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RB 77/00077 Coober Pedy town water supply. Groundwater prospects and completion report. Stuart Range bores 7-10.
Groundwater of salinity lower than 5000 mg/l was found to occur north of Coober Pedy at a distance of 20-30 km. Four holes (cumulative depth 274 m) were drilled and encountered water of salinity 4000-9000 mg/l. A production well will commence in the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 82/00059 Marla town water supply investigation - Completion report SA.
Extra drilling and testing of 13 wells (523 metres) has revealed a 2 aquifer system.-
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Published: 01 Sep 1982
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RB 78/00030 Coober Pedy town water supply groundwater investigations report no. 2 - EWS Department.
The proposed town water well SR11 (60 metres) 22 km NE of Coober Pedy was drilled and tested. Water quality is acceptable.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00066 Sampling and measurement of mound springs, Great Artesian Basin, South Australia. Progress report no. 3, WARRINA, OODNADATTA, BILLAKALINA, CURDIMURKA sheets.
This report virtually completes a systematic survey of mound springs around the south-western edge of the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia. There are as yet about 20 springs left unsampled, mostly on BILLAKALINA, in the Francis Swamp and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 77/00059 Coober Pedy town water supply. Completion report. Stuart Range bores 5 and 6.
Two production water wells were drilled during March-May, 1974. The wells are located about 1 km apart within the Coober Pedy town area, and both draw upon the Cadna-Owie Formation. Salinity is uniformly high in both holes, at 16,600 - 16,700 mg/l....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 88/00087 Coober Pedy Precious Stones Field - CRA Exploration Pty Ltd drilling, 1987.
3 diamond and 15 rotary-percussion holes were drilled in 1987 by CRA within EL 1330 on the southern part of the Field (PSF), this licence having been granted to the company for the exploration of strata below 50 metres depth in the subsurface. The...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1988
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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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Report on preliminary feasibility study of use and mining of coal from deposits in an area near Lake Phillipson, South Australia.
Exploration drilling by Utah Development Co. during 1973 and 1974 in the area covered by EL 125 has outlined at least 2,000 million tonnes of medium quality steaming coal, of a quality considered to be comparable to that for coal from ETSA's Leigh...-
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Water resources assessment for Lake Phillipson, South Australia.
The Lake Phillipson coal deposits currently under consideration by Utah Development Company as a potential mine, are located in a remote and arid region of Australia. Surface water sources simply do not exist in this area and any development will...-
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PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 1 partnership DPY1-47 - [prospecting for] water in Permian palaeochannels draining the Mount Woods Inlier. Project final report.
Development of the Prominent Hill copper-gold deposit in the Mount Woods region will require an adequate source of water to support planned mining and ore processing operations, currently estimated to involve at least 6 million tonnes of ore per year....-
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Published: 10 Jun 1905
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[Results of in-house] Bench scale epsomite testwork.
Results of a programme of laboratory scale testwork conducted to investigate fresh water leaching of epsomite ore originating from Coober Pedy in South Australia are as follows: 1). The ore when leached readily producing brines of uniform...-
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Published: 16 Apr 1986
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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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ExpNotes WINTINNA: Explanatory Notes WINTINNA
A new generation, first edition WINTINNA 1:250 000 scale geological map and explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's geological mapping program undertaken in the...-
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RB 72/00157 Geological investigations, Tarcoola to Alice Springs railway, Tarcoola to Robin Rise section - Commonwealth Railways.
Geological investigations indicate that no major foundation problems are anticipated. Physical testing shows that most materials are suitable as fill. Saline groundwater is available for compaction but no water suitable for concrete or camp use has...-
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Published: 24 Aug 1972
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RB 75/00042 Tarcoola Alice Springs railway. Geological investigations - Robin Rise to Marla Bore, section (ref. 1971-8).
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 75/00048 Tarcoola-Alice Springs railway. Bridge sites - Robin Rise to Marla Bore, section reference 1971-8.
Safe bearing capacities and recommended footing depths for 18 minor bridge sites between Robin Rise and Marla Bore are presented in this report. Bearing capacities, in most cases presumed, range from 5 to 20 tons/ square foot (500 to 2 000 kN/m2)....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 74/00012 Commonwealth Railways - Tarcoola-Alice Springs railway (Robin Rise-Wintinna Hill section) progress report no. 5.
During the last drilling programme, six bores were drilled five of which were completed as water productive. The sixth (viz. Bore 30) is to be completed during the next drilling programme. As in progress report no. 4 the drilling target was the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1974
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RB 74/00178 Oodnadatta town bore 2. Well completion report.
Oodnadatta Town Bore 2 was drilled to supplement the water supply of Oodnadatta, and also to enhance the stratigraphic knowledge of the area. It was drilled to a total depth of 439.48 metres KB, and after pump testing achieved a flow rate of 3.4...-
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Published: 05 Sep 1977
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RB 75/00132 Tarcoola-Alice Springs railway. Engineering geology, Marla Bore to Baystone Bore section.
There is no abstract created for this record-
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Published: 01 Jan 1975
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RB 76/00036 Engineering soils survey, Stuart Highway, Coober Pedy area. Four Mile diggings to vermin-proof fence.
A series of 67 backhoe pits, excavated over a distance of 40km along one of the proposed routes of the new Stuart Highway northwest from Coober Pedy has indicated that the following materials are present: • An expansive clay (Callabonna Clay) up to...-
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Published: 16 Mar 1976
