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RB 60/00011 Examination of bore samples for sedimentary phosphate (in the) Murray Basin and Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin.
In a reconnaissance survey for sedimentary phosphate, sludges and cores were examined from 100 widely-scattered bores in parts of the Murray Basin and the Gambier Embayment of the Otway Basin that are located in South Australia. Microscopic inspection...-
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Published: 25 Jan 1965
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RB 95/00040 Otway Basin aeromagnetic/radiometric test survey.
A test aerial spectrometric and subsidiary aeromagnetic survey of the onshore Otway Basin in SA was proposed in 1991 by APIRA, the Commonwealth Government's petroleum research authority. Initially it was aimed at utilising possible signature responses...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1995
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RB 95/00006 Micropalaeontological analysis of 26 petroleum wells in the Gambier Basin, South Australia.
More than 400 samples (cuttings and core) from 26 petroleum wells in the South Australian part of the Gambier Basin were examined. Their lithology and foraminiferal fauna were recorded and their age and environment of deposition deduced where...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1995
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Glenelg River. Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 12/4/2007 to 11/4/2014.
A very small area located ~25 km south-east of Mount Gambier was taken up to try to identify in outcrop or in the near surface a glass grade dolomite resource which would be suitable to mine as a replacement for Unimin’s Tantanoola dolomite deposit....-
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Blackford (WMC's Kingston Lignite Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting area-specific reports for this licence's third and fourth partial surrenders: progress reports and related technical reports for the period 23/2/1988 to 22/2/1990.
Ongoing coal exploration conducted by Western Mining Corp. in the upper South-East region has targeted commercial-grade lignite occurrences within the Tertiary upper Dilwyn Formation, which may have formed in geological settings similar to that of the...-
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RI 041 Hydrocarbon Potential of Western Murray Basin and Infrabasins
The Murray Basin is a shallow, saucer-shaped Tertiary basin covering an area of 120 700 square miles extending from the western foot of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales and Victoria to the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. Geophysical work...-
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RB 00734 Stratigraphy and correlation of the marine sediments of the Gambier Embayment (Otway Basin).
The sediments of the Gambier Embayment are mainly of Cretaceous and Tertiary age. Lower Cretaceous subsurface units have been referred to outcropping rocks of the Otway and Merino Groups, but satisfactory criteria for their identification with...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1900
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South-East SA [coal and oil shale] Project. Data release : relinquishment report at licences' joint partial surrenders, for the period 3/11/1978 to 15/12/1982.
In a rationalisation of its extensive exploration acreage formerly held in the upper South-east of South Australia for the purpose of coal exploration, Western Mining Corp. (WMC) has partially relinquished most of the ground that it previously held...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1983
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Monash 1. Subsurface stratigraphy and micropalaeontology.
Monash 1 is located 30 km west of Renmark, and was drilled to a total depth of 1050 m. It penetrated a sequence of Tertiary, Cretaceous and Permian rocks, mostly of marine origin. Cuttings recovered from the hole interval below 1012 m depth extending...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Salt Creek, Lochaber, Lake Hawdon, Kingston South-East and Kongorong. Joint annual reports for the period 19/11/1996 to 21/10/2018.
A number of shallow Neogene salt lakes, that extend in chain-like fashion along the length of the inner Coorong and its hinterland as far south as Lacepede Bay, have been investigated for possible economic evaporitic mineral deposits that may have...-
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Published: 19 Nov 2018
