australia, 3 quarries and McLellands sand pit near Waikerie and Ramco were mapped on 19-20 June 1985 and the fourth quarry (Toolunka) was inspected. The upper portion of late...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1987
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RB 85/00060 Petrography of some building materials from the Murray Basin near Morgan, South Australia.
The lithological characteristics and the load bearing capacity of sandstone and limestone quarries in the Norwest Bend Formation are very varied. The differences are attributed as much to the postlithification leaching of matrix and framework as to...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1985
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RB 90/00061 Yamba-Noora gypsum deposits - Results of 1989 scout drilling program.
Dunes derived from Yamba Formation gypsiferous beds are mantled with flour gypsum in the Yamba-Noora area. They have been a source of agricultural gypsum for Riverland irrigation areas since the early 1900s. Auger drilling located 6 deposits with good...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1990
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RB 90/00003 Samples from Yamba - Noora gypsum deposits near Renmark.
Samples from stockpiles and auger holes in 2 large gypsiferous dunefields contain quartz as the main contaminant. Kaolinite is possibly present as a minor contaminant but was not distinguished optically. X ray diffraction is recommended. Very fine...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1990
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 4 partnership DPY4-63, Mongolata area epithermal gold and base metal mineral prospects. Project final report.
An observed trend between base metals anomalism in soils and previously identified magnetic and gravity anomalies within inferred Adelaidean basement metasediments present within the eastern part of Mongolata EL 3164 provided the impetus for the...-
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Ngarkat - Bordertown and Bordertown - Naracoorte areas. Joint first partial surrender report, for the period 30/11/2001 to 29/11/2002.
Heavy mineral marine placer deposits formed within the Pliocene Loxton-Parilla Sand of the Murray Basin were the targets of exploration in areas lying immediately north and south of Bordertown. Aircore drilling (86 holes, total 1903 m) was carried...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1903
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Kiama. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/11/1985 to 6/11/1986.
Tertiary age heavy mineral sand marine placer deposits were the principal target in the Naracoorte - Penola region. Following an assessment of regional geophysical data seeking to identify possible palaeo-depositional traps adjacent to basement...-
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Published: 19 Nov 1986
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RB 00830 Micropalaeontological examination of drillcore from the basement rocks in Overland Corner 1 (Murray Basin).
Basement age remains indeterminate as no microfossils were found in the core, so no firm stratigraphic correlation can be made with either Kanmantoo Group metasediments or un-metamorphosed pre-Palaeozoic rocks of the Adelaide Geosyncline.-
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RB 00687 Australian Oil Corp.'s North Renmark no. 1 well. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology study.
North Renmark 1 was drilled 6 miles north of Renmark, to a total depth of 4018 feet. The well penetrated a sequence of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Permian rocks, mostly of marine origin, and has given the most complete section so far known from the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1900
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RB 2022/00003 Zircon provenance and sedimentary transport processes – implications for the late Neogene evolution and heavy mineral deposits of the western Murray Basin, South Australia.
Strandlines or elevated shorelines, located across the Murray Basin in south-eastern Australia, trace the preserved remnants of former emergent coastlines that developed during the Late Miocene (c. 7 to 4 Ma) marine regression. Strandline traces...-
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Published: 01 May 2022
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RB 71/00001 Regional stratigraphy of surficial deposits in the Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment.
This report deals with the regional stratigraphy of surficial deposits in the region of the Murray Basin and adjoining Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin. The aim is to place deposits described in selected earlier publications of anthropologists,...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 62/00020 Chowilla Dam Project. Materials investigation, Woolpolool sand deposit.
A preliminary investigation has been made of an area near Lake Woolpolool to assess its suitability as a source of concrete sand for the Chowilla Dam Project. The work included logging of sections along existing test excavations, and the drilling of...-
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Published: 17 Jan 1966
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RB 75/00010 Tepko sand deposit.
Coarse sands and gravels equivalent to the Parilla Sand Formation outcrop in road and rail cuttings situated 4 km north of Tepko railway station. Selective auger drilling (13 holes for a total penetration of 102.5 m) done on sections 107 & 110,...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1974
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RB 76/00079 Monarto construction sand investigation, Reedy Creek sand deposit - Monarto Development Commission.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 10 Jun 1976
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Mineralogy of heavy mineral separates from sediments of Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
35 surface samples of various clastic sediments deposited on Kangaroo Island were studied microscopically to see if the respective abundances, composition and mineralogical features of their heavy mineral grain components might shed light on possible...-
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Published: 07 Jun 1902
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Second partial surrender report, for the period 14/10/1997 to 15/10/2013.
A block comprising 319 square km or ~12.7% of the north-western corner of EL 5223 has been relinquished due to its now perceived diminished prospectivity for containing economic heavy mineral sands mineralisation, due to the apparent general absence...-
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Anna. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/2/1977 to 22/2/1978.
Contains a SADME-written report on the November 1976 SA Government appraisal drilling of the Anna Coalfield (2 rotary mud/partly cored holes, total penetration 159.62 m, including 28.36 m of coring) to determine coal quality and verify thickness of...-
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