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RB 99/00032 Trial dewatering of the BHP dolomite quarry at Ardrossan, South Australia.
Trial dewatering of the quarry, which is excavated in fractured and well-bedded Cambrian dolomite, took place for at least 56 days during early 1994, but pumping was terminated when a further significant water level drawdown could not be achieved. Ten...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1999
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kainton, Melton and Paskeville (the Melton Project). Joint annual reports for the period 27/8/2007 to 26/8/2019.
Exploration for possible buried sandstone-hosted uranium mineralisation which could have formed within early Tertiary palaeochannel sediments of the northern Saint Vincent Basin is being carried out in a small area near Kainton on north-eastern Yorke...-
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Maitland [second JV programme]. Progress reports for the period 17/8/81 to 14/5/84.
Continuing mineral exploration work over central Yorke Peninsula under a new joint venture arrangement with a different company, now targetting possible Phanerozoic sedimentary uranium in Cambrian and Tertiary strata, has consisted of investigations...-
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Stansbury Basin thermal history modelling.
Geothermal modelling has been carried out at 9 locations in or around the Stansbury Basin, at the request of Canyon Australia, with the aim of examining the basin's thermal history and deducing a likely time of petroleum generation. A total of 20...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1994
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Geochemistry of Cambrian well samples and one tar ball, Stansbury Basin, South Australia.
13 Early Cambrian drill core samples from three wells on Yorke Peninsula were analysed primarily to determine the presence or absence of dinosteranes in their preserved organic material. In addition, a beach strand tar ball from the southern coast of...-
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Published: 10 Nov 1995
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Stansbury Basin, South Australia. The Marsden Trend and Investigator prospect.
The Stansbury Basin is a relatively unexplored Cambrian sedimentary basin in South Australia. Good quality seismic data has defined a large untested prospect, the Investigator prospect, which has the potential to contain 200 to 300 mmbbl of oil, or...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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Thermal maturity and biomarker geochemistry of the Early Cambrian Kulpara Formation, Stansbury Basin.
5 Early Cambrian drillcore samples and 1 Permian outcrop sample were submitted for determination of the aromatic maturity of their preserved organic matter, to augment the existing petroleum source rock organic geochemistry database for the Stansbury...-
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Price. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 24/2/1975 to 23/2/1977.
In continuing regional exploration conducted over north-eastern Yorke Peninsula, further reconnaissance stratigraphic drilling and wireline geophysical logging (in 3 vertical rotary percussion holes totalling 373 m) was carried out in May 1976 to test...-
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RB 2000/00013 Australian Clay Minerals Society Inc. 17th Biennial Conference, Adelaide, 10-12 April 2000: Field Guide for post-conference tour, 13-14 April 2000 - Yorke Peninsula clays and carbonates, copper mines, desert loam soils and mangroves.
This tour is concerned with aspects of the soils, geology, landforms, clays and mining on Yorke Peninsula, and likewise for the northern Adelaide Plains which are separated from the Peninsula by Gulf St Vincent. Both of these regions are among the...-
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Published: 01 Apr 2000
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Progress report on the palaeontology of the Cambrian sequence encountered in SADM Minlaton stratigraphic bore 1.
Reports describe the various Cambrian biostratigraphic horizons encountered in the bore, making comparisons and correlations with the Cambrian elsewhere in the Adelaide Geosyncline, particularly at Mount Scott Range, Sellicks Hill, Curramulka, The...-
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Published: 06 Jun 1957
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Price. Progress and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 27/4/1977 to 6/12/1978.
Continuation by Aquitaine of its regional appraisal of the mineral potential in the Cambrian carbonate sequence on northern Yorke Peninsula, has recently involved them in acquiring and interpreting ground gravity and magnetic surveys, completing a...-
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