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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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RB 55/00093 Lower Murray dam sites - Teal Flat report on geological investigations (drill logs in separate report 55/93, main report in 55/93A).
Three potential damsites on the lower Murray River near Mannum were investigated by drilling and geological mapping. Two holes at Site 4 and one at Site 5 showed Tertiary sediments overlying granite bedrock at depth exceeding 24m. Exploration was...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1962
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RB 79/00069 Explanatory notes for the PINNAROO 1:250 000 geological map.
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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Coomandook, Kingston (South-East), Padthaway and The Coorong [East] (the Padthaway Project). Joint annual reports plus final reports to various licences' respective full surrenders, for the overall period 27/3/2014 to 26/3/2019.
A group of semi-contiguous licence areas in the Padthaway district, and one somewhat removed to the north-west, near Coomandook, have been explored for possible buried economic volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) style mineralisation that may have...-
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Published: 08 May 1919
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Woolpunda (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 16/11/2000 to 3/7/2017.
An area located immediately south of the Sturt Highway that connects between Swan Reach and Loxton, in the vicinity of the Woolpunda Irrigation Area, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mannum area. Annual technical reports for period ending 08/09/2018.
EL 5846 covers an area of 462 km2 and is located approximately 70km east of Adelaide. It is located within the Murray Basin, with a basement of poorly outcropping to deeply covered Neoproterozoic and Cambrian Kanmantoo Group sediments and...-
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Mantung (part of the Murray Basin Project). Fourth partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 14/10/1997 to 8/8/2017.
An area located in the northern SA Murray Mallee region, and centred ~ 35 km south-west of Loxton, has been explored for possible buried accumulations of Tertiary heavy mineral sands which may have formed in the sedimentary cover. In total, 513 square...-
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Currency Creek and Langhorne Creek (formerly part of the Fleurieu JV Project, then part of the Adelaide Hills Project). Joint final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 4/6/1992 to 18/10/2016.
Two slightly separated areas located in the west-central Kanmantoo Trough geological region have been explored for possible economic buried metalliferous deposits by successive licence owners over an almost 25 year - long tenure. The subject report...-
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Meningie. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 7/6/1978 to 6/6/1980.
Exploration for possible Cambrian stratabound base metal sulphide deposits over an area in the vicinity of Meningie has targeted a number of N-S strike-elongated intense aeromagnetic and gravity anomalies presumed to originate in Kanmantoo Group...-
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Craigie Plains [not 'Eudunda']. Annual report from 22/2/2016 to full surrender 08/03/2023.
Exploration licence 5747 covers 955 square km located ~ 110 km north-east of Adelaide, on the eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges. It forms part of SeeSaw Resources “Bower Project” and forms a down-facing “horseshoe” shape that loops from Craigie...-
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Published: 08 May 1923
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Blackford. Second partial surrender report at licence expiry/renewal, for the period 3/11/1978 to 19/12/1987.
Shallow Tertiary coal deposits were the target in the area north of Kingston SE lying between Tilleys Swamp and Coola Coola Swamp. Within this area, 44 rotary mud vertical open exploratory holes totalling 3658 m were drilled and geophysically logged....-
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PACE Copper Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 9 partnerships DPY9-43 - Brownlow and DPY9-47 - Bower. Drilling projects' joint interim and final reports.
Copper and gold mineralisation associated with felsic, intermediate and mafic igneous intrusive rocks which have intruded Adelaidean and Cambrian metasediments in the Nackara Arc region has been the target of exploratory drilling conducted with the...-
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Mannum area (including the Anna and Sedan coal deposits). Data release at licence expiry/renewal : coal exploration progress reports and data, plus Sedan coal deposit mine planning management progress reports, for the period 13/11/1978 to 20/8/1992.
TARGET: Possible Tertiary brown coal deposits near Sedan, in the western Murray Basin. EXPLORATION: Evaluation of data as obtained earlier by SADM/SADME drilling and more recently by subject licensees Thiess/CSR from rotary mud vertical open hole and...-
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Padthaway - Black Range area. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 15/5/1979 to 28/3/1980.
Exploration for possible economic lignite and coal that may occur within Tertiary sediments of the western Murray Basin covering the crest of the Padthaway Ridge, consisted of drilling 14 rotary mud vertical holes, 4 being partially diamond cored,...-
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Published: 12 May 1980
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RB 00609 Palaeontology of Murray Basin Oil Syndicate's Pinnaroo bore, Hundred of Pinnaroo, adjacent sections 59 and 67. Final report and summary.
From 1047 feet depth the borehole continued in silty sands and grits of the Knight Group, and at 1191 feet entered clay overlying quartz-mica schist bedrock, in which it continued to a total depth of 1280 feet. A summary of the Tertiary sequence...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1900
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RB 00506 Palaeontology of Australian Oil and Gas Corporation's Loxton oil bore 1, Hundred Bookpurnong, part section 6B. Progress report no. 5.
Three samples of diamond drill core from 1550, 1570 and 1590 feet depth were examined. All are Cretaceous sediments, the lowest at 1590 feet being a glauconitic shale of marine origin, with Cretaceous foraminifera. This is the first record of marine...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1900
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RB 67/00032 Micropalaeontology and stratigraphy of the Langhorne Creek no. 1 bore.
Department of Mines Langhorne Creek Observation Bore No. 1, sited near the western margin of the Murray Basin, in Sect. 3606, Hd. Freeling, Co. Sturt, penetrated 430 feet of Cainozoic sediments before bottoming in bedrock of Kanmantoo Group phyllites....-
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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RB 73/00116 Proposed artificial lake, Rock Gully, Monarto, section 44 Hundred of Monarto. Report on geological investigations - EWS Department.
Mannum Limestone outcrops along 300m on the left bank of a proposed artificial lake at Rocky Gully, Monarto. A seismic refraction survey and eight rotary drill holes tested the extent of the limestone and the possibility of leakage from the lake. The...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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RB 74/00111 Amphibolite deposit near Tailem Bend.
Railway ballast was sought from amphibolite of the Kanmantoo Group of Cambrian age which subcrops on a bedrock ridge in the Murray Basin near Tailem Bend. A surface sample of amphibolite returned low Los Angelese Abrasion and Sodium Sulphate Soundness...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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Moorlands. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 10/9/2001 to 9/9/2006.
Possible buried economic volcanic-hosted base metal sulphide (VHMS) deposits and magmatic epithermal/hydrothermal gold veins which might be associated with Cambro-Ordovician island arc porphyritic intrusions were the targets of exploration conducted...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1909
